Community

We had a great weekend in our neighborhood, kicking off the summer season at our community park.  Our park is quite unusual from other parks in town, being that it is not a municipal park nor a park funded by a homeowners association.  Our park is a grassroots effort created and maintained by like-minded people that live in our neighborhood.

Egg hunt at the park

 

 

Just an early spring Sunday at the park

 

Our neighborhood is filled with so many interesting people and the park is the epicenter of it all. For the past decade Dave and I have built many relationships through volunteering and socializing with people supporting the same cause--community.



Volleyball on Sundays

It seems unreal that Dave and I have actually settled somewhere for 10 years.  Roots have spread, history is being made. We have seen friends move away, get divorced, get married, have babies, etc.  There have been many ups and downs in our lives as well as our friends' lives.  The ups are great, the blows from the downs are just a little easier, just knowing we have a network of support just right outside our door.  We did well, he and I, we ended up living in the right place at the right time.



Family camp out at the park

 

 

 



Memories are always in the making.  In years from now the gals' view of the "good old days" may be different from Dave's and my view of the "good old days" (drunken shenanigans, anyone?) but they will all originate from the same place. The place where we put forth the effort to make it a community worth living in, the place where we will go the extra mile just to have some fun, the place we are proud to call home.

 

4th of July at our house last summer