After feeling blue and blogging about it to all 4 people who read this blog, I've been getting blessed left and right. God must be tired of all my whining!!!
Despite the 100 degree heat, when Wayne pulled up with the U-haul truck to move Kate to her new apartment, neighbors started pouring out of their houses volunteering to help us load the truck. We didn't have to call, solicit, or sell any of our body parts in order to get help!!! They just appeared!!! Voluntarily! With smiles on their faces!!!
And it just so happened that the same day we were loading the truck a neighbor was hauling furniture out of the house (cause she wants to sell the house) and just letting people scavenge it. Kate got a nice kitchen table with 2 chairs and a really good quality dresser. We (meaning Wayne and crew) just loaded the furniture on the truck. There could have been no better time frame for accomplishing everything. And it was all FREE! (I won't mention that Wayne was cursing me for adding more heavy stuff to the move!)
So, although I want to move somewhere else than MO when we retire, I may not be able to leave my neighbors!!!! It is rare to find such fun, disfunctional, helpful, crazy neighbors!! We will NEVER find another niche like this one. Perhaps we won't be able to move until they all die off or leave us in some other way.....OR we can all make a pact to retire to the same neigborhood, wherever and whenever that may be! (I'm thinking New Mexico!)
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That was very neighborly of your neighbors. Consider yourself lucky. I like our neighbors but we are all pretty disconnected. I think our house could be on fire and the neighbors would just pull the shades....... Obviously for different reasons than why Sue's neighbors are pulling their shades.
No New Mexico for me- you will just have to suck it up and meet new neighbors some day.
I miss Haylee! Bring her back!!!!
She was the fun one of the entire group!
And let's just clarify one thing- Wayne was NOT
'cussing' at you!! He gave you an evil eye but no cussing ever passed his lips!
We are lucky to live here! The best neighborhood I have ever lived in and I am using my 4 or 5 different experiences to say this! The BEST!
This has nothing to do with your whining or you Naked Sunday- I just want to share, that there are photos of me and my girls at English Landing park on the 'community faces' in the Kansas City Star.com website! We were there working out last night. So, get bored and check out your sweaty neighbor.
Next time I visit Kansas City I am staying longer, as I have to meet these fabulous people! It was great to see you guys, but way too short. Kansas is a very long state to travel through! We have made it home, but our van veered off the road, and ended up at the Russel Stover Outlet store. How did this happen?
Lois- You don't know me but I totally understand how the car/van ended up at Russel Stover's!! Mine is a magnet to any one of the outlets! It just steers it's self and I LOVE that it does!
Next time you are thru this way- make it a longer visit and I can tell you stories about Sue!!............
oh, oh, oh, where oh where do I begin? I know-
I will show you the video of her riding the donkey while playing basketball! If that doesn't make you wet yourself from laughing so hard, then there is just no hope for you! Great video and I would LOVE to share it! You wouldn't mind, would you, Sue?
I want to see the video of sue and the donkey.
Thanks for the post. I will need names under the Sisters of the Road photo so I know who is who. I think a video of Sue and the donkey are a must. I had quite a few chuckles as I read the blog. Maybe you can post it on-line? In person would be the best, but I don't think I will be back for quite a while. I have a few stories about Sue too. She has gotten wilder as she gets older! Always outrageous and fun though. She is the only person that ever calls me LoLo.
Okay, this showing of the video with Sue on the donkey has to be done on a wide spread basis cause we ALL want to see it.
All of you can forget seeing the video of me riding the Donkey!!!!
If Laura wants to stay on my good side, that video will never see the light of day, night, or any human eye!!!!
Lois,
Kitty, Sue, Patty, & Lorrie are the names of the sisters in order on the picture.
Suesan, I think that you are being extremely unfair and short-sighted about the viewing of this video. What was is you wrote in a subsequent blog - "50's Motto - Who the hell cares what other people see us doing? Celebrate Freedom. Does the above comment make you a hypocrite? Hmmm....... What does everyone else think?
Hypocite! Hypocrite! Hypocrite!!
You know, I agree! Hypocrite!!! :)
Heck- you rode the donkey in your past decade! So can you really be held responsible for what you did in your youth? I think not- let it go and just share with the world!
It is on a video tape, so I need to look into getting it transfered to a cd. OMG! I just remember LAUGHING so darn hard, I think all I got taped were my tears of laughter streaming over the camera lens! I know that I have not laughed that hard since! The good ol days of fun and mirth provided by our favorite neighbor!
Good to know that I am not alone in this. I look forward to the viewing. :-)
Thanks for the names Sue. Now I have to know which person is Duffy, MsFrizzel etc. You obviously are outnumbered about the donkey video. Word has it that the video is being transferred from tape to Cd right now! A showing is forthcoming! Suck it up Sue!
Lois,
Duffy is not pictured. She is my next door neighbor and if you click on the link in the "Outing a Sister" entry, you will get a picture of her in all her glory.
Duffy is my drunk-driveway buddy :)
and my favorite neighbor to the north :)
Lois,
MsFrizzel is aka: Patty. Perfect Patty, Princess Patty, Problem Patty.............
Patty who needs to stop asking to see the video :)
Perfect, Princess, Problem Patty is within her legal rights to ask to view the video. In fact, I think that right is guaranteed within the Constitution of the United States, so therefore, PUT A CORK IN IT, Susan. :-)
Oh My!! Less than 24 hrs and it will be Naked Sunday next door. I am working furiously to get my black out curtains up today and my supplies are stashed so I won't have to see the light of day tomorrow! I am scared. Very scared!
Actually I will be researching where I can take my video tape of Sue and her ass and get copies made on CD's! This is just too priceless to keep under wraps any longer. (And, Sue, in case you are thinking of breaking in and stealing the tape, I have it secured at an off site location- so don't even try!)
You and Wayne enjoy your day- staring at parts of the anatomy that should never see the light of day! Don't call or invite me over- I will see you sometime next week, or the week after......................
I'll be serving margaritas on Sunday, Laura!! Sure you don't want to stop by?
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