SEPTEMBER 2009 NEWSLETTER
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
September is here and it’s still very hot.
But things should start to cool off here in Florida in the next month or so.
August was a slow month here at Saddle Oak Club with only a Pot Luck Dinner and a Pork Roast Dinner
planned. The Pot Luck Dinner saw a modest turnout which could be expected since a good number of residents go on vacation and the snowbirds go back up North.
The Pork Roast dinner hasn’t taken place yet but it would be nice if we had a larger turn out for the sake of the volunteers who work so hard to plan these events.
Don’t forget the Thursday night game night!
A Murder Mystery Dinner is being planned for the end of October so keep an eye on the newsletter for more information.
Keep safe and be careful on the roads.
-- Dick Ouimette
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS & ASSOCIATION MEETINGS will not take place during the months of September and October 2009.
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SADDLE OAK
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
Editors
-Jim and Elaine Baburek
We, the editors, will be out of town for the month of September and the first week of October. We will try to get the October newsletter out on time, but it may be a challenge. All items must be emailed as this is the only way we can make sure they get into the newsletter. Special flyers/posters can be given to Bill and Irene Kramer . They will be taking the Newsletter to the printer. Cut off date is the 20th of September for all articles.
Je1babs@yahoo.com
Don’t forget the Recipe Corner. We
will need new recipes each month for the Newsletter.
The signup sheet is posted for the Gourmet Club. Let’s see how many of you are interested in this idea.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Fridays 1 to 3 PM
At the clubhouse
Bunnye Brinson hosted and invited all seven of her Brazilian Embroidery group to the Arts & Crafts display at Saturday Morning Coffee on Aug. 15. We want to thank them for the beautiful and impressive framed artwork, table runners and pillows from her guests: Fran Howard, Carol Kling, Theresa Photos, Diane Anderson, Irene Kramer and Sandi Pelchat.
Fran Bolson's guest, Jerry Sager, showed his string art picture of a Unicorn and his crewel embroidery of an Indian head framed under antique glass.
We enjoyed Terry Dolan's quilts from the Wed. Morning Quilters which they are working on for Hospice. One outstanding original was the Elvis Presley quilt with his picture worked into each of the squares. (This one is a personal treasure by Sandi Pelchat.)
Betty Overman, one of our crafters, has researched for more than 3 years on her family history and displayed two bound books and computerized print out of generations of her family, which was an unbelievable personal talent.
My personal pursuit for the last 3 weeks was trying to get rid of the 2 Armedillos digging and trying to get under the front and back of my house! They were too smart for the cages the maintenance men brought from the office. So when my neighbor Wilson Smallwood, recommended a deterrent called "Critter Ridder" which got rid of them - it was worth the cost of $19.95.
Sincerely,
Angie Bauman
SUNSHSINE REPORT
- Fran Bolson
Hospitalizations this past month include Norma Shackleton, Peg Coons, Loretta Wulf, Marion Donnelly, Dan Carlin, J.C. Pennington, Gladys Ouimette, Joan Ford and Bunnye Brinson, and all are at home and recuperating at this time.
If anyone has been hospitalized for at least two nights and has not received a $10 gift card from the Association, please let me know.(873-3480) Residents may only receive one gift card in a calendar year. We do not want to miss anyone and depend on our residents to keep me informed. Thanks.
I FEEL SO LUCKY TO BE SO RICH!
I CAN HEAR YOU NOW
I HAVE NEVER BEEN RICH.
BUT YES YOU ARE!
STOP AND THINK ABOUT IT.
IF YOU HAVE VERY CLOSE FRIENDS AND
RELATIVES THAT YOU LOVE AND ARE
PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE.
YOU ARE RICH.
AS YOU CAN NOT PUT A PRICE ON friendship!
IT IS PRICELESS
NORMA SHACKLETON
THIS IS HOW WE FEEL AFTER THIS LAST VISIT TO MAYO CLINIC.
WHEN I WAS TOLD TO COME RIGHT UP TO JACKSONVILLE, TO THE EMERGENCY CENTER, WE NEVER EXPETCTED THE BAD NEWS THAT WE RECEIVED AND OUR ONE DAY TURNED IN TO 7 DAYS AND 6 NIGHTS
Carlotta and John Wells had taken our dogs for the afternoon and when we called to put them in a kennel, they said no way, we are taking care of your babies.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for not only being great neighbors, but our good friends.
Terry Jansen, came in and took over the computer, and the answering machine keeping Doug and Judy completely informed of all the activities, OF THE BUSINESS Plus the day we came home from Mayo, she had our dinner ready for us. Thank you Terry for a wonderful job, well done and for being a wonderful and caring friend. Plus she kept everyone well informed of my conditions I believe that most of you know Terry and I have a very
special relationship. She is the daughter I never had.
For Foster, Fred and Phyllis, Loretta Dawson, Terry, for all the phone calls that you made to Mayo to check on me. Thanks for all the beautiful cards and for the beautiful flowers sent to me from Florida Real Estate.
I promise to be back working full time in a short period of time.
Thank you everyone.
Love you.
Norma and Derek Shackleton
MURDER MYSTERY DINNER
-- Linda Otto
Hopefully for October I am planning a MURDER MYSTERY DINNER.
I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF TALENTED PEOPLE IN SADDLE OAK. I am looking for volunteers to play some really easy parts. Various openings for Mugsy Malone, Kitty Cocktail, Bernie Booze, Flirty Flapper.
INTERESTED contact Linda Otto and I will also put a sign up sheet at the club house So come on and join the fun I already have in mind who will be murdered.
THANK YOU!
Thank you Dick and Gladys Ouimette for delivering the donated food to Interfaith . Residents please remember the food containers in the library and to please help out the less fortunate.
I would just like to comment on how sparkling clean the pool and surrounding area is A big thank you to the management.
-- Linda Otto
Notes from the Wisconsin Hide-away
By Marj Banczak
It has been a cool and beautiful summer here in Wisconsin. We have traveled and visited the many small towns in central Wisconsin as they feature fairs, flea markets, and other special events. We have spent time with children, grandchildren and the great grands.
Today our trip was to the Amish country with its rolling hills, fields of corn and its immaculately kept farms. Vegetable gardens are a work of art and flowers flourish around every building. Contented cows dot the pastures and horse and buggy is the means of transportation.
There are Amish stores selling food in bulk and bakeries that smell like old fashioned home style baking. Vegetable stands with fresh picked produce from the many gardens are abundant.
This is central Wisconsin, USA!
Time is running out here in the heartland and I will return to Ocala on August 29th.
Nancy and Mike (Dougherty) have provided a picture of our summer home in Wisconsin and sent their love to Saddle Oak.
Bowling News
We are looking forward to a great fall/spring 2009/10 season. The league will begin on Tuesday, October 6th at 9 am at Galaxy West.
A meeting is scheduled for Sunday, September 27th at the clubhouse at l:00 pm.
We will have the teams set up and go over all the paperwork at that time. We hope to see everyone from last year. We also need subs, there is a sign up sheet in the clubhouse if you are interested.
We hope to have a great turn out and another year of fun with friends and neighbors.
Thank you Ginger and Tony Pace
CRAFTY LADY
-- Toots Lobe
I canceled out the paper I stopped the milkman, too.
I fired my trusty gardener
My own hair I now do.
The only things I buy now
Each time the eagle flies
Are the necessary groceries
And a ton of craft supplies!
Craft Fair
Our Annual Craft Fair will be held on Saturday, November 7th at 8:00 am.
If you are interested in selling your home made crafts the tables are $5.00 each. There is a sign up sheet in the clubhouse. We also need homemade cakes, pies and cookies. We always have a great turnout. This function is a big event for Saddle Oak. We will also have donuts and coffee in the am and lunch with soup and sandwich. Check next month’s newsletter for more details.
Birthdays and anniversaries will be on the third Saturday in November.
We will be advertising in all local papers.
Thank you Saddle Oak Quilters, Thurs. evening girls.
-- Ginger Pace
NEW RESIDENTS
Gary and Angela Mott
5925 SW 57th Avenue
Arrived July 2009
Gary's birthday: 4/24
Angela's : 3/24
Anniversary: 9/4
Occupations: Skilled Worker - Food Service
Hobbies: Motorcycles, bingo, family
Four Children
One Grandchild
Home State: Kentucky
Jim & Ingrid McCourry
5535 SW 59th Street
Arrived: July 2009
Jim's birthday: 1/14
Ingrid's 5/12
Anniversary: 11/27
Jim's previous occupation was in transportation
Hobbies: Fishing, crafts, swimming
Two children
Three grandchildren
Home State: Ohio
Don & Lucy Baisch
5520 SW 60th Street
Arrived: July 2009
Don's birthday: 4/18
Lucy's " 3/28
Anniversary: 9/20
Don's occupation: Sales
Lucy;s occupation: Medical Transcription
Hobbies: Golf, flower gardening, grandchildren
Three children
Six grandchildren
Home state: Georgia
A TEST OF TIME -- DO YOU REMEMBER?
This one is for everyone old enough to remember and young enough to care!
'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up? 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
All the food was slow. 'C'mon, seriously, where did you eat? 'It was a place called "at home", I explained!
'Mom cooked every day and when dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died?
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, slow.
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 7a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 9 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie. When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too.. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Then you waited till they hung up
before you made your call. You actually paid for this.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was, and in a glass bottle.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers, my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes you put a block of ice in.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
*Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum & teaberry also (my favs)
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass
bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at right after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
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12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packard cars
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the
best parts of my life.
Mexi- Stuffed Spuds
Sent by Connie Anderson
6100 SW 57th Ave
Bake the potatoes any way you like. It's the filling and finishing step that make this dish. It looks best if you hand-pick potatoes the same size.
12 small, oval baking potatoes (Idaho or Russet), scrubbed
1 pound ground beef
Medium onion, chopped
1 cup chunky salsa
11-ounce can corn with red and green peppers (e.g. Mexicorn), drained
12-ounce package grated Cheddar
Bake potatoes, slit tops and press from ends to fluff them while they are hot. Set aside to use immediately or keep cold up to three days. To finish the dish, fry out the ground beef and onion until done, pour off excess fat if any, and turn off heat. Stir in salsa, corn and 1/3 of the cheese. Arrange potatoes close together in a baking dish or pan, Work some of the ground beef mixture into slit in each potato. Cover with grated cheese and heat in oven or over the grill until heated through and cheese is melted. Serve at once.
Don’t forget to send your recipes to Saddle Oak NewsLetter, je1babs@yahoo.com.
Please include your name along with the recipe. Recipes will be printed along with the NewsLetter.
Thank you Connie!
This is a good recipe --Linda Otto
BLUEBERRY ZUCCHINI BREAD
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups white sugar
1-1/3 cups shredded zucchini
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1-1/3 cups fresh blueberries
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 4 mini-loaf pans.
In a large bowl, beat together the eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar. Fold in the zucchini. Beat in the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. Gently fold in the blueberries. Transfer to the prepared mini-loaf pans.
Bake 50 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted in the center of a loaf comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes in pans, then turn out onto wire racks to cool.
Thanks Linda!!
When I get the September Birthdays and Anniversaries, I will post them here.