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Active Adults & Healthy Hearts

When the best days of your life are ahead of you, the best thing you can do is to make sure you’re healthy enough to enjoy them.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Categories include arrhythmia, heart valve disease, heart failure, and coronary artery disease (CAD).

Since May is Blood Pressure Education Month, the National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute (or NHLBI, part of the National Institutes of Health – NIH) offers these suggestions to achieve or maintain your heart health:

Homeowners Relish Gifts from the Garden

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine

Whether you grow flowers and herbs (and maybe a tomato plant or two) in pots on the front porch, or in a few rows of well-tended beds in the courtyard, there’s something magical about harvesting food or flowers you’ve grown in your own garden.

Behind the Scenes at Windsong: Partnering With Habitat for Humanity

“We look at these relationships as a partnership that is ongoing and long term, and we are blessed to have Windsong as a part of our Habitat family.” 

Ever since Windsong built its first community nearly 20 years ago, we have forged connections with our neighbors and communities, partnering with local governments, businesses, and charitable organizations. No partnership exemplifies that connection to community more than Windsong’s relationship with Habitat for Humanity of North Central Georgia.

Active Adults SWOON Over Homes Designed for Lifestyle

As always, May is the month when the sun is shining, weather is warmer, and people are ready to emerge from the April showers and enjoy activities with friends, family, and as part of their communities.

First, let’s remember our Moms this weekend (Mother’s Day is May 8), while also appreciating home.

Active Adults Embrace the Music of Springtime!

If you had any doubts about the arrival of Spring in Georgia, just step outside your door: the birds are all singing, some sweet, some raucous, a wonderful cacophony of trills, whistles, and caws.

Humans, too, are erupting in song, as sidewalks and stages and rooftop bars seem to sprout singers, guitar players, even full bands or orchestras, enticing us to shake off the last vestiges of hibernation as we clap, sway, and dance to the beat.

Lawn & Garden Month a Breeze for Active Adults

April showers bring the flowers in May and June and beyond, and for Active Adults who call one of our Windsong communities home, celebrating April’s Lawn & Garden Month is easy and fun!

First, the least-favorite part of Lawn & Garden Month is the lawnmower (and edger and weed-eater). Equipment takes up so much room in the garage, then there’s gas and oil and changing the spark plugs and getting the blades sharpened...

Think Small on March 29

Throughout our lives, we’ve been encouraged to Think Big, especially when it comes to plans, aspirations, creative endeavors, and the like. But every year on March 29, we take a moment to Think Small, to support our local community.

How do we do that, you ask? Well, March 29 is National Mom & Pop Business Owners Day, when we celebrate the entrepreneurs in our communities, who have had the big dreams to open their own small businesses.

Active Adults Spring Into Happiness!

Does it feel like every week holds cause for celebration this month? Last week, we may have lost an hour of sleep, but now – like magic – our hours of daylight stretch into the evening. Today is St. Patrick’s Day, with festivals all over, coinciding with the greening of the landscape. And this Sunday, we celebrate the first day of Spring – which happens to fall on the International Day of Happiness!

The Future Looks Bright for Active Adults

Well, it’s going to be brighter, later for everyone, beginning this Sunday, March 13, as we “spring forward” one hour for Daylight Saving Time 2022!
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Active Adults Wonder: What’s In a Name?

Names are important, so much so that we’re encouraged to recognize the strength and meanings of our names in “Celebrate Your Name Week,” the first full week of March.

The observance began in 1997, after onomatology* hobbyist Jerry Hill encouraged people worldwide to learn more about – and celebrate – their names. At the time, Hill conducted research about others who shared his name, and was intrigued by what he learned about his name doppelgangers.