AUGUST BIRTHDAYS
7th Abbey Nevoli (Happy 14!)
Nathan Laing
9th Dee Castagnoli
11th Erik Rasmussen (Happy
27th!)
17th Ron Miller
27th Ruth Eastman
Only thing I know for sure (and I'm not sure about that) is that it was scheduled in January to be Marti's meeting. When I know more......you will too!
Ladies Fall Fling!
It was decided at the July meeting that we would go up to "Forest
Meadows" where the guys go for their golf trips. It
is up near Sonora and we can stay in the great house the guys
stayed in. There is a big deck and a good dining room table(for
Mexican train) and it is up in a pretty area.
It will be a relaxing trip with a little shopping, lots
of eating, playing games and gabbing. The dates are Oct.
8-10 and you need to send a $25 non-refundable deposit to Vicki
(made out to Las Madres). The first 8-10 people will get
beds. Any questions, call or e-mail Randi.
Our Condolences
We wish to express our condolences to Robin Nevoli and her family
on the recent passing of her grandmother.
Saturday Coffee Clatches
Continue
Meet your Las Madres friends for some coffee and conversation
at the Starbuck's at White and Aborn on Saturday mornings at 9am.
Every third Saturday is a field trip. For the month of August
Dee has invited us again up the hill to enjoy our coffee in her
garden.
e-MAIL TIDBIT
People over 40 should be dead and here's why:
According to
today's regulators
and bureaucrats,
those of us
who were
kids in the 40's,
50's, 60's probably
shouldn't have survived.
Our baby
cribs were covered
with bright colored
lead-based
paint.
We had no childproof lids
on medicine
bottles, doors
or cabinets,
... and when we
rode our bikes, we had no
helmets.
(Not to mention the risks
we took hitchhiking.).
As children,
we would ride
in cars with no seatbelts
or air bags.
Riding in the
back of a pickup
truck on a warm day was
always a special treat.
We drank water from the
garden hose and not from
a bottle.
Horrors!
We ate
cupcakes, bread and
butter,
and drank soda pop
with sugar
in it, but we were
never overweight because
we were always outside
playing.
We shared one soft drink
with four
friends, from one
bottle,
and no one actually
died from this.
We would
spend hours building
our go-carts
out of scraps
and then
rode down the hill,
only to
find out we forgot
the brakes.
After running
into the bushes
a few
times, we learned to
solve the problem.
We would
leave home in the
morning and play all day,
as long as we were back
when the street lights
came on.
No one was able to
reach us all day.
NO CELL PHONES!!!!!
Unthinkable!
We did not have
Playstations,
Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no
video games at all, no 99
channels
on cable, video
tape movies, surround
sound,
personal cell phones,
personal computers,
or Internet
chat rooms.
We had friends!
We went outside and found
them.
We played dodge ball, and
sometimes, the ball would
really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got
cut and broke bones and
teeth, and there were no
lawsuits from
these accidents.
They were accidents.
No one
was to blame but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched
each other and got black
and blue
and learned to get
over it.
We made up games with
sticks
and tennis balls and
ate worms,
and although we
were told
it would happen,
we did
not put out very many
eyes, nor did the worms
live inside us forever.
We rode
bikes or walked to
a friend's
home and knocked
on the door, or rang the
bell or
just walked in and
talked to them.
Little League
had tryouts and not
everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to
learn to deal with disappointment.
Some students weren't as
smart as others, so they
failed a grade and were
held back to repeat the
same grade.
Horrors!
Tests were not adjusted
for any reason.
Our actions were our own.
Consequences
were expected.
The idea
of a parent bailing
us out if we broke a law
was unheard of.
They actually sided
with the law.
Imagine that!
This generation
has produced
some of
the best risk-takers
and problem solvers and
inventors, ever.
The past 50 years have
been an explosion of
innovation and new
ideas.
We had freedom, failure,
success
and responsibility,
and we
learned how to deal
with it all.
And you're one of them!
Congratulations!
Please
pass this on to others
who have
had the luck to grow
up as
kids, before lawyers
and government
regulated our
lives,
for our own good!
People
under 40 are WIMPS !
CLUB OFFICERS
Co-Presidents - Robin Nevoli & Cathy Hennig
Treasurer - Vicki Rasmussen
Newsletter & Webmaster - Ginny Gomez
Coffee Coordinator - Tina Cuneo, Coffee Advisor
- Randi Heinrichsen
Executive Committee - Randi Heinrichsen, Joan Wilson and
Sally Brooks-Schulke
