Things I wonder about:

1. What happened to the church that bought the building-in-progress on Wintergreen?

2. Why did the city have to dig such a big hole to put in the addition to Fire Station No. 3 at the corner of Wintergreen and High Pointe Lane?

3. Why do some of my neighbors put out the trash on the weekend for Monday pickup?

4. Why can't the sign makers use proper punctuation? (Evidence coming soon, as soon as I can motivate myself to the corner of Cedar Hill Road and Wintergreen.)

Why do so many people:

1. Overwater?

2. Scalp their yards?

3. Bag their clippings?

4. Chop down their crape myrtles every year?

This morning, on my walk, I saw a pair of crape myrtles that had been whacked, but good. And all this work was totally -- TOTALLY -- unnecessary. Crape myrtles do not need to be trimmed.

Take it from me, a former garden writer. 

I work at The Dallas Morning News. Today, we have had a steady stream of people coming in to buy the newspaper that headlines Barack Obama's win.

I suppose we are sold out at the neighborhood 7-Eleven. I hear that they are starting another press run to print more.

How exciting it is to see tourists and local residents alike standing in line to get a piece of history. I am really proud to be a part of it all today.

Hi, there. Check your water bill insert for more info about dining at Red Robin on Oct. 22 (that's a Wednesday).

If you do, you'll help out the Zula B. Wylie Library Friends. And that helps the library, because the only reason ZBWL Friends exists is to supplement the public library's budget.

Stay tuned for more information on what you need to get in on this Fabulous Offer. 

Yes, I too may be part of that exclusive club known as the Barnett Shale Homeowners Club. Well, maybe.

Do I hear the Beverly Hillbillies theme song ("up from the ground came a bubblin' crude") -- after all, I already stand to make a big $25 for letting an outfit named Dawson do something called a seismic test on my property.

Hey, you can eat at Plato Loco for that.

Joe and I attended a meeting called by the High Pointe Homeowners Association. They had a couple of speakers who were a little farther down the road in dealing with Barnett Shale issues than our neighborhood is. One was from Lake Ridge, a neighborhood posher than ours to the south.

Basically, what I got out of the meeting was that:

1. Why not sign the agreement to do the seismic test? What would it hurt?

2. Let's present a united front to the drilling companies if they do find some evidence that there's oil or gas worth going after.

Seems that neighborhoods that organize tend to get more money for their rights. Makes sense to me.

Do the right thing: Clean out your pantry (you know it needs it anyway; mine certainly does) and donate the surplus to the Cedar Hill Food Pantry.

The High Pointe HOA is making this easy on Sept. 7. I quote from the e-mail they sent to their mailing list:

Please drop off your canned food and non-perishable donations on Sunday, Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm at the Gazebo in Bradford Park across from Fire Station #3 on Wintergreen at High Pointe Lane.

Trust me. I used to volunteer there, and the Food Pantry does a stellar job of making sure their clients really need help. Many do -- more than I thought before I worked there. It's possibly the most deserving cause in our community.

Retraction, retraction! Whole Foods' executive marketing coordinator says that the company is not locating in Cedar Hill.

I had an impeccable source for this -- in fact, two sources -- but the information was wrong.

This blogger regrets the error. 

The High Pointe PID SAYS congratulations. But do they really mean it?

Betsy,

 

As a "fellow" High Pointe neighbor I congratulate you on getting ONCOR off it's "rear end".  Interesting that ONCOR has previously told Cedar Hill City Manager and other "key" individuals that they are not responsible for removing graffiti from their structures.  They allege their "rate structure" does not cover graffiti removal.  Regardless, as promised, the ONCOR electrical box on High Pointe Lane across from Fire Station #3 is clean -- at least for the time being!

 

Now I encourage you tell us how we can get the graffiti removed from similar ONCOR electrical boxes,  also on High Pointe Lane, near the tennis court in Williams Park and between High Pointe Elementary and Ramsey Park.

 

Again, CONGRATULATIONS!

High Pointe Info Online
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Of note: I did send copies and links every step of the way. Can't figure out why they didn't write me sooner, so I could have alerted Oncor about the other graffiti. 

This morning as we were driving away from the neighborhood, the man from Oncor (kind of like the man from U.N.C.L.E.) was painting the transformer.

Thank you, Oncor! Thank you, neighborsgo!

Oncor will be removing the graffiti from the transformer box in our neighborhood on Tuesday.

I got another call from Oncor this morning advising me that it is on the work crew's schedule.

All I can say is thanks -- and I'll be watching to see whether it gets done.