As I sit here, I can hear the little neighbor girl of about 4 years old, I'd guess, playing and conversing with the man o' the house. These neighbors moved in maybe about a year ago? Year and a half? Could be two years, I'm not that observant.
Anyway, the little girl is cute, but wasn't very verbal. We'd hear her making animal-like noises. Other times we'd hear her having loud wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth meltdowns. I figured she could be low on the autism spectrum or such.
For the last couple of months, it's been calm and quiet, and the girl does in fact speak and act like a typical kid of her age. The one difference I've noticed is that the first man o' the house is no longer around. He was a thin blonde guy - often seen taking smoke breaks outside. This current man is on the heavy side, brown hair, no noticeable smoke breaks.
I mentioned to Magnum yesterday that I think (the guy we assumed was "Dad") doesn't live there anymore.
"I saw him mowing the lawn last week", Magnum replied.
"A man was mowing the lawn last week, but he wasn't (the guy we assumed was "Dad")", I pointed out their major differences in their appearance. Sheesh, and I thought my powers of observation were bad.
Bottom line, I haven't seen thin-blonde-possible-Dad man in quite a while. And cute little girl seems calm and happy. I don't know what relation chubby-nonsmoking-lawnmower man has to the mom and daughter, but he seems to be a positive influence.
Maybe I should try to get to know my neighbors a little better other than just the passing "hello".
In other news of the week,
- I continue with a bit of "death cleaning" and freed up some space in the garage by selling a couple of things. I was surprised to see that people sell $100k+ cars on facebook. I did not sell any cars, $100k+ or otherwise.
- Campus security at work busted a woman stealing toilet paper - dispensers and all - from various buildings. She's not an employee or student of the college, and they figured out her identity from her library card. She checked out items from the library before wrenching a toilet paper dispenser from the bathroom?
- On the plus side, we have a lot of shiny new TP dispensers at work
- I'm hearing of bear sightings around town. I believe they're entering their time of fattening up for winter hibernation. I have, thankfully, not encountered any bears, but, oh deer, these two came out to greet me during a recent morning run.
Two deer cancel one bear, right?
