Lake Bosse Oaks
September.October 2009
Back In The Day, by Debi Walter
I have a confession to make...I love Facebook! It’s a social networking site online that allows you to connect with people all over the world if you so desire. I’m just happy to reconnect with old friends from my childhood, some of whom I haven’t spoken to in decades. I grew up in Pine Hills in the 60’s and 70’s. It was a great place to be as a kid with lots of room to roam and discover.
Of course, this isn’t the case anymore. My close friends love to tease me that I come from “Crime Hills”, but this doesn’t dim my memory of what a great place it used to be.
As a curiosity back in March, I decided to start a Facebook Group titled, “I Grew Up In Pine Hills” just to see who would happen by and join. I sent an invitation out to the few friends I knew who in fact grew up in Pine Hills with me, and then I waited.
It wasn’t long until I realized I was not alone in holding Pine Hills in my heart as a very special place. From the first week the site grew and grew until today, only 6 months later, we have 1822 members and counting! I’m amazed to hear from many friends who are thrilled to finally have a place to come and recall such wonderful days together. We rode our bikes everywhere and explored all our surroundings without concern or fear of being abducted by a stranger. Most times our parents had no idea where we were or who we were with. They only required us to be in the house when the street lights came on!
I suppose this is why I love Lake Bosse Oaks. We don’t have hundreds of neighbors sharing the same community, but we do have a safe haven where our children are free to go from house to house, playing exploring and climbing trees. I love driving slowly down our street in order to give the kids playing basketball or baseball in the street time to go to the side so I can safely pass. I love hearing laughter and watching children race by on their bicycles. I hear the ice cream truck in the distance and remember well running to stop him as a child myself.
My children are all grown now, and they carry with them fond memories of this place as I do mine. Thank you for making our community a safe place for children to be...well,...themselves. Maybe one day they’ll start a group on Facebook titled “I Grew Up In Lake Bosse Oaks”, and I’ll simply smile remembering YOU and the life we shared back in the day!
President's Corner, by Angelo Intravaia
We are currently making plans for our annual meeting at the lake on Saturday, November 7th. We will be voting on new board members for next year, in addition to other business matters. The meeting will begin at 12:00 noon with our Fall Festival taking place immediately afterwards. If you are unable to attend, please be sure and send a proxy vote with a neighbor or board member.
If you are interested in serving on the board, please contact one of the members of our nominating committee:
Ethan McCain,(407) 494-1601, emccain@stewart.com
Kathy Turner, (407) 523-4230, kathy4105@cfl.rr.com
Jasmine Perris, (407) 756-4399, perrisg02@netzero.com
The committee members may also contact you to solicit your willingness to serve. If interested, you need to contact them by September 30th.
Also the Board would like to express their appreciation to Ken Stoll for removing the metal benches from the lake area - many thanks, Ken!
"ARB" Wired - Covenant Connections, by Ethan McCain
We want to thank all who have been sprucing up and maintaining their properties this past summer season. We know it was hard work and even harder in this heat and economy. We would like to congratulate Russ & Lucy Barnes for being this Fall’s “Yard of the Season” winner of a $20.00 Home Depot gift card and a beautiful sign to proudly display in their front yard! Remember all you have to do to enter the contest is keep sprucing up and maintaining your yard and you could be our next season winner!
Now for some business, the HOA Board has observed a few properties in disarray and in need of proper maintenance and repair. Please know that we are diligently pursuing these property owners for a remedy. It is not acceptable to have overgrown grass or weeds in your front yard. The front yard must have sod and ground coverage and must be mowed to a normal proper height at least once a week. It is not acceptable to have garbage cans and recycle bins exposed and visible from the street. You must store them in your garage or side yard or back yard. If you cannot store the cans in the aforementioned places you must build a small storage fence that is painted to accessorize your home. It is not acceptable to have trash, rubbish, debris, old fence, wood, roofing shingles, tires or wheels in the front and/or side of your home. You must throw these items away or store them in your garage or back yard away from view from the street. For those that need reminding we will only write you once before elevated further action will be taken.
Thank you for all you’re doing to keep LBO the beautiful place to live that it is!
Fall Festival
WHEN: Saturday, November 7th; WHERE: Lakefront Park; TIME: 12:30p - 3:30p
We are planning an afternoon full of fun for the entire family. We’ll share hamburgers and hot dogs for a nominal charge and have everyone bring sides to share. There will be a petting zoo as well as our annual Cake and Cupcake Walk, as well as lots of other surprises.
Come ready to celebrate the cooler weather!
Neighborhood Watch, by Mike McKee
The vandalism that was taking place on our neighborhood marquee has been taken care of. Mike noticed a group of teens messing with it and called the police. They arrived in time to pull the guys over and talk with them. They weren’t from our neighborhood, and they haven’t been a problem since! It pays to call the police when suspicious activity is taking place. It’s our tax dollars at work for us!
ALSO,
Current and New Residents...
please take a few minutes out of your schedule to send LBO secretary, Mike McKee your updated e-mail addresses and phone numbers. These are great to have should we need to reach you with important updates or information. Your privacy is assured.
His e-mail is MJMcKee4002@aol.com
Around Town
Fall is in the air, and what a perfect time to make plans for picnics, festivals and anything outdoors. Here is a list of some favorites:
Green Meadows Farms - Adults and Children are $19 (FL residents) Two and under are free. This is a great place to experience life on a working farm. Each paid visitor leaves with a pumpkin from their pumpkin patch. greenmeadowsfarm.com
Long and Scott Farm Corn Maze - this year’s theme: aMAZEing weather. Opens October 3rd through Nov. 29th. Cost: Age 17+, $10, Children 3 - 16, $8, 3 and under, free. longandscottfarms.com
Orlando Food & Wine Fest - Nov. 14th and 15th in downtown Orlando around Lake Eola. Cost is $15 for both days, or $10 for individual days. Food and drinks available for purchase. orlandofoodandwinefest.com
Kim and Jason
Did You Know?
- you can tell the temperature by counting the chirps of a cricket? It's true! Here's the formula:
To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of chirps in 14 seconds then add 40 to get temperature.
Example: 30 chirps + 40 = 70° F
- The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
- The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.
- Some 190 billion emails are sent daily - more than 2 million per second - by 1.2 billion email senders. About 70% (133 billion emails) are spam and viruses. There are about 1.4 billion registered email addresses.
- Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
- About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.
- An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.
Restaurant Review, by Debi Walter
Keller’s Real Smoked BBQ
280 South S.R. 434, Ste. 1047
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
Phone - 407-786-7750
Fax Orders - 407-786-0936
Store Hours -
Monday - Thursday 11am - 9pm
Friday - Saturday 11am - 10pm
Sunday 11:30am - 9pm
Believe it or not, Sunday was the first time Tom and I have eaten at this local restaurant located in the Wal-Mart plaza on Hwy. 434. It was delicious, and the decor is moo-velous! That’s right - cow hides everywhere, but it really adds to the character of the place.
What you may not know is it is owned by the son of Andy Keller, founder of Fat Boy’s BBQ in the 1950’s.
We recommend their corn nuggets - a very tasty appetizer, and they have to really good french fries - crinkly cut! The prices were reasonable, and they allow sharing. Oh yeah, the BBQ was fantastic!
Making Good Honest Labor Better, by guest writer Joseph Walker
(used with permission)
It wasn't that Kurt and I didn't have anything in common. We were the same age, approximately. The same height, give or take a few strands of hair (I still had hair, Kurt didn't -- and my hair made me taller). We both cheered passionately for the same college football and professional basketball teams.
We were even the same weight. But even though we both tipped the scales at about 240 pounds, Kurt carried most of his weight in muscular arms, massive shoulders and a strong, powerful torso. I carried most of my 240 pounds... uh... well... you know... lower.
See what I mean? We had a lot in common – even though we were so different.
The problem was, the differences between us were pretty divisive -- different religions, different educational backgrounds, different political perspectives, different lifestyles -- the kinds of things that don't HAVE to separate people but often do, especially when you pile them up on top of each other.
The fact is, even though Kurt and I worked for the same company we probably wouldn't have ever met had we not been thrown together into an adversarial situation. Kurt was blue collar through and through, and was involved with his union in labor negotiations with the company. My collar was not only white, but I usually wore a tie around it. I didn't exactly sit on the other side of the negotiating table, but I worked for the company behind the scenes to coordinate communication efforts to employees, customers and the media.
To say there was a certain amount of tension around the company during the period of labor negotiations is like saying there is a certain amount of tension these days around Jon and Kate. So the timing wasn't right for a new friendship to take root. But as Kurt and I interacted during the course of the weeks of negotiations, we found we could do so pleasantly, if not completely comfortably. He had a gruff exterior, but a quick and affable sense of humor, and I enjoyed the give and take of our brief conversations. At first we limited our comments to sports. That led to mention of our own respective athletic histories (his was impressive, mine was not). Which led to talk about our growing up years, which led to discussion of our families and eventually brought us full circle to the very subject we had been most steadfastly avoiding.
"So what brought you here to the company?" I asked.
"My Dad worked here," he said, simply. "My older brother still works here. I never really thought of working anywhere else."
"Do you like it here?" I didn't intend it as a leading question, but given the circumstances, it sort of came out that way. He looked at me, as if he was trying to decide if I was trying to trap him. I guess he figured I wasn't smart enough to do that.
"Yeah," he said. "I like it a lot. It's hard work, but it's good, honest work. Good pay, good benefits. The company's been good
to us."
I hesitated. I wanted to ask: Then why are you and your union brothers trying to cripple this company with excessive and unreasonable demands? I think he saw the question in my eyes.
"Look, we all know it's a good company," he said, plainly, directly. "But it can be better. That's all we're trying to do. We just want to make it better."
I think about Kurt every year at this time, when talk of Labor Day inevitably turns to a discussion of labor unions and whether or not they are still relevant in today's society. I'll leave that discussion to people who are a lot smarter than I am.
But I'll always remember my experience with one devoted union member who sincerely appreciated having "good, honest work," and whose only desire was to make a good company better.
Which, come to think of it, is one more thing we had in common.
--Joseph Walker
Joe has a book coming out the end of this month titled, Christmas on Mill Street. You can purchase this novella by clicking HERE.
Bosse Kids' Page
Hey Kids! We hope you enjoy the following optical illusions - things aren’t always as they seem, ya know? Have fun and we’ll see you at the Fall Festival!
Do the straight horizontal gray lines look curvy to you? Hold up a piece of paper to prove that they are straight and parallel to each other.
Does this look like a spiral? It's actually a bunch of concentric circles. Use your mouse to trace one circle and you will see that you come back to where you started instead of spiraling into the center.
How many legs does this elephant have?
Can you see both the duck and the bunny in this ambiguous drawing? The duck's bill is the bunny's ears. This was first used by a psychologist named Joseph Jastrow in the early 1900s.
Quotes and Humor
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
~Carl Sandburg
“This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.” ~Conan O'Brien
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