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Contest: Name the robot

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The self-propelled pool cleaning robot arrived at Gary’s house Friday morning. By evening Gary and Joe had the thing running (see the video). Depending on your sensibilities and your love of machines, robots, and various technologies, you might calculate that the robot pool cleaner is a cute little thing. But it doesn’t have a name – yet. We want to fix that.

So we’re having a contest. We will take nominations, right here, in the Haversham Web site for one week. On Saturday, June 11, at midnight, we’ll stop taking nominations. In the meantime, submit as many names as you have in your home. From the names submitted, the Haversham pool committee will narrow the nominations to something manageable (six or fewer) on June 13. Then we will take a poll – on the Web site – for the winning name.

You make your suggestion(s) right here by creating a comment on this post. Please only one vote per person plus one per household. So if you have three family members in your home, you get four votes. In the first phase of voting (through midnight Saturday, June 11), you can go back and change your comment.

The person submitting the winning name will receive a fantastic prize at the June 25 Haversham Fiesta.

Fence repaired, pool is open &c.

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Two-thirds of the J-Team (Jared, Jeremy, and Joe) vacuumed the pool Friday evening, the chlorine was adjusted, and Saturday morning (May 28), neighbors gathered to join forces in repairing the fence on the west side of the pool. As outside temperatures moved toward the 90s and beyond, tools and building supplies materialized at the scene.

Men repair fence
Haversham neighbors work on repairing the pool area fence.

One troublesome vine was cut down and a 15-foot section of fence removed. Supporting members were mounted first, and then the boards secured to the rest of the fence. Crew included Mark Storrs, Joe Elmore, Jared Hall, Jeremy Ellis, Gary Blaiss, and Brook Roberts. While the fence repairs were underway, water samplings showed that chemicals in the pool had reached desired levels, with the chlorine a little on the high side (desirable for especially hot, sunny days).

The pool was declared officially open.

President Roberts, digging around in the party house kitchen, found a box of old Haversham Club documents dating from as recent as 1980 and going back into the 1950s. After several persons pawed through the documents for a few minutes, the documents were turned over the Haversham secretary for selective digitizing in the interests of preserving historical records of the Haversham Community.

Club meeting June 14

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Haversham Neighbors:

We are having a meeting at noon on June 14 to get an update and take appropriate action on our legal status as a club.

At our annual  meeting May 3, we authorized President Steve White to investigate what would be necessary to 1) reinstate our corporate status and 2) regain non-profit status as an organization [501(c)(4)].  Furthermore, we authorized the President to spend up to $1,500 to accomplish those goals. Minutes of the annual meeting are available online.

Steve has met with Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam on this matter on behalf of the association, and has received their estimate in writing. Because the estimated costs are more than $1,500, we need to have a meeting. 

Randy Reddick,
Secretary, Haversham Club

Pool recovered

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Thanks to all for Saturday help; the pool is relatively clean and is covered again. Helpers included Steve White, Karen Allison, Jeff Wheeler, John Williams, Nancy, Doug and Sandy Reddick and Priscilla Faulkner.

Work began with crews removing the water tubes and leaves from the pool. Then the tarp’s remaining weights were removed and the tarp pulled back into the grass. Chlorine tablet baskets were re-populated, the tarp re-positioned, and buckets re-placed on the tarp.

PLEASE HELP!

We still need some 3-gallon or 5-gallon plastic buckets that we can use for weights on the two tarps. Karen Allison brought over three buckets, Nancy Reddick added another and things are a little more secure — but not secure enough to withstand the kinds of winds that came up later on Saturday.

Please help with your buckets.

rlr

Need help at pool

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Neighbors:

HELP: We need a few willing hands to help re-tarp the pools this Saturday (Oct. 20) at noon.

Our little wind storm this week managed to remove enough of the tarps from the pools that the tarps and some of the little water-filled tubes are in the pool. There’s a fair amount of leaves in the pool too.

Good news is that those corners of the tarp that were weighted down by 5-gallon paint/chemical buckets filled with water held things down.

REQUEST BUCKETS

Anyone that has empty 5-gallon buckets is requested to donate them to the cause. We could use at least a half dozen more of these.

Best,
rlr

Pool update

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Neighbors:

The pool is not yet open — but it’s not for lack of trying. Joe has been on Aquatrol’s case for the last month, and he issued an ultimatum. If the pool is not usable this weekend, we will be looking for another company to maintain it.

Happy Memorial Day!
Randy Reddick,
Secretary

Chicken feet

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Where’s Art Linkletter when you need him? We had the grandchildren over for dinner on Christmas Eve. Five-year-old Aiden had a piece of ham that had broken off the outer part of the cut. It was claw-shaped, and that to him meant he was eating “chicken feet.” So all he could talk about until it was time to open presents was eating “chicken feet.”

An open invitation

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To all members of the Haversham community: This Web log (blog) is provided as a virtual gathering place for residents of Haversham. Members can post messages, comments, observations and responses to others who have done the same. You can even include the latest pictures of your grandkids. There are a couple rules involved, and you will have to agree to the rules as you apply for a separate account. In the short term, if you want to have an account, send a note through the Haversham Network mail form.