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Could you tell us your name? So we are the Walkers. I'm Taushia and this is... Madison. You want to take your mask down?

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No. Okay. And could you tell us about your relationship to Petworth? So we have been, we are a Foreign Service family. So, we spent a lot of time overseas and this is our second time living in Petworth. We came here a year before Madison was both. So eight years ago, eight or nine almost nine years ago. And we live in the 400 block of Emerson, which is a very nice group. We've got a group chat that we use so that we can talk about coat giveaways, or if we heard anything suspicious. Or if we just want to get together and have quarantine happy hours, which is what we did during 2020.

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That's terrific. We, Yeah, we would, I would go outside around 5:30 with our cowbell and we would ring the bell, ring the bell, ring the bell and our neighbors would come out with cocktails and wine and whatever else, sometimes we share with each other. Sometimes we wouldn't because we wanted to make everybody feel comfortable, but it was just our way of connecting because we were all in the house at that point. We're talking about, you know, March, April, May of 2020, because we still didn't really know what was happening and we knew we didn't want to, you know, go out to restaurants or we couldn't. So, we felt like we could have that sense of community with the block at least. And that's what we did for a long time. Every every Friday. It was Friday, every Friday. We would do our happy hours. They no longer continue. They don't. But our group chat still goes on and every so often somebody will say on the group chat. Are we getting together? We need to get together. So we certainly might revive that again. But as we all got busier on the outside, then the then the quarantine happy hours kind of subsided, but you never know. I still have hope for us. Madison is whispering something to me, but we can talk about that later.

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One last question, where we do, you think maybe the future of celebration for you and Petworth with be? Well, I loved the fact that like, I was just telling me, young lady, 2020, made us all get very inventive, very creative. And we were also involved in the PorchFest at the inaugural porch, Petworth PorchFest. And so I've seen other communities do important vests to I feel like those things are really wonderful and should continue to happen. Even beyond quarantine, even beyond, you know, you know, us being stuck inside. It's a way to pull us together. You go outside. You see your neighbors, you celebrate, you find out like, you know you lived here and then you meet other people that you don't know. This city is changing so much and gentrification can sometimes be a very hard pill to swallow. So I feel as if these kinds of activities can make the revitalization of the neighborhood, be more of a positive thing. So that the old and the new can come together, which in many cases, that's what happened. That's what happened during our quarentines. There were people who have been on the block for 10-plus years. And there were those of us who have been on the block for you know, five years or less. And so we're all able to contribute and meet each other and we look out for each other. You know we clear each other's guards, or porches, for when in the storms in the, in the snow storms. There's older people that we look after which, I feel like you don't really do that, that much, I mean, that in my generation used to do that all the time, but I feel like we kind of lost that. But quarantine for the good and the bad of it, it helped us to be more of a community. It really did doesn't because it took it, stripped us of, you know, the busyness of life and made us really slow down and concentrate on each other so much. Thank you so much! You're welcome!

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And thank you for being in the show as well. I appreciate it. Thank you! Okay, now I want ice cream. Now we are going for Lulabells. See ya!