Wood Glen - April 2012 by Peel, Inc.

Wood Glen

Official Publication of the Wood Glen Property Owners Association

Greetings Wood Glen Neighbors!

It appears we have emerged from our mild winter to an early spring! As I write this the Redbud trees and Mountain Laurel are in full bloom, Bradford Pear, Cedar Elms, and some Oak species have already leafed out and, of course, the Live Oaks are just getting ready to shed their leaves which means one more round of serious leaf raking is in my immediate future. And we’ve had some significant rain over the past few weeks! Hoping that trend continues through spring and into summer for the benefit of our yards and Greenbelt areas. We’ve had some reports of dead trees in the Greenbelt and we’ve got folks engaged in identifying and marking those trees for removal. Victims of the extended drought no doubt but we’re still hoping those numbers are relatively low. Most of the Live Oaks, Post Oaks, Cedar Elm, and other native trees are very drought tolerant but even those trees are susceptible to damage from the kind of drought we’ve been experiencing. Still, I have to say things are looking positive for a fairly green spring and maybe even enough ground moisture to get our landscapes off to a strong start for the punishing summer heat we know will come. We have a new pest in the neighborhood. They are called Rasberry Crazy Ants and they are an exotic invasive pest that made its first appearance in Harris County, Texas in 2002. They reproduce quickly, are capable of biting (though not as painful as Fire Ants), and have caused significant damage to electrical equipment and are generally a major annoyance. We are fortunate to have a resident (Wizzie Brown) who is a member of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service on hand as a resource. She contacted me in February and informed me of the problem. Even more interesting was the fact that my yard and a few others on Wood Glen Dr. appear to be at or near ground zero for the infestation. Wizzie is working on a plan to control of these ants through a test program using recommended procedures and ant bait. Some residents on Wood Glen Dr. and Brunston Ct. may be asked to participate if these ants are found in their yard. This is a problem we want to contain and control aggressively so if you are contacted we encourage you to consider participating in our test program. I might add that Wizzie has arranged this cost free to our neighborhood so Kudos to her for recognizing it and reacting to it. We all benefit from her diligence! For more information go to http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/ants/rasberry.html Board updates for this month include: • Final budget approval scheduled for March Meeting. • New project to replace security system at the Amenity Center. The age of existing equipment and damage from vandals necessitates an equipment update and improved services. • Getting the Amenity Center and pool ready for the scheduled April 1st opening. (Continued on Page 6) Copyright © 2012 Peel, Inc.

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WOOD GLEN GARAGE SALE We are pleased to announce that the next semi-annual garage sale will be on Saturday, April 14, from 8am to 12pm. Start cleaning out those garages! We will be posting signs around the community one week before the event and placing an ad on Craigslist, in the Round Rock Leader and the Statesman. It would be helpful that if you plan on participating, you would also place an ad on Craigslist and mention that it is a community garage sale. If you are having your own garage sale, please do not start earlier than 7am. We are looking forward to a great event with a great turnout! Darlene and Gloria, Social Co-Chairs.

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President: Eric Boren........................ eric_boren@sbcglobal.net Vice President: Julie Cowan.............................. jcowan@att.net Treasurer: Wayne Solum.............................. wsolum@juno.com Secretary: Lela Solum..........................lelasolum@austin.rr.com Section 1: Eric Boren......................... eric_boren@sbcglobal.net Section 2: Sean Copeland.........................place2wg@gmail.com Section 3: Julie Cowan.................................julie.cowan@att.net Section 4: Mark Murray................... murray.markd@gmail.com Section 5: Donna Tucker................ donnatucker@austin.rr.com Section 6: Rod Kerr.......................................rod_kerr@shi.com Section 7: Christopher Loft..........................chrival22@aol.com Member at Large: Wayne Solum................. wsolum@juno.com

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Wood Glen, Back Then

En Garde! Let’s talk fencing. No, not the kind with swords, but the kind you put around property. A reader sent me a question about an old wire fence she spotted in one of our greenbelts. That has triggered yet another installment about Wood Glen, back then. The original fence along Chisholm Trail goes back at least to the 1930’s. It was made not of cedar wood, not of wire, not even of concrete. Appropriate for Round Rock, that fence was made of rocks! One rock was carefully stacked on top of another, nothing holding the rocks together except gravity and a skilled rancher. Four feet high it was! This dry-stacked stone fence ran all along Chisholm Trail of the 400 acre ranch we now call Wood Glen. There was plenty of building material for this fence, but over time, the fence began to crumble, as boulders spilled from their perches, and so the original stone fence was replaced with a modern wire fence, netting wire on the bottom and barbed

Wood Glen wire on top. The sheep and goats would find it hard to escape through the netting wire, and the barbed wire probably did a better job keeping the livestock contained than rocks that could be pushed down. As the ranch owners Leroy and Ruth Lange attest, however, it was an extremely difficult task to dig holes for the cedar posts when your top soil is just below the surface. There was plenty of cedar on the ranch to cut down for posts, and that would be a hard enough job itself. But digging holes in this rocky ground proved to be a real challenge, to which any of you can testify if you have ever tried to plant trees around here. The post holes were dug by hand, using a bar to break through the rock. Of course, once the post was put in, it was there to stay! Touché! Other fencing in this area took advantage of existing trees along the property line. Those handy trees served as ready-made posts, with roots! Over time the tree would grow around the wire. When the fences were taken down, and the wires were cut, the trees were left standing. You can still see the wire magically “sprouting” from some trees and appears as if the wire were

somehow drilled into the tree trunk. In an area about two acres in size, the Langes built a feed lot for deer. It was located north of the Gary L. Smith Karst Preserve, near Mesa Verde, West End Place, and Henley Drive. This was an area that was fenced off in the middle of the ranch that could be plowed and planted in grain, usually oats. In this clever system, livestock would be kept out, but deer could jump the fence and graze on the small plants and the feed put out just for them. So if you spot remnants of any of these fences today, or if you have volunteer oats growing in your flower bed, you now know why! And when we make repairs to our wooden fences, just be thankful you don’t have the back-breaking job of digging post holes or even repairing stone fences. Regardless of the kind of fence, the hard work involved may cause us to agree with the poet, Robert Frost, who mused: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun.” submitted by Elroy Haverlah

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Butterfly Gardening Butterfly gardening can be a wonderful way to invite nature into your backyard. With a little knowledge on local butterflies and the correct plants, you can create a garden that

allows you to watch butterflies in various life stages. Adult butterflies feed on nectar, gathering it from flowers. Larvae, or caterpillars, feed on plant foliage, so if you do not like to have your plants eaten by insects, butterfly gardening may not be for you.

Some larvae feed only on particular plants. The following is a list to help you with your plant selection: BUTTERFLY PLANT Monarch butterfly milkweed, butterfly weed Queen butterfly milkweed Viceroy cottonwood, poplar, willow Black swallowtail parsley, dill, fennel Spicebush swallowtail spicebush, sweet bay, sassafras Pipevine swallowtail Dutchman’s pipevine Giant swallowtail citrus, Hercules club Brazilian skipper canna Brush-footed butterflies nettles, thistles Hairstreak butterflies pecans, walnuts Gulf fritillary passionflower vines Giant purple hairstreak mistletoe Gray hairstreak legumes Question mark hackberry, elm Texas crescent shrimp plant, dicliptera, ruellia Painted lady hollyhock, thistles Buckeye plantain, snapdragon

Adult butterflies need a source of nectar in the garden. The following is a list of plants they might like: PLANT NAME FLOWER COLOR Asters lavender, pink, purple, white Blazing star lavender Butterfly bush lavender, purple, white Butterfly weed orange, yellow Cone flower fuchsia Flame bush red-orange Goldenrod yellow Ironweed pink, purple Lantana lavender, orange, pink, white, yellow Loosestrife lavender Mexican heather lavender Mexican milkweed red-orange, yellow Mexican mint marigold yellow-orange Mist flower blue, white Phlox pink, purple, red, white Salvia blue, lavender, pink, red Verbena blue, lavender, pink, purple, red, white Zinnia orange, pink, red, white, yellow

For more information or help with identification, contact Wizzie Brown, Texas AgriLife Extension Service Program Specialist at 512.854.9600. Check out my blog at www.urbanipm.blogspot.com. The information given herein is for educational purposes only. Reference

to commercial products or trade names is made with the understanding that no discrimination is intended and no endorsement by Texas AgriLife Extension Service or the Texas AgriLife Research is implied. Extension programs serve people of all ages regardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, sex, religion, disability, or national origin.

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Wood Glen • Finishing our fence inventory and formally adopting common fences for maintenance. • Working on engaging a consultant to do a reserve study so we understand the amount of funding we need to maintain to offset anticipated expenditures (like fence replacements or major repairs to the pool). All part of attempts to manage your money wisely and have a long term plan in place for future Boards to manage resources in the most economic manner. I recognize that the word “consultant” raises a red flag with most folks but I assure you we are not looking at a major expense here. Notable neighborhood events occurring in April include the Semi-Annual Garage Sale scheduled for April 14th, the annual Wine Tasting also tentatively scheduled for April 14th, and the alternate (rain day) date for the Easter Egg Hunt on April 7th if necessary. Specific information will be distributed by the Social Committee Co-Chairs via email (eblast) before this newsletter goes to print. Most of the complaints I’ve gotten over the last 5 or 6 weeks have been about dogs and parking so a brief reminder to our neighbors may be in order. Dogs are to be kept on leash on the streets, sidewalks, and pathways in the Greenbelt. If you want to take your dog off leash to run free and exercise that is fine but you must take the dog off the public areas to do so. Take your dog well off the path, find an area well away from people, and let your dog have some fun. Just remember to put the dog back on leash when returning from whatever isolated area you chose. And, if while off leash, your dog makes a beeline back to civilization it’s up to you to control the animal. And while we’re on topic let’s remember to pick up after our dogs and control the constantly barking animal especially during evening hours. Remember this is not about restricting you and your pet it’s about common courtesy and respecting

your neighbors and their property. By the way, this is consistent with both the CCR and City or Round Rock policy. On to the parking issue: Our CC&R states that “Storage of approved vehicles on the driveway or street right-of-ways is defined as parking without movement for a period of forty eight (48) hours or more during a period of seven (7) consecutive days”. What does this mean? It means that although the City of Round Rock has no such ordinance, the Association has the authority to enforce the policy through fines but the key here is the term “storage” and not necessarily “parking”. Now let’s put some common sense to this policy. And this is intended for both those complaining and those who violate the policy. We all have different circumstances or are in varying phases of our lives. Some of us (and I’m included in this group) are way past 50, have raised our children and they have long since left the nest to pursue their own lives. Some of us have extremely young children and don’t need extra cars and then there are those families who have driving age teens and college students and Moms and Dads who both work. Is it practical for the family that has four vehicles to expect them to park those vehicles in a two car garage? No. Is it practical to expect them to park at least one of those vehicles in the street in front of their home overnight? Yes, it is practical to expect that. Is it practical to expect folks on a 3 day holiday weekend to not move all of their vehicles? I would think that is to be expected. Those of us who have raised families or are in the process of raising families have all experienced the musical chairs game that is having multiple cars with multiple drivers. It’s a fact of everyday American life. So who is really in violation of the spirit of the CCR? It is those folks who own two or

more vehicles but don’t have active drivers for each of them and are parking them in the street for extended periods when they could be parked in their garage. Also those who are, of course, parking non-approved vehicles (RV’s, boats, trucks, trailers, etc.) in their driveway or the street. Those are the folks who are in violation and to be honest, there are a few. So, please make sure that there is an actual vehicle “storage” problem taking place before you complain or approach your neighbor. Those of us with multiple vehicles should park our vehicles in our garages and driveways if possible and keep street parking to a minimum. And if you must park in the street please park in front of your own home and not your neighbor’s home. Be considerate of your neighbors and have the courtesy of parking parallel to the curb and stop parking “head in” to the curb on culde-sacs. And for heaven’s sake slow down and obey the speed limits and stop signs. Let’s keep our neighborhood safe for the kiddos! A little courtesy goes a long way on both matters of dogs and parking. A final word about the Playscape at the Amenity Center: We had a report of a “bathroom” accident recently that wasn’t cleaned up. We all know that accidents will happen with the small kiddos but parents are asked to be considerate and clean up the problem area at the time it occurs so subsequent users don’t find themselves dealing with someone else’s mess. It’s common sense that this is a basic health issue. Enough said. Thanks to everyone who makes our neighborhood a better place! You all are great! If you don’t believe me take a look at some of the newsletters coming out of some of the other Homeowner’s Associations in Round Rock Real problems and real issues. -- Eric

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Wood Glen WOOD GLEN CARES! We Care Calendar for Wood Glen. What is it: The Care Calendar is an online calendar. If you have a special need (for example, you have a new baby and few meals would be very helpful) you would contact me either by phone (671-8467) or my email dferguson@austin. rr.com. I would then set up the calendar with your needs (meals) and the times/dates that the meals would be needed. Families in our neighborhood would be made aware of your need. Families who are able to help would then go online, pull up the calendar and fill in the date and the meal they would be providing. Or you could call me with the information and I would be happy to fill in the calendar with the information. Very easy! If you have any questions please call me. Denise Ferguson

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