[Stormieweather]

We just moved into our house in July, so don't know the neighbors well. Next door is an elderly woman who introduced herself when we were unloading our truck and the neighbor whose backyard abuts ours came around to say hello. Other than that, we wave and say good day if we should pass any of the other neighbors.

Directly across the street is a yuppie couple, no children. She works long, long hours (up and gone before dawn and home after dark) and he works non-existent hours. He spends his spare time (and there's a lot of it) in the garage puttering while playing classical music on the stereo.

To their right is the mansion of the subdivision, a humongous colonial with two story columns, pool, Lexus and Range Rover. A young couple with several children live there, but none have ventured out to meet my children. They have a lot of kids visiting and pool parties.

Across and left, the home doesn't actually front on our street. They sometimes take walks and appear to have a child about 5, a toddler and the Mrs. is pregnant. They often have noisy backyard get-togethers until the wee hours of the morning.

The really interesting (ie: weird) neighbors are on our left. The house is a two story, mustard colored, spanish style home 80-90 yrs old. It is surrounded by trees and shrubbery, literally a fence of trees and hedges. Everything is extremely unkempt, dank and dark. My family has an ongoing debate as to whether there are two elderly men who live there or a man and a masculine-looking woman. Twice, I saw the debatable character out in the yard, apparently shirtless. But it's very difficult to tell through all the foliage. They drink and then fight like cats and dogs. One has a very high pitched voice and shrieks obscenities. There is a lot of crashing and banging. They only work on the yard late at night. I have no idea how they manage not to cut off a foot, out there mowing and weed whacking at midnight.

Stormie