on trolling the hobbit and loving the lawyer

a study in neighbourly extremes

I’m grateful for many things in my life.

I’m grateful for my health, loving family, safety, security and enough dough to get up tomorrow and do it again.

I’m grateful for the beautiful home we get to inhabit.

Even a seasoned troll like myself can appreciate the good things in life.

I’m especially grateful that we don’t live on a corner lot.

If we lived on a corner lot we’d only have one neighbour next door.

Here? We have two. Neighbours on both sides!

And the two of them could not be any more different.

On one side we have the lawyers.

They are kind, polite, loving people. They have a live and let live ethos.

Jimmy, it’s your house. Do what you want with your yard.

While chipping away at ice this year I told Peter that he had the best lawn on the street, the man next to him had the best shoveled driveway, and I had the best woodpile.

It was an acknowledgement that we all loved doing and took pride in different things and that this manifested in how we present ourselves to the world.

I love you…