This could be my office view but it isn’t really because this is out my backyard and I have commandeered the Green Couch, which provides a wonderful view of all neighborhood activity.

This activity has not much changed over the last yyyyyeeeeeaaaaaarrrrr but some of the characters have. I see the neighbors on both sides every day. Those to the south have recently introduced a beeceeclette for their *six* year old. She doesn’t seem to pedal yet but she is a force of nature and will get there. Neighbors to the north began the pandemic with a one-year-old and, at two, she is not always content to ride in the stroller. I have seen her mom and/or dad carry her home crying like all getout a couple times but that’s how it goes, roight?

For months and months, there was a kid who walked by solo every day. A skinny little kid who looked 9-10 to me with some sorta Peter Frampton hair, I mean the kind of hair Frampton had back in the day, I think he has less now. Frampton, not the kid. I dunno where this kid was walking from or to but once I saw him way the heck down on Miller, so it seemed he was walking a long way. I haven’t seen him since like September so who knows. On the other hand, there’s a gay couple (I’m guessing) who have been walking by the whole time, sometimes masked, sometimes not.

Yesterday I saw my long time neighbors from around the corner pushing a baby stroller. Say what? So, Gladys Kravitz here. They don’t have grandchildren do they? I didn’t think so. I know their kids and my kids are FRIENDS with their kids. Something that momentous would have been communicated to me. Best guess is they were baby-sitting for a relative.

So, Gladys Kravitz? If you are my age, you probably know the name. I was texting with my older beach urchin tonight and I asked if she remembered Gladys Kravitz. Yes, she did but she wasn’t sure about which TV show Gladys was on. Well, it was Bewitched, which she called B-witch. She knows that show because… When she was in kindergarten, she would frequently lolly-gag about getting dressed for school. Bewitched re-runs at that time ran in the morning and I would put the TV on in my bedroom and somehow that helped her focus on getting dressed. The dreaded “screens” are not always all that bad.

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