Wednesday Night Church

Tonight was the first Wednesday night supper at church for the fall. We don't have it during the summer and then start back up in August.

Sarah and I went there along with my parents. Connor wasn't there - he was at the grandparents house on Sarah's side of the family. Sarah is doing some temping at White Construction this week, so Sarah's parents are keeping Connor for a couple of days. It's hard to find decent drop in daycare sites.

We saw one of our sets of next door neighbors tonight at church. We have only met them a couple of times over the years and we found out they'll probably be moving soon. They have 3 children, but they are all several years older than Connor. We actually have 4 sets of "next door neighbors", as our house is on a corner lot. Here's an old satellite picture:



Ours is the green circle, and the red circles are the "neighbors". Looking at the satellite I see one more house that I don't really think of as a neighbor, but maybe I should (the uncircled house at the intersection of Huntington Drive and Mockingbird Lane). Note that it's not our house that has the swimming pool!

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