[junction29]

As His Worship the Mayor has pointed out, last night was a great night, with lots of new faces.

The only downside is that it was Bobless, not a single Bob in sight, the first time in living memory that a Gillyland gathering had not had a plethera of Bob's sprinkled throughout the crowd and it was possible to shout 'BOB' and not a single head turned!

[jimbo2012]

I'm sure the next one you'll get a reply or 2 or 3

[mcnamaraSS]

Originally Posted by WVMtnBoy

Hi Everyone! My wife and I have just purchased a lot in the Village of Gilchrist and have a design meeting on July 9th. We've already got a rental residence lined up and can't wait to become official Villagers. We hope to be there by mid-July if the closing on our home goes as planned. If anyone else is going into Gilchrist please stop by and give us a post...

What is your lot number, we are moving in March from MI.

[WVMtnBoy]

Originally Posted by mcnamaraSS

What is your lot number, we are moving in March from MI.

We're on lot 112 in section 209 at the corner of Bradshaw & Kilgore. Where are you guys building?

[A-4 Skyhawk]

Roof shingles, interior framing, and plumbing rough-in finished today. Should see some HVAC and electrical rough-in tomorrow.

[gayleroberts268@aol.com]

Originally Posted by Yankee Quilter

Pix today show the house done or almost. Electric company tells me we are not on the grid yet. So, for those veterans out there, how is the sod and new plants taken care of? I doubt Little Miss Sunshine comes with her watering can!
Ok, i am full of questions, do any of you have steps off the lanai? It never came up in nthe design meeting, but we do, is there a number of steps required before they put a railing?
Next ? .... If any of you walk by, please let me know if the garage doors are gray and front deep burgundy. Last pix they were not.
Hope the Gillybration tonight is awesome, can't wait until we are there drinking, cruising and blowing up things with all of you.

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From what I understand, the auto watering is turned one every night and the landscaping gets watered that way. It was on the other nightat our house
when we stopped to look at the house at night. (Close 2/20 9 days and counting!)
We have four or five steps off our lanai. We also have a rail which I am grateful for. The railing is on the inside of the lanai, so I think that will be good with the dog trying to catch lizards when they get in.

What is your address? I can go look tomorrow to see if your garage doors are gray and front deep burgundy.

Our celebration last night was great. It is always nice to get together and talk about whatever as we get to know each other.
We are eagerly waiting to move in and live there. I feel my life right now is a little chopped up with no home to live in that is ours! We are renting a lovely villa in Polo Ridge. But it isnt home.

Good luck to you. When is your close? We look forward to meeting with you. Gayle and Mike

[gayleroberts268@aol.com]

Originally Posted by WVMtnBoy

Well Folks, Another GillyGathering has come and gone. What a turnout we had tonight!!!

Aside from our regular attendees, we had the pleasure of meeting the Mills, The Three D's (Dave, Doreen & Daisy...although Daisy wasn't there) and Jackie. That's as good as I can do on names. You guys who know me know that I'm better at remembering pets names than I am that of the owners...my bad! Unfortunately we were not blessed by the presence of A-4 and Jimbo and their beautiful spouses who had prior commitments (you whooseys!! )

I know that we are all gonna miss Chief Rose and his beautiful wife who return home this week as well as the Mills. The 3 D's are going to be around until Thursday (?) and have just completed Day 1 of design. They're building a Lantana in Section 211.


Thank you back. We are glad to know you and the rest of the cast of Gilchrist and feel fortunate. Mike and I are very used to having close neighborhood friends. We lived in a great community in Illinois. We did a lot of things together like dinners and fun parties. So I am glad to get the feeling of that same kind of comradeness.
I know that everyone in TV probably says that they have the best neighborhood going but I know the truth of the matter.....GillyLand is the absolute best with the bestest neighbors. I can imagine living anywhere else.

So, thank you all for being my friends/neighbors. You are truly the best!!

Mike and I feel the same about having the best neighbors and friends. Of course we do not live here yet, but because we have been meeting for drinks and talking on this blog, we are getting to know all of you. We are both used to having great neighbors who party together, have dinners for 20 people just to get together. We feel that there will be the same type of comradeness here. Thanks for being our friends and neighbors.

[gayleroberts268@aol.com]

Mike and I were glad to see Nancy and Jeff, our new across the street neighbors at EP last night. Welcome to the neighborhood.

[A-4 Skyhawk]

Call in the dogs. Someone ripped off my golf cart with the pretty orange flag from my new house. Some guy with short chubby legs and a dog with a limp were spotted shoving it down Amherts. WTH ......

[junction29]

Originally Posted by A-4 Skyhawk

Call in the dogs. Someone ripped off my golf cart with the pretty orange flag from my new house. Some guy with short chubby legs and a dog with a limp were spotted shoving it down Amherts. WTH ......

A4 - don't get confused, we were just moving it to a safer location

Me and Mille were very concerned that it might be damaged by construction traffic in the middle of the neighbours lot all by itself and at great exertion, sweat, blood and tears (of laughter) managed to hide it (Whoops), we mean move it to a safer location, just out of sight. :

How were we to know that you would panic when you found it gone, thinking someone had 'borrowed' it

Still all the effort was worth it to see the look on your face when you saw it had disappeared.

Although to be fair, i did get stich in my side from laughing so hard - thanks.

What do you mean "short stubby legs"?, they might be short but Lady Wendy thinks they look kind or cute! - in fact she thinks its my best feature - not sure if that is a good thing or a bad one?

[Yankee Quilter]

Originally Posted by gayleroberts268@aol.com

From what I understand, the auto watering is turned one every night and the landscaping gets watered that way. It was on the other nightat our house
when we stopped to look at the house at night. (Close 2/20 9 days and counting!)
We have four or five steps off our lanai. We also have a rail which I am grateful for. The railing is on the inside of the lanai, so I think that will be good with the dog trying to catch lizards when they get in.

What is your address? I can go look tomorrow to see if your garage doors are gray and front deep burgundy.

Our celebration last night was great. It is always nice to get together and talk about whatever as we get to know each other.
We are eagerly waiting to move in and live there. I feel my life right now is a little chopped up with no home to live in that is ours! We are renting a lovely villa in Polo Ridge. But it isnt home.

Good luck to you. When is your close? We look forward to meeting with you. Gayle and Mike

I forgot the irrigation was a separate line .... We are at 1416 Hackberry, 2nd from Eastfield, Gray Begonia. If you are down that way, thanks, this being so far away is killing us! Of course we went from CT toCA and CA to GA so we should be used to it! Where is your new house? We close 3/1 and move full time around the 17th
Looking forward to meeting you....

[A-4 Skyhawk]

It's a Sad Day in Gillyland. Our new friends Rich and Ann Marie are off to the airport to return to NJ until their house is done and they return for closing on March 5th. I caught them on their way to the airport. Couple of Cuties aren't they.

[A-4 Skyhawk]

Bobby & Susie got their slab today and the block is ready to be installed tomorrow.

[GilchristCruisers]

Wendy and I participated in the 'BEGINNER' MahJong classes at Captiva Rec Center this morning. Understand the same teacher is also teaching at Bradenton - on Wednesdays, I think. Think I will try it again (so much to learn), but want to see if there are others who might want to join in the fun.

Also are there others on this board that like to play Canasta?

Final proposition (and I usually don't proposition strangers......Oh wait you're neighbors, not strangers): In some of the "older", "more established neighborhoods" I understand there are regular "driveway gatherings" (planned events - usually weekly and rotating from house to house. These usually begin at the cocktail hour (5-ish) and I think they include drinks and potluck hors d'ourves (sp?) Is Gilchrist becoming established enough to begin this tradition? I think we're about there, and Dave and I would be glad to share our driveway for the first one. We were thinking maybe Thursday, Feb 28th? Anyone interested?

[A-4 Skyhawk]

Originally Posted by GilchristCruisers

Final proposition (and I usually don't proposition strangers......Oh wait you're neighbors, not strangers): In some of the "older", "more established neighborhoods" I understand there are regular "driveway gatherings" (planned events - usually weekly and rotating from house to house. These usually begin at the cocktail hour (5-ish) and I think they include drinks and potluck hors d'ourves (sp?) Is Gilchrist becoming established enough to begin this tradition? I think we're about there, and Dave and I would be glad to share our driveway for the first one. We were thinking maybe Thursday, Feb 28th? Anyone interested?

A-4 and his Co-Pilot are in February 28th will give HotRod a couple of weeks to finish the yard remodel and give the street back to the residents of Gillyland.