Love My Neighbors

My Neighbors Jenean and Tom are the best, this pic was taken last year at the forth before they went to a 60s theme party,, thus the look! They really rock and roll as the 'good' neighbors of my good neighbor, bad neighbor cul de sac, (dramatic tragedy, Life in the Suburbs.) When I first moved here, they were the first to come up and welcome me to the 'hood. They are a class act, and are alot of fun to hang with,, like I did yesterday. It was another hot hot day here in the south and being that they have a pool in their backyard,, we lounged out in the pool drinking wine. Gallons and gallons of Wine.
We are the Wino Cul de sac, not to be confussed with the Corona house down the street with all the Hondurans, or the Budwiser house in the cul de sac across the creek. Yes, we used to drink Corona, but The Winn Dixie store closed up and before hand had a 50% to 75% OFF EVERYTHING SALE,, and we officially became Winos. I only bought three bottles, and now realize that I should have bought more, three only lasted a little over an hour, and they were BIG Bottles of Wine. Weeeeeeee!! But not to Fear,, they always have my back, and something to drink!! I think they said they bought 20 something bottles!!! It was a good Sale!!! So we had a very good variety.

Barbara From California, if you read this, I toasted a real nice bottle of California Cabernet to you!!!
We had a blast, and my new roommate Amanda got to know the neighbors alittle better! Me too, because we are still in the getting to know you stage of being roomies.
The day before, Jenean and I had walked down the street the other day to be nosey with the 10 police cars, fire truck and ambulance responding to a 'wild child' situation. I of course tag along to take a peek at the firemen, who ususally are very hot looking men here in Charlotte, but evidently they sent the Octegenarian Firefighters Association on this call. Jenean and one of their girls were coming home and had passed the police car with a nine to eleven year old in the back chewing on the back of the seat like a maniac!! Literally, She said she was chewing like a pirrahna, biting and spitting. When we arrived they had her strapped on a gurney with a horse bit in her mouth. (joking about the horse bit, but they did have something to prevent her from biting her own tongue off) It was the neighbor who 'works' with disturbed children (obviously) house.
I went to speak to Micheal, the neighbor of the (illegal?) Hondurans. 1:00 pm in the afternoon already has a drink in his hand!! He spilled what he knew, which was that she gets about $1500 per kid!! (and he thought,, as did some other nodding neighbors heads,, that the 'mother' was a lunatic herself.) WOW! that is some change$$ now. I might have to look into this......
So, anyway we related the stories to Tom and Amanda regarding that and Tom told us about the 'bad' neighbor C. getting into a Fire Ant nest. he said she was screaming to her husband who just took it all in nonchalantly and she flayed about beating the little buggers off herself. Tom had to run inside and return later after having a fit of laughter. C. has a Big O' Butt and Tom said it was that sight which was notable for that event. Too funny, especially since I have been asking all of my fire ants to vacate my property,,, seems some did.

I really love this neighborhood, so diverse, my Cul de sac is Jenean/Tom the Floridian/NJ Italians who are way to cute for a straight couple. Cathy/Jay & family, the wonderful black family next to me. C&D. the not so nice people on the opposite side of my house. A rental, which has an interracial couple and their roommate who is semi descent to look at as he mows grass. Then the Vietnamese family with the totally hot son, who has a body of death. These live beside Jenean and Tom and are very nice too, Tan like to work in the yard like me, and we have swapped plants. His wife brings people over to see my spiral once in a while... really funny listening to her peel off at a thousand words a minute in that sing song language, explaining to her guest,, God knows what, about my spiral/labyrinth.
next to Tan and family are a Hindoo family, below them the neighborhood babysitter's house. I won't go into detail about the rest of the street today.

So anyway, our Wino party consisted of gossip and splashing about in the pool all day! It really rocks to have cool neighbors, especially if they have a pool.
Long live the GOOD neighbors.