Neighbors

After hearing about all the problems that Nuzzling Muzzles has with her neighbors, I am so thankful for the neighbors I have! I can't even imagine what she has to go through on a daily basis, and I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy, if I had one!

We went to our neighbors last weekend for some drinks, a bonfire and to catch up on what has been going on in our lives. We don't see eachother much in the winter. It is too cold and wet to get together, as we would like too. But once the sun starts to come out, we start to get together for some good old BBQ's, bonfires, friends, family and just some plain fun! We know their friends and family and they know ours. We combine our summer parties and use both properties to entertain. We usually use their firepit, we use our horseshoe pits, we have the pool table, and we take turns BBQ'ing. It is always great fun!

My neighbors, whom I will call J and S, have a 21 yr old son, K and a 17 yr old daughter, little J. We have lived here for 8 years, so we have gotten to know the family quite well. I can't believe how time flies and that the kids are all grown up! K is now in college and will be leaving soon for the military. Little J graduates high school this year and will be heading off to college next year.

As we were sitting out by the fire, I just had to take a picture of their dogs. They have a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Dax, who is getting quite old. Then there is Elvis, who is a Rhodesian Ridgeback. He was given to them a little over a year ago, he is around 3 yrs old. Elvis is the size of a Shetland Pony, to me anyways! He is so large, but sweet as can be!

While we were talking, I noticed 3 rabbits were running around, chasing eachother. It was so funny. They would run around the pond, around the dog kennel, around the shop and they just kept on going, like the energizer bunnies. Of course I had to try to sneak up on them to get pictures. They kept running from me, so I tried sneaking around the side of the house to try to head them off. Aha! I got 'em! And they thought they were going to get away! You can't escape Paint Girl, little bunnies!

They knew immediately that I was close. One rabbit went on high alert, while the other one thought he could camoflauge right into the plants. The 3rd one, I have no idea what happened to him.



Oh shoot! He spotted me! There goes the little white cotton tail! The 2nd rabbit is still playing camo. He thinks he hasn't been spotted yet!

After hanging out with the rabbits, I went on a walk down to J and S's pond. Once I started taking pictures, I was pretty surprised by what I was taking. Remember, I am not a photographer. I just like to take pictures, of anything and everything. What we are seeing here, is my neighbors house, upside down. It is the reflection of their house in their pond. I thought this was pretty cool.

After I noticed the upside down reflection, I thought I would take a picture of their real house and the reflection of the house in the pond. I just love the reflection of the trees in the water!

Ok, one more pond picture. Here is the shop. Same thing! Got the great reflection of the shop in the pond!

Since I was done taking pictures of reflections in the pond, I decided to head back to the firepit, where my OH and J were probably laughing at me. Yeah, so I like to take silly pictures guys!

I make it back to the firepit. Hey guys! Are you too busy drinkin'? Do you not notice that the fire is almost out? Do I have to take care of everything? I only left for a half hour!

See, Dax and Elvis agree! You guys should have taken care of that fire! All of our dogs get along really well and get to play quite often. It is so funny to watch all 4 of them running around.

When we headed back to our house, we decided to go say goodnight to our animal family, which we do often. My OH is getting a hug from his beloved Fritzy. Before you know it...........

We almost have a family picture! We are only missing one goat and a dog, oh, and me!

We also know the 2 neighbors across the street. They are really good friends with my OH's mom and stepdad, so we all get together for dinner every now and then. One of them let us use their bulldozer when we were clearing for my arena.

Our neighbors watch out for us and we watch out for them. I couldn't be any luckier!