Neighbors!

Spring has clearly sprung. People are coming out of hibernation and yesterday was a day of neighbors.

We’re strongly considering putting an offer in to buy the lot behind us. Trying to find out the skinny on its status, I visited the model home yesterday and talked to the sales rep (not the same person who sold us our house). In the office were 2 neighbors (married) who just bought a house up on the hill and were planning things out. While I talked to Rosalind, another new neighbor, who will live right across the street from us on the corner, came in. She was wearing scrubs and was in a hurry- they apparently have children as she mentioned that “the boys” were waiting in the car.

Let me make a side note here that Jim and I are really happy with the diversity in our neighborhood. Both of the sets of neighbors I’ve mentioned so far are black and the people who are building next door are as well. The family who bought the model house are Chinese. Since both Jim and I grew up in all-white communities, we’re really happy that Nicole will get to be around a lot of different (yet still all upper-middle class, but it’s hard to diversify that in a neighborhood) people/backgrounds.

Mid-conversation with the sales rep, a woman walked in to turn in her paperwork to buy a house, leaving only 5 available lots in the neighborhood in Phase 1 (of 30 total)!! Of all things they’re building an Avalon (same model as ours) just down the road. When I introduced myself as the Avalon across the street she knew just who I was and admitted that her husband has read my blog! I invited them over to check out our (very) lived-in house and to give some suggestions regarding things we’d change with hindsight. They too have two boys – 9 and 13. They’ll like the neighborhood – there is a family with 4 kids, two of which are the same age, down the road in the opposite direction from us, and another 9 year old girl further on Red Hawk.

After we bid them farewell and had dinner, I went out to meet Jim and our favorite neighbors (that we haven’t seen all winter!), Rob and Shirley, on the corner. We caught up a bit with them before it got dark.

Jim also found out that there is a baby boy, 1 week older than Nic, who is moving in on Red Hawk by September. Hooray for potential new friends! Maybe she’ll marry him!

I feel like Lisa with my neighbors!!!

Now knowing that the entire length of Red Hawk (the street our house faces) is sold, I went out and took pictures of what is now a lonely road with just 2 houses dotting it. By September it’ll be full with 8 more on every lot available. WOW!