Neighbors

I often talk about moving out of town to a little bigger house, a place with some land and someplace with more privacy. But in reality it would be really hard to leave the place we are at now. I love our old drafty house, but more importantly we have the best neighbors. Thankfully we've never really had any problems with any of them. Instead we have had neighborhood block parties and on summer evenings it's not uncommon to gather in one neighbor's driveway and have a beer and share some laughs. We couldn't ask for better neighbors and sadly we lost one of them suddenly last week. At the funeral it was said several times how giving and caring Cherie was. We were on the receiving end of her kindness many times. She also loved it when the kids came over to play with the dog. She usually had a treat for the kids too. We would see Cherie most times in her garden as the kids played in our backyard. Until the funeral I didn't know she had planted the flowers around the Virgin Mary statue outside of St. Mary's Church. Here's a picture I had taken last June of those flowers. We will miss her very much.