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CLOSE BUT NOT TOO CLOSE

Our new neighbors have shown up.

This is the house where the old guy died. To the west.

They are leasing because it couldn't be sold right away. Complications with wording in some of the papers.

It is an older retired couple. Man and woman. He says ex-military. A nice guy. She is a little vague. Booker and I came home last night and she was sweeping our sidewalk back and forth and back again. I didn't say anything but "hello".

We already have one of those. A compulsive cleaner down the street. Every day into the street, the gutter her whole yard and some days as far out as the main road outside our gates. Amazing.

They had a bad move. The house was not clean. He said "nasty". I figured.

The guy who was supposed to be doing it was taking the longest time possible to finish his work and came the day before with a half-assed job of cleaning and all the trash out front of the house. Not our house.

Our board member and realtor of the place was not on the scene either. The guy was pissed.

We made appropriate oooh and aaaah statements and nodded a lot and then went inside.

That is it.

As usual we will know very little about what happens next and we will make stories about them. But that is the way it works when you are close physically and not close in any other way.

Mind our own business and fantasize the rest. It is more fun anyway. The reality is always less interesting than the fantasy. Good thing.

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