Notes From the Neighborhood: Happy Happy Happy New Year!

Pretty peaceful around here during the holidays. Still catching up after my month long trip up north, but had time to view 'Life of Pi' at SilverSpot, located in Mercato shopping plaza in North Naples.

Life of Pi

If you haven't been to this theater, it's worth the drive. It has a number of viewing rooms, a small restaurant at the entrance, & this venue allows you to purchase wine or beer at the bar to take into the viewing rooms.

SilverSpot Bar

SilverSpot allows you to purchase your tickets in advance so there is no waiting in a ticket line. Additionally, the seating is reserved, with large, leather chairs equipped with wide armrests. There are a number of restaurants in the plaza so it's a great destination for eating and shopping too.

Seating in Viewing Theater

Mercato Shopping Plaza, North Naples

The movie was visually spell binding and will no doubt win lots of awards.

I see that Dorman Landscape, our new landscaping contractor, got a head start on cleaning up Forest Villas palm trees a bit. Our palms trees, which were trimmed last January, were looking a bit shaggy.

Since Forest Villas can only afford to get the palms trimmed once per year, it was recommended the palms get their trim closer to the hurricane season, maybe in May or June.

In making the shift in the new schedule, our previous landscaper declined to address the palms. Dave's crew came in, before their contract starts in January, to at least trim up to the 15' limit their insurance allows. They're not perfect, but it's better.

Dave Dorman's crew installed the new landscaping around the clubhouse pool area. I'm hopeful that this year I'll be finally able to remove the 1/2 green circle from my mailbox, and turn over the trimming of my courtyard to Dave's crew without fear that my plants will be chopped to pieces. Dave will also coordinate our fertilizing and weed control.

It's the last day of the year!