P.S. I absolutely love your unique way of replying to every comment below each person’s note, instead of having your reply to look like another comment. How do you do that? Are you using a special plugin for that? Or do you simply reply and stylize your comment by editing your readers comments?

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, “neighborhood” is what the blog world is, and you can find some delightful friends here, too. The comments? I just edit them & hit “bold” + “italicize.” If it’s a special plug-in, you’d have to ask Leanne, who designed my blog. I know nothing ~skt

Well put, Shelly. We moved into our new home in FL on my 5th birthday. Mom or Dad had met the neighbor on a quick trip to check on the house. When we arrived with the moving van, she brought me a birthday cake. It is not like that anymore, well, the exception rather than the rule.

No worries. You visit EVERY blog in the world. I don’t see how you find the time. Yeah, it’s sad that folks aren’t more “neighborly,” but I guess we all get caught up in our own lives…I can kinda relate to that better at the moment!~skt

While you’re a great online neighbor, I’d love to have you as a real-life neighbor too!

I miss those. Haven’t had them since childhood. They were the people who dropped by with stories about what was going on “in town” or who collected your mail when you were on vacation. Or who gathered together on a single mother’s porch to marvel over the rattlesnake one of them had just killed for her!

My parents still live in my childhood home and have now known many of these people for 30 years. Even those who moved away still keep in touch.

Oh, Cathy. If we were real live neighbors, we would never get any work done! We’d sit around yapping and eating chocolate all the time…maybe getting your hubs to cook for us! I don’t miss marveling over rattlsnakes…but it sure would be nice to know there was a neighbor who would come kill it for me!~skt

I KNOW who you are…and you are messing with my head! “Essessyou” For those of you wondering, SSU is my Sweet Spousal Unit. He’s just trying to make me use the dictionary!~skt

I have a project that I am asking everyones help with. On my blog you will find a Post It note at the top that will explain everything. Thanks for checking it out, and my MM post too if you have time.

Thanks for stopping by, and for the kind words. I’ll try to take a moment and check it out~skt

Thanks, Mary. It is a wonderful community out there, and I wish that the real world would get out of my way so I could just visit! I appreciate you stopping by. What were you and your friend thinking about this “blogging community?”