Welcome Our New Neighbors: The Stricklands

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Welcome to our new neighbors, the Strickland’s

2014-10-18: Fall Festival & Hayride

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To see more photos of our Fall Festival and Hayride, click here

We had a lovely afternoon for our Fall Festival this year. As he has for twenty-plus years, Tom Perry organized the hayride with his usual attention to detail. Drivers included Lane Norvell, Steve Jackson, Brent Little, Earl Drott, Travis Hunt, Gary Fain, and Nick Moore. Treaters included the Maxwell’s, Boudreaux’s, Hunt’s, Graves, Strickland’s (Gary & Melissa), Duke’s, Lynch’s, Hayden’s, Rayburn’s, Regan’s, Magee’s, Tanner’s, Norvell’s, Koss’s, Henderson’s, and the Douglass’s. Our thanks to Mark and Renee Groskreutz for sharing their home as the site of our picnic. Lee Kodet and David Schaub did the grilling, and many families brought dishes to share.
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Country Place’s Hidden Lake (#4) Freezes Over

Received this from Lane Norvell this morning. Please don’t let your kids try this. Not sure Lane should have, either, but the photo is too interesting not to post:

“Well I would never recommend standing on a frozen lake in Texas  particularly when you are by yourself and using a self timer photoshot (like I was here at 7:45 this morning)      : )   but I did test the ice and felt pretty comfotable….definitely was a cold weekend…. and not sure when the last time anyone around have seen lakes frozen over around here  : )   thought you might enjoy the photo(s) and it is pretty amazing and unusual for lakes /ponds to freeze over this solidly   DISCLAIMER:  NEVER STAND ON A FROZEN POND OR LAKE ….THIS CAN CAUSE POTENTIAL FREEZING, FROSTBITE AND/OR EVENTUAL DISCOMFORT AND/OR DEATH   : )”
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Fun at the Fall Festival, 10/31/2009

What a nice time we had at the Country Place Fall Festival and Hayride. Our thanks to Lee Kodet, Ken Terrell, Tom Perry, Lane Norvell, and everyone who worked hard to make it a success. I snapped photos and posted a slide show (click the image above to see the gallery).

This is always an opportunity to visit with folks we don’t see often and to see how much the kids have grown.