We got some more snow last night, an inch or so. Enough that Terry went out again with the snowblower to make sure the driveway was clear. Those bad (in a good way) neighbors of ours across the street where kind enough to snowblow our driveway after Terry left yesterday morning, once they had finished their own, just for good measure. They were so quick that I heard something while I was in the shower and by the time I got out, they were nearly done. It’s nice to have good neighbors.
And that made me realize that no matter how bad some of our neighbors may seem, we actually have it pretty good. We have the wonderful guys across the street, the quiet couple around our age with the two little ones to our left and the family to the right. As much as they seem to be nouveau riche rednecks, they really have been better over the past year than previously. With the exception of the golf ball they drove through the siding on the side of our shed facing them. And the couple other assorted golf balls of theirs that Terry has encountered while mowing the grass through the year. But that’s a relatively minor grumble. No rumbling of a cherry picker for hours upon hours as they string up half a million lights and that infernal plastic Santa and reindeer taking flight between the trees for Christmas. In fact, I don’t think they had any lights on at all this year. Perhaps that fine that we assume went along with the arrest for threatening the detective down the road hit a little harder than we thought. Oh, and there’s the gaping huge hole in their backyard that was probably intended to be the start of a swimming pool last spring. But hey, at least that overgrown, weedy cesspool isn’t on our property, right?
Yep. A big part of the workbook I’m going through this year is about learning to acknowledge the blessings in life. And once you really start to look for them, you realize that we all have quite a few things to be thankful for, no matter what our current situation. That’s proving to be a real eye-opener for me and is helping me to change my attitude.
