Neighbors: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are horrid. ;-)

Sounds like you lucked out! And so did they.

Neighbors: The best ones are there when you want or need them to be but are otherwise invisible. That's my view and I return the favor for them.

Remember susie there's no apostrophe needed for plurals.

I hope you do enjoy your new neighbours. You are much more trusting and friendlier than I am. The only thing I share with my neighbours is a wave and a smile.

Dislike button's?

Good neighbors are important. Renter neighbors on one side of me just moved out, the husband had strong political opinions I did not share, caused friction until I just stopped talking to him. Landlord couple are both extremely nice, new renter will be the landlord husband's sister, I look forward to meeting her.

That's a great idea Socks! LOL. "Really?". I completely agree

We have always been blessed with great neighbors. Our young couple on the other side of us have 4 little ones. On my birthday they brought me a cake and a sweet card. They go back and forth from their house through our field in the summer. We are both a good distance off the road. We watch out for each other homes when we are gone. He plows our drive in the winter and we plow his garden in the summer. Works for both of us..

I made sure I checked my spelling before I sent this one. My computer changes things some times. I just didn't check before I sent the first one. I know some people just can't help themselves correcting others. I have a brother-in- law that has a habit of doing this. We all ignore him!! He's a real jerk!

The neighbors are there now so I think I'll bake some cookie and run them over. Nothing like being a great neighbor..

i'd like a dislike button, too!!

Susie I wish you were MY neighbor. Except for the one who just moved they are really nice but none of them bake cookies!

It is awesome when you have great neighbors.

After 10 years of not having anyone living there will mean an adjustment. I hope all goes well. Being in a rural area you probably love the solitude. Yet having a neighbor can be a very comforting thing too. I love that you greeted them right away. Extending friendship is always the best thing.

We have a good sized field between us and them. Plus we are back further off the road then they are. We have our garden in the field between us. . We plan on asking them if they would like sharing the garden space. We have plenty of space. We have lived here 45 years. The people that lived there before started with the grandparents, then the daughter's family and after both of them passing their 3 kids inherited it. One daughter bought out the other two. They lived there 4 year and lost it. So sad. All of them were great neighbors, too. We have always tried to be good neighbors. We are glad to see someone finally in there. We have had so many people there day and night. They have stripped the house.

I hope that the neighbors turn out to be a great asset to your little community. Fingers crossed that they don't have plans to put up a dog pen for several yowling dogs! That would be one of my neighbor nightmares.

Snidely was only trying to be helpful with a gentle reminder about the apostrophes. It's an easy mistake to make.

Glad you are excited. Hope it works out.

I have to say, I did notice the apostrophe, though. I also noticed that Snidely did not capitalize Susie's name, tee hee. Hope I was grammatically correct in all of my ramblings.

Usernames and names are both capitalized and not capitalized in forums, on emails, etc. I don't consider that important, do you?

To be consistent, susie53=susie. I intended no further message or significance.

Oh dear!!

Hi Susie,

You spoke of baking some cookie to take over to the new neighbour {just the way I spell - get censored most every time].

I wondered ... whether your plan was to bake "some cookie" ... as in a way big one ...

... or was it to be to bake several - and if you did that, I'd hope that you might plan to take several over there, and figured that's what you'd do, really ... and were just concerned about whether to add an "s", as you wrote, with or without an apostrophe.

ole joyful

Ed, thanks for the chuckle!

Ed, I baked a dozen pecan turtle cookies and brewed them a thermos of hot coffee. We will be gone this weekend but we are having them over for soup and sandwiches the following weekend.

The looks of the place has already changed. There were shrubs that had grown almost as tall as the front of the house. They cut them down. There are 6 beautiful peony plants across the front yard I hope she loves flowers like I do. I will share mine with her. This is going to be an exciting summer for the neighborhood.