New Neighbors

In the past four years we have had several different neighbors, but none of whom we have ever really connected with. Our first house had some interesting neighbors; Greg and Jim sat in their garage and drank beer quite literally everyday (but they were handy and save me when the toilet started leaking the day of a showing). In Toledo our neighbors were WEIRD; Joyce and Larry were older and Joyce would get stressed out and paint the wall in her hallway and asked me to come fix it for her (it literally was cream colored and was fine, but she had painted it so often there were about 17 layers on it). Our neighbors in Fort Wayne the second time were OLD!!! I don’t mean like in their 50’s, I mean in their 80’s and the paramedics and fire trucks came one day and got stuck for about an hour in the snow in front of our house (he was okay, just old).

Needless to say, we are READY to have fun neighbors and we couldn’t be more excited about the people we have met so far. Everyone keeps telling us how nice the neighborhood is and how everybody looks out for everyone else and we even have block parties (I have always wanted a neighborhood with block parties).

The first day one neighbor brought over cucumbers from her garden.



Then we made cookies to take to everyone to introduce ourselves. (Phil asked if I made them from scratch and then was floored when I said I did. I don’t cook much, okay, ever. I did have to tell him that it took quite a while to make 8 dozen cookies with only one cookie sheet.)



Then the neighbors next to us brought over these beautiful flowers (In a Purdue glass of course, and so the rivalry begins). They also asked us to put their trash out since they will be on vacation. I guess that means we are officially part of the neighborhood!



We have our first block party August 6th and I couldn’t be more excited to meet everyone there!