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around sun city
poker faces
The Poker Club held a Texas
Hold’em No Limit tournament
on March 11 with 26 members
participating in the event. Con-
gratulations to Charles Burle-
son for winning the tournament
with Dale Wakefield placing
second and Bill Alexander
placing third. Other winners:
High Hand – Charles Burleson
(Full House, Jacks full of Aces);
Bounty – Bill Alexander, Barnie
Gilmore and Dale Wakefield.
March Texas Hold’em Tourna-
ment (L to R): 2nd Place – Dale
Wakefield, 1st Place – Charles
Burleson, 3rd Place – Bill
Alexander
May Yard of the Month
Mike and Kathy Van Fleet
107 Pipe Creek Lane (N54)
Mike and Kathy Van Fleet prove that you can
have both a property that tantalizes the eye and
a water bill that hovers at just belowmiserly. This
is their second Sun City home, and this time they
enlisted the services of an Austin-based profes-
sional designer who mapped multiple raised beds
and included pathways to adequately channel the
Texas-sized rainfalls that occur in this area. In ad-
dition, they took the water wise steps of incorpo-
rating drip irrigation throughout the entire yard,
selecting only plants with lowwater requirements
and using ground pecan shells as mulch. As you
enter the back yard, a bronze Greater Roadrunner
stands jauntily atop a rock outcropping inviting
you to take in the garden’s delights. Everywhere
you look there is something to delight the eye
such as live oaks, a fig tree, yuccas, cactus, rock
outcroppings and a water feature. Sweat equity
is not a term to be taken lightly in the hot central
Texas sun. However, with the design in hand, the
Van Fleets truly “made it happen” by putting in
place themselves each rock, paver, plant and
cubic yard of soil mix. And the results (and their
water bills) are downright amazing.
PHOTO BY JUDY AISHMAN
