MLID Meeting This Thursday 2/26/15

From Ken:

And to think the first day of spring is only a month away!  This is quite a winter we are having.  Nevertheless, we have to plan for the summer season, if we want a swimmable lake this year.  The Mohegan Lake Improvement District is meeting this Thursday night at 7:30 P.M. at 99 Baron de Hirsch Road in Crompond (Calvary Chapel).  We will be meeting in the kitchen.  I hope we can have representation from each beach association around the lake.   Keep warm!   

Mohegan Lake Hit and Run

Yesterday's news, but still important today.  Did you you see the bad person run over the man? 

Sad News

The woman who has owned Camp Nabby since 1970 has died. 

How Sweet It Is

We've been enjoying some fine times on the lake.  Hockey, fishing, big long skates to the island house.  And nature's Zamboni came through to boot.

Be careful out there boys and girls. 

Mohegan Lake Is Singing

Do you hear it?

Nearly five years of living on the lake's edge, it's hard to not to hear it and to love it.  As the lake freezes, it makes crazy, ray-gun-type noises.  Alien.  I think it's due to the cracking of the ice.  It's a wildly fluid membrane structure, ultimately, no?

We should all give a big-up to mother nature for her natural Zamboni effect.

At any rate, I stomped through the ice at the edge and we have 2-3 inches.  This amazing cold we're getting should assure us at least a safe 4" of clean, clear ice by Saturday.  To skate on!  Will pull out the auger on Saturday morning.


Ice growth chart courtesy of this fine website.

Hourly weather graph provided by the National Weather Service. 

Grab Your Auger, Ice Skates, and Fishing Poles

Ohhhhhhh.

Yes, it is on.  The lord has truly blessed us; just be careful out there, because god has plans. 

I predict we have 4 inches of clean, clear ice by next Saturday.  Me and the girls just got our blades sharpened at Bear Mountain after Thanksgiving. 

Huzzah:

The Lord Has Blessed Us...

with a good head start on a 110 acre ice skating rink.  Happy New Year!

Holland Sporting Club Clean Up

Remember the still open DEC violation for the Holland Sporting Club/Rock Hill? It looks like the town is finally footing the bill to complete the clean up.  Welcome news.  It sure took much longer--and at a greater cost to taxpayers--than originally advertised, but hopefully it gets done right now.  It's such a beautiful property.

  [photo courtesy of Vishnu Patel, December 2014]

World Series Champ Visits GW

George Washington Elementary had a surprise guest today, Joe Panik of the San Francisco Giants.  He attended school there for a few years and played in the Shrub Oak Athletic Club while in the area. 

It's exciting to see that Mohegan Lake produces such amazing athletes. Remember Melissa Gonzales? I think it's the water.

More photos on the LCSD fb page.  

Important Mohegan Highlands Information

1.  We are going Christmas Caroling this Saturday, December 6.  5-6 is cocktails and recital, caroling from 6-8.  BYOB (or flask) and an appetizer; if you have children, ration appropriately.  Open to all Mohegan Highland Property Owners Association members and their guests, but please do rsvp to YorktownCode@gmail.com
2. Are you a MHPOA home owner (not sure, email me--see above) and Friends with MHPOA on Facebook?  No?  Oh, you should be, it's just getting fired up and you get to see cool pictures of things like our neighborhood fox (see below).  She lives with her cub (?) just below the MHPOA beach.  How cool is that?  Foxes, I've heard, are one of the greatest judges of neighborhoods. 

 [photo: red fox/green algae courtesy of Shelley]
 You see that algae, right? You're attending the MLID meeting this Thursday, right?  Good. 

MLID Meeting This Thursday

From the MLID president:

We will be meeting this Thursday December 4 at 7:30 P.M. at the Calvary Chapel at 99 Baron de Hirsch Road in Crompond.   We need to make decisions about how we will be chemically treating the lake next summer to keep it swimmable.

Kohl's Burned Down In Cortlandt

Did you notice?

[hat tip to the Daily Voice]