Living at Village West subdivision/Carlos Pueblo

Living at Village West subdivision/Carlos Pueblo

It has been almost three years since we moved to Village West subdivision

, a 498 family subdivision 1.5 miles off Beltway 8 between Briar Forest Dr

and Westheimer Rd. Our street, Del Monte Dr., was built in 1982 of a brick

veneer house in good condition. Every morning, I would walk on 11 blocks

with a total of 2.2 miles which is my limit of daily activity.

Morning walk is an opportunity for me to meet some neighbors and their

dogs. If I am early, I may meet Judy and her dog, Ginger. Judy must reach to

her client’s office at 9 O’clock for sign language appointment. I have learned

American Sign Language for several years for Arthur due to his tracheotomy,

inserting a NG tube through his throat in order to breathe. Ginger would sit

patiently while we are in conversation. We are at the second house of the east

end of Del Monte Dr., after making a right turn on Chevy Chase, I’ll meet two

neighbor’s dogs, if I am lucky, one is Prince on Chevy Chase and the other one

is Emma, my next neighbor on Del Monte, both dogs are good friends each other.

Princes owner, Christine, is Peruvian while Emma’s owners have just moved in

for one year, a young couple not yet with kids.

Village West subdivision is very unique for the yard keeping of the neighborhood.

Most of the neighbors pay very good attention to the lawn and small front garden,

keeping it edged and watering it regularly. There are 6 dogs coming out for walk

some time in a week that I am fond of, two small dogs with a nice garden with

Japanese maple and two camellia; a black lab with an old neighbor with a Santa

Claus beard; two small dogs always greet me inside the side gate; finally, a one

year old lab with a pair of piercing blue eyes, whose owner is a Vietnamese diplomat.

I have the opportunity to meet two new neighbors who have purchased houses

from two Taiwanese family, Eddy Chuang and Ting Long Wu, especially Molly from Wu

which I have been invited to pick fig and pear in the back yard.

I would make a left turn on Woodland Park Dr., a pretty traffic road to the next

Street, Olympia Dr., which divides the north and south section of the subdivision.

Before I come to Amy Lai’s house, I would continue to make a right turn on Stoneford

Which is a bigger street straight south to Wickersham and there are 10 divide blocks.

This south section was built in 1978. Chance, a dog on the right corner, would greet me

Inside the side gate, even though I ask the owner formally introduce me to him, I still

hesitate to touch him without the presence of his owner. Across this house, I recognize

the home owner is an old acquaintance of an indoor tennis body, Elma Johnson of a

retired football star of Kansas chief.