We discovered a new treat for the cats and they LOVE it. It's called Squeeze Up by Hartz. You can feed by hand or squeeze it into a bowl or use it as a topper over their dry food. Guaranteed a winner!
Sorry the video is a bit sideways but our hands were busy.
Jim and Kathleen Koch have hosted their grandchildren for holidays for quite a few years. The kids have always left a seasonal chalk greeting on the driveway. Now the girls are getting more mature and the quality of their work shows. It makes me smile every time I drive by.
Tuesday morning coffee and donuts. We got an update from Peter regarding upcoming events for the pro shop. (FREE golf on Christmas Day as the pro shop will be closed.) Don't cut in though. Always start on 1 or 10 please.
Back home the doves are enjoying their morning fountain drink.
Merope Ozdener is obviously an early riser as she caught this colorful sunrise this morning. Thank you for sharing, Merope.
Son, Anton, made a cherry pie for us. Can you tell we're all cat lovers?
We had a cute peach pie for Thanksgiving.
I saw Peggy Fetzer busily tucking pink slips into mail boxes. I was amazed to see so many pink slips just for our station so I went up to the mailroom today to learn more.
Our mailroom services over 1300 open mailboxes and they expect by the time full season is here there will be over 1800. We're in record breaking numbers as we are already 500 over last year (Covid year) but still over 100 more than in the previous year. Palm Creek is growing!
I asked Donna Cox (our mailroom supervisor) for more information. Two of our staff members leave for the city post office around 10:00. First they pick up any outgoing mail that is dropped in our in-park drop boxes and then off to the post office to pick up the incoming mail.
Yikes! It's a good thing we have that white van mail truck as it gets filled every day!
Now the hand sorting process begins. Packages go one way where pink cards have to be written up. Regular letters get put into the "pigeon hole" boxes by site number, "flats" or oversized items go to another set of pigeon holes. Then all are gathered and the team finally goes out to one of the three satellite mail stations where it gets put in your box number.
That's a LOT of work not mentioning that Donna has to monitor who is arriving soon and who is leaving so boxes get open or closed. Sales are frequent so the mail room has to keep up with new owners as well. Then there is all the mail that has to be forwarded.
What can we as residents do to help with the flood of mail? Make sure you always include your site number!! If you are ordering something, always be sure to put your site number on a second line of an address. If you enter 1110 N Henness Rd, Site #1707........that is a long address line. The sender will have that typed onto a mailing label and it may get truncated. That means the last few numbers may be cut off thus making a delivery to a wrong site. It may go to site 17 or site 170 instead of 1707.
The busiest time of day for the mail room is between 11:00 to 1:00 when the truck arrives and sorting begins. Try to stay away during those hours. Chances are that the sorting isn't done yet and they won't have your package ready anyway.
Bring back those pink slips!! That saves time from having to create more. Tell the kids back home to not send to "Grandma or Grandpa" as we have a lot of them here. 😉
I'll have more photos to post tomorrow.
P.S. After our interview, Donna asked me to be sure to sing praises for her staff as they are a GREAT hard working team.
BULLETIN BOARD REMINDER
If you have an item to buy sell or trade, you can always post it on Nextdoor BUT don't forget to check the small bulletin board in the hall near the mail room. Lots of ticket sales or rentals get posted there.
