The Trails at Scottsdale III & IV Homeowners Association

Our annual garage sale this last November was another great success — certainly for the more than 27 homeowners sentimentally parting with their treasures … some reported making over $250.

Furniture, lamps - everything but the mailboxes

Of course all purchases are closely inspected.

Did you get around, and see the great furniture available?

And these ladies on Latham are always a worthwhile stop!

Start planning now for our November ‘09 Neighborhood Sale … likely the weekend 12 days ahead of Thanksgiving.

For the third consecutive year The Trails has participated in  Arizona’s “Getting Arizonans Involved in Neighborhoods” events.  Hundreds of such get-togethers took place on October 4th all across Arizona.  Some of the police and fire personnel said there were 17 other such events just in Scottsdale, south of Thomas Road.  Here are some of the pics from the event …

Sweet Petunia was one of the clowns on hand

Great conversations among neighbors

Great food was present, and no one left hungry.

Food’s so great, one of our chefs fields a take-out order.

Scottsdale Fire always draws attention

...and is always Hot with the kids

And Of Course we had a live band!

Saturday Evening, December 22nd, the Trails 3 & 4 panel of judges (your board of directors, and their families and friends) toured the Christmas lights displays throughout The Trails. You will recall reading in the most recent Trails Newsletter, that we’re awarding $100 Lowe’s gift cards to the top three lights displays throughout Trails 3 & 4. Among the many great displays that caught our attention, we honor these:

1311 North 87th Place

These homeowners work hard to present a great display, year after year. We especially noticed the PowerPoint show on their garage door.

8728 East Portland Street

8703 East Portland Street

Like many homeowners, the folks at 8703 enjoy adding a few new items each year to their presentation.

We also wanted to show our ‘honorable mentions,’ but between two photographers, several of the images blurred. Tell you what — next year let’s all plan to get more lights and themes in our yards, and the judges’ photographers will bring along their tripods.

Congratulations again to this year’s winners, and to everyone who worked hard to put out a great display.

Lots of good food was on hand …

Lots of Trails neighbors, too.

The party filled the cul-de-sac most of the evening.

Lots of new friendships were formed throughout The Trails

The face painting clowns were a hit!

The kids had fun checking-out the engine when Scottsdale Fire Department came around. Hard to know who enjoyed it more, the kids or the fire fighters.