Coming back to finish clearing my driveway and Brian and the young boys beat me to the punch. They were there on the driveway, having just finished shovelling. That’s the kind of good guy he is and the altruistic way he is raising his boys. (He is a relatively young principal at a nearby church school.)
That’s the kind of good neighbors we have. Brian and his gang and the Sikh family boys on the other side have kindly shovelled here in the past. We’ve also had out sidewalk cleared by a neighbor’s mini-bobcat. Islamic neighbors gave us a chocolate box at Christmas in the past, and someone left us a Lindt package last year at this time (unaddressed/anonymous).
You hear a lot in the media about nasty, violent neighbors, especially in the States, but up here, on our cul-de-sac, we are blessed with good, kind neighbors who help us out in winter, especially. In December and around Christmas, in these parts anyway, people behave better than usual and are very friendly, which makes this our favorite month/season of the year. We count ourselves lucky to have such good, generous folks living in close proximity.