Elvis has quit the band and drives a rig. We spotted the black,
bouffant hairdo bending over a truck tire, its owner adjusting the
chains just past the agricultural stop in Truckee. Amid the rain,
flooding and sleet the Sierra was dumped with this past week, the
King appeared undaunted.
Elvis has quit the band and drives a rig. We spotted the black, bouffant hairdo bending over a truck tire, its owner adjusting the chains just past the agricultural stop in Truckee. Amid the rain, flooding and sleet the Sierra was dumped with this past week, the King appeared undaunted. Because of the icy roads, I was not able to turn around and snap a death-defying journalistic photo. So, you’ll just have to believe me on this one. Elvis is alive and drives I-80.
Gathering with our usual three family contingents on New Year’s Eve, the Santos and the Rhoads, made for a cozy evening (if not a bit slow) when two of the three husbands decided to take a nap in the middle of the party. Go figure.
A much livelier group of South County socials attended the Woodland Mobile Home Park New Year’s Eve celebration. More than 90 residents ate and danced in the park’s clubhouse, and president of the social club, Dorothy Pierce, was pleased to end the year with a great turnout.
As the band played through the night, Dorothy explained that “this is a senior park, but (residents) don’t just sit back and do nothing.”
It seems retirement is a good thing.
“We had enough food to feed an army. Today I’m taking leftovers to the senior center. I think they’ll like that,” Dorothy said, adding that the party has taken place for the 18 years she has been a Woodland resident.
Committee members Edie Bettencourt, Joan Tredway, Molly Crispo and the new association president, Madeline Sharps, all worked to make the celebration the happening party in South County. Shame on you 40-somethings for falling asleep on the couch watching Dick Clark while the greatest generation was out there being great.
In a land far, far away, Sonja Remetic, a former Rotary exchange student and graduate of Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, wrote in an e-mail about the 20-something cosmopolitan party in downtown Vienna, Austria.
“This party was really fun, the food was excellent, everyone was in high spirits,” she wrote. “And if you look in the group photo for a cute Swiss guy on my left-hand side, let me leave with a wink of an eye … We will spend next weekend together.”
Remember the days? I think Elvis does.
