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barry_sword
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Love My Neighborhood...
« on: Feb 10th, 2008, 10:27am » |
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We just got labeled with another foot of that beautiful fresh white stuff from the skies, plus that brown salt/sand mixture the plow just filled my driveway with. The bad part is I have been home all week with my back out so I cannot do my shoveling duties.
Angie started to shovel when my next door neighbor Frank told her to stop. He is snow blowing it out right now for us. We have lived next to each other since 1993 and just wanted to say there are some really nice people out there, you just have to find them and Frank and his wife Tanya are two of the best people out there.
To show our appreciation we just prepaid a dinner out for the two of them. We really love our neighborhood. 
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Re: Love My Neighborhood...
« Reply #1 on: Feb 10th, 2008, 10:29am » |
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99 percent of the quality of life wherever you live is the quality of your nieghbors.
Or lack of.
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 10th, 2008, 10:35am » |
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on Feb 10th, 2008, 10:29am, chewy wrote:99 percent of the quality of life wherever you live is the quality of your nieghbors.
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No argument there.
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« Reply #3 on: Feb 10th, 2008, 11:20am » |
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Good neighbours can really become great friends! 
I have godmother and godfather, who used to live next door to us for 4 years - they become family friends for lifetime.
My best friend's family live next door to mom still and we visit each other many times each year, the last time was in January.
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« Reply #4 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 12:58pm » |
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Sorry to hear about the back Barry. Glad to see you have neighbors that care.
It seems I'm always taking the snowblower over to bail out a neighbor. The guy across the street had surgery and his pregnant wife was trying to start up theirs. Couldn't have that. Then the guy next to me had his break down and way trying to shovel three feet of plow slush at the end of his driveway. Couldn't have that either.
About five years ago we had a series of storms that left layers of ice under the yard. I have so many kids with cars that I have to clear the whole yard out to fit them. Anyway, it got so bad that the guy I had plowing got stuck on the ice, used a come-a-long to get out and then drove off.
The next day a neighbor from down the street showed up with a front end loader. We used chains to drag the cars out of the snow and then he cleard the whole lot. Wouldn't take a dime for it either.
It certainly makes the street nicer to live on.
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Re: Love My Neighborhood...
« Reply #5 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 6:14pm » |
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on Feb 10th, 2008, 10:27am, barry_sword wrote:
Angie started to shovel when my next door neighbor Frank told her to stop. He is snow blowing it out right now for us. |
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Im that neighbor, whenever I have to take out the snowblower I always dig out the 80 yr old across the street. Shes all alone and I refuse to watch her shovel!
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« Reply #6 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 6:32pm » |
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Aww thats so nice!!
My neighbors repeatedly tried to steal one of our dogs, like we wouldn't notice. Then tried to have another one taken away (because she's a Pit Bull).
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« Reply #7 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 6:39pm » |
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on Feb 11th, 2008, 6:14pm, Jonny wrote:
Im that neighbor, whenever I have to take out the snowblower I always dig out the 80 yr old across the street. Shes all alone and I refuse to watch her shovel!
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« Reply #8 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 7:22pm » |
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I like this Chinese proverb : " Its better to have a kind neighbour than a distant relative "
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« Reply #9 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 7:32pm » |
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Annette, so nicely said.
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« Reply #10 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 8:13pm » |
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You're a bunch of old fashioned nice people. Nice going kids.
My neighbor and I shovel one another out now and then. I can't beat Jack, my 82 year-old neighbor though. He's the fastest one on the street.
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« Reply #11 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 8:16pm » |
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Im that neighbor, whenever I have to take out the snowblower I always dig out the 80 yr old across the street. Shes all alone and I refuse to watch her shovel!
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Jeeze Jonny, that fat guy across the street that you told us who always shovels your driveway? Couldn't he have at least shoveled/snow blowed hers? What a putz.
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Re: Love My Neighborhood...
« Reply #12 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 8:27pm » |
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on Feb 11th, 2008, 8:16pm, Linda_Howell wrote:
Jeeze Jonny, that fat guy across the street that you told us who always shovels your driveway? Couldn't he have at least shoveled/snow blowed hers? What a putz. |
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He PLOWS my driveway, I still have to do the sidewalk and walkways.
For some reason the fat guy dont like the old lady so I get to snow blow all of her shit.
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Re: Love My Neighborhood...
« Reply #13 on: Feb 11th, 2008, 8:59pm » |
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Snow is piling up fast.
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I can see it now Charlie. You shovel his walk, he shovels yours, and you greet each other on the way back to your own houses. 
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Re: Love My Neighborhood...
« Reply #14 on: Feb 13th, 2008, 7:29am » |
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This is what I am talking about! I just took this pic 5 minutes ago, what a great neighbor!!
He is one of the good guys!! 
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« Reply #15 on: Feb 13th, 2008, 8:55am » |
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We used to do that for our old lady next door neighbor at our first house. All the other neighbors thought she was a witch . . . so I helped her out.
After I had my son we had a doozy of a storm and I couldn't very well leave my infant son alone inside the house while I shoveled so it had to wait until Brew got home.
She cursed at me for not being"on time" to do her walk . . . .
she WAS a witch!!
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Re: Love My Neighborhood...
« Reply #16 on: Feb 13th, 2008, 10:36am » |
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on Feb 13th, 2008, 8:55am, Mosaicwench wrote:She cursed at me for not being"on time" to do her walk . . . .
she WAS a witch!! |
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