Sunday, June 29, 2008
What is HEALTHY & FREE???
Yummy.... Yummy! Yesterday, we got a hot tip on a bountiful pair of Cherry trees in the park! We were shown the "secret location" and left there to pick. My sister and I were in our "Cherry Picking Glory"! Who appears??? The owners of the lot! "Mr. & Mrs. Asian' were not too happy with us helping ourselves, and we were very apologetic... but we left with PERMISSION to return in a few hours, once they had picked some to take back to their home in Rochester. I took my nephew, Bryan, back there today and picked a few quarts before the thunder and lightening chased us off. Between the cherries, free strawberries galore from my sister's garden, the abundant crop of raspberries soon to ripen in the open (free) area, and hundreds of apple trees to pick from towards Fall, the freezer will be full with healthy fruit to last a very long time! I am also dehydrating lots of my harvest to add to my trail mix that I always keep stocked up on.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Nostalgia
Last night, the recreational community I live in during the summer (Leisurewood) had a drive-in movie night. They use a projector on a huge screen, outside by the lake, and people come in their golf carts or lawn chairs and blankets to watch it. The movie was Alvin and the Chipmunks (to accomodate the families) and it was so great to see Moms, Dads, Grandparents and kids all enjoying an almost extinct family activity! I brought the usual pop. popcorn, and candy ... and the sooooo necessary window cleaner, paper towels (for the golf cart window) and bugspray! Kids were literally dancing to "Bing Bang Walla Walla Ting Tang...Ooh Ee...Ooh...Ahh...Ahh" all evening!
Speaking of Leisurewood (Leisurewoodrecreationalcommunity.com) I recently launched a "Restore the Beach" campaign and won! We HAD a beautiful beach ... but it has not been open in 3 years. The board said it would be too expensive and problemsome to re-open and operate, with very little interest by the residents, and kept tabling the subject when brought up at the meetings. I created a petition, circulated them for signatures (got 124) and got placed on the agenda to speak and present them at the board meeting. Here is my speech:
My name is Georgiann Jordan and I live at 159 Cherrywood. I have a petition to present to the Board, requesting the re-opening of our Beach. It states that, as a property association, we are exempt from the NY State law regarding bathing beaches being required to obtain a permit and follow the operation and supervision responsibilities, including water quality monitoring and aquatic supervisory staff. The petition states:
Whereas the beach area is exempt, pursuant to Section 6-2.3 paragraph (a),
line (2) of the New York State Sanitary Code, from application for permit
or regular testing of the water by Erie County
We, the undersigned, are leaseholders who urge our Board of Directors to act now
to reopen the beach area, using available volunteers to reposition the sand and
use resources necessary to replace sand and do private testing when deemed needed in the future.
There are over 100 signatures from the Leaseholders here at Leisurewood on these petitions. We want to let the board know that there is a need and an interest in restoring one of our Park’s greatest assets.
We would like immediate action to be taken on our request so that there will be as little delay as possible in being able to have use of the Beach this season.
We see no reason to drag out the process by thinking about having a committee formed …to call a meeting … and then to finally discuss the feasibility of carrying through with the steps necessary to open the Beach. We implore you to not prolong the re-opening of the beach anymore than necessary.
The signatures on this petition should be enough to show the board that the leaseholders, whom they were elected to serve, are more than interested in a positive response to their request, so they can begin to enjoy the beach as soon as possible.
We got permission to take action and clean up the beach and used our own resources to start cleaning up the area. My brother-in-law used a tractor and rake to bring up and smooth out the sand. Here is the "before" picture:
I will be posting the "after" picture, once we fill it with water and happy sunbathers (by the Fourth of July)! My being pro-active, along with some political background and experience really paid off for my "cause" the year!!!
Speaking of Leisurewood (Leisurewoodrecreationalcommunity.com) I recently launched a "Restore the Beach" campaign and won! We HAD a beautiful beach ... but it has not been open in 3 years. The board said it would be too expensive and problemsome to re-open and operate, with very little interest by the residents, and kept tabling the subject when brought up at the meetings. I created a petition, circulated them for signatures (got 124) and got placed on the agenda to speak and present them at the board meeting. Here is my speech:
My name is Georgiann Jordan and I live at 159 Cherrywood. I have a petition to present to the Board, requesting the re-opening of our Beach. It states that, as a property association, we are exempt from the NY State law regarding bathing beaches being required to obtain a permit and follow the operation and supervision responsibilities, including water quality monitoring and aquatic supervisory staff. The petition states:
Whereas the beach area is exempt, pursuant to Section 6-2.3 paragraph (a),
line (2) of the New York State Sanitary Code, from application for permit
or regular testing of the water by Erie County
We, the undersigned, are leaseholders who urge our Board of Directors to act now
to reopen the beach area, using available volunteers to reposition the sand and
use resources necessary to replace sand and do private testing when deemed needed in the future.
There are over 100 signatures from the Leaseholders here at Leisurewood on these petitions. We want to let the board know that there is a need and an interest in restoring one of our Park’s greatest assets.
We would like immediate action to be taken on our request so that there will be as little delay as possible in being able to have use of the Beach this season.
We see no reason to drag out the process by thinking about having a committee formed …to call a meeting … and then to finally discuss the feasibility of carrying through with the steps necessary to open the Beach. We implore you to not prolong the re-opening of the beach anymore than necessary.
The signatures on this petition should be enough to show the board that the leaseholders, whom they were elected to serve, are more than interested in a positive response to their request, so they can begin to enjoy the beach as soon as possible.
We got permission to take action and clean up the beach and used our own resources to start cleaning up the area. My brother-in-law used a tractor and rake to bring up and smooth out the sand. Here is the "before" picture:
I will be posting the "after" picture, once we fill it with water and happy sunbathers (by the Fourth of July)! My being pro-active, along with some political background and experience really paid off for my "cause" the year!!!Friday, June 27, 2008
Blogger Virgin
Thanks to Shelley ... I am creating a blog! I used to keep a daily journal, the "Old School" way ... hand-written! I stopped doing that when I started using the computer in 2000 and just saved my daily emails to my MOM as "diary". I would occasionally print them out and save them all. Mom died in 2003 and I stopped keeping any form of journal at all. Since I had strayed from writing in a journal, and there were no more daily emails to Mom, I didn't really think I had much more exciting stuff to record and didn't bother. I was wrong ... plenty has happened since then! Perhaps I will reveal it, gradually, in "flash-backs" in my future blogs!
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