A new neighborhood

One of the women in the local contradance community opens her house a few times year for what she calls a Naked Lady party.  Anyone (F) who wants to attend may bring whatever items, mostly clothes, she is ready to let go of.  Skirts and dresses go in one room, pants in another, tops and sweaters in another, and houseware, books, etc. go downstairs.  Then we all run around in whatever state of undress each is comfortable with, and try on clothes and talk and laugh, taking a break now and then to visit the kitchen, where there is a vegetarian potluck feast laid out. 

As I cleaned out my closet yesterday, I put aside the cute swirly skirts and dresses I used to contradance in.  I don't contra any more, so I wanted to donate these items to an upcoming NL party.  Sweet Hubby and I drove to the hostess's neighborhood and I put the bag of clothes on her porch.  My idea had been then to walk around the neighborhood, one I'm not much familiar with.  That's one of my favorite things to do: go to a new neighborhood and just walk around, looking at houses and gardens, wondering about who lives in each how and why they chose that color or those flowers.  This will probably be my Something New choice more than once.

SH noticed that there were a couple of electric bikes close by, so instead of walking, we rode through the neighborhood, covering more ground than I would have been able to on foot.  We passed a house with a pond inhabited by a hippo (at least the top bit of the hippos head could be seen above the waterline); a tower with a beautiful large eye painted on it; a cemetery; a nice big park with lots of families playing and picnicking.  That always makes me especially happy, to see children playing outdoors.  Probably like a lot of people of my generation (Boomer), I am concerned that today's children are too addicted to their screens and don't use their lungs, their noses, their muscles, their imaginations as healthily as they should.  Few things give me as much delight as a well-used park.

So that was today's adventure.  Not particularly daring nor thrilling, but the air was fresh (no triple digits here!) and I got to share the time with SH.   Aren't I lucky in so many, many ways?