Sights of the Season....

Halloween is on full display in east Carmel with countless displays like this one on Maplecrest Drive in Cool Creek Estates.  With just over a week to go this is the weekend to get out and enjoy these because as we all know, come Tuesday November 1, the Norelco Santa will hit our TV's as will the entire Christmas season.  In the East Of Keystone home offices, we're going to take in the sights over the next couple of days and try to enjoy one of Fall's great traditions.  

Bargain Days

Several 
locales in east Carmel are putting out their goods this weekend with garage sales going on in both Mohawk Crossing and Cool Creek Estates.  The CCE garage sale will be along 126th just east of Keystone Parkway and off of Main Street just east of the Parkway.   Mohawk Crossing's signs are hidden only from those who have virtually no vision as exampled by the drive along Gray north of 126th.  Cool Creek Estates is finishing the weekend with a Chili Cookoff, a nice idea given the cool temps heading our way Friday and Saturday. 

Brookshire, Cool Creek neighborhood parades; CHS Band gets soapy with Gaga; Farmer's Market has a BIG day!

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Not Wyle E.

For those of you who saw the WTHR story on Coyotes last night, it was a not so subtle 
reminder that even in residential areas in east Carmel we have to be more careful than ever with our small children and pets.  While the story focused on a number of areas and primarily pets, the line that stuck out was the trapper who said 'everyone watching him at that moment had a coyote within one mile of them'.  At the EastOfKeystone.com home offices we lost a cat as did our neighbors on successive nights last October.  We never had seen a coyote close by until that happened and judging by the size of this cooter, photographed the day after Christmas just east of Main Street and Keystone, they're getting their fill of family pets.  Another neighbor found a domestic animal carcass in his yard within the past week.  We understand that they've lost land to developments, etc., but considering our neighborhood is 40+ years old they've moved in to an established area...not the other way around.  At some point municipalities are going to have to act or we will have an incident where a child is attacked.  I'm not saying we go on a Jethro Bodine shooting spree to thin them out but at the very least trapping and releasing a safe distance away is becoming more and more necessary.