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[olmue]

If I wrote a book about this place, publishers would shake their heads and tell me I needed to get in touch with real children, and that nobody in America is like that anymore. Well, maybe not in the 212, but it's true here! I have now lost count of how many people have come to our door bearing cookies. Every evening, people in the neighborhood take walks and say hi to each other. Kids on bikes speed up and down the street, or going to each others' houses down the sidewalk--without an armed adult escort overanxious parent. They go to the park alone (with friends, I mean, but no guards), they play Nerf guns and soccer, and everyone knows each other. There are tons of kids in the neighborhood, too. It's very strange, but nice, too. The drawbacks to a small town are of course, a teeny library (I do want to cry when I think of the library I left) and one small bookstore. Thank goodness for internet ordering, or I'd shrivel. Um, except that gets expensive and takes up space...

I've got a story brewing--finally! it's been a long, dry summer as far as writing--and I just need to get the moving thing done and get my computer to stop crashing and I can dive in. Tomorrow we're going to Yellowstone, provided second son's feeling okay. He managed to flip off his bike and whack his leg. He's running around, so I think it's going to be okay, but eek, it sure is bruised.

Completely off topic, but those people who have read my Egyptian-mythology-based book might be amused by the Was sceptre I found in our garage:



Finally, second son says there's supposed to be an aurora visible tonight, so I think I'm going to check up on that and try to see it. Idaho is in the Far, Far North, after all!

Comments

[robinellen.livejournal.com]

Oh, have a wonderful time in Yellowstone (and post pix) -- and yay for a friendly neighborhood :D

[olmue.livejournal.com]

I'll post pictures later, but it was great! And I'm so glad we got a year's membership, because we only saw a small part of one loop.

[kathys-shadow.livejournal.com]

I love that overanxious parent = armed adult escort.

Hope you get to go to Yellowstone!

[olmue.livejournal.com]

We did! And it was nice. :)

[(Anonymous)]

So. Jealous. Make sure to take lots of pictures. Enjoy your super special one of kind park itinerary.

[olmue.livejournal.com]

We did! Although we got only as far as Old Faithful (which we did not see, as there was no parking). But hey, with a year's pass and our personalized itinerary, we can go back again and again.

[wordsrmylife.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great community to be a kid in--or to have kids in. The odd thing about where I live in rural Vermont is that we have a mix of your kind of situation and people moving from the 212s and bringing their hover-parenting skills with them. So some kids have fairly free rein and others are seldom seen without adult escort.

[olmue.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that's a funny thing to watch--the weird mix of hover parents and free range kids. This place is a lot more like Germany than New York, that's for sure!

random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

sounds like a nice town, I am sure you guys will love it.

Re: random commenter

[olmue.livejournal.com]

It's nice so far. I guess the people feel the need to socialize while they can. Pretty soon the snow will start and it will be COLD.

Greatwood

[(Anonymous)]

What are the 212s?

Re: Greatwood

[olmue.livejournal.com]

New York City area code, ie where all the publishing houses are.

[shaelise.livejournal.com]

I actually noticed many of the same things when we moved into our neighborhood. And the library was one of the hardest adjustments to small towns but luckily, they'll transfer in anything I want from other libraries which has worked out. And now, they're building a new library in our town. I'm so excited. I know it won't be like my glorious library in Colorado but it will be better than the one we currently have and so I'm thrilled. We might be able to go to the library and browse books. Woo-hoo! Enjoy Yellowstone. I hope your son's bruises heal up quickly.

[olmue.livejournal.com]

Ah, the library...it IS the new building, alas. Everyone is excited, so I'm sure it's an improvement over the last incarnation. And I can see that a lot of books haven't been unpacked yet. But I have a feeling I'm going to become good friends with whoever handles interlibrary loan...