Neighbors....

We live on a small cul-de-sac with only eight houses. It's somewhat secluded, and so, there's not too much traffic -- which will be great once Luke is running around and wanting to go on the street (even when he's not supposed to). Luke will someday have an awesome place to ride his tricycle and bike.

We know all of our neighbors, and they're all wonderful people! We sometimes get together for dinner. They're always willing to help when needed.

Before Luke was born, the neighborhood ladies all pooled together to throw me a little baby shower. They purchased us the baby swing which was VERY helpful when Luke was a tiny infant. A couple of the ladies have babysat for us.

I could go on and on.....

Anyways, this past Monday evening, we had a rather large thunderstorm go through this town of our's. After things had settled down a bit, I was in our laundry room, folding some laundry. It's near the east side of the house, and all at once, I heard a chainsaw going at our neighbors' house to the east. I told Marc, and he went outside to see what was going on.

He didn't come back in right away and Luke was sleeping (as he did through the storm), and so, I went outside. It was still slightly raining at that time.

I soon noticed Marc with work gloves. Our neighbors' tree (a large tree, I might add) had fallen across their driveway and into the street, blocking any traffic. Several were outside, including Marc, helping to clean it up.

What a "neighbor adventure!" Here are some photos. I can't take credit for them as Joan, our neighbor, took them.

In this first photo, all are watching Richard use the chainsaw. I think they were waiting on some direction.



Then, the moving of branches took place....





Finally, it was all moved off of the street and out of their driveway. The next day, the city came and picked it all up :)

Here's a final photo after the clean-up was completed.



It's always fun to do things like this with great neighbors -- helping each other.