Neighborhood Watch

This past Friday included a few significant events. The most prominent being the sighting of our new neighbor-to-be. It just happened to be that each member of the cul-de-sac was at home when he stopped by to check the progress on his house (this is a pretty rare occurrence for 3:30 on a Friday in January). Everyone was out, I was in my garage cleaning and making room for another suburbia element, another neighbor was standing outside their door, the one across the street was in the garage talking to a guy selling meat out of his truck, and the final member just was pulling in to the garage. We all stopped what we were doing simultaneously to check out the new addition to a group that has been together for about 10 months. All eyes were on him, sizing him up, trying to get any hint of who he was and his personality. Later on that night, the current members of the cul-de-sac convened to discuss our observations around a ritualistic burning of Christmas trees. -w