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Copyright © 2010 Peel, Inc. The Mayfield Ranch Homeowner's Association Newsletter - February 2010 1

Mayfield RanchmFebruary 2010 Volume 1, Issue 2

Mayfield RanchMayfield RanchhoMeowneRs association

Quarterly MeetingThanks to all who attended the Quarterly Meeting

in January. Your attendance and participation is appreciated! A summary of the meeting will be printed in the March newsletter. We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting on April 20th! All members of the association are encouraged to attend. If you wish to address the board please contact Southwest Management Services by phone, 266-6771 or email, [email protected] to be placed on the agenda.

VolunteersAre you interested in helping in our community?

We still need more volunteers! Please contact Denise - [email protected] - at Southwest Management and she will forward your name to the board.

thank you Jessica Hudson!

Thanks to our social committee chairman, Jessica Hudson, the Breakfast with Santa event was a success. There was a great turnout and the children seemed to have a lot of fun. Please look for more details and pictures in our next newsletter!

ProxiesThe Board continues to collect proxies and ballots

in hopes of passing the CC&R Amendments later this Spring. If you have not voted, or if you would like to assist with collecting additional votes, please let us know.

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Do You Have Reason to Celebrate?

We want to hear from you! email [email protected] to let the community know!

Please contact SMS for questions0r concerns regarding the community.

Southwest Management ServicesP.O. Box 342585

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a note froM Southwest Management Services

When you bought a home in Mayfield Ranch, you should have received copies of all our governing documents—including the rules and regulations—prior to or at closing. Sometimes these documents get lost among all the other papers you received at closing. And many homebuyers are so involved moving into their new homes, they don’t take the time to read all the fine print. As a homeowner, you have a right to these documents; so, if you don’t have copies for any reason, please log on to the website to view them. Of course, it’s your responsibility to provide the association with your current address and phone number (particularly nonresident owners). This enables us meet our obligation to provide all owners with information from the association.It’s very important to have copies of the governing documents because you’ll be expected to know and comply with all rules and regulations of the community. You’ll also want to stay informed by reading all materials provided by the association. It’s our responsibility to make these documents—the bylaws and the covenants, conditions, and restrictions—as understandable as possible, so if there’s anything you don’t understand, please let us know. We’ll be glad to clarify any confusing language or give you other materials that answer your questions.

Welcome CommitteeAre you looking for an easy way to meet some new people

in the neighborhood? Would you like to contribute to the community but don’t have a lot of time? Then the Welcome Committee is just for you! The volunteer commitment time is less than an hour each month and the benefits are enormous! Parents of teens, this would be acceptable for community work for NJHS or NHS.

If you are interested in joining the Welcome Committee please contact Mindi Sherman at [email protected] or 341-0775.

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Mayfield Ranchnature WatCh

A Bird That Prefers To RunSpend any amount of time in Texas or

the southwestern United States and you’ll undoubtedly spot the Greater Roadrunner, a long-legged, ground-dwelling member of the cuckoo family. It is regionally called ‘paisano’, meaning constant friend or compatriot. This large chicken-like bird, with its long tail and shaggy crest, is fully capable of flying, but usually runs instead, at speeds up to 18 miles per hour. True to its name, a group of these birds is known as a ‘marathon’ or a ‘race’ of roadrunners.

From a behavioral point of view, the roadrunner is a fascinating subject. This signature bird of the southwest slows its bodily functions at night, and conserves body heat by lowering its temperature and becoming lethargic. In the early morning, it can warm itself up without expending a lot of energy. Turning its back to the sun, it erects its feathers to expose an underlying patch of black skin between its wings that helps it quickly absorb more solar energy. When running at top speed, it holds its head and tail flat and parallel to the ground.

The roadrunner is an opportunistic forager, and while it can catch small birds at feeders and nest boxes, more often it eats a variety of fruits, seeds, as well as venomous prey items, including large insects, spiders, scorpions, and even rattlesnakes. Surprisingly agile, two birds will frequently cooperate to kill a large snake, taking turns to distract it, pin its head with their heavy bill, and beat it against a rock or the ground. When alarmed or curious, the roadrunner raises its crest and white-edged tail, and utters a series of coos or

rapidly clatters its beak.Living in dry, open habitats, the roadrunner

has adapted by developing salt glands in front of its eyes to excrete excess salt from its blood. While these glands are more common in ocean-going birds that drink seawater, the roadrunner is able to go without drinking water as long as it eats food with high moisture content, but will drink water if it is available. When courting, many male roadrunners attract a female with cooing calls and then offer her food, usually in the form

of a dead lizard. If the female accepts, copulation occurs, during which the food is often exchanged.

In a small tree, scrubby bush, or a stand of cactus, both parents build a shallow platform of thorny sticks, line it with leaves, grass, feathers, and occasionally shed snake skins. Clutch size can vary from two to six eggs, depending on the food supply. If all the eggs do not hatch at roughly the same time (called asynchronous hatching), and the food supply declines during the breeding season, the parents may eat the younger chicks or feed them to their older siblings. In times of abundant food, roadrunners will double-brood, or raise a second family just as soon as the first is out of the nest.

Greater Roadrunner populations appear stable across their range, and are seen in central Texas year-round. However, like most species, they tend to disappear when their habitat is fragmented by development.

Send your nature-related questions to [email protected] and we’ll do our best to answer them. - Jim and lynne Weber

Greater Roadrunner


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Medal. Considered a young adult book, I purchased it for my nephew, but wanted to preview it

before giving it to him. While I thoroughly enjoyed the book (it is intensely deep and invited more thought and examination than any other book I’ve read in a long time), I don’t think the content is appropriate for young adults. I’ll explain this in more detail, but in preparation for writing this review, I noticed that The Giver is on many middle school reading lists, but it is also on many banned book lists and appeared on the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books of the 1990’s.

Although I didn’t give the book to my nephew, I think it is an excellent adult read. This book makes you really think. It describes a community that lives in what the author describes as a “perfect” world—one without pain, emotion (including love), color, decisions, surprises, memories, inconvenience and even temperature variations. While this is definitely not my idea of a perfect world, the people of this community of people live their daily lives in a very robotic and extremely organized way.

each member of this community is assigned a specific role at the age of 12 and the main character, Jonas, is given the role of Giver. He is given all the memories of past generations where there was pain, love, hunger, the brilliance of color and he is responsible for holding all of these memories so no one else has to live through them. The way the Receiver transfers these memories to Jonas and the horrifically hard life that awaits Jonas is extremely interesting and creative.

When Jonas questions things—which he has never been permitted to do—he understands the very hard, but accepted way of life in his community. In particular, the “releasing” of the rule breakers, elders and anyone else who stands out or is an inconvenience to the group is heart wrenching—this is the part that is not for young adults.

The book is extremely creative; from the way the community and each family are structured to the unique role each person is assigned. It begs the question, “What would you give up to live in a more secure world?” and on the other hand, “What would you sacrifice to live life to the fullest?”

I definitely have Gathering Blue and Messenger on my reading list, two other books that are companion reads to The Giver.


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