We were all engaged in our busy spring afternoons – parents rushing kids off to soccer, others turning over the dirt in their gardens readying beds for spring planting, some less glamorously cleaning out the garage or pumping up flat bike tires – when a fabulous neighbor volunteered her deck and grill. (It wasn’t mine, it’s still housing spiders and covered in cobwebs in the garage).
In our little hamlet, the hum came back to the street as neighbors met on front lawns to discuss whose grill was ready to fire up to make an eclectic communal meal. The weather turned from iffy to glorious this weekend and with it re-emerged the Impromptu Backyard Gathering (or Deck Potlucks).
