And a neighborhood is brought to life............

I came home last week and my neighbor had totally bulldozed the area between our houses. All the Bamboo and blackberry bushes and weeds and crap were gone! My first thought was "crap, now I gotta do something." This guy is a home improvement machine. He put up a nice fence between us in about 30 min. I swear. It's weird how it works. Once he started in, all the other neighbors came out and mowed their lawns. People were coming over talking to him and I and introducing themselves. This hasn't happened in the two years I have lived here. Since the fence, I have laid sod on my side and totally cleaned up my yard. Things are looking alot better at my little house. The nice thing is, I got to chat with my neighbor while we were both out working. Amazing how we never said a word before and I now know he is engaged, he works on race cars for a living and came from a small town.
So, over the past week,` because of him motivating me, I have upped my property value and realized sometimes all a neighborhood needs is that one guy who steps outside to fix up his house and share his dirt with the neighbor girl and all of a sudden things don't seem so bad in the neighborhood.
jb