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Neighborhood Bon Voyage party

8/22/2010

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Our sweet next door neighbors threw a great going away party in their back yard for us this evening with some of the other neighbors!  It started at 4:30pm as we all eyed the gathering clouds and heard the distant thunder.  Tim had helped set up a couple portable canopies, and but I think we were all wondering what kind of protection that would offer us from the impending onslaught.  Maybe it would just blow over?  Smart phones came out with radar pictures of rain everywhere, but still we seemed determined to brave the elements.  Small raindrops fell as we started serving the kids  hotdogs and  hamburgers.  The raindrops grew in size and frequency as the adults started devouring the great spread of grilled chicken and bratwurst and salads and chips.  Another canopy was hastily erected as  buckets of rain came down, and the kids played relay races from their yard to our yard and back.  The canopies started sagging and leaking with gathered water towards the edges, so Tim was poking them to send the water flying away from the canopies.  He mistakenly did this as our wonderful host was walking by and, needless to say, his fairly dry head became completely drenched in an instant.   The rest of us were not immune as the wind started picking up and the canopies started swaying and people started running to our neighbor's shed and their back porch getting soaked  in the process, leaving Tim and another neighbor standing in the middle of the canopies trying to keep them from flying away, which was a feat they actually accomplished! !  I'm still laughing thinking about it - it was SO much fun!  Everyone had such great attitudes.  The cakes and plates had been moved to the porch so we all gathered there for dessert and spent probably another hour shooting the breeze and commenting on how we all wished we got together more frequently.  We really do have the best neighbors and I'm going to miss them terribly!  If any of you are reading this, thank you SO much for the fantastic, memorable send-off!  You all ROCK!

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Dave
8/24/2010 07:57:22 am

All I can think of is Tim standing in that storm that brings a smile to my face! God bless you and your family my friend and safe travels.

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    Tim and Jodie have been married since Nov. 5, 1988.  Tim is a retired Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and retired city of Tampa Firefighter.   Jodie is a happily laid off IBM/AT&T 21 yr veteran employee. So I guess you can say they're both retired, but still super busy!  They have four wonderful children:  triplets Nathan, Nicole, and   Noah born 11/16/97 and Nicholas born 5/16/99.  Nathan is at Trinity College, Noah is at Florida Polytechnic University, and Nicole is at USF.  Nicholas is an EDM (electronic dance music) creator and hoping to make a living from that!  We love and are so proud of our kids!

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