Green Valley Moments

With only forty days until Christmas, it’s not too early to start thinking about some stocking stuffers.
Here’s one for you. The Christmas Hour is a novel written by one of our own right here in Green Valley.
You can read about the book here, or peruse a sample chapter.
Go here for purchasing details…
No, I don’t […]

Surprisingly to me, there are only a few neighborhoods in Green Valley which have their own websites. I only know of a couple.
Sunrise Pointe is a newer development in Green Valley, located East of I-19, and South of Continential.
Their website is only two days old so there is still work to do, but you […]

An interesting article from The Times Online in the UK.
My wife, Donna, and I have bought a house in Green Valley, between Tucson and the Mexican border, from my wife’s aunt. At first we wondered if we had made the right decision. We have had to take over Aunt Shirley’s bi-monthly spraying contract with […]

Today, November 10th, is the birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
Happy 230th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!
Happy Birthday Marines! Semper Fi.
Once a Marine, always a Marine!

Our neighborhood started something last night that was more successful than anyone imagined. Tuesday Hamburger Night. No reservations; just show up with $3 and your favorite beverage, or buy one for $1 more, and sit with friends and enjoy a freshly grilled burger with everything, chips and pickle spear.
Comments I heard were all positive […]

If you want good Mexican food in Green Valley, you have choices. The controversy over which restaurant is better continues. In the past, my vote went to La Placita. I want to go on record now as preferring Manuels.
We ate there last night, and if you go at 4:30 PM or before, there is no […]

According to the segment on CBS Sunday Morning, TV marketers target persons 18-49 years old, even though there are seventy-seven million (77,000,00) baby boomers with over a trillion dollars of discretionary income.
Some suggest that we in the slow lane are not as susceptible to advertising. Maybe we’re a tad more intelligent and research our purchases. […]

Most of you already know that the day after Thanksgiving is the largest shopping day of the year. “Black Friday” has always meant too many people for me and I avoided it like the plague.
Last year, I did go early to one nearby retail store (name withheld intentionally, ’cause I’m going again this year) […]

I do. And while I check my accounts from time to time, I suppose that this could happen to me, or you.
When he logged on to his Ameritrade account earlier this year, George Rodriguez caught a cybercrook in the act of cleaning out his retirement nest egg.
He watched, horrified, as the intruder in quick succession […]

I pulled the trigger yesterday on a 32 inch LCD flat panel HDTV.
Costco in Tucson had them in stock.
Why did I wait so long?