Which is to say: AWESOME afternoon! What a beautiful day!
When my Realtor friend John Shackelford brought me to the ‘Hood, lo! these many years ago, he could not have done me a bigger favor. This middle-aged North Phoenix tract really is a beautiful little mid/middle-class neighborhood, perfect in every way.
Seriously! It IS in the middle of everything: you don’t have to walk far to get to any store, any professional’s office, any car shop, any ANYTHING you like. Drop the jalopy off wherever you please, wander away, and come toddling back…yes…whenever you please.
The ambience is safe. Thugs do not holler at you as they barrel past on a main drag. Every corner has a tidy little shopping center. There’s a church across the street. And a school across the street. And a car repair shop up the street. And….and…and on and on.
Seriously, indeed: I do feel like I just fell into it when I bought into this neighborhood.
This afternoon, it was over to my favorite little booze shop, thereinat to buy a six-pack of Kilt-Lifters. Then homeward, ever homeward…hereinat to love up the dog and fork over a couple of fistfuls of kibble as a treat for her. Then pour a beer, sit down, and put up the feet.
Gosh! What a day, eh?
We live in such a pretty little neighborhood! I’m SOOOOO glad I didn’t follow SDXB to dreary Sun City when he decided to escape Tony the Romanian Landlord by moving out to Old Folks’ Land. Gaaaahhhh! When I lived out there with my parents, I learned to hate…
- …the sound of F-16s roaring overhead all day
- …the hatred of young people, creatures the locals moved out there to escape
- …the ticky-tacky architecture
- …the third-rate grocery stores (do old people not eat, not cook???)
- …the endless, endless, FUKKIN’ ENDLESS drive into town, whereinat to buy a decent steak…
LOL! If you’re gonna live in a city, forgodsake LIVE IN A CITY. 😀