Yard Bark!

Your HOA Board has vetted and negotiated and argued—er—”discussed” many options and the Board is pleased with the Yard Bark decision.    The common areas within Illahee will receive fresh fine dark bark the week of October 28th by Sparky Bark. 

A large one-time assessment for every homeowner would have been required for the HOA to bark every front yard, and the assessment could not have been fairly distributed according to bark required for each front yard.  Therefore, it seems good to the Board to, instead, recommend to you the company we hired for our common areas. 

Call or email Sparky Bark for an estimate.  This is not exclusive to front yards.  You can bark your front and back and side yards.  You can bark bark bark.  :)   Although you will be purchasing your own bark and have the option to choose different styles, your Board recommends “fine bark” for a uniform color through the community.

Sparky Bark offered our HOA the best price and has great references.
Dollars are also saved using a fine dark bark that matches previous bark, negating the need to bark areas with a satisfactory layer. 
 
Mention that you are in the Illahee neighborhood when you contact:
Sparky Bark
Blake Rowe
blake.s.rowe@gmail.com
425-951-9900

Hahaha!  Flood delay!  Party delayed until spring

It’s not just raining, it’s a flood from the skies!  Our party will be delayed until spring…

We anticipate a couple more neighborhood events through the winter before the spring party.  Halloween photos of decorated homes & disguised trick-or-treaters just may be seen on these pages!  A progressive open house near the holidays would be cozy, as would dinner parties among neighbors – some to host & some to delight in being served, and definitely spur of the moment sledding parties when the snow hits, with neighbors bringing hot cider and cookies!

Thank you to all who participated in the poll to determine the time & day of our celebration – the poll worked well, and we can use that technology in the future. 

The Climber is ready for play!  Even without our “celebration.”   I enjoyed the sight of a lot of kids and parents together at the park on Friday afternoon.

Information is upcoming about an opportunity for yard bark!

Go Seahawks!

Neighborhood Celebration - Sunday 22nd 4:00-6:00pm

Hellooooo Illahee!

If it is not raining... 

Come out to our Illahee Park this Sunday 4-6pm. Bring finger food or drinks for 12 people (appetizer, dessert, any finger food of your choice) to share. 

 

Sports fans:  Join us when the Seahawks have wrapped up! Should be shortly past 4! 

 

Basketball:  We'll have some sort of 3 on 3 contest on the short court, bring your game! 

 

Bike races:  We will block off a segment of road for just a few minutes at a time for kids' bike races, organized by age group, 3-18.  We will need volunteers along the routes to hold traffic & watch driveways.  The 13-18 year old categories are dependent on volunteers.  More volunteers are needed for the 13-18 year olds who would use longer courses including the 2 major intersections :) 

 

Chalk Art Contest:  Draw anytime from 4-5:30, and at 5:40 winners in age categories (including adults!) will be announced.  Bring your chalk or use some that we round up!  Can I have volunteers for the judging team? 

 

Playground:  Try our new Sierra Climber! The existing playground equipment has also been repaired.  Great reason to celebrate! 

 

Clean up:  Even the youngest of us is old enough to clean up :) 

 

Any other activities? If you'd like to organize softball or frisbee or volleyball or a plant-swap, or any other activity, we'd love it, let us know! 

 

We hope to see you this Sunday 4-6pm at our park! 

Your 2013 HOA Board, 

Jeannine Pound, Aparna Nene, Shantanu Sardesai

Work then PARTY! – can you?

 

HoOrAy!  Our new play structure will be installed on Monday September 16th.

WHEELBARROW - do you have one? Can you lend it?  Needed 1:00 Sunday 15th and 7:00pm Monday 16th by our hard-shoveling neighbor volunteers.

Needed:  10 or more volunteers to rake / shovel bark out of the empty square space on Sunday September 15th 1:00pm and another 10 or more volunteers to rake bark back in around the new structure on Monday Sep 16th 7:00pm.  They will save our neighborhood several hundred dollars in labor costs.

Please email vicepresident@illaheehoa.com if you can volunteer with a rake or shovel or lend your  WHEELBARROW either day.

Thank you, Mark Meyer of Lot 37!  Who has volunteered to replace the missing boards on our park benches!!  Whew! We'll be able to sit!

THEN...

Saturday the 21st or Sunday the 22nd let's hold a neighborhood potluck lunch and celebration! 

Help select the day & time of the party by filling in this poll with your family's availability, please include your lot number or name:  http://sdrv.ms/16d1877   

Can you see it?  Fingerfoods of any kind, celebration of the new "Sierra Climber", bike races for the kids, a chalk art contest on the sidewalk, perhaps some 3 on 3 basketball on the 1/2-court?  Are you catching the vision?

 

Garage sale - over for this year: 

Saturday August 17th, we held our annual neighborhood garage sale!
 
A big THANK YOU to Lori Stark of Lot 8 for volunteering to organize this Illahee event!  Lori advertised in the local papers and signed the local area.  She calls our 2013 sale a "mild success" with 9-10 homes participating, probably due to the late summer date coinciding with summer vacations.  Perhaps next year we will try for an earlier date, so you can start that pile of garage sale items growing again :)

My kids thought the sale was a SUPER success as they were thrilled to find treasures for quarters just down our block.  Our neighbors, the Wright family of lot 77, were equally thrilled to offload all said treasures to my family and their kids' pockets were jingling when the Pound family left!  

(This post updated August 22, 2013) 

 

At last!

Playground Update!

Expect installation of our green Sierra Climber on Monday SEPTEMBER 16th.  We expect the Climber to be tamper resistant with ability to hold up against big kid play.  The 2 existing structures will be repaired.  We hope to gather a community work party to prepare the lot for the “Climber" on the weekend of September 14-15, and to repair the aging park benches.  Look for work party plans, and involve our teenagers - our teens could do a spectacular job, and take ownership of and pride in the playground project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(This post updated August 22, 2013)

Got dead plants?

Plantscapes will remove sick, dying and dead plants in your front yard - this service is included in your HOA dues - simply tie a ribbon around a branch of a bush you would like removed (under 10 feet tall) and email Hedley at Plantscapes (hmenzies@plantscapes.com) with your Illahee lot # and location of ribboned bushes to be removed.  Just ask Miss Anna Pietrusinska in lot 76 - her 8 foot monsters are GONE and her experience was smmooooooth!

New Playground Equipment Coming Soon!

Your 2013 HOA Board is recruiting bids for a play structure oriented toward 5-12 year olds, for the 25’ x 30’ space left vacant by the vandalized swing set. 

We will keep you updated on bids and possibilities.