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Hi Frank,
We should be in town by this Friday (hopefully Thursday night). We are so excited about finally be permanent Villagers! Hopefully, we'll see you this weekend. Cable is coming over on Saturday and our golf cart should be ready for pickup that same day.

We will be back on March 9 -10 for a short visit. We talked with Scott from Tri-county landscaping (he did the work). He said the palm looks pretty bad but will check it in about a week. He said if it doesn't improve, they will replace it (it's under warranty). We plan to put palm food on the one in the front when we get there in March. It may be a little orangey colored but it is quite healthy. We had a wonderful time in Costa Rica. I'm going to try to post some pictures.
Have a great day!
Heidi

Don and Heidi,
Yes, I thought I saw you out once but you were gone when I went over. It was a hectic weekend or us anyway. It is amazing how busy retirement can be.
We will be back from St Augustine the 7th and it appears that we're home the 16 &17th but calendars due fill up. Costa Rica sounds like fun. Are you doing the beaches or rain forest?
There are no "Banditos" there are there? Pretty safe area to travel in?
Hope you have a fun and safe trip.

Good Morning Frank,
Sorry we missed you over the weekend. The landscaper finished our back yard and re-routed the sprinkler system (yet again) and I think we now have everything under control. How are you guys doing? Hopefully we will see you two on our next visit. We will be done there on Feb. 8 and are flying out to Costa Rica on the 9th. We will return on Friday, Feb., 15 and will be at the Villages until Monday, Feb. 18th. Have a great day!

Hi Frank,
I hope everything is well with you. How is your wife's father? Please tell her our thoughts are with her.
I do have a question for you. Do you have any idea how to get rid of gophers? We noticed giant mounds in Al's yard when we were at our home during Thanksgiving. Our friend's said they went by on Saturday and saw several mounds in our yard. Don called our exterminator but they don't do anything about moles or gophers. If you have any suggestions, please let us know. The pest control man we use said you could put pinwheels in your yard and that chases them out. Sounds like a joke but we are willing to try anything to prevent our lawn from being torn up. Thanks in advance.

Heidi

Hello Frank, Sorry we missed you during our stay over Thanksgiving. I hope you had a wonderful holiday! We will be back down again for Christmas (21 - 25) so we hope to see you then. The pool should be finished in about 2 to 3 weeks! It's really looking good. Don has to call them about the irrigation system. We tried to run it on Sunday and system 1 is messed up. It isn't getting any pressure for some reason. I'm sure they will get it all figured out. Again, thanks for you help and we hope to see you soon.

Hi Frank, Don just talked with T&D pools yesterday and they told him they would be pouring the deck in the next couple of weeks. Also, I wanted to let you know that the irrigation system has been fixed (according to T&D) so hopefully, everything will be back to normal. Thanks again for all your help and the pictures. We really appreciate it!

Hi Frank,
We will be at our house in the Villages this weekend and were wondering if you could help us out. We have been having watering issues (one month we used 70k gals.!) and the people who check our house are not very "up" on the irrigation system. If your offer still stands, we would like to give you a garage door opener to check on the system when we are not there. At this point we just turned it off completely (those water bills were killing us) and now the yard looks pretty bad, according to our lawn guy. Please let me know if you'll be able to help us out. We would greatly appreciate it.

Frank,
I just got off the phone with the people who are watching our house. He is going to turn the sprinkler system off. I'll try to program it this weekend. Tell Al thanks for the observation. I'm sure our water bill next month will be off the chain!