Fall 2012 Orangewood Lakes Community Newsletter –Volume II No. 4

The OWL NewsletterSee it in color at: www.floridacommunities.com

OWL GazettePublished Quarterly by and for the residents of Orangewood Lakes Manufactured Homes Community

Linda Newton, editorE-mail letters to editor, ideas and photos to OWLeditor2012@yahoo.com

Bethany Knight, reporterRoy Weisner, photographer

EASTERN LUBBER GRASSHOPPER

The giant, slow moving grasshopper’s bright orange, yellow and red colors are a warning that it contains toxins and will make any potential predator sick. If for any reason, you fail to heed the color warning and pick it up,the grasshopper makes a loud hissing noise and secretes an irritating foul-smelling foamy spray.

These 4-inch grasshoppers are too large and toxic for most natural preda-tors, so they don’t need to move fast. Lubbers cannot fly far, and travel in short clumsy hops, or walk and crawl slowly through the vegetation. Theyfeed on broadleaf plants and become a nuisance when swarms invade resi-dential areas and feast on garden plants. Lubbers seem to be unaffected by most insecticides, and according to expects at the University of Florida, if they become a garden pest, the best way to get rid of them is to stamp on them, or ‘hand pick’ them and drown them in a bucket of soapy water.

Contributed By: Linda Newton

Welcome Back

to all our

Winter Residents!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE HOME OWNERS ASSOCIA-TION

CATS, CATS, CATS do not get it wrong I love cats, dogs and allMOTHER NATURES CREA-TURES. Although I was upset when it was reported to me that a car came into our park late one night and let out a few cats and drove off leaving the cats to run free in our park. We also have been left dogs this spring. I believe we all realize that many people are having financial problems yet it’s no excuse to leave their pets for us to take care of. As a community we need to come up with a solution to stop this from happening. If you have any suggestion on how to resolve this problem I would like to hear about your ideas. One other problem that was reported to me was about strange cars riding on our community streets in the middle of the night. It has not caused problems as far as I know. Although I do not believe, we need to wait for something bad to happen to one of our neighbors before we as a community come to some solution. I hope you agree and will come up with some ideas on how as a community we can protect ourselves from unwelcome people driving in our park. As a community we still need BLOCK CAPTAINS. It is a volunteer position for a year. You are responsible for helping out when it’s needed or asked on your block. Example: A block captain would be sure neighbors have left when the weather calls for evacuations or do wellness visits if there is concern about a neighbor.If you have not joined the Home Owners Association, remember to do that for your own protection and help with problems that may occur.A friendly reminder speed limit is 15mph in our community, please slow down for safety of our neighbors, pets and our wild life. THANK YOU.Sharon Wells, H.O.A President

Pickled Vegetables

Ingredients1 pound green beans½ pound of pearl onions½ pound of button mush-rooms1 English cucumber3 cups cider vinegar3 cups water2 Tablespoons whole corian-der1 Tablespoon whole black peppercorns1 Teaspoon whole cloves3 Bay leaves1 ½ cups of sugar¼ cup kosher salt2 cloves garlicDirectionsClean green beans, peel pearl onions, quarter mushrooms and slice cucumbers. Blanch green beans and pearl onions.Heat vinegar and water with remaining ingredients and pour over vegetables in a bowl (glass). Cover and re-frigerate for at least 6 hours or several days.

“GOOD EATS”

Recipe

When a chef is totally consumed by the work, it is said, “the kitchen is his second home.”For OWL’s resident chef Larry Tart-er, the kitchen is truly his first home. Chances are, if Larry is awake, he is more than likely in his kitchen.

Friends typically find Larry standing at the stove or sitting at the kitchen table, leafing through current flyers from local grocery stores. Larry isn’t exactly looking for a bargain; he is looking for a bargain that triggers his imagination. A sale on strawberries leads to a few days of making jam. A good deal on beef? Time to cook up some of his world famous chili. And like so many of us, Larry owes his start in the kitchen to his mother.

“Mother showed me a lot and got me started,” Larry recalls. “Mom and Dad were both working. I would get home from school and always start dinner. Most of the time Mom would step in if I was doing some-thing wrong.”

Years later, Larry enlisted in the Army. When asked what he wanted to do, he said he wanted to cook. Assigned instead to supply school in Fort Dix Woods in Missouri, Larry quickly learned you don’t always get what you want in the military.

He was trained in supplies. Three weeks later, there was a bad acci-dent in the mess hall. “Five of the 9 cooks got scalded,” Larry says. A valve got stuck on the large water heating tanks and it blew.”

With only four cooks to prepare food for 350 people, the first sergeant

announced, “I’ve got a problem. Five people are hurt and I need cooks. Anyone have experience?” Larry said he did, working in a restaurant.

He had signed on as a busboy in the full service restaurant at age 14, working his way up to cook by age 15. The cook-owner took an interest in training Larry. One day he taught him how to cut up fresh chicken. “Pretty soon, we had a chicken cutting contest, and pretty soon, I was beating him,” Larry says, remembering he never got cut, no matter how fast he cut. His boss wore gloves, Larry didn’t have any!

Moving from cutting chicken to fry-ing chicken was not a big leap for Larry. One Sunday, the busiest day, the first cook called in sick, leaving Larry and another fairly inexperi-enced cook to prepare all the Sunday dinners. “I ended up cooking a lot after that day,” he says, “and soon I pulled my Mother into the situation.”

Seems his Mom, Gladys Tarter, had been saying she was tired of sitting around the house and she wanted a job. One morning, the main wait-ress, who was pregnant, was admit-ted to the hospital.

“I called Momma,” he says. He asked her, “You got a black skirt? And put on a white blouse and get down here.”

“Why?” she asked. “’You’re hired as a waitress,’ I told her. I literally hired my Mom.”

Turns out, Gladys Tarter, “Got real popular real quick, as she wasn’t afraid to talk to people,” Larry said. She was so chatty, that one day, she did not notice her order was up at the window, and waitresses were sup-posed to get their plates right away. Larry picked up the microphone and announced, “Gladys get up here and pick up this order!”

“I’m your mother!” she replied, with Larry reminding her that, at work, she wasn’t his mother, but his employee. The two of them both worked there until the restaurant burned down, sadly, with his Mom’s new doe skin jacket inside.

The owner also operated a fast food restaurant where Larry went to work after the fire, until he entered the service. But as has so often been the case in Larry’s life, good came from the unexpected. How? It was there he met his future wife Sandy. She was a Curbie, one of the girls who served customers in their cars. “She liked to reach up and untie my apron, to get my attention, I think,” Larry recalls.

“The first time I met her, I told her, ‘I’m going to marry you.’” He was just 17, and Sandy thought he was crazy, but Larry believed it was pre-ordained. (In our next column, we’ll

Another Great Recipe Thanks To Larry!

talk about their wedding and Larry’s Army career.)

This month, Larry shares his tricked out corn bread recipe. Tricked out, because he has never met a recipe he didn’t want…to tinker with!

In this case, Larry begins with two boxes of humble Jiffy corn muffin mix. Made by the Chelsea Milling Company of Chelsea, Michigan, (www.jiffymix.com) the Jiffy corn muffin mix makes a tasty, foolproof muffin every time.

Larry gives this lil’ ole box an ex-treme makeover, and your taste buds will love the reveal.

Larry’s Tricked Out Corn Bread2 boxes of Jiffy corn muffin mix1/2 cup flour1/2 cup sugar (more if you like sweeter)Mix dry ingredients2 large Jalapeno peppers: washed, seeded and chopped very fine

1 can creamed corn4 well beaten eggs1cup Cheddar cheese1 to 11/2 cups of milkBlend well…DO NOT OVER MIXPour into well greased 9” by 13” panBake at 375 until the center is very firm, about 35 to 45 minutes

Reporter’s Note: Considering our-selves among the “chosen people,” my husband and I are regular benefi-ciaries of Larry’s culinary creations. We especially love this dense and delicious bread, a meal in itself. At-tempting to make the recipe was a little intimidating…after all, who am I to take on the Master?

Larry has joked that he sometimes provides people with his recipes, minus one ingredient. He also has known other cooks who charge for their recipes. Fortunately for OWL newsletter readers, Larry promises he provided a complete recipe…and for free.

From roughly May 1 to November 1, we leave Florida and live in Ver-mont. We miss our OWL life, and in particular, Larry’s cooking. So in late May, I got brave, assembled all the ingredients and baked a big pan of Tricked Out Corn Bread for our visiting son and his family. WHAT A SUCCESS! We all agreed it was moist and filling, and impossible to eat just one piece, no matter how large. I noticed more than one of us took a second piece and crumbled into the soup. Yum. And without a doubt, we all agreed the bread was even better when served warm.

By Bethany Knight(resident)

Keeping Cool!Ceiling FansIf you’re looking for ways to beat the heat, a ceil-ing fan can be a great investment for your home.

This one appliance can make a room feel 6 or 7 degrees cooler, and even the most power-hungry fan costs less than $10 a month to use if you keep it on for 12 hours a day. Good fans make it possible for you to raise your thermostat setting and save on air-conditioning costs. Fans don’t use much energy, but when air is circulating, it feels much cooler. Ceiling fans are best, but a good portable fan can be very effective as well.Shades, drapes, or blinds

Install white window shades, drapes, or blinds to reflect heat away from the house. Close blinds, shades and drap-eries facing the sun (east-facing win-dows in the morning and west-facing windows in the afternoon) to keep the sun’s heat out and help fans or air conditioners cool more efficiently. Always remember that the best way to keep your home cool is to keep the heat out.

Internal HeatThe most common sources of internal heat gain are; appliances, electronic devices, and lighting. Be aware from where the heat is coming. Now if you have air conditioning, use it wisely. Don’t put lamps, televisions or other heat-generating appliances next to your air-conditioning thermostat, be-cause the heat from these appliances will cause the air conditioner to run

longer. The heat they produce will make it think your house is warmer than it really is, and your system will run harder than it needs to.You should also try to avoid heat-generating activities, such as cook-ing, on hot days or during the hottest part of the day. If you are cooking, use your range fan to vent the hot air out of your house. By reducing the amount of heat in your home, you will have to use less energy to cool it.

Other things to rememberHumidity makes room air feel warmer, so reduce indoor humidity. Minimize mid-day washing and dry-ing clothes, showering, and cooking. And when you must do these things, turn on ventilating fans to help ex-tract warm, moist air.

Granddaughter-Mother-GreatGrandDaughter-DaughterLorraine Butterfield & family

Disable Vietnam Veteran Don Butterfield,Helping the cause!

Thanks for serving, Don!

Don & JuneHot Dog Grillers extraordinaireCome Join Us In September!!

Joyce- Cristy-June-Don-Sharon-Irene-SheerieEnjoying the Dogs

Happy Times

Jim and JaniceEnjoying Hot Dog Thursday!

Birthdays

July Hans Eggers 7/1John Ruckdeshel 7/1Lynn Krueger 7/2Robert Tanguay 7/2Liliane Deschenes 7/3Jeanette Wood 7/5Eugene Russell 7/6Antoinette Fournier 7/7Robert Lee Jones 7/11Gerald Neu 7/17Lydia Bergeron 7/19Kenneth Manness 7/19Janice Braga 7/20Barbara Hanes 7/22Alice McAndrew 7/22Lorna Grey 7/23Robert Munday 7/23Thomas McCann 7/25Richard Warner 7/25 Michael Williams 7/25John Childs 7/26Robert Hanes 7/26Olive Dubreuil 7/27Aleck Puhalski 7/27Luis Burruezo 7/29Gerald Gillis 7/29

SeptemberJames Rothwell 9/1Ronald Boudreau 9/3Sandra Tarter 9/4Judith Johnson 9/7Herbie Johnson 9/7Louella Heaton 9/9Miguel Acosta 9/10Nayda Bernabe 9/10Kathreen Greeley 9/10Jacqueline Newell 9/10Marie Forman 9/12Patricia Gecewicz 9/12Pamela Swanson 9/12Mary Fallon 9/13Carol Monaghan 9/15Roger Greeley 9/16Josephine Hasenmeyer 9/19Edgar Davis 9/20Brenda Terpstra 9/20 Irene Piche 9/23Ruth Houghton 9/25 Denise Fournier 9/27Rusty Boltz 9/29Elizabeth Ritz 9/30Eugene Smith 9/30

AugustHoward Ellis 8/1David Hunt 8/2Craig Chernack 8/3Annette Horne 8/4Matthew Eickmeyer 8/6John Burke 8/7Susan Gibson 8/8Sherry Weisner 8/11Barker Lester 8/12Dorothy Smith 8/14Martin Landry 8/16Mary Oliver 8/16Bob Ferreira 8/18Larry Tarter 8/18Nancy Skinner 8/20Maxine Paprocki 8/21Mary Thompson 8/21Donna Keeton 8/22Michael McClintock 8/22 Sidney Bounds 8/23Gloria Stravalle 8/23 Jane Galassi 8/25Mary Burriss 8/27Julia Eickmeyer 8/27Myrtle Taber 8/27Margaret Duvall 8/28 Thomas Lanfair 8/28Gail Selvidge 8/29Marlene Luchenbill 8/30Willard Samson 8/30

LEOThe Boss ( July23 – Aug 22 ) Very organized. Needs order in their lives-like being in control.

Like boundaries... Tend to take over everything. Bossy. Like to help Others. Social and outgoing.Extroverted...Generous, warm- hearted. Sensitive. Created energy...Full of themselves. Loving.

Doing the right thing is important...Attractive.

VIRGOThe perfectionist (Aug23-Sept22) Dominant in relationships. Conservative. Always wants the lastword...Argumentative. Worries. Very smart. Dislikes noise and chaos. Eager. Hardworking. Loyal.Beautiful. Easy to talk to. Hard to please. Harsh. Practical and very fussy...Often shy...Pessimistic.

Need a Service? Try a Neighbor..... In Park Services that are from our neighbors. The Home Owners Association recognizes the talents of the people in this park and who are willing to work for you. The H. 0 .A. is presenting this list as a service for you, and not

responsible for negotiation that occur between providers and customers.

7850 Oldfield Road • New Port Richey, Florida 34653Manager’s Office (727) 243-5336

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Reminders!!

Bingo has resumed

BIKE REPAIRS JIM PRITCHARD 645-5242

ELECTRICAL GARY ACETO (310) 658-7300

WILLY FITZPATRICK (248) 556-1672

HANDYMAN TOM McCANN 264-8056

COMPUTERSJACKIE CHRISTENSON 7824 LYNBROOK

HAIR DESIGN BARBARA ELLIS (678) 371-4533

LAWN CARE LESTER BARKER 494-7582

BOB MURRAY 843-0081

TAX SERVICE / BOOKKEEPING BOB FERREIRA 848-9786

MENDING/ SEWING FERN MILLEMAN 849-6355

FERAL CATS TRANSPORTER WILL Y FITZPATRICK (248) 556-1672

Please call Sharon Wells to beadded to our list of services at 645- 6829.