I found this site pretty interesting, check it out.

https://www.windyty.com/

The activities will be on July 2 and 3.

Also, please remember, FIREWORKS ARE ILLEGAL  in San Juan county.

A quick reminder, the board meeting will be May 28th, 10 am and our annual neighborhood meeting will be on Sunday, May 29th at 10 am.  All are invited to attend both meetings (both will be at the community building.)

The May 2016 mailing, with the cash flow analysis and the proposed budget have been uploaded to the mailings area.

Friends, we have had at least 2 more incidents involving airplanes not performing well on the wet, soft runway.  The runway is not in good condition.

If you land or takeoff from the East Stuart Island runway you do so at your own peril.  

We do not have personnel to continuously monitor the condition of the runway.  We should all know that after periods of rain the runway can be hazardous.  Even on nice days like today, the runway is still soft.  The ground is so saturated with water that when you step on it you feel water squishing out.  Our runway can be soft and slippery at any time if it is this wet.  Add in some winds, some deer or geese and it can be hazardous.

Please be careful.  Remember you use the runway at your own risk.  Do not expect a “notam” to be posted here on this neighborhood website.  We will post info if we get it but I cannot guarantee that it will be in a timely manner!  The nature of it is that if the weather has been bad, nobody is there to even give a report.  Please keep that in mind.

Sorry for the rant but we feel need to remind all pilots that they need to keep the runway conditions, their airplanes performance and their own personal experience levels in mind when making the decision to use the runway.

UPDATE…   the information below is from Ken re slight change in plans…

Change of plans, folks. Actually, several of us will turn 75 yo this season. So, Mary Alice and I will host a party for all of these youngsters and their neighbors on Stuart. . Stay tuned for time and date which is being negotiated…Ken

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Ken put this on the forum, but I thought I’d put it here to make sure it is seen by more people!  Spread the word, its a nice way to start the season.  Thanks Ken and Mary Alice!

“We will be returning to Stuart on/or about April 28 this year which is early for us “South of the Border” types. On either May 13 or 14 we will be holding a “Mary Alice is 75 Party”. All are invited to attend…watch for the details.
Hasta luego…”

I received the following from Mark Green, re the Humpback.  Plan accordingly!
The Humpback will be out of service April 10 – April 17 for annual service and inspections.  

Thanks to Chris Teren for this picture…

By the way, Chris is a really talented photographer, check out his pictures at http://www.terenphotography.com/

As of 2/24/16 the runway is pretty wet and soft.  There is a visibly wet, gravelly area on the west end of the runway, right in the middle of the strip.  Also, there are many deer in the area grazing.

Last year owner Jason Douglass put together a presentation about an idea that might give our island a little more protection during the dry fire season.  The idea is this –  since we all have some source of water on our properties we should install a common connection to that water source – if we did that then we would have lots of sources of water all around our island available to fight a fire, wherever it occurred.  Responders could move a small portable pump and connect to any of these water sources and spray water on whatever was burning.

Jason put together a “shopping list” and a schematic of how the plumbing should be installed.  If you CLICK HERE you will go to a page with the information that Jason presented.  This information is also listed permanently under the neighborhood info tab.

We’d be curious to know how many of you have already installed, or intend to install this system.  You can leave a comment below.  Also if you had any difficulties or “better” ideas, let us know that as well.