Who's there?

Knock, Knock.

Who's there?

Our next-door neighbor.

Our next-door neighbor who?

Alan. He's Canadian.

I kid you not. The man who lives on the 2nd floor of the house next door is from Canada. This comes as a bit of a shock, I will say. In six months here, we've never seen him even once.

He came to see us last night while we were sitting out on the deck. He had just read my name on a post to a local mailing list, put two and two together, and even read these web pages. When he saw the page for the Marble House, he knew who we were. So he came down to say hello.

So we have a new neighbor--or rather an old one. Alan's lived here for 13 years! Very, very quietly...