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TOP TEN THINGS
YOU WILL LOVE
About life at 88 Knollwood Drive
1. Our neighbors! We've lived here nine years 6. Being central to everything, whether it's
and most of my neighbors have lived here the train stations, libraries, Traders Joes
longer than that. It's a wonderful blend on Blackrock Turnpike or Firehouse Deli
of new families, families with school age on Old Post Road, watching the sunset at
kids and college students, and seniors. Sasco Hill Beach- nothing is more than ten
We trick-or-treat together, and can send a minutes away.
group text to help find one of our dogs if
it's gotten loose!
7. The view through the skylight in the
bathroom! Especially from the tub.
2. Our front garden. The 100 foot Magnolia
tree in the front is so beautiful in bloom
people stop and take photos with it. The 8. The friendly wild animals. Foxes, a bobcat,
white flowers smell lovely and fall like deer, lightning bugs, we get them all.
confetti in great drifts. We have raised so many wild birds, they
let us stand right next to them as we fill
the feeder. In summer we usually get a
3. Our back garden. The oaks and tulip trees hummingbird. One year we raised a baby
next to the stream, pink rhododendrons Barred Owl. He would watch the kids get
full of bees, all the little frogs peeping. A on the school bus in the morning.
pool in the summer, firepits in winter. We
saw the Northern Lights out there recently.
It's quiet here, especially at night. I find it 9. Family celebration meals at the dining
calming to listen to the trees. table. Our kids are older and have grown to
appreciate it, and now insist on it!
4. How close we are to all the schools. We
can drop off a forgotten instrument in a 10. Our fireplace in winter, especially on the
few minutes! holidays, love the smell of a woodburning
fireplace. We play in the snow, then come
in and have hot chocolate and sit by the
5. Walking to Fairfield University for the fire to warm up. We lie around and play card
kids swimming lessons. They skateboard games - and of course toast marshmallows!
there too.
