National Night Out

Well I escaped the involuntary disassociation from the net induced by the alien creature who sleeps in my bed! !! wooooohooooo!!

Tonight was National Night Out. How many of you went out and partied with the neighbors? Our rural community gets together every year at the local 'meeting place', the hub of the community-the little store..the only business within 15 miles. There were probably 200 people out in the street in front of the store, children running around, a little band set up, free snow cones for the kids and the local volunteer Fire Dept. had the hamburgers coming off the huge pit steadily so everybody was happy. Grannys and Grampas had the lawn chairs set up in the middle of the street so they could watch the brave ones dance polkas, 2-steps and various booty shaking dances that defy description on the uneven asphalt in flip flops or barefoot (that was me!) and even holding babies. It is one of the few times of the year that you see neighbors who sometimes get lost in the day to day hassle of life. The night to catch up with each others lives and see how the little ones have grown. Lots of smiles and handshakes and hugs and gossiping......some of the good stuff in life!!! I like living in a small community, like knowing most of the people I see, like seeing young adults following their children around and remembering when they were the ones being followed! Who would have guessed when we packed our 3 babies and moved here 26 years ago, 250 miles from anybody we knew, that we would find this life?