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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | JULY 2022 | 67 From Courtney Taylor, publisher: Last month, I included a picture of a painting I saw at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and asked you to name the artist. Three of you guessed Matisse, which was correct! I've picked three lucky winners and have sent them useless but amazing presents. This month I want to encourage you to grow some monarch butterflies. "What the heck?" you may ask. "It's easy!" I answer. Go to your local nursery and buy milkweed. Cherry Valley Nursery usually has some this time of the year. If you go to a big place that rhymes with Shmome Repoe, walk right out. They use pesticides on their milkweed to keep the aphids off. Now aphids, little yellow gross bugs, aren't my favorite things, but if they're on the milkweed, it means the milkweed hasn't been poisoned. I got a milkweed plant from Shmome Repoe and put some sweet little monarch caterpillars on it to eat and the caterpillars all turned black and died painful deaths. It was a horror show. Get the good stuff at a smaller nursery. Or grow milkweed from seeds. It's a fun and rewarding hobby. Now back to the Get the Joke stuff: To win a free dinner, find the ad, article or just weird, out-of-place, completely made-up (and hopefully funny) item in this month's Lifestyles. When you find it, fill out the box below and (new!) EMAIL IT TO sunlakesnews@yahoo.com before noon on the sixth of the month. If you are the first correct guess chosen at random, you will win a free dinner. Good luck! Congratulations to this month's Dinner Winner: DAVID LUHMANN Please call Kelly in the Admin. Office for your Sun Lakes Restaurant dinner. Too cute! Diane A. Had me going for a minute! David L. Maybe blindfolding and spinning someone might not be such a good idea… Sounds like fun though, in theory! (Fun for the spectators, anyway!) Laurie W. Wondering what Davey Crockett has to do with peanuts? Can't stop singing, "found a peanut, found a peanut, cracked it open, cracked it open, it was rotten, it was rotten." From holding one's breath to blindfolds, tethers AND being spun… This game sounds NUTS! Margaret W. Wow. This is the weirdest joke. However, I'll think about joining. Helene K. I've been asked to join Mensa quite a few times but was afraid of their wild parties. The peanut thing is the last straw. Nick P. I think I "Shell" become a member. I'd "Butter" hurry though. Emily P. My 'comfort squirrel' from a couple jokes ago was so excited about this contest. He wasn't pleased about the blindfold, but guaranteed he could find ALL the hidden peanuts! Jeanne V. Such fun every month. Thank you! Jan S. I am the Peanut Master! Louie V. Nuts! I'm not smart enough for this club. Gerald I. They all sound nuts. Patricia B. your comments: GET THE JOKE! I found the joke! Resident name (first & last): ________________________________________ This was the joke: _______________________________________________ Comments (we LOVE your notes - about anything!): _______________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Send your entry to sunlakesnews@yahoo.com or drop it at the Main Clubhouse OUR ADVERTISERS ARE Payment for the production of Lifestyles (and the reason it's free to homeowners) is due to the generous support of our advertisers. Please thank them by visiting their place of business or calling them first whenever you need their service or product. THE BEST! Last month's joke: Find the Peanut We are a group of fun-loving Mensa members who are gluten-free, sentient, carbon dioxide spewing bipeds with 20/20 (or worse (sometimes better)) vision! If one of these descriptors sound like you, join us every week for some outrageous fun. We meet every Monday in The Lodge Game Room at 8 am to begin our journey to Find the Peanut. How does Find the Peanut work? Glad you asked! Our Peanut Master (chosen based on who can hold their breath the longest at the previous week's meeting) is in charge of hiding six peanuts somewhere in the community between 2 and 3 am the night (morning, actually - hey, we're Mensa) before the meeting. At the meeting, the Peanut Master will choose a Legume Captain who will assign each member a color based on their height or, if that isn't available, their favorite cat breed. Every member, save the Peanut Master and Legume Captain, are blindfolded and spun around for three minutes. The blindfolds are removed and the members are tethered together with handkerchiefs. That's when they are released with a rousing chant of "Peanut! Peanut! Where For Art Thou Peanut?" The person who finds the most peanuts wins $1,000. Join us! ~ Davey Crockett, (909) 797-3647

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