Neighbors!

I've got neighbors! I know you are saying - doesn't everyone. True. However, I grew up in isolated Yankee neighborhoods where a neighbor is someone with whom you exchange waves from a distance. When I was a child in Brewster, all our neighbors went to Florida or New York for the winter. The only light I could see was an occasional bobbing one through the trees past our 2 acre field in the back yard. It was tiny night light and very small connection to humanity.

As an adult living in apartments, the neighbors were always transient. My Gloucester neighbors were equally detached. I did run into a neighbor as I was leaving town with my last load, she told me she lived in Magnolia for 15 years and no neighbor had ever talked with her!

Now I've fallen into a real neighborhood. Here are my new neighbors enjoying a party at our house last night. This morning one of the neighbors stopped by to take our trash to the dump and another walked the dog. This is a completely new world for me. I think I will enjoy it.