Meadows at Northridge 1050 Claire-Taylor Court • Culpeper, VA 22701 Phone: (540) 825-6300 • Fax: (540) 825-8893

The Greens and the Meadows At Northridge 1050 Claire-Taylor Court • Culpeper, VA 22701 Phone: (540) 825-6300 • Fax: (540) 825-8893

OCTOBER 2019 HIGH LIGHTS

Fall Celebration & Halloween Temperatures and leaves are falling and we want to celebrate the new season with you! Join us on Friday, October 18, 2019 from 4pm-6pm for some hearty chili & cornbread and crafts for the children. Thursday, October 31, 2019 be sure to visit the Leasing Office with your ghouls, goblins, and witches to get some treats (no tricks!). It’s Cooling Off Remember as the temperature drops, those little creepy crawly critters will be looking for a warm place to hide. Does this mean you need Pest Control? Likely not, but if it’s an abnormal amount of insects then yes, you may need Pest Control. Pest BULLETIN NOTES & NEWS Control is on property weekly to manage all BOARD scheduled treatments - if you feel you do If You Believe Your Car Has Been need service, please call before 12:00PM Towed, Contact: on Mondays so that you can be added to Hours Trouble’s Towing & Recovery the weekly schedule. If the schedule is full, Monday–Friday (540) 840-6072 you will be added to the following week. 9 a.m.– 6 p.m. Any motor vehicle without current license Lease Renewals & Saturday plate tags or a valid state inspection Annual Recertifications 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. sticker, flat tires, or in unsightly state of If your lease is expiring within 90-120 Sunday Closed repair is subject to towing. Any vehicle days, you will receive a notice that it’s time Phone- parked in a fire lane, parked on the grass, to complete your recertification and/or 540-825-6300 double parked, parked on or over the white renewal. We ask that you please respond Fax-540-825-8893 line, or any other violation is also subject by the dates noted on your letter. We to towing. appreciate your efforts to complete the RESIDENT For the GREENS: Your Northridge issued renewals! Working together builds a REFERRALS! parking pass MUST BE clearly displayed stronger community. All resident and any guests must be appropriately referrals will receive a $250 parked in the spaces marked for visitors. Rent Credit - just For the MEADOWS: At this time, there is make sure your no assigned parking or permits; however, a referred friends let reminder that any aides that assist you (or Your Friendly Staff us know you Tara Craft Community Manager visitors) should park in a VISITOR space Rebecca Crosen Assistant Community Manager brought them and not in resident spaces. Samantha Ferguson Leasing Consultant here! We Dumpsters are for BAGGED GARBAGE Mario Ruano Maintenance Supervisor appreciate you! Vicente Sanchez Maintenance Technician only. Absolutely no furniture/mattresses Bill Dunn Maintenance Technician in or near dumpsters is permitted. You Abby Marshall Regional Manager Ashley Kantruss Regional Marketing Manager are required to carry those items to the Website www.northridgeapthomes.com county refuse site yourself. TRIVIA WHIZ

and baked apples. Store any Nuts About Squirrels unused fruit in a cool, dry place. Squirrels are a common sight in Pick a pumpkin. A trip to the big cities, small towns and suburbs. pumpkin patch to fi nd the perfect Since October is Squirrel Awareness pumpkin is fun for all ages. Get a few Month, it’s the perfect time to squirrel extra to decorate your home. Some away some tidbits about these pumpkin patches also off er wagon clever critters. rides and a corn or hay bale maze. • Besides North America’s Take a tour. Many parts of the familiar tree squirrels, the country off er views of colorful fall roughly 285 squirrel species foliage. Go for a drive, and take a around the world include fl ying camera to record nature’s beauty. squirrels, chipmunks and Consider spending a day exploring prairie dogs. Plan Some Festive a town you’ve never visited. Pack • The majority of a tree squirrel’s Fall Adventures a picnic or stop at a family-owned diet consists of acorns, hickory Fall’s cooler weather makes it a restaurant for a one-of-a-kind meal. nuts, walnuts, seeds and fruit. perfect time for outdoor activities. Friday night lights. Go to a high Squirrels eat their own body Plan one of these outings and school football game and root for the weight, about 1.5 pounds, in enjoy what autumn has to off er: home team. The atmosphere and a week. Apples for all. In addition to the excitement may bring back memories • In summer and fall, squirrels opportunity to pick your own apples, of your own high school days. hoard nuts and seeds for the many apple orchards also have a Find a fair. Get a head start on winter, digging small holes in cider mill you can tour. Be sure to your holiday shopping with a trip to an the ground to bury their food. take home plenty of fruit and try area craft fair. You will be sure to fi nd Abandoned burrows, hollow your hand at apple pie, applesauce unique gifts for friends and family. trees and fl owerpots are other favored hiding spots. • Thanks to a good memory Pasta Swaps squash’s yellow-orange fl esh can be and strong sense of smell, Pasta is a versatile and delicious separated with a fork into strings that squirrels recover up to 80% food, and with dozens of options mimic spaghetti noodles. of what they store. What they available today, there are plenty of Shirataki noodles. Made from the leave behind often germinates, opportunities to experiment with fi brous root of an Asian plant called helping to maintain forest diff erent fl avors. Whether you are konjac, shirataki noodles contain tree populations. reducing carbs, have a gluten allergy virtually no fat or calories, and are • Squirrel nests are called dreys or simply want to try something therefore the perfect partner for a rich, and can be spotted in the new, consider giving these noodle hearty sauce. forks of trees. About the size alternatives a “twirl.” Pasta made with kelp, brown rice, of a football, dreys are made Zoodles. These are made from quinoa, lentils and chickpeas can also of twigs and lined with grass, zucchini that’s been spiralized with a be found on store shelves, so why not bark, moss and feathers. kitchen device that cuts vegetables use your noodle to come up with ways • A squirrel’s big, bushy tail is into long strips. You can use this same to try them all? used as a parachute to ensure method on carrots, turnips, beets a soft landing when the animal and sweet potatoes, as well as buy jumps or falls. packaged spiralized veggies in stores. • Squirrels are very vocal, Soba noodles. These Japanese and communicate with each noodles are made with buckwheat fl our other by barking, chirping, and have a slightly nutty taste. They’re chattering and purring. They often the star of cold Asian pasta also use body language, such salads or served in a bowl of hot broth. as twitching their tails and Spaghetti squash. This gourd stomping their feet. provides a healthy and aff ordable pasta substitute. Once cooked, the WIT & WISDOM

“The moon puts on an elegant show, diﬀ erent every time in shape, color and nuance.” —Arthur Smith

Maple Apple Grilled Cheese “I still say, shoot for the moon; you might get there.” Ingredients: —Buzz Aldrin • 1/4 cup maple syrup • 1/4 teaspoon apple pie spice “Every phase of our life belongs • 3 tablespoons butter to us. The moon does not, except Migrating Monarchs • 8 slices whole-wheat bread in appearance, lose her fi rst thin, Each autumn, millions of monarchs • 8 slices sharp cheddar cheese luminous curve, nor her silvery take to the skies to begin their (1-ounce slices) crescent, in rounding to her full.” journey to a warmer climate for the • 1 medium Golden Delicious —Lucy Larcom winter. The annual migration is one of apple, cored and cut into nature’s most fascinating spectacles. 16 thin slices Cooler temperatures and shorter “I love to think that animals and • 4 slices cooked bacon, humans and plants and fi shes days alert the orange-and-black coarsely chopped butterfl ies to take fl ight. Those west and trees and stars and the of the Rocky Mountains head to moon are all connected.” Directions: —Gloria Vanderbilt Southern California, where thousands Mix maple syrup and apple pie hibernate in forests along the coast. spice. Set aside. “The moon is a friend for the But swarms of the eastern population Butter one side of each bread slice. lonesome to talk to.” travel much farther, from Canada Layer two slices of cheese and four —Carl Sandburg and the northeastern U.S. to the slices of apple on each of four bread mountains of central Mexico—a slices with buttered side down. Sprinkle distance of nearly 3,000 miles. with chopped bacon, then drizzle “Those are the same stars, and that Monarchs numbering in the millions with maple syrup mixture. Top with is the same moon, that looks down take shelter in the fi r trees there. remaining bread slices with buttered upon your brothers and sisters, How the butterfl ies fi nd their side up. and which they see as they look way to the same sites year after Place sandwiches in large skillet or up to them, though they are ever year is a mystery to scientists, but griddle on medium-low heat. Cook so far away from us.” they believe the insects use the 3 to 4 minutes per side, or until bread is —Sojourner Truth sun as a compass. Even more browned and cheese is melted. Cook in remarkable is that new generations batches, if necessary. “Summer ends, and autumn comes, arrive each fall and settle in the and he who would have it otherwise same trees as their ancestors did! Find more recipes at would have high tide always and a When spring comes, monarchs www.McCormick.com. full moon every night.” begin their fl ight back north, laying —Hal Borland eggs on milkweed plants along the way. When the caterpillars hatch “To some people, the impossible is and transform into butterfl ies, impossible. One fi ne day, they wake they continue the trip northward. up in the morning knowing that they Up to fi ve generations take part will never hold the moon in their in the annual migration. hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.” Each autumn, millions of —Elizabeth Bibesco monarchs take to the skies to begin their journey to a warmer climate for the winter October 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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