C8 mobile home estates by MHBgroup

Mobile Home Estates

Country Club Living

5761 Old Redwood Highway

Santa Rosa, CA 95403

A community for seniors 55 and older

Emergencies (landline): Fire – Police – Ambulance – 911

Emergencies (cell phone): 707/576-1365

Sheriﬀ 707/565-2121

Oﬃce Hours – The oﬃce will be open for rent collection during business hours from the 1st to the 5th day of the month

Monday thru Thursday 9 am - 4 pm*

Friday 9 am to 12 noon

* Closed 12 noon to 1:30 pm

Closed Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays

All other times and emergencies call 707/576-0377

Staﬀ available and on call at all times

General Managers Dan and John Bocci

Sunshine Lady Position open. Please contact oﬃce.

News in the Park

Old Farmer's Advice

“You cannot unsay a cruel word.”

“When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.”

“The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with probably watches you from the mirror every morning.”

– From the ﬁles of Claudine Ridenour

Senior Jeopardy: Ad Slogans

Name the products/services with these advertising slogans–

1. If you’re not using ___, you’re working too hard. a. Ajax, b. Babbo, cPine-Sol

2. Night time is the right time to listen and enjoy ___ radio. a. KFWB, b. KHJ, c. WKRP

3. ___, the only way to ﬂ y. a. Josie’s CBD Oils, b. LSD, c. Western Airlines

4. The pause that refreshes. a. BaskinRobbins ice cream, b. Coca-Cola, c. Virginia Slims

Senior Jeopardy: Places in Song

1. Where does the narrator of the song “Freight Train” wish to be buried?

2. If you are meeting someone at the Hungry House cafe to give her “all the love you have,” who are you meeting there?

3. In what Beatles song do the Ukraine girls “really knock me out”?

4. In the popular barbershop song composed by Les Applegate in 1924, where did the song’s narrator meet, and abandon, his “baby”?

Thoughts on Aging

Don’t let them take your temperature on your forehead as you enter the supermarket because it erases your memory. I went to buy

June 2025 … by Kathie Morgan

macaroni and cheese and came home with two cases of beer.

Most people don’t think I’m as old as I am until they hear me stand up.

I just ordered a life alert bracelet so if I get a life I’ll be notiﬁed immediately.

Brain cells, hair cells, and skin cells – they all die constantly, but fat cells go on forever.

Shoutout to everyone who can still remember their childhood phone number but can’t remember the password they created yesterday. You are my people. – Contributed by Jim Royal

Wild Oats

While waiting for the school bus to take me home after a ﬁeld trip to Newbury Park, a chaperone showed us how to make a whistle from a wild oat stalk. That knowledge stayed with me from age 12, as I was then, to age 81, as I am now.

One fond memory from my 16 years in Bodega Bay was when, after covering some school event for the Bodega Bay Signal, I was able to teach that same lesson to the children assembled to wait for the bus to take them home.

In early May we visited the Green Music Center for a Gershwin/Holst concert. “Look,” said Ray. “Isn’t that a wild oat?”

I had been surreptitiously seeking one –and behold! There it was. One wild oat. Apparently the latest generation of Sonoma State students have been sowing their wild oats somewhere oﬀ campus.

I carefully slid the top part away from the rooted part and bit oﬀ no more than I could chew. I pinched the end that goes into my mouth and voila!

BLLLAAATT!

When we arrived at the entrance, I blared my whistle at the ticket takers and, instead of shushing me, they seemed charmed. As did everyone I blasted with my whistle.

“I can be part of the orchestra,” I told Ray.

“What section?” he asked. “You can’t be a woodwind,” he said. That’s not wood.”

“It’s a weedwind,” I replied, happy at the serendipity.

When the orchestra ﬁ led in and took their places to tune up their instruments, I “tuned” mine right along with them. No one minded.

Fun … at age 81.

June Classic

– Kathie Morgan

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

– Al Bernstein

June Birthdays

2 Alice Blankenship

3 Beverly Welsh

6 Nicholas Beltran, Carole Doohan

19 Rich Downey

20 Scott Nelson

June Anniversaries

NONE

Inspiration

“I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache and about lying awake.'

That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.

I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

C.S. Lewis, “A Grief Observed”

The Starting Line

My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, "62."

He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?” –

From the ﬁles of Norm Nance

Random Thoughts

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

– Booker T. Washington

Know Everything?

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

– From the ﬁles of Jim Van Lare

Secrets to a Happy Marriage

She got a mud pack and looked great for

Contributed by Jim Royal

two days. Then the mud fell oﬀ..

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets, and no place to sit down!” So I bought her an electric chair.

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her ﬁrst name was “Always.” – by Red Skelton

Dating Ads for Seniors

* I still like to rock, still like to cruise in my Camaro on Saturday nights and still like to play the guitar. If you were a groovy chick, or are now a groovy hen, let's get together and listen to my eight- track tapes.

* I am into solitude, long walks, sunrises, the ocean, yoga and meditation. If you are the silent type, let's get together, take our hearing aids out and enjoy quiet times.

* Active grandmother with original teeth seeking a dedicated ﬂ ossier to share rare steaks, corn on the cob, and caramel candy.

*Sexy, fashion - conscious blue - haired beauty, 80's, slim, 5'4' (used to be 5'6'), Searching for sharp-looking, sharp-dressing companion. Matching white shoes and belt a plus.

Lexiphiles & Lexiphobes

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

A boiled egg is hard to beat. Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut oﬀ ? He's all right now.

He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired.

The batteries were given out free of charge.

News Wanted

Anyone in the park with a birthday, vacation, visit by loved ones or any other news, or an announcement, a joke, a poem or a riddle, please get in touch with me, your park reporter Kathie Morgan.

Call me at 707/246-5332, drop it off at the office, or e-mail me at fishrap@sonic.net on or before the 10th of each month. Or drop me something when you drop off your rent check. I cannot do this without your contributions.

Senior Jeopardy: Places Answers

1. In Freight Train’s lyrics, written by Elizabeth Cotton, she wants to be buried “…way down on old Chestnut Street” so she can hear train Old Number Nine “as she comes rolling by.”

2. In one of the most popular sing -along songs of all time, Elvira (a big hit by the Oak Ridge Boys in 1981) will meet you at the Hungry House café.

3. In Back in the USSR , the Beatles parodied the Beach Boys’ hit “California Girls.”

4. In that very popular barbershop number, the narrator manages to avoid marriage with these words, which serve as the song’s title: Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby.

Slogans: Answers

The products that used these advertising slogans–

1. If you’re not using ___, you’re working too hard. b. Babbo

2. Night time is the right time to listen and enjoy ___ radio. a. KFWB

3. ___, the only way to ﬂ y. c. Western Airlines

4. The pause that refreshes. b. Coca-Cola

Puzzles and Word Games you can

COMMON MEDS SMALL INCREASES

ADDERALL AMLODIPINE ATIVAN

BENZONATATE BIKTARVY CYMBALTA DUPIXENT

EMTESA FARXIGA GABAPENTIN

HUMIRA

KEYTRUDA

LEXPRO

LYRICA MELATONIN METFORMIN NALTREXONE NAPROXEN NARCAN OPDIVO

OZEMPIC PREDNISONE TRAMADOL

VIAGRA XANAX

Across 1.Carbonium, e.g.

4.Charm

9.“Gimme ___!” (start of an Iowa State cheer)

10.Trowel wielder

11.Flexible mineral

13.Believed

14.African conflict of 1899-1902

16.Not out

17.Big Apple attraction, with “the”

18.In attendance

20.Shiver from fear

22.Chill

24.Big time?

25.Wuss

27.Chemical ending

28.“The Republic” writer

29.Darling Down

1.Poets’ feet

2.Part of “the works”

3.“Good one!”

4.Morning, for short

5.Gandhi’s title

6.Conniver

7.Fa follower

8.Terminate

12.Chair part 15.___ bit 18.Companionless 19.C.I.A. director under Clinton and Bush 20.Charlie, for one 21.Page 22.Software program, briefly 23.“For Me and My ___”

26.Rocky’s greeting

The headline is a clue to the answer in the diagonal.

Heliport Wordoku

How to solve wordoku puzzles

You only need logic and patience to solve a wordoku.

Simply make sure that each 3x3 square region has only one letter from the word HELIPORT. Similarly, each letter can only appear once in a column or row