I found myself face to face with my neighbor. He is the Arizona cowboy who looks like the Marlboro man.
It was about 10:30 last night, when I remembered I need to put the trash out in case they are working on the holiday. My neighbors houses looked pretty dark. I had been drinking Scotch and figured no one was around. So I go out into the back yard and grab the garbage can, take it out the gate between the houses and out to the street. I walk over by the driveway and grabbed an empty one to take to the back yard. As I come around the van, there he stood. All I could say was "Ok, you caught me." He said he came out to see why the light came on. We stopped and talked for about 5 minutes. He asked me a couple of questions, and seemed pretty cool about it. It started to rain again, so I headed back in the house.
Here are a couple of pictures I took just before going out the door.