Flowers at Freddie's

Today was our tenth neighborhood Progressive Dinner Party. Seven families, always great fun, but this will be the last for the family moving away and a changed one for the family going through divorce. The more things change, the more they stay the same, or is it the other way around?
Back in the Dakota farm community where I grew up, we looked forward to 'going into town' on Wednesday night and on Saturday for shopping and socializing. Running into friends, neighbors, cousins, in the stores, on the sidewalks, folk leaning against cars, kids zipping between cars, up and down sidewalks.The big ones stood around, the little ones ran around.