An extreme neighborhood

For one Costa Mesa family, this Valentine’s and Presidents’ Day

weekend also resembles Christmas and birthdays and, eventually, will

seem like Thanksgiving.

As the four-member, for now, family -- mom, dad, two kids and

triplets on the way -- is enjoying a vacation in Arizona, members of

the ABC program, “Extreme Makeover, Home Edition,” are gutting and

then redoing their Rosemary Place home. When the family returns,

there should be plenty of room for the next three family members plus

unexpected touches that put the “extreme” into the show’s title.

It’s a story with all the hallmarks of a happy ending and “feel

good” theme, not the least because all the family’s neighbors had to

OK the work, which will be going on nearly 24 hours a day this week.

As anyone who’s lived next to construction can say, it isn’t

pleasant, so clearly Rosemary Place is an old-fashioned neighborly

street.

Let’s all hope that envy over the neighbors’ fabulous new house

doesn’t put an end to it.