Category: December 2019

Christmas at the Ranch

Frances Hackley, Publicity Chair The Robson Ranch Community Choir is all astir and warming up to sing of Christmas joy. The choir had an amazing Veterans Day Concert on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. They performed two concerts for a warm and enthusiastic crowd, though the temperature turned frosty. One could just reach out and touch…

Bonnie’s scary-strong Halloween workout for active agers

Total Body Strength – Halloween

Carolyn Thomas Bonnie Fickey’s Active Aging Total Body Strength and Fit For Life group fitness classes were rocking to chilling and thrilling Halloween music that included a Ghostbuster warm up, Thriller cardio to escape the Zombies with strong defensive moves against the walking dead; Halloween howling-wolf lower/upper body strength combo; Cardio Pumpn’ Pumpkin workout with light…

Fourth annual ‘Blocktoberfest’

Karen Bassham Neighbors competed in hoisting mugs filled with water in a Blocktoberfest contest on Oct. 26. In this fourth annual event, about 65 folks brought food and met their neighbors from Lindenwood, Stonewood, Blackwood, Ironwood, Baywood, and Orangewood. These blocks are unofficially named the “New Woods,” because houses are built in the last five…

Baby Boomers meet at the Wildhorse Grill

Dave Parker On the first Friday in November the Baby Boomers filled every Boomer chair in the bar at the Wildhorse Grill. Not only was every Boomer chair filled in the bar, the entire Grill was overflowing. Outside on the patio, Texas Toss was finishing up week eight and many of the teams joined in…

Happy Potters enjoy The Texas Clay Festival

Carolyn Detjen Happy Potters look forward with joy to the last weekend in October when we can travel to Gruene, Texas, the historical district four miles north of New Braunfels. This year, nine members of the “mud club” indulged themselves in the visual and textural senses that give new meaning to “Did you see that?”…