[gulfcoast6]

How could they, they should be flocking to your place to see what you need, things needed done, it is only the right thing to do. When a neighbor gets too busy to help a neighbor that person needs to sit back and look at themselves long and hard and think ahead, one day they will be in need as well. My problem is I am not to good with the old hands, I leave this heavy work to sil and I do the work.

[Carolinamom]

I like the idea of bartering. For instance, one of my neighbors bush hogged a field for me, so I baked him a cherry cheese cake. Thus he just might be open to doing it again! (If he does, he's getting some home baked bread or another cheese cake, whichever he prefers.)