When I was house shopping, I never imagined that I was going to buy a house in the suburbs. However, here I am – three years later in the ‘burbs. I’m only a couple miles from the city line, heck I could walk there if I wanted to and people who are more in shape than I am can, and do, run back and fourth but that’s not for me.It’s an inner-ring suburb so from the looks of it, you might guess my neighborhood was in the city anyways, the houses are close and there are lots of trees, we have sidewalks, street lamps and the houses are all old and each different. So it has a lot of the character of the city.Thankfully, I know a lot of my neighbors. Mostly because I am nosey, really, really nosey; but I think that being nosey is a quality of a good neighbor. Anyways, I’ve decided to build a little community around these parts and see about meeting the rest of them. Or at least officially sanction my nosiness.
It all started about a month ago. I laid out a map and drew a circle around all the streets near me and then I made a flier. I stuffed fliers in each of the 700 doors inside the circle I drew. The flier stated that I was starting a neighborhood association and that we would be having a meeting in a few weeks. I was worried that nobody would show up. I made a nice little agenda, bought some tiny cookies and stood at the doors to the little church with big red doors that offered me a space to use.
I waited…
and I waited…
and I waited…
It was dark and cold out so I had to keep blowing on my hands in order to keep them from freezing.
I suppose that when you go to a meeting in the dark, at a rather isolated little church, in response to a random flier stuck in your door its not exactly an event that you want to arrive early to. In fact, if it were me it might be something I’d try to arrive a few minutes late to and survey the activity at and then decide what I was going to do. But I guess that that’s not my neighbors. My neighbors came and they filled the little room in the little church with the big red doors. By the time the meeting was over we had almost 40 people inside. I was pretty flabbergasted.
So on Monday we’re going to have our second meeting and I feel hopeful about it.
Ittybittybungalow 
That’s amazing! Good for you!