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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