Six Steps to Help Keep Your Home Burglar Safe!

Your Leisure World Security Staff always has your safety and the safety of your home as a priority. We would also like for our residents to be proactive in safeguarding the things that mean the most to them. Please review the following six steps to help ward off theft in our community.

1. Maintain your landscaping

Do not give a burglar the opportunity to hide behind hedges, trees, and shrubbery. Maintenance is key. As bushes and shrubbery become overwhelmed in growth, they also pose as good hiding places for burglars.

2. Install Motion Lights

Installing motion lights increases visibility around your home. People with ill-intentions do not want to be seen. Also, motion lights alert you that someone is on your property.

3. Do not advertise that you are out of town.

Have someone watch your home when you are out of town. Put on different lights with a timer on different days. Have your neighbor or LW friend park their car in the driveway. Be selective with who you share your vacation plans with.

4. Leave the TV or radio on when you out for errands. The TV or radio can give burglars the impression that you are home and possibly off-set any incidents of theft.

5. Hide your valuables.

Do not make it easy for someone to peep into your window. Use curtains and blinds to keep unwanted eyes out. Inside your home, put away valuables when contractors and vendors are onsite.

6. Upgrade your locks.

A good deadbolt lock increases the difficulty of any unwanted person entering your home. Lock your patio sliding door and use a wooden stick on the track to increase the difficulty of prying it open.

SOUNDING OFF Time To Think

By Peppermint Brown

A meaning of “time” per Aristotle …Greek thinker Aristotle spelled out a fairly modernsounding definition of time as “the calculable measure of motion with respect to before and afterness”.

This idea of time as a fixed sequence of events would survive with only minor modifications until the work of Einstein in the early 20th century.

Why did I feel the need to look up where the word “time” came from? Because I recently lost the time I shared with my spouse. There are Leisure World residents that know this feeling or may know it is coming sooner than they wish. We do not get time back. Time goes on whether we do or not.

A quarter of a century together and there are questions I wish I would have asked. Memories that we forgot to share with our family and our friends.

A quarter of a century together and we packed in what felt like a century’s worth of love, fun and dancing in the kitchen. Yep, if you asked my children, they would tell you…mom always said: “you’ve got to be able to dance in the kitchen” …and “the time to be happy is now”.

Many of us in Leisure World are at a beautiful age to appreciate our time and definitely choose not to waste our time. Time spent, also known as memories, with family and friends through conversation or through the pen is healthy, it is healing and can make those involved happy and appreciative.

We all have a creative side. My New Year’s 2023 suggestion for you is to pick up a pen or use your laptop, or your cell phone and just start talking, writing, and reflect on what comes to your mind. They very well may be those forgotten yet special memories you want to share with your family, your friends.

You’ve got the time…enjoy!