You see, before we moved into our beautiful home, we would take Brady Pup on walks through the neighborhood that our old colonial was in [which was literally on the other side of the tracks from our rental]. It was such a beautiful neighborhood and everybody said 'hi' when you passed them on the sidewalk. It was as if the sun was always shining through the tree lined streets once we walked into the neighborhood.
After moving in, we really found out just how truly wonderful the neighborhood is. We received home baked goods and vegetables strait from our neighbor's gardens in the following weeks, we almost couldn't keep up eating everything because we were getting it was so much!
Well, the other night was just the icing on the already delicious cake. The other night we finally made it over to our neighbor's house across the street. They have been inviting us over since the day we closed on the house, but we were usually too covered in paint or dirt or something else to feel comfortable heading over. But, yesterday we didn't have any reason not to [not that we were in anyway shape or form trying to avoid going over] and when they invited us in to have some drinks and tapas on their patio we were more than happy to join them!
We spent nearly 4 hours out on their patio and left well past the sunset. We were regaled with stories of our neighbor's lives and what they have learned over their 80 years of living. They are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this coming year and they still flirt like teenagers.
I only hope that Matt and I are that happy and have as many stories as we are when we celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in 45 years from now.
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