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Sat, 06 Sep 2008

2008 Neighborhood HOA Barbeque
This annual neighborhood barbeque was held this evening. We alternate locations for the BBQ between the "west side" of the neighborhood and the "east side" of the neighborhood. This year it fell to the "east side" properties to host the event, e.g. roll out our grills from our back yards to the street. I usually take quite a bit of pictures at these events for the benefit of everyone else, but I was busy on the grill and forgot to take pictures like I had planned. However, Kristy snapped a few pictures, including this one of Olivia after she had eating a handful of Doritos.

More Doritos please!

Overall, the event was a success, though several longtime residents were unable to attend... much to our collective disappointment. I'm not sure if it is a coincidence or not, but those that did not attend were the residents that have older kids (or no kids). The rest of us enjoyed a good time and the kids had an especially good time. We have had 4 homes recently turnover in ownership (well, within the last 18 months anyway) and all 4 of the new owners have younger kids and the parents by and large are the same age as Kristy and myself.

Since the party was held in the cul-de-sac right in front of our house, we were asked to provide tours of the new attic and deck to several of our neighbors. That was a lot of fun since many of them have the same exact (or very similar) floor plan that we once had. The attic is impressive (if I don't mind saying so myself) and so the tours were all very well received.

(Update Tue Sep 16 16:24:59 PDT 2008 // fixed several spelling errors)

:: Posted by rus on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:52 pm
:: Filed under /daily_journal/2008, /traditions/hoa_barbeque

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