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SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | NOVEMBER 2016 3 SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Greg Rainier, General Manager 951.652.5766, Ext. 224 • greg.rainier@associa.us Connie King, Lifestyle Director 951.652.5766, Ext. 223 • connie.king@associa.us Diana Floyd, Executive Assistant 951.652.5766, Ext. 222 • diana.floyd@associa.us Gabriel Stearns, Facility Maintenance Coordinator Steve Trevino, Luis Lara, Sunshine Baker Facility Monitors Christina Juelch, Receptionist COMMUNITY WEBSITE www.soleradiamondvalley.com PCM BILLING INQUIRIES 800.808.4882 GUARD SYSTEMS INC. On-Site Community Patrol 951.388.4049 • (800) 606.6711 (secondary) BOARD OF DIRECTORS Brian Rubin, President 951.925.3918, brian.rubin@1694vsh.com Leeanne Brock, Vice-President 760.772.5400, leeanne.brock@pultegroup.com Karl Edwards, Treasurer 951.544.5183, vipermamba34@yahoo.com Holly Sandler, Secretary 949.330.8532, holly.sandler@pultegroup.com Melissa Karsting, Member-at-Large 951.255.2561, melissa.karsting@pultegroup.com HOURS OF OPERATION MOUNTAIN VIEW LODGE 1645 Paseo Diamante, Hemet, CA 92545 Lodge Hours: Sun.: 7 am - 8 pm; Mon. - Sat.: 7 am - 9 pm Pool Hours: Sun.: 7 am - 8 pm; Mon. - Sat.: 7 am - 9 pm PUBLICATION EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Connie King, Lifestyle Director COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE Alan Siegel, Chairperson; Theresa Rossetti, Vice Chairperson; Berkie Harris, Secretary; Dick Roppe, Andrea Jeric PRODUCTION Image Up Advertising & Design and Kevin Walker, Arrow Printing ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be emailed to sdv@associa.us no later than the 10th of the month. Articles should not exceed 500 words, 250 words for club news and 100 words for groups. The View is published monthly by the Solera Diamond Valley Community Association (SDVCA). This publication is copyrighted and may not be reproduced or reprinted without the written permission of SDVCA. Advertising inquiries, Stacey Parr (909) 435-5042 or email staceyimageup@yahoo. com. The View Magazine SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY By Alan Siegel, Resident It's November already. Time flies. November is the official beginning of Long Pants season. We have two seasons in Hemet, Long Pants Season and Short Pants Season. It's now long pants season, football season and holiday season, in that order. Remember last year? Well, this year will be the same as that. Here we go again. October 31st thru January 1st is gluttony gone wild. People eat as much during the last two months of the year as they eat in the first 10 months of the year combined. I just made that up. But food in unnatural quantities begins to build gradually but geometrically throughout this period until it peaks on New Years Day. We've already started with the festival of candy, Halloween. It's nice to start the holiday season with sacks full of sugar coursing through our bodies. That gives us a running start on raising our A1C to competitive diabetic levels as we pick up momentum going into Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving, we are literally bombarded with holidays, parties, turkeys, hams, pies, cookies, jello molds, more candy and fruit cake. I have found the much maligned fruit cake to be one source of food that I would want to have if I were stranded on a deserted island. You can never eat more than one bite so it lasts forever. But I digress. Time flies. Why is it that five minutes can seem like five hours when you're waiting for a microwave dinner, but five years can go by and you look around and say, "Where did the time go?" I think that when you're a five-year-old kid, one year is one-fifth of your life. So a year seems to take an eternity. Christmas break from school seemed to last forever. I had 10 days to do my homework and it seemed like all the time in the world. It turns out that I didn't have all the time in the world. It was always too hard to to tear away from the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday night to do homework. So at school the next day, I would usually produce a pice of paper filled with writing that had been dropped in a sink full of water and dried out with the excuse that my dog peed on it and I had to wash it off. Kids! Now, ten days is nothing. Ten days could come and go and I wouldn't know the difference. By the time you're eighty years old, time is whizzing by. So now it's Thanksgiving, AGAIN. It was just Thanksgiving a few days or months ago. 365 days or 12 months ago to be exact. How many of these holiday seasons do we have to endure? We still haven't washed the roasting pan from last year. It may be Thanksgiving, but it feels like Groundhog Day. November: My Favorite Month

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