Like most of you, I have really been enjoying these warmer days of spring. The Winter That Was this year (especially February — yick) was just awful and we have earned the right to finally get outside again.
It’s not just the fact that the last of the snow piles are finally gone (that took long enough) or that I was FINALLY able to take my Christmas lights off the fence without wading through snow. What I really like most about these early days of spring is, well, SEEING everyone again.
People are taking after-dinner strolls, and plopping their children into strollers and wagons, and rediscovering the neighborhood. And there are a LOT of people out walking their dogs, more than I ever remembered there being before.
Now given that dogs have to be walked every day, chances are most of these people had been walking by my house all winter, and I just never noticed them. But now chances are good that I’m actually outside doing something, so we can actually greet each other and even have a short chat.
I’m sitting on my front porch again, chalking pictures in the driveway for the group of child-care kids who come by every day, and I’m very much looking forward to finally getting to know my new next-door neighbors, who moved in just before Christmas.
Chances are quite good that we’ll still have a little snow before spring takes hold in earnest, but I’m gonna be outside as much as possible, making up for lost neighborhood time.
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(posted 3/17/2025)
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