Alamo Area SKP Co-Op/Retreat of Texas, Inc. Lone Star Corral

On December 31^st from 8:00 pm until 1:00 am, we will ring in the New Year with hosts Gary & Lynne Clay and Nancy & Richard Karn. Bring your preferred beverage and a snack to share.  Music, games, photo booth, hats and favors will be provided.

•    New Year’s Day, January 1^st at 12 noon will be celebrated with a  lunch hosted by our resident Chef Patty Barnes. Come and enjoy black eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread. Cost will be $5.00.

• December 19^th Sarah Baker will lead Christmas Caroling in the Park starting at 4:00 pm. So bundle up and join friends and neighbors to spread some Holiday cheer.  You might even get rewarded with some Christmas treats and/or hot chocolate by some of the recipients of your melodic greetings as you stroll past their lot and serenade them.  Hint – Hint – Hint
• December 20^th at 5:00 pm, bring your appetite and join us for a special meal hosted by Shari & Frank Gaines. Menu includes grilled shrimp kabobs, rice pilaf, green beans with onion and bacon, coleslaw, and pudding parfait for dessert.  Cost will be $12.00. And not only will you be served a special meal, but you will also be entertained by our one and only keyboard maestro, Jan Kelsoe, who will tickle the ivories during the evening.
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• Tuesday, December 23^rd at 6:00 pm Christmas Gift Exchange. Come join your friends and neighbors for a Christmas gift exchange. Bring a wrapped gift ($20 value), an appetizer to share and whatever you’re drinking.  Hosted by Diane Maruffi and Sharon Roe.
• December 24th at 5:00 pm, Christmas Eve Marshmallow Toasting. Marshmallows toasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by the crowd, and folks dressed up like Eskimos. Everybody knows… this will be a fun and enjoyable evening. Hosted by Lynne & Gary Clay and Nancy and Richard Karn. Bring your own chairs, drinks, sticks for roasting marshmallows, and s’mores fixings and join us around the campfire.
• And then, of course, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm on December 25^th, Christmas Day dinner will be hosted by Paul & Penny Swiech. Bluebonnets will fund the hams and the rest of the meal will be a potluck.  Bring a side dish and/or dessert to share.
• On December 31^st from 8:00 pm until 1:00 am, we will ring in the New Year with hosts Gary & Lynne Clay and Nancy & Richard Karn. Bring your preferred beverage and a snack to share.  Music, games, photo booth, hats and favors will be provided.
• New Year’s Day, January 1^st at 12 noon will be celebrated with a “Luck for the New Year” lunch hosted by our resident Chef Patty Barnes. Come and enjoy black eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread. Cost will be $5.00.

So put these on your calendar and we hope to see you all out and about soon.

ATTENTION TO NEW MEMBERS…AND NOT-SO-NEW…MEMBERS

With so many new members joining us here at LSC since last Christmas, we thought it would be a good idea to educate those members who may not know about the LSC Member’s Christmas Tree which is located in the northeast corner of the clubhouse.

This tree originated many years ago to represent members of Lone Star Corral at Christmas time in the form of a personalized ornament. Each member provided an ornament of their choice to identify and represent their time at LSC.

You, too, can obtain an ornament of your choice and add your name(s) on it. If you wish, you can add your lot number and year you joined LSC. Find an empty spot on the Member’s Tree and hang it up. After Christmas, all these special ornaments are carefully packed away until next Christmas when they’re once again hung back up on next year’s Member’s Tree.

The Fiddlers will be playing in the Clubhouse this Saturday, the 13th of December. The second of 3 shows this winter. Come on out and spend the day listening to some good old Country/Western music brought to you by some fine entertainers. Some are your neighbors from the park!  The music starts at 11 am. We stop for lunch at 12 and pick it up again until 3pm. Please bring a covered dish to share at lunch. We’d like to see a good turnout of the SKP members to support these folks.

Recently five (5) teams of very talented LSC Members met in the Clubhouse to decorate gingerbread houses for you to enjoy this Christmas season. It’s time now for us to show our appreciation for their efforts. The gingerbread houses are on display in the Clubhouse. In front of each house there is a jar. Simply examine the houses, pick your favorite, and put some money in the jar! If you like them all, put money in all the jars! The Gingerbread House that raises the most money will be the winner.

This is a fundraising event for the Bluebonnet Auxiliary so be generous! This is a time-honored activity for the Lone Star Corral and we are so glad we were able to hold it again this year. Thank you to our talented volunteer teams and our awesome event coordinators, Patti Bohannan and Lynne Clay!
Patti Coble, Bluebonnet Secretary