Look, honey, it's a LOCAL

We have some new neighbors that moved in a couple of houses down from us. I made them some Poppy Seed Bread and we took it to them the other night to introduce ourselves and welcome them to the neighborhood. Perfectly pleasant retired couple with a super sweet dog. Conversation led to where they are from... and, like all of our neighbors, they are not native to NC. They actually got visibly excited when we told them that we both grew up in the Raleigh/Cary area.

"We've never met ANYONE who is actually from this area. I wanted to move to the south to meet real southerners," said the husband.

"Well, here we are - flesh and blood, " I said.

Evidently, we weren't quite as southern as they expected and I informed them that they could easily travel 20 or so miles in any direction and get stronger accents and such.

Later that evening, hubby & I jokingly wondered if they were shocked that we had on shoes and all our teeth.