[brfree1411@aol.com]

Yes, Hobby Lobby is larger has more inventory & great sales.

[golf2140]

I wish that they never started installing L E D lights on the front of golf carts. Those driving them may be able to see a little better but they blind the on coming golf carts !!!!!!!

[Marathon Man]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Wish golfers, the biggest complainers in the Villages, would realize the sport is dead and the esteemed Developer knows it.

Not dead, but certainly not booming.

I just looked at tee times for tomorrow. Lots of available spots. 27 holes coming next year at Sawgrass. Seems ok to me.

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Wish golfers, the biggest complainers in the Villages, would realize the sport is dead and the esteemed Developer knows it.

It's definitely not as popular with the younger generations, and that very much justifies consideration from the developers. But to call the sport dead is imo a major exaggeration. It is still very much alive and kicking.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

So - a few things I'd buy that are on my wish list, if I got my first wish: to win powerball:

1. A Cold Stone Creamery near Papa John's pizza in Lady Lake Crossing.
2. A food co-op on 441 in Summerville, or possibly down 441 nearer to Leesburg. Featuring (but not exclusively) local foods, locally crafted products (such as soaps), re-usable and re-purposeable stuff with a vintage clothing store on the side of the building. With a little coffee cafe that has an open mic night on Mondays and brews coffee from local roasters. A real bohemian experience for the niche that would love it, and can't get it anywhere else (other than Mt. Dora, where each thing is in a bunch of different stores, none right there in one spot).
3. A Freedom Center for homeless people living in the Ocala Forest. Where they can take free showers (outdoor solar showers), free blankets, free backpacks, free fresh filtered water, free cell phone charging stations, free books, free meals, free NEW underwear, free social services resources, appointments with pro-bono lawyers, jobs services including placement and training, free urgent care medical clinic, free nutritional guidance from people who know how to get the best bang out of SNAP payments, and transitional shelter for victims of spousal abuse and their kids. And a free outpatient rehab clinic for people who are addicted to drugs and want to get sober. This one project would probably cost a few dozen million dollars but if I won powerball even after taxes I wouldn't miss the coin at all.

[LiverpoolWalrus]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

2. A food co-op on 441 in Summerville, or possibly down 441 nearer to Leesburg. Featuring (but not exclusively) local foods, locally crafted products (such as soaps), re-usable and re-purposeable stuff with a vintage clothing store on the side of the building. With a little coffee cafe that has an open mic night on Mondays and brews coffee from local roasters. A real bohemian experience for the niche that would love it, and can't get it anywhere else (other than Mt. Dora, where each thing is in a bunch of different stores, none right there in one spot).
3. A Freedom Center for homeless people living in the Ocala Forest. Where they can take free showers (outdoor solar showers), free blankets, free backpacks, free fresh filtered water, free cell phone charging stations, free books, free meals, free NEW underwear, free social services resources, appointments with pro-bono lawyers, jobs services including placement and training, free urgent care medical clinic, free nutritional guidance from people who know how to get the best bang out of SNAP payments, and transitional shelter for victims of spousal abuse and their kids. And a free outpatient rehab clinic for people who are addicted to drugs and want to get sober. This one project would probably cost a few dozen million dollars but if I won powerball even after taxes I wouldn't miss the coin at all.

A “bohemian” vibe in the Villages area?!? I’m with ya, but we’re grossly outnumbered (as if you didn’t notice). It’ll happen, but I think we’re a long ways off.

It could be the Woodstock generation here, but somehow we got Ozzie and Harriet instead (I’m not complaining, so no need to say “leave then”. I love everybody. It’s just an observation.)

I’d welcome and support your other progressive visions but just reading them underscores the reality that people think like that in other parts of our country, but not so much here. Free underwear, food and medicine? I’m not touching that. How do you spell dichotomous?

Next you’ll be calling for smoke ins, poetry slams and free education!

As for me, I wish for more diversity and harmony in the Villages, for starters.

[John_W]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Wish golfers, the biggest complainers in the Villages, would realize the sport is dead and the esteemed Developer knows it.

The biggest complaints are usually the courses are too crowded, lack of teetimes, slow play, you seem a bit out of touch with what is going on around you. Next time you're on Morse look over at Havana or Mallory when you go by, are golfers on every hole or is place empty and dead? The Golf Fest every March, why are 10,000 people showing up every year if the sport is dead? If it wasn't for the golf courses, I would be living on the Gulf coast somewhere and the developer knows that.

[stanley]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Wish golfers, the biggest complainers in the Villages, would realize the sport is dead

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Edited....it's all been said

[LiverpoolWalrus]

Originally Posted by John_W

are golfers on every hole or is place empty and dead?

Yep, eventually all the golf courses will close and be converted to coffee shops, neighborhood music venues and parks where the new generation of young senior Bohemians will run around barefoot playing frisbee and smoking their herb of choice. Right, OBB?

[Stu from NYC]

So when is TJ;s and Costco coming?

Sorry could not resist.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus

A “bohemian” vibe in the Villages area?!? I’m with ya, but we’re grossly outnumbered (as if you didn’t notice). It’ll happen, but I think we’re a long ways off.

It could be the Woodstock generation here, but somehow we got Ozzie and Harriet instead (I’m not complaining, so no need to say “leave then”. I love everybody. It’s just an observation.)

I’d welcome and support your other progressive visions but just reading them underscores the reality that people think like that in other parts of our country, but not so much here. Free underwear, food and medicine? I’m not touching that. How do you spell dichotomous?

Next you’ll be calling for smoke ins, poetry slams and free education!

As for me, I wish for more diversity and harmony in the Villages, for starters.

I was actually thinking all those people who came from Manhattan and Boston and San Francisco, and became teenagers in the 1960's and 1970's, or even enjoyed beat poetry/Alan Ginsberg in the 1950's would have had exposure to the boho life to one extent or another. I'm also fairly sensitive to the plight of the homeless, having spent several years living among them (not AS one - but WITH them, it's a counter-culture in Boston where I lived for 7 years).

Some people just aren't capable of living in a house or apartment. I don't necessarily agree with 100% government handouts. But I do believe we, as fellow human beings, need to be more sensitive, more caring, and more conscious of their existence and their humanity. Some of them have amazing stories to tell, if only someone would spend time listening to them.

Anyway - that generation of people - who would have been teenagers during this period - are now the retirees looking for their Place in the Sun. Some of them will come here. I'd love to see more variety for them - for us. Since - they are me. And apparently you too!

Peace, love, and crunchy granola, dude.

PS: don't bogart that joint.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus

Yep, eventually all the golf courses will close and be converted to coffee shops, neighborhood music venues and parks where the new generation of young senior Bohemians will run around barefoot playing frisbee and smoking their herb of choice. Right, OBB?

Well to be fair, I'd have a few miniature golf courses with those neato windmills and dinosaurs that open their huge mouths on a timer and you have to get the ball in JUST at the right moment so it goes down the critter's throat and comes out the tail end near the hole on the green.

[New Englander]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Well to be fair, I'd have a few miniature golf courses with those neato windmills and dinosaurs that open their huge mouths on a timer and you have to get the ball in JUST at the right moment so it goes down the critter's throat and comes out the tail end near the hole on the green.

Now you're talkin!

[stanley]

Me thinks a few here have been hitting the egg nog a little early

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by stanley

Me thinks a few here have been hitting the egg nog a little early

Clearly you have no sense of adventure, son.