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COMMUNITY NEWS Neighborly Notes By Bobbie Eckel I am convinced that time goes faster as we get older. We are now starting the rapid roll into the holiday season – with 2013 here before we know it! Please attend the Board of Directors General Session Thursday, Oct. 11, at 1 pm in the Ballroom. This is your community. Find out what is happening now and what is planned for the future. There is a huge amount of information presented by residents, committees, our Board members and Euclid Management. Be there to listen. Our Community Garage / Parking Lot Sale is Saturday, Oct. 13, from 8 am until 2 pm. It should not only be an enjoyable, and hopefully profitable, event – but many of us are also waiting to see what Mother Nature will contribute as well. We have had a variety of weather conditions for the events so far. October is your last month in 2012 to swim in a heated pool. Heaters will be turned off for the swimming pool, but not for the spa, on Nov. 1. You will then be swimming in a cool pool. If you thought that the daylight hours seem to be getting shorter, your perception is accurate. Daylight Saving Times ends on Sunday, Nov. 4. Be prepared to set your clocks back one hour. The 2012 Greater Palm Springs LGBT Pride Festival is being held in Palm Springs on Nov. 3 and 4. A group of residents and your gay and lesbian neighbors would like to invite you to go and enjoy it as well. The Festival is held at the Palm Springs Stadium; the parade is on Sunday on E. Ramon Road along historic Palm Canyon Drive. If you are interested and would like more details, please see pspride.org for Festival information, parade route and spectator advice. Please do not forget to upgrade your guest lists at the Potrero Gate. It will make entrance into the community so much easier for your friends and relatives on special holidays. One more reminder for this season: The Valley-Wide Senior Softball League is looking for new members. Interested players must be at least 55 or better. Several players have already signed up from our community. Winter and summer sessions are available. The cost is only $30 and you play at least 40 games each season on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Practices are Wednesdays and Fridays, 7:30 to 9:30 am. The League plays at Valley Wide Recreation Center in San Jacinto. Please call (951) 927-4509 to sign up or to obtain additional information. One wouldn't imagine an actor performing in a "sex farce" as a senior citizen, but that's exactly what Four Seasons residents Sheldon Craig and his wife Susan Youel will be doing in Beaumont's own C.A.S.T. Players production of Lend Me A Tenor. Sheldon will portray the world-class operatic tenor Tito Merelli, and Susan will play the role of Diana, the soprano in the Cleveland Opera's production of Verdi's Otello. Through a series of insane twists and turns, mistaken identities, and action worthy of a Marx Brothers skit, hilarity ensues from scene one to the curtain call. The play runs from Nov. 2 through Nov. 18. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 pm, and Sundays at 3 pm at the Beaumont Women's Club, 306 E. Sixth St. in Beaumont. Tickets are $12. For reservations, call (951) 315- 4253, or visit www.castplayers.org. Finally, because it is getting darker earlier, let me remind you about Murphy's Law as he defines flashlight: "A case for holding dead batteries." Might be worth a check? 6 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | OCTOBER 2012 By Crotchet E. Oldman THEY' What first caught my eye were her pretty legs. The young girl in shorts was standing by the exit from Costco and I was on my way out. As I got closer I thought, "Wow, that's a terrible bruise on her calf. " It looked like she'd been smacked across the back of her leg with a baseball bat. Closer still, I realized it was not a bruise at all, but a tattoo: a badly blurred, black and blue rendition of a butterfly. The klutz who applied that blob on that gorgeous leg should have his tattoo needle broken over his head. And why would a girl with such natural beauty want to deface it? I suppose because it's all the rage these days to have a tattoo. Tattoos used to be found mostly on street gang members, sociopaths like Mike Tyson, professional merchant sailors and bumpkins who got drunk when a tattoo guy was in town with the county fair. No longer. I see tattoos on soccer moms, society matrons and professional athletes, on musicians, actors, overweight guys wearing tank tops and pretty girls at Costco. It is an ugly development.