Lake Bosse Oaks

July.August 2010

It's Just An Apple, by Debi Walter

Anniversaries are a great opportunity to take a fresh look at what we’ve been doing with appreciation and to look ahead for new ways to improve.  It is the tenth anniversary of this publication, and we are grateful to the many neighbors during this decade who have contributed their time and talent making our community all the better for it.  Look inside this issue for a special “Sun-tribution” to them.
    The old adage says, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away!”  My son-in-law insists that using an apple computer keeps the viruses away, so we have finally closed the door on the PC world and have embraced the world of MacIntosh.  It was here where I discovered this newsletter software - iWork.  It looks great, but it feels strange and unfamiliar.  I’m certain with time it will become easier to navigate.  
   I like apples, and this one should be no different.  I just have to get used to it one byte at a time.  :-)  
  This reminds me of something my granddaughter, Bristol, recently said to her Snow White doll while eating an apple for breakfast:
    
“No, really, it’s okay Snow White.  

It’s just an apple!”

    I truly have nothing to be afraid of - it’s just an apple, and I’m sure it will prove to be very good for the health and well-being of our newsletter in the long run.  May you enjoy every bite!

 

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President's Corner, by Ethan McCain

Hello all,
Not much to say this month. Keep up the good work with your property maintenance. The hood is looking good! I have been trying to keep you informed by the marquee up at the front entrance as best as I can. So have a great Summer and don’t forget that we will be giving away the coveted “Yard of the Season” award for the best Summer property!
Our next board meeting will be on Monday, July 12th at 4049 Greenfern Dr.  The meeting will start at 7p.  All are welcome!
    Ethan

 

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"ARB" Wired, by Ken Barber

While we certainly thank all of our neighbors for their hard work in grooming their yards there are still a few in need of simple things like grass. We would like to remind everyone that our bylaws clearly state that having grass in our yards is a must.
 
    We will also be hosting an ARB meeting by the lake very soon and welcome your attendance. Please watch the signboard for the date and time.
 
Thanks,
 
Your ARB Committee 

 

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Neighborhood
Watch  Report

On Tuesday, August 3rd we will host our first National Night Out event.  This is celebrated  nationwide in an effort to promote community and safety.  Please mark your calendars and look for details to come!
Mike McKee is still working to update our Neighborhood Watch Maps.  It is necessary to have current information.  He will be visiting those neighbors still lacking correct info.  Please help him in this - your information is never used for solicitation purposes.
Hidden Picture Contest - e-mail the editor the address of the picture on the left* for a Gift Card.

 

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Furry Friends? I Think Not, by Bonnie Anderson

Life here in the suburbs gives many opportunities to observe “wildlife.”  There are many varieties of birds.  We see the occasional raccoon, opossum, and of course, squirrels.  Squirrels are everywhere.  My friends here in the “hood” and I have a love/hate relationship with them.  Many of my friends love them.  I hate them.

Recently we had a weekend project of replacing our rusty, dilapidated shed with a new one.  We put lots of our outdoor things on our screened porch to keep them rain-free during the process.  

We came home from church on Sunday morning and looked out on our porch.  Something was looking back – a cute little squirrel (that was for my squirrel loving friends).  This destructive rodent had chewed through our screen and ripped an unopened bag of birdseed to shreds.  There was birdseed everywhere, as well as other evidence of a squirrel’s presence.  Bob went out on the porch and shooed the timid little creature out the door, and I cleaned up his mess.

The next morning I awoke to again find a pair of beady little eyes looking at me from the outside window ledge.  It was a little disconcerting.  I think it was angry that I moved the birdseed away.  I went out on the porch to shoo it away, but this was not the timid little guy that Bob had dealt with.  This must have been his angry mother.  The second I set foot on the porch she started darting about, bouncing off of everything.  It was more than a little intimidating.  I couldn’t even get to the door to open it for her to leave.  I have to tell you, I was scared she was going to do a “Christmas Vacation” style jump right on my face.

Finally, with the aid of my protective broom, I prevailed and outside she went.  But this wasn’t the end of my furry problems.

The day before Mother’s Day, Bob and I got in my Explorer to head to Costco.  The stench in my car was made of the stuff that begs the question, “Do you smell something?”  It was like a combination of spoiled milk left on your counter overnight next to day-old raw chicken next to soiled diapers in an open garbage can.  Okay, I need to be more accurate;  It was worse than that!  We drove down the street “smelling” in an effort to figure out what it could be.  Bob stopped and popped the hood.  Nothing.  We looked under the wheel wells.  Nothing.  We searched for something that might have rolled under the seat.  Nothing.

The next day, after baking in the hot sun, the smell had grown.  By Mother’s Day afternoon all I wanted was a smell-free car.  Bob began tearing apart the dashboard to try to get to the ventilation system.  The smell continued to grow.  By the end of the night, I kid you not, there were flies gathering around our car and our entire yard smelled.

We decided to take the car to the Ford dealer and leave it for them for the next day.  Unfortunately, they don’t do that on Sunday nights so that was a wasted, smelly trip.  Bob actually ended up nauseated from the short drive there.  The next day we dropped it off to their unsuspecting service department.  Three days and several hundred dollars later, they had extracted a large dead, maggot covered, rat from within the frame of my car, now affectionately labeled the “rat mobile.”  

Several months ago I had noticed rats on my bird feeder and we put out poison.  Now we have poison near our driveway for them.  We went to “Do It Yourself” and at their recommendation bought blocks of rat poison and put one in a makeshift 1.25-inch PVC pipe “T” (so that cats can’t eat it).  We wired that to a stalk of a plant.  We’ve checked our trap and found it empty of poison already, so we’ve put in more.  Some things that make a good atmosphere for rats are rotting oranges on the ground, unsecure garbage cans and uncared for lawns.  They are quite the problem in Florida.

My purpose in sharing this part of the story is to encourage you to keep our neighborhood rat-free.  Here it is six weeks later, and I still am reminded about this incident every time I get in my car.  Yes, I smell a rat, though faintly and now covered up by air freshener.

 

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Line Drive Burgers - A New Restaurant opened by our own Rob Swanson

 

Feeding Hearts and Appetites
Not quite local, but if you’re willing to venture up to Lake Mary, you can treat yourself to a burger that’s in a completely different league AND benefit a worthy charity with each visit.  Line Drive Burgers, home to gourmet burgers, brats, turkey burgers, and veggie burgers, was launched a few weeks ago by Rob Swanson and Jon White; the former a current Lake Bosse resident and the latter a Lake Bosse alumni.
Besides a commitment to supporting local charities with every ticket, LDB offers 50+ toppings for your burgers.  Supplementing traditional toppings with such faire as bleu cheese crumbles, guacamole, and dozens of other exotic options, we combine premium burgers and New York bakery buns with a Subway approach to toppings.  LDB gives a nod to health-conscious individuals with non-transfat canola oil for fries and chips while allowing all seasonings under your control.  Low sodium diet?  Watching your cholesterol?  Line Drive Burgers is the place for you!

With the quality and compassion imbued in each order, you’d think the prices would be out of the ballpark; we beg to differ.  Value is also a bedrock principle for LDB.  Great food, great prices, and great ties to the community!  Located at the corner of Lake Mary Blvd. and Rinehart Rd. by the TJ Maxx and Blockbuster, and on the web at www.linedriveburgers.com, we hope you’re hungry!

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Sun-tribution - Our Salute to Great Neighbors!

A lot can happen in ten years:

• U.S. Presidents change.

• One can nearly finish primary education.

• Doctors and Lawyers are made.

• Teenagers are made

• We put a man on the moon in less than ten years.

So it is with us.  We have had many neighbors come and go in the past ten years.  Here are a few who no longer call Lake Bosse Home, but who have made a permanent mark on the good of our community.  You may remember them:

• Danny & Norma Morcom - President for many years.

• Ron & Linda Lloyd - her father helped build this neighborhood.

• Greg & Maribeth Alte - served on the board.

• Chris Marshall - tree arborist who still cares for many yards in our neighborhood.

• Jim Herrington - President for several terms.

• Robert Burke - Veteran whom we honored by the lake for what became his last Independence Day in this life!

We have no idea who will still be here in the next ten years.  Let’s live each day making a difference in the place we call home, remembering the good, learning from the bad for this is how we grow up in all things and become better in the process.

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Around Town

The Daytona Beach Bandshell is a beautiful venue for great summer concerts.  Every Saturday night a different style of music will be offered giving everyone a chance to enjoy the beach and the music.  All concerts begin at 7p and are FREE. There will also be fireworks after the concert between now and Labor Day. For more information visit their website: www.bandshell.org
July, 10    ??¨    Dixieland ??¨
July, 17??¨        Rock ??¨
July, 24??¨        Swing, Classical, Big Band, & Jazz ??¨
July, 31??¨        Meringue ??¨
August, 07??¨   Jazz ??¨
August, 14??¨   Orchestra ??¨
August, 21   Swing ??¨
August, 28??¨   Rock and Blues

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Summer Reading List of Children's Classics

Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights
Aesop's Fables - William Caxton (Translation) - 1484
A Token for Children - James Janeway - 1675
Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan - 1678
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - 1719
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - 1726
Tales of Mother Goose - Charles Perrault - 1729 (English)
Little Pretty Pocket-book - John Newbery - 1744
Little Goody Two Shoes - Oliver Goldsmith - 1765
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Rudolf Wyss - 1812-3
Ivanhoe - Walter Scott - 1819
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving - 1819
Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving - 1820
Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - 1823
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père - 1844
Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen - 1846
The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat - 1847
Slovenly Peter - Heinrich Hoffmann - 1848
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - 1850
The Coral Island - R. M. Ballantyne - 1857
Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes - 1857
The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley - 1863
A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne - 1864
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - 1865
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge - 1865
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - 1868
Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore - 1869
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - 1870
At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald - 1871
The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald - 1871
Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll - 1871
What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge - 1873
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - 1876
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell - 1877
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle - 1883
Nights with Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris - 1883
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1883
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - 1884
Heidi - Johanna Spyri - 1884
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard - 1885
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1886
The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde - 1888
The Blue Fairy Book - Andrew Lang - 1889
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi - 1891
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - 1894
Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner - 1894
Moonfleet - J. Meade Falkner - 1898
The Story of the Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit - 1899
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum - 1900
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit - 1902
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling - 1902
The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter - 1902
King Arthur and His Knights - Howard Pyle - 1902-3
The Call of the Wild - Jack London - 1903
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin - 1903
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie - 1904
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1905
The Railway Children - E. Nesbit - 1906
White Fang - Jack London - 1906
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery - 1908
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - 1908
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1909/1911
The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1912
Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter - 1913
The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay - 1918