Day 104: Top Ten Tuesday

For today's post, we thought we'd give a nod to our old 'hood, which was pretty awesome in its own right. So we put together this top ten list of the things we'll miss about Jefferson Park! Enjoy :) 


10. Our (professional landscaper) neighbors' ever-changing perfectly manicured golf course yard
9. Afternoons on the porch drinking PBR or "whatever ya got" as long as it's not 'mexican' or 'foreign' beer with Chuck talking about girlfriends, neighbors, Brenda Wood, parades, boat motors, native americans, campers, or wherever else the conversation meandered
8. Our street cred (Riley included) -  I sometimes got laughed at when carded
7. The entertaining trips to the nearby Kroger, shopping amid strippers from Pleaser's
6.The daily e-mails from the Neighborhood Association notifying us of lost and found animals and/or attempted home robberies
5. Friday Night Lights - listening to the local HS marching band from our front porch in the fall
4. The newly revamped Brookdale Park, complete with new playgrounds, tennis and basketball courts, plantings and of course the restored-to-its-natural-path-and-splendor creek. You can't fight nature.
3. Munford, our friendly neighborhood possum. We watched him grow from a tiny baby possum into a freakishly large, disgusting adult possum. Yay.
2. Our neighbor's decorative yard goose, whose wardrobe changed with the seasons (and sometimes the weather within a given season. He does love his rain gear!).
1.Our awesome neighbors, including Melissa, Tiffany, Charles & John to name just a few. And of course, Chuck, who loves a good swing at Brookdale Park.