New neighbors and stuff

New neighbors moved in across the street today. Not wanting to get things off on the wrong foot, I tried very hard not to press my nose to the window. But it’s always so interesting to see what people have as the moving truck is unloaded. I think the new owner is a very young woman.

At first I thought she was an older teenage daughter, but she appears to be the one directing activities and she is the one greeting the neighbors as they stop by to say hello. Interesting. When I first moved here, we were mostly single mothers with young children. Now, 12 years later, there are many fewer children and most of the homes have been sold to a mix of singles and couples in the 50 to 60+ age set.

I suppose that’s a feature of the way real estate prices rocketed over the past few years. When the prices were lower, these houses made good starter homes for young couples and singles. Now, they seem to be retirement nests for those who had some capital socked away. Over the past couple of years, they have added on to their homes and made significant home and landscape improvements. That was the latest trend. So that all makes me curious about the new owner. How exactly does a single early-20-something afford a house that’s...well...a lot more expensive than most single early-20-somethings can afford? It’s none of my business, but you never know. It could come up in conversation.... I’ll stop by in the next day or two to say hello, too. She’s very friendly and had my arms not been loaded down with stuff when I came home earlier, I’d have stopped to do more than exchange pleasant greetings.

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Today is the Pay-Per-View premiere of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” on DirecTV. I discovered that with DirecTV I can TiVo a pay per view program. What isn’t clear is if the recorded program has a time limit. There was nothing on the DirecTV web site that said there was. It only said that the programs could be TiVoed. If there isn’t any time limit built in to the recorded program, I’ll convert it to video tape. I’m kind of thinking Al Gore wouldn’t mind. I look forward to viewing it. And will probably want to view it more than once.

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The new Adult Education brochure landed in my mailbox today. I’m torn between taking another Stained Glass class with the same teacher, the Basic Conversational French class, or the early history of my seaport town (it dates back to the late 1600s). But then, there’s a horseback riding class, too, which is something I’d love, love, love to do. It’s been many years since I’ve been on a horse. It might be comical to see me hobbling around the day after the first class, if I were to take it. As I recall, horseback riding exercises muscles in places you didn’t even know you had. Oh, and there’s the Healthy Organic Gardening class with a local ecological landscape designer who understands gardening in SAND. Too many choices.