"Good Neighbors"

Good Neighbors
~Georgia B Adams~

Just yesterday my neighbor baked

Some juicy cherry pies;

On the window ledge they set to cool. . .

A little later on I heard

A knock on my screen door.

She stood there with a pie in hand !

I guessed whom it was for.

She is a friendly neighbor and

We chat across the fence;

The price of corn, a brewing storm,

We share a homey friendship and

She knows she's welcome here.

Good neighbors are a boon to man,

They bring wealth and cheer.

I read this poem yesterday and it made me a little sad...I remember so well my mother chatting with our neighbors at the fence. Both had clotheslines near the fence so they could chat and be busy at the same time. Monday was always laundry day for both. They would share new recipes, visit for a cup of coffee from time to time. What made me sad was thinking that I don't have neighbors that would chat across the fence or stop in for coffee. They are too busy, too stressed out.
I miss the days gone by when neighbors shared what they baked or hung laundry on the same day.

Guess I am just an old fashioned gal living in a modern world, wishing for some of that old fashioned friendliness of old.

baked fresh blueberry pies

chocolate chip cookies and

then watched the hens scratch for their feed by the barn