If this is your first episode of the upside, welcome.

If you've been here before, welcome back.

Today is Monday, November 6th.

My name is Jeff Dollar, and today I am grateful for our neighborhood.

We love our neighborhood.

We love our neighborhood and the night of Ellie's actual birthday, one of her friends came down to drop off a gift and just

ended up coming in the house and hanging out with us and having we had made pizza.

Ellie wanted pizza and salad for her birthday,

so we had pizza and salad.

And she came in and had some pizza with us

and then played and we had cupcakes and we had cupcakes. And then she wanted to come back the next night and play with

Ellie and so we said yeah and it just reminded me of

Jason Watson who lived down the street from me or Josh Gibson who lived next door

and we were always at each other's houses and stuff and I just I think it's neat. I just think it's cool.

So fun.

So good old days and hopefully those are things that she'll remember like forever, you know, like

her neighbors randomly coming over to play and and that whole thing.

Do you remember knowing where everybody in your neighborhood

was by the pile of bikes on the front yard?

Because that's how it was when if you got if you were somewhere with your

parents or you were not at home or you had to stay in your house and do homework or

whatever when you left you could get on your or you had to stay in your house and do homework or whatever.

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