[Velvet]

Our neighborhood is established but friendly. If you check out something on a person’s lawn they invite you in to tell you all about it. They range in age and past occupation and level of extroversion but one picks up on that. I think they actually look forwards to a little “new blood”. New stories etc. There are established behaviors, you don’t go bare chested, you don’t let your dog on someone’s lawn unless they specifically said you could in the past, etc. etc. A new person might want to see how to fit in first. Just an occasional walk around the neighborhood is enough to meet others around here.

Oh another thing, if we have a “swingers” they must be keeping it to themselves. The most I’ve been offered was by an old gentleman on a walker, whose dash hound got away from him and ran to me. He smiled and asked, “You want a dog?”