Go blue. Local life.

Actually I had planned to share all those pompous halloween decorations once again - plastic skeletons, prize winning pumpkins, pumpkin leftover from squirrels, cheesecloth on bushes and little ghosts. But aint gonna happen - in September no-one but retailers care about the pumpkin party.

So, you’ll have to do with pumpkinless overview of what’s going on.

Obviously nobody is living under impression that I have moved to a metropole, but to give you an idea of closest neighbourhood, then one day while walking to the centre there was a blanket on the ground in the middle of the sidewalk and some 6-months old playing on it. The 2-year old, driving the SUV next to the baby almost ran over him, but the three adults, who were just loitering there, made some record long jump and took the careless driver down.

Running is getting more popular every day - around noontime the streets look like during the Boston marathon.

Also our little zoo in the backyard has been growing - few rabbits and hummingbirds stop by every other day. I’ve seen some bright red birds too, but I think, they were here last year too.

I still enjoy shopping here. I couldn’t decide yesterday, which jacket to buy, if at all, so I bought both of them. Tried on at home and will bring one back today.

We have new neighbours. With two dogs. Since we are talking about people, who work in the medical field, they make long days in the hospital and leave the dogs home alone for the bigger part of the day. The loud joy both of them express, should there be someone even within 500 yards from their house. Can’t really say that Scott still enjoys their happiness.

But no need to worry about that anymore. Because in addition to the new jackets I also bought a new laptop. The noise that hard drive makes overpowers even the loudest dogs in our ‘hood. Laptop will be sent back to Dell too. So, Scott’s issue with the barking dogs is kind of relevant again.

The neighbours on the other side are still the same, but have taken a dog meanwhile too. Such a cute one, average size. The dog will be carried to the backyard every morning, chained to the tree in the middle of the yard and there he’s lying on the grass all day long. He only moves along with the shadow of the tree to not to get a stroke in the plain sun. A plastic container, sorry the doghouse (at least that’s what Scott told me) is there too, but not moving with the tree, so obviously is not of interest. He also has a bowl of water and at least he doesn’t need to worry about catching cold from cold refreshment. If he would have a package of Lipton tea handy, he could drink fresh and hot tea out of his bowl.