The first Fall Lazybrook Garden Club meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 11th. The meeting will be held at the home of Marc and Melissa Cougle, 2110 Millwood Dr. Our previous meetings were a great experience and we are excited about continuing to share our stories and grow the club. The meeting with begin with a social starting at 6:30PM and the formal meeting will begin at 7:00PM. The agenda for this month’s meeting with include:

• Welcome Roundtable
• Topic of the Month: Fall Gardening
• Compose Calendar and Topics and possible
• Presenters for upcoming Meetings
• Review Summer Workshop
• Plan Fall Workshop/Work weekend Tentative date: October 13th (Rain date: October 22nd)

If you would like to join us for the last Spring Garden Club meeting, you are welcome to bring a small dish, appetizer or bottle of wine to share and enjoy with the other club members.

The next Fall Lazybrook Garden Club meeting will be held, on October 9^th, 2012.

Any questions please contact Marc Cougle at mcougle@yahoo.com.

It’s C-O-M-I-N-G!
Neighbors Night Out (NNO) is on the horizon. Tuesday, October 2, 2012

(Others may call it National Night Out but we know it is all about the Neighbors.)

NNO is an excellent opportunity to meet, greet, and eat with your immediate neighbors. In the event of an emergency, break-in, or suspicious activity it makes good sense to know your neighbors enough to be on the alert or be available to help.

We want to make this a positive neighborly EVENT and bring back the EXCITEMENT of a parade in Lazybrook on NNO:

• All C.O.P. folks are invited to put their patrol signs on their cars (other decorations are optional) and form the heart of the parade.
• Lazybrookers with a vintage car are also invited to join the parade.

Please notify Matt Herring ASAP at security@lazybrook.org or 713-823-0794 if you wish to be a part of the parade as we need a headcount. We hope to post the parade route beforehand.

Block Captains: if you haven’t already started, please be preparing for a block party on that evening. This is a BIG DEAL, folks, and you don’t even have to clean your house for company!! If you can’t host one, please locate someone (or several) on your block to generate some interest and excitement for a block party. You might even want to combine two blocks for a party! It can be as fancy or as simple as you want to make it. Buy or make some noisemakers or bring out some old pots to bang on when the parade comes around. Make this time together memorable and make it count! Eddie Yarbrough, Block Captain Chair, will be contacting you soon with reminders and suggestions.

The Lazybrook Garden Club and Lazybrook Civic Club will be holding a Summer Work Day on Saturday June 23^rd The Garden Club has decided to spend the work day revitalizing “Roberta’s Butterfly Garden” (This is the area around the bench across from Lazybrook Drive at W TC Jester along the bayou – Approx 2200 West TC Jester) , painting the HCFCD Monitoring Station and doing a general cleanup of the park along West TC Jester.
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After the drought last year the area known as “Roberta’s Butterfly Garden” located at the intersection of West TC Jester and Lazybrook Dr has lost many of the planted bushes and flowers that gave the area its name. With the early spring rains many of the more invasive plants have begun to take over this once beautiful area.

The garden club is asking for volunteers to assist in painting the Monitoring Station and re-planting the area starting from 7:30AM until mid-day. Anyone who is interested in volunteering please stop by. If you have any extra painting or planting tools and supplies, please bring them with you. Also if you have any extra plants, seedlings or seeds you would like to donate to this effort we are happy to plant them for you in this area. We ask that you please bring them by as early as possible on the work day.

For those that are planning to volunteer below are a few reminders:

• Please be sure to bring any PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) including: Gloves, safety glasses, ear protection
• Dress appropriately – Although it will probably be sunny – long pants or at least tall socks are recommended. Quite a few thorn bushes.
• Sunscreen, bug spray and a hat are recommended.
• Stay Hydrated -The team will have some water for all; but it is recommended to bring extra.
• Tools – If you have any hand tools (Shovels, rakes, etc) or gas powered tools (Trimmers, etc) you are encouraged to bring them
• Seeds, Seedlings, and plants – If you are looking to thin out or donate any plats please bring them as early as possible.

Rain date is Sunday June 24^th.   If you have any questions please contact Marc Cougle mcougle@yahoo.com or 713-444-3351

Come and join the discussion! All are welcome to participate in the cultivation of our great neighborhood.

Door Prizes will be available!

Sinclair Elementary will host a Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Round Up on Friday, May 18, 2012 from 9:00am to 11:00am. If you have children entering either of these grades, please come visit your neighborhood school and enjoy the fun.

There will be activities for your children that include a moonwalk, art, science and math. This is a great opportunity for you to visit Sinclair and meet our wonderful teachers and administrators. Enrollment and registration procedures will be discussed.