Home Sweet Home

"Why are you going to Naperville?" asked the customs official after a mere two hour wait at O'Hare airport once we'd left the plane. To avoid arrest or deportation, we had to simply answer that we live there, but here is one of the real reasons.
Only in Naperville can you return from a week away to find the garden looks better than when you left it. The neighbours have been watering and tending our hanging baskets with more care than I've ever given them.
Perhaps we should have answered: "Why wouldn't you go to Naperville?"