Jebb's Open House

Some of my fancy party food!

Tractor Bruce on the left, Dog Bruce on the right and David in the back

Crafty Susan's daughter, Crafty Susan, Angie, Joe, Ella and Susan (Dog Bruce's wife)

Ella and grandma Susan. Ella adopted us because we have this petting zoo. She drags her grandparents over to our house so she can pet the dog, the kitties, the chickens and feed the fishies!!!

Left to right on our deck: Delynn (with back to us), Susan, Dog Bruce, Crafty Susan, Tractor Bruce, Crafty Susan's daughter and Trina.

Susan and Dog Bruce, our favorite neighbors. The pond beyond our pond is theirs, huge!

Delynn (Tractor Bruce's wife), Lynn and her grand daughter.

Joe, Angie and Ella returning from petting the chickens!

Cotton like fluff floating on our pond from ours and the neighbors cotton wood trees.

More mess and hard to get out of the pond!

It is like snow and gets into everything!


We decided to have a little Open House so we could meet all the neighbors and more important let them see the house since we remodeled everything. They were so curious about what we did that we just thought to have them all here and then we are done with showing it.
They all accepted our 2pm-5pm invitation with all being here exactly at 2pm (there is no being fashionable late here in Ohio) the last one though leaving at 8pm. Well that's Defiance, never rush anything. We had Tractor Bruce (our neighbor to the right with a bunch of tractors) and his wife Delynn; Dog Bruce (our neighbor to the left with 2 matted smelly lab mixes) and his wife Susan; Tony and wife Mary from across the street; Lynn to the left of them; Dale and Edith on the right of them and locked in a "many year feud" with Susan; Joe and Angie and little Ella (Dog Bruce and Susan's son, wife and grand daughter) from 2 houses away... and Crafty Susan (does all the craft one can think off) from next door to Dog Bruce!!!!! We all had a marvelous time though as usual I bought way to much food. The problem was that I bought all that fancy food at Costco like Gruyere and Brie and Mozzarella cheese, fancy olives and crusty Italian baguettes, little quiches, roasted Pine Nut Hummus and Pita chips and avocados where as the folks here probably would have preferred Cheddar Cheese on Wonder Bread and good old greasy Potato chips. Maybe a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for selection. Even the nice wine was not a great success and I am sure to remember to buy next time wine in the box. Also the imported beer found only one taker while the rest of the guys went for coke and diet coke. Interesting!
But everybody loved the party and decided that we should do this more often. Probably will be our job to get them together again. Some of the people had never met though they all live here for 6-12 years and not more then at the most 4 houses apart.
But David is the social butterfly here and is friend with all the guys above. There are days when Tractor Bruce would come over and chat with him for an hour or two followed by Dog Bruce and ending with Tony for a total of 4 hours gabbing. Yeah, those are the guys who say that women chat to much.
We will probably organize a get together about every 3 or 4 months, will see how it goes. I will insist though on potluck, just to learn what folks prefer to eat here.