Sixteen acres too much for your landscaper to keep tidy now that gas leaf blowers have been banned?

Well, now you can go for a more modest lot: after 410 days on the market, five of the sixteen acres at 38,48, and 58 Quaker Lane can now be purchased separately: No. 58, with house, can be yours for just $20 million, instead of $35 million for the whole package (which is still available as either an 11-acre horsey parcel or the full 16).

To my eye, it’s a pretty hideous house, with a pseudo-Jackson’s Hole feel, and since Jackson’s Hole itself is a pseudo-western ranch retreat for the connected, why duplicate it here? But that’s just me.

Of limited interest, probably, except to modern Greenwich history buffs, according to the tax card, the fraudster and failed real estate developer Andrew Kissell, who would go on to be murdered in his house at 8 Dairy Road (now 10 — the street number was changed for resale purposes) built this house back in 2004 and then, apparently, lost it to foreclosure in 2007.

the zebra's here

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Cat's still got my tongue

the zebra has foaled

and, finally, the orange makes an appearance