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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | OCTOBER 2025 | 69 is will happen "when pigs y." Oops! Just spotted one ying in the feature photo. George P. I'm not big on jokes so I never read the get the joke portion in the magazine but I did read the above article and thought "Why would they put something like that in the magazine?" Aer a couple days it dawned on me that there is a joke section and I read it. Well, you got me good. Chris F. Very funny especially keeping the rat park away from the snake park. Ron S. Great job - I don't think you missed an animal. Our pets are very special to us. Sharon K. I look forward to your jokes every month. I've been at Sun Lakes for 12 years and never won! Sally Jo S. ank you for speaking for a lot of us in Sun Lakes. Gerald I. I enjoy looking for the joke! Joan G. anks for what you all do. I love looking for the jokes. I will be 83 and don't get out much as I'm in a wheelchair with a broken back. Jan S. your comments: GET THE JOKE! Last month's joke: Now back to the Get the Joke stuff: To win a Visa gift card, 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 and email it to sunlakesnews@yahoo.com before noon on the sixth of the month (or drop it off in the Main Clubhouse). If you are the first correct guess chosen at random, you will win! BOB SCHIVE Please call Monica in the Admin. Oce for your special prize. From Courtney, the publisher: I recently read e Humans by Matt Haig and the main character (an alien), after spending time on Earth, discovered humans may not be as bad as he thought. One line stood out to me: "e last thing I listened to was a tune called 'Clair de Lune' by Debussy. at was the closest representation of space I had ever heard, and I stood there, in the middle of the room, frozen with shock that a human could have made such a beautiful noise." Huh. Clair de Lune, you say. So I dusted off some sheet music and sat down at my piano and tried it. Easy peasy! It wasn't a life-changing piece. Then I noticed it wasn't Debussy's original — it was an arrangement by some guy named Lawrence Grant. So I dug further into my sheet music pile and found a book with the original. And I tried it. It took me 45 minutes to get through what should be a six-minute piece and to say my head exploded would be an exaggeration … but I did have to lie down on the floor after my first go. Then I tried it again and somehow pinched a muscle in my back. I laid on the floor again. I've been "playing" it a month — mainly figuring out the fingering, which is critical. I know this because after a couple weeks, I Googled, "Why is Clair de Lune so hard?" There are a lot of really good pianists who have long videos addressing this. I was ready to give it up and go back to Mr. Grant's remedial version. Then something kind of magical happened. (No, I didn't suddenly 'get it' — that would be miraculous.) I asked my brother, who inherited our dad's piano, if he had dad's music (since I'm the only kid who "plays"). He did and he brought me several boxes of dad's sheet music. As I was going through it, I found a copy of Debussy's Clair de Lune. My dad's handwriting was all over it — he had figured out the fingering and marked it in every measure. He wrote notes over the difficult passages and broke the piece down into seven parts, writing "one section at a time." Suddenly I was connected by the beautiful light that is Clair de Lune to my father, who died in 2010. I never knew he played it — he preferred playing ragtime. Maybe Debussy gave him fits too. But I'm going to stick with it and when (not if ) I get it down, dad will hear it and it will make him smile. Here's my favorite version if you want to hear it: I found the joke! Resident name (first & last):_________________________________ This was the joke: ________________________________________ Comments (we LOVE your notes - about anything!): _______________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Send entries to sunlakesnews@yahoo.com or ll out the form below and drop it in the box at the Main Clubhouse _____________________________________________________ Other Animal Owners Group

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