email to Joe and Judy Pawlick June 22, 2009)
Hello Joe and Judy,
Busy weekend
it has been it has. Where do we
start? At the beginning I suppose.
No wait,
let’s start at the end:
We got your
package already this morning. The apron
is absolutely fantastic! I love it. I
know Eve will be thrilled this afternoon when she gets home. “Marathon Girl” “Eve”, that was good. The caramels are tasty, but don’t tell anyone
I already had one. The sand dollars are
beautiful. What wonderful, fascinating
creations of nature.
Poirot
Review:
It had us on
the edge of our seats the entire way. We
loved it. As usual Mr. Poirot “tormented
his mind by agitating his little gray cells unmercifully” and exposed the evil
Angel agent. You have to admit though
she, the evil Angel, exhibited great form with the javelin. It is too bad that OU didn’t have her on the
track team last week and maybe they would have won the national
championships. And let’s face it, until
she got the point across, the Pokemon gal was bad news on her own by tormenting
every person she came in contact with. I
can think of a few people I have worked with at one time or another, who you
could visualize on the business end of a spear, maybe in a different location,
but on the end of a spear all the same.
So the equation is balanced as far as I can see; “evil – evil = good”
and Hercule came through as always. Like
fine wine, even Poirot gets better with age.
Bug and
Critter Update:
Yesterday we
saw our first black bear at about 30 yards up yonder trail we were running on
along Bent Creek. He was about 3 foot
high across the shoulders and as fat as the piggy that went to market. He walked out on the trail right in front of
us, stopped, looked and took off down the other side of the trail. The best part was, Eve didn’t panic, didn’t
mess her shorts and remained perfectly calm.
I was proud of her. With warm
rain falling during most of our 13 mile run, the fog, the bear and the little
turtle we saw along the trail, the day in the forest was almost magical.
Racing
Update:
We ran the
Rhododendron 10K on Saturday. It was
pretty warm; in the 70’s even at 8:30 am.
But we had a good run on a beautiful course. Eve won 1st place Women’s Masters,
and the Bartman won 1st place in Men’s Grand masters. Nice plaques, no cash, great friendly folks
taking care of the officiating.
Deerwood
Scandals:
Nothing to
report.
Oh, one
thing maybe. The large juniper bush in
front of 101 Deerlake that was providing an excellent safety hazard to anyone
walking up Deerlake and meeting an oncoming vehicle driven by someone who can
barely see over the steering wheel while exceeding the posted speed limit by 15
mph, is now gone. We asked the landscapers
to trim it to back a couple of feet behind the curb and trim the height so a
pedestrian and driver could see over it.
They trimmed it alright! The area
looks much better. But still, since I
started the ball rolling leading to the demise of this ugly, out of control
bush, I feel like I might have painted a bulls-eye on my back. In the mean time the Grounds Committee
continues to approve the installation of ornamental do-dingies in common
grounds without consulting with the Board.
Last week this finally resulted in a special hearing of the Board to
resolve a complaint by a neighbor who did not behold the beauty of an illegal
installation, that was, of course, beholden by the installer and approver. Like the Board doesn’t have enough to do as
it is. I hope this will be the end of it
but after hearing the evidence provided at the hearing by the Chairman of the
Grounds Committee, I am not overly optimistic.
Evidently this has been going on for some time. I just don’t understand why it is so
difficult to live by the rules we all agreed on when we moved in here. Stay tuned.
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