Coco Ondina As you drive from the Ranch and head east, you can now see the sponsor’s banners adorning the outfield fence of the Field of Dreams. This year we have many new sponsors to complement those businesses that continue to support the Robson Ranch Softball Association. The banners were dutifully set up by a group…
David Zapatka This 12-common-mistakes column began after playing with some very excited, highly motivated, new pickleball players at our community courts recently. After playing a couple games, this question was posed to me, “What should we do to improve and become 3.5 players?” We reviewed the first six mistakes the past three months. This month…
Ed Jones I love April! It brings the fullness of a new season and the promise of renewal. Spring in Texas means bluebonnets, butterflies, and beauty. New blossoms abound, trees bud, and the sweet song of the finch and demanding call of the blue jay punctuate the day. Each April, my wife and I travel…
La Donna Womochel The Women’s Club will have their monthly luncheon on May 3. In addition to an appetizing lunch, the Women’s Club will honor mothers as part of the Mother’s Day celebration. The guest speaker, Anne Sadovsky, will entertain and enlighten with her speech “Life Is What Happens While You’re Making Plans.” She will…
Stan Brein We are ready to roll! All Robsonites are eager to resume our respective fun and friendship activities. We bikers are also ready to go! But safety first is paramount when you are on two (or three) wheels. The club held its annual Safety and Communication Briefing Session on March 22, with Pres. Mike…
Karen Lyons Spring is here and it is time to start traveling with the Robson Ranch Road Runners Travel Club. New trips have been added, so it is time to get out and start traveling. If you are not a member, please go to our website www.rrrrclub.com for membership information. Additional information also can be…
Joni Matthiessen Here at our Robson Ranch Wood Shop, we have such a variety of folks with such diverse skill sets. On any particular day, we have folks stop by and inquire as to whether someone could repair something near and dear to them, something that was damaged in their move here, or simply from…
Mary Ann Bane We may have lost one hour of sleep during the spring time change, but look at all the daylight we gained for pickleball in the evenings! (Not that we didn’t appreciate playing on winter evenings under our awesome lights, now on all 16 courts!) With spring, comes the beginning of the next…
Dorothy Edlund On St. Patrick’s Day, several members of the Rockin’ Red Ranchers board invited the membership to have coffee at their home, provided those invitees were comfortable with the environment. The hosts assured their guests that they had been fully vaccinated for COVID. With that established, about 20 members gathered at board members’ home for…
David Zapatka While reading Starseed Transmissions by Ken Carey, I ran across the word negentropy. I’ve always been fascinated by the word entropy and its meaning so I was immediately intrigued by this related word driving me to research it for this month’s issue. Entropy: noun /ˈentrəpē/ 1. thermodynamics: a measure of the unavailable energy in a…