the new neighbours

Well, Steve and I met a bunch of the new neighbours, and they seem like a really friendly bunch! We went over yesterday afternoon to do some yardwork. The front yard was completely dug up last summer due to a line break 15' under ground. The whole lawn is covered in weeds; old dead ones from last year and new green ones! Ugh. We picked weeds for about 3 hours and at hour 2 one of the neighbours came across and introduced himself. He knew who we were though, Graham the bank manager has all of them prepared!

So he offered his rake, then he went and brought us extra garbage bags. Then he suggested we roto-till the lawn. (he came in today just before lunch to say that he's found a roto-tiller from another neighbour that we can trade use for with a couple of sandwiches!)

After he came across another guy showed up who owns three houses on the street. He seems nice too! They are both named Dave. (that'll be easy to remember!)

Anyways, there are tulips and raspberries and some other bulb flower that's coming up but we don't know what it is. Maybe irises? And we found a tennis ball and golf ball that Mook had fun with while we worked away on the weeds.