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The Spring Klein Chamber of Commerce had their first massive Ribbon Cutting on June 25th 2009 at Fred Haas Toyota.

In attendance were:

• Fred Haas Toyota-Ronnie Bernal & Lydia Faria (Hosted event)
• Shorco Enterprise - Linda Flores
• Edward Jones - Lucas P. Sealy
• AFLAC - Joseph Toth & Siboney Trevino-Toth
• Send out Cards - Carol R. Baker
• Results Realty - Marchel Peterson
• Texas Home Group Realtors - Terry & Lon McDougle
• Centry 21 - Robert Harris
• The Tomball-Spring Times - Toni Richard

Guest - International Bank of Commerce - Mehreen Khan & Tracy Bhatnagar & Marie Guidry

The Spring Klein Chamber recently celebrated their one year anniversary.  The Chamber decided to have one giant ribbon cutting for anyone who wanted to attend; to kick off their ribbon cutting ceremonies. To schedule a ribbon cutting please contact our ribbon cutter co-ordinator Siboney Trevino-Toth.   

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If you are buying or relocating to  Spring Texas and need help from a professional REALTOR®,  Marchel can be reached at Marchel@AgentwithResults.com or by phone at 832-721-8332. 

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One of the things that I LOVE about living in Spring/The Woodlands is our beautiful foliage.  With Creekside Park opening in Harris County we are now blessed to have a nature preserve 5 minutes from our house.  George Mitchell nature preserve has an access from Rob Fleming Park in Creekside Park.  It is my understanding there is another entrance from Flint Ridge but I am not familiar with it. The cool thing about this nature preserve is that it is open to the public.  That is right you don't have to live in The Woodlands to take advantage of the preserve.  I spoke to a park ranger recently who told me all The Woodlands parks and open spaces are open to the general public.

We have started taking out dog Dundy for walks along the trails and have been pleasantly surprised at how few bugs we have had to deal with.  With Spring Creek running along much of the trail I thought it would be a mosquito magnet but parks and recreation must be keeping it sprayed as it is very comfortable.

It is all natural but there are flag markers so you can tell where the trail goes. You can still see some of the ravages of Hurricane Ike.  It is interesting to see how the forest grows around the damaged trees when they are left in their element.

You can access this wonderful preserve from Rob Fleming Park at Creekside Park.  If you are coming from Gosling turn west on Creekside Forest and stay to the right.  If you are coming from Kukyendahl go east on Creekside Forest and you will see the preserve on your left.  There's a parking area and a sign with the rules of the preserve.  There is a leash law so you are welcome to bring your dog but they need to be on a leash.  I hope you enjoy the preserve as much as we are.

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If you are buying or relocating to  The Woodlands Texasand need help from a professional REALTOR®,  Marchel can be reached at Marchel@AgentwithResults.com or by phone at 832-721-8332. 

If you would like information about The Woodlands please visit my websites at http://www.agentwithresults.com/ and at http://www.resultsrealtytx.com/.  The AgentwithResults site is rich in Content about The Woodlands.  If you prefer pictures with your content then visit my ResultsRealtyTX site.

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© Marchel Peterson. All photographs and/or written content produced by Marchel Peterson. All rights reserved and may not be reproduced or reprinted without express written permission of Marchel Peterson, owner/broker of Results Realty.

We recently walked out our front door to see what we thought was a GIANT beehive in our small oak tree in the front yard. My first inclination was to grab a bottle of bug spray. Now that was my inclination but my husband happened to know of a bee keeper so we called him instead.

I must say watching him move the swarm to a new home was quite a learning experience. Yes that was a swarm in our tree; not a hive. They were actually swarming over an old bird nest. It appears that they have been kicked out of their prior home so these worker bees went with their queen to find a new home. I for one was not happy about that home being in my front yard. The bee keeper brought them over a nice 3/2/2 and helped them to get settled.

Honey bee swarms are actually not dangerous.  They are only defensive in the vicinity of their nest.  At that point they are defensive to protect their young and their food supply.  A swarm doesn't have young nor food supplies so they will usually not exhibit defensive behavior unless they are unduly provoked.  Now our son did get stung when out mowing the yard so maybe the lawn mower provoked them.  He was not taking any chances and decided to wait until the swarm was gone to finish the mowing.

I have a new appreciation for bees after talking to the bee keeper and watching the process.  I did not catch the swarm dropping but you will see one picture with the swarm in the air and the next one the swarm is on the box.

 After getting the swarm down to the box the next step was getting them settled in to their new condo.  You can observe the bees scent-fanning at the entrance to signal the entrance to the new nest as the bees march into their new home. There is one point in the movie where you will see the screen go a little crazy as I was getting away from the bees. According to the beekeeper I was safe but I was not taking any chances.

I was amazed at how comfortable the bee keeper was around the bees. We asked him if he got stung often and he told us no.

When you see the bee keeper pointing he is pointing out a waggle dance. The bees do a waggle dance to share information.

I was a little sad that a small group got left behind.  They huddled as a very small swarm in the tree for a few weeks and then were gone.  I hope they found a larger swarm but I'm not sure what happens to the remnant when they miss the move.

I found a website that you can go to and find a bee keeper should you find yourself with a swarm in your front yard.  After finding out how social honey bees are I'm glad that we helped them find a new condo.  I also found out that there is a shortage of honey bees in the United States so you are being ecologically green and helping our environment also.

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If you are buying or relocating to Spring Texasand need help from a professional REALTOR®, Marchel can be reached at Marchel@AgentwithResults.com or by phone at 832-721-8332.

If you would like information about Spring please visit my websites at http://agentwithresults.com/springtexas.html and at Results Realty. The AgentwithResults site is rich in Content about The Woodlands. If you prefer pictures with your content then visit my ResultsRealtyTX site.

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