Keeping Up

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Keeping up with frogs and friends is not always easy. I thought I spotted Frog the day after I cleaned the waterfall pools, but I haven’t seen him since. He used to sun himself for hours on a warm stone, but then it wasn’t warm for days.

I was uneasy about a BFF, because I hadn’t heard from her for a few days. I got a message from her asking if I was OK for the same reason. I replied that I was fine. I realized she had not gotten my account of the neighborhood gathering for Memorial Day. Going back to my message to her, I sent her the screen shot of the photo. We were perplexed until I looked at the icons and saw there were two for her in different colors. Aha! I felt really stupid when I realized I sent two messages to her land line.

There was no way to copy those messages, so I put my phone beside the computer and typed the words to her. After catching up, I deleted her land line from my contact list.

To keep y’all up to date, here is a photo of us as we ate lunch on Memorial Day. J brought his grill through our side yards, and we decided to put it on the back porch because of threatening rain. He said later that he liked it, because people were out there talking to him as he cooked our hot dogs and hamburgers. No one realized he felt cut off when we stayed inside while he cooked. Years ago we began to bring our own meats and a side dish to share. That has worked well for us.

KODAK Digital Still Camera

Several of us felt that the gathering was one of our best. We seemed closer, more in tune with each other. When Joyce moved her chair, we could see each other’s faces as we munched on desserts. I enjoyed it tremendously and was happy to have had a deadline to get the porch cleaned up after yellow pollen season. We shared leftovers with each other as the party broke up. It was a wonderful start to the outdoor eating season.

I forgot to mention that Bob led us in prayer before we ate, remembering Americans who gave their lives for our country and asking a blessing on the food. It was not an afterthought, as it was here.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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17 thoughts on “Keeping Up”

  1. Frog will pop again when you have warm sunny days. It’s nice to have neighbors who bring their own stove and cook! We had burgers for my brother and his wife and us. It was good to see them and the weather wasn’t bad (like it is today!).

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  2. Sounds like a fun get-together. Here in Spain, we recently met at out Norwegian neighbour’s place where our Indian neighbour brought Indian food for all of us including our Irish neighbours and us Canadians. Great food and super company. I love our international community here!

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  7. Well you know I always envy your friendly neighbors and not only the get-togethers but just chit chat and looking out for each other – priceless.

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      1. My grandmother had good neighbors and we always told them how fortunate she was to have people that were not only friendly, but would drop what they were doing to help out if needed.

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    1. What a true neighbourhood . You are so lucky your neighbours are great. Lovely get-together. It was a wonderful start to the outdoor eating season. precious moments in life!

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