Mid Life Crisis

It is officially booked so I can say now that our final gig is set!  It will be December 31, 2011 at Elks Post 2592 in Green Valley.  Chances are we might have a going away party in Tucson as well, but we thought this would be a great place to say goodbye to all our friends in Green Valley.  I know there have been different dates bandied about and I wanted everyone to know for sure.  It has nothig to do with being burned out, and my desire has always been to go out while people still want to come out and hear us.  I’ve been asked what will I do and there will be plenty.  Most of you know I am a fly-fisherman so I (and Bob) will take more fishing trips on weekends plus, I have flies to tie and rods to restore.  If all goes well, both my daughters will be marching in the Pride for U of A and I plan on seeing every home game.  Just so you know, it’s not because we don’t love you, but all things pass and I think we will end on a good note in a friendly setting.  So two years to go, let’s make them great ones.  Thank you so much, I won’t stop saying it until the final song!

  Blast me for being such a fool!  We had 6 honorees celebrating 65 years in our dimension and I forgot to write all the names down.  I remember Carol Higney (because she paid us) and think I have everyone’s first name but I will not take the chance of listing the wrong people - that’s them in the first picture.  I didn’t get a chance to walk around as much as I should have and there was entertainment in the first break.  The last 2 shots are of the Splendettes, our new “Wahoo” girls whenever we bring back Celebrate.  This was such a fun party and I hope the folks at Canoa Hills don’t mind that we ran over time-wise.  They ran out of wine glasses but could still handle spelling “YMCA” at the end of the night.  I hope someone in the group sees this and has some of the pictures sent to me.  Thank you for letting us be part of the celebration.

Gilbert Castillo

  A glorious rebound from last month as we were treated with crowd that wanted to party from minute-one.  Susan had a table ready to party, Marion flew her daughter in from Florida & Betty, Melanie, Jan, Joe, Mikki - oh well, you get the point - a ton of our friends were there.  We owed Nancy, so we did that Marc Anthony song and a special shout-out to Jo who finally got the crowd going on the delightfully inappropriate sing-a-long to Margaritaville - I didn’t think we would ever hear it in Green Valley but one of these days Jack will sing the Billy Idol sing-a-long to Mony, Mony to complete the cycle.  I reworked the set lists and brought back some country that we hadn’t touched in awhile, an apology to some of you country fans . . . it was nice to see that line dance to “Fast As You”.  There was a great energy in the crowd all night and the hooting and singing just made the night for us, thank you again for recharging our batteries.  See you on December 5th.

Gilbert