Good Neighbors = Good Friends

[Japher]

My neighbor's dad died of a heart attack while waiting for his wife (my neighbor's mom) at the hospital who was being treated for a stroke. This happened on Friday.

Saturday morning the phones started ringing. We had been helping them remodel their kitchen and the tools were in the family room and the kitchen was in the living room and their cabinets were in my garage.

Today the family is at the funeral and will be bringing mom home to stay with them until they figure out a better arrangement. She can't climb stairs and all the rooms are upstairs. Luckily we have installed all the cabinets and cleaned the room and etc. etc. etc. All they need to do is install the counter (which still needs to be measured and fabricated). 3 full days of work (I took Monday off) and 2 nights, 4 different men with varying skills, and 6 different women with cleaning and child care services.

I am just amazed at the generosity of our neighbors to help us help them. I am also amazed that I can actually work with word rather well, though I have been practicing for a few years. Anyways, I am still impressed, and a professional carpenter friend of ours came to check the work and was really impressed.

Our neighbors come home tomorrow, they will be surprised!

[SlowwHand]

Good man, Japher. Good neighbors and friends.

[Stuie]

Nice!

I'd like to shoot my neighbor's dog.

[Dinner]

I honestly don't know any of my neighbors. Well, I know the house across the street is rented by three cute college age girls and they did invite me to a party last year though I felt out of place around a bunch of 21 year olds and didn't go.

[-Jrabbit]

That's awesome, Japh. And now your karma account is overflowing.

[Kidlicious]

Anyone ever see the movie Neighbors? To me it is the best John Belushi movie.

[Spec]

You are lucky Japher.

I would kill my neighbor if it wasn't illegal.

F*cking white trash **** living on 12 wellfare checks and shlt. He never works, sells drugs (pretty sure), and frauds wellfare ( has too ) while coughing up shlt that I can here a mile away....And his fat cow of a wife is the same white trash whore that keeps on creaming for no reason. Its been a year and they still have a busted up exhaust that I can hear when I am in the shower. They are the definition of "no class".

Spec.

[Kidlicious]

Just report them for welfare fraud and selling drugs.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Just report them for welfare fraud and selling drugs.

Yea, I thought of that...and then they come and **** up my cars or my house?

I dont trust that they wont know who reported them since I am "not that nice" with them. Also, I have no proof that he is frauding or selling drugs.

I know he does, though.

Spec.

[Japher]

I'm sick as a dog today, had the chop saw in the garage and it was about 15 degrees out last night. Now I'm sitting at work, hopped up on too many cold meds so that none of them work, with a tissue shoved up my nose, and trying not to fall asleep. I would take the day off but I took Monday off to help with the neighbors and take care of my sick wife and daughter... Karma must really hate me.

[Spec]

Poor Japhy Boy.




Spec.

[LordShiva]

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

[Spec]

Robert Frost

Spec.

[Richelieu]

No good deed goes unpunished i guess. Still, to you Japher.