These "conversation" diaries seem to be a running theme for me. One more and I might call it a trend.
Anyways, my better half and I were working on the yard today with the occasional helping hand from our across the street neighbor. We've been friends with him and his wife since they moved here last year from Germany. We come from totally different stations in life: husband and I are late-20s progressive DINKs, our neighbor is conservative career military with a stay-at-home wife and multiple grandkids. But a friendship was forged nonetheless over a shared love of German beer and our respective pooches.
We've never discussed politics before today - mainly because I knew where he stood and didn't want to strain our neighborly relations. But today we "went there". Join me after the jump for how it went.