Won't you be my neighbor?
Last Sunday we hosted a neighborhood potluck/BBQ in our front yard. It was great! In the course of three hours we saw people from every house on the block (except for two). The kids played and made it duly chaotic, the weather was beautiful, and I was surprised by the great food that everyone brought. It was a good time to get to know more of our neighbors and to share neighborhood knowledge.
I learned a lot, here are just a few of the things:
I learned a lot, here are just a few of the things:
- It is nice to hang out with people on this block because I don't feel like I have to apologize for the airplane noise.
- We have great diversity on our block: a gay couple, a lesbian single mom, two Latino families, a single woman, a very religious family, someone who has lived on the block for 53 years, a woman that is 90 years old, a very large woman with lots of piercings, as well as lots of young couples with babies and kids.
- Our 5 year old neighbor has a very hard head. Literally, she was rolling around on an exercise ball in the yard, lurched forward and went head first into our basement window, which she broke both of the double panes WITHOUT GETTING ANY CUTS. This was amazing. The window was in 85 pieces and her head was fine.
- Two doors down from us lives a woman who is training for an Ironman Triathalon that takes place in two weeks in Idaho. For those of you who don't keep up on freaky athletic feats this is a race of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike, and then a marathon. Now THAT is impressive (and scary). She was very down to earth about it saying she decided to do it because she wasn't getting any faster, but had great endurance.
- We have a cheese-maker on our block named Rueben.
- We have three kids one year and younger and six kids two years and younger!
- We have three houses that are currently in foreclosure proceedings and two more that are on the brink (sadly, both of the Latino families).
- Leo is known around the neighborhood as the cat who likes to travel around taunting indoor cats. He goes to windows where he knows they can see him and I can imagine him saying something like, "What? Your mom and dad won't let you ever come out and play?"
- Most of all I learned how nice it is to know everyone on this block, and how glad we are to live here.
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