Well Wednesday was a fun day with pickle ball at a different venue in St.Pete and then off to the dentist for a cleaning and later in the afternoon we took a nice long bike ride through the hood. The weather was exemplarily with bright sunshine and a slight breeze. We reached the lower 80's but no humidity which made for a perfect day to have the windows and doors open with the a/c off.
The day started for me with my usual 6'ish roll out. I did my morning routines, spent a few quiet minutes with my Creator in intercessory prayer for others and then had a lite breakfast of soft boiled eggs, jalapeno pepper with a tomato before getting ready to meet up with two other pickle ball players and car pool down to Walter Fuller Park. They don't charge for pickle ball play in the gym or outside on their two courts specially made for pickle ball. I've played against the majority of these players in tournaments and they offer some good competition on the court. There were so many players for the gym that 10 of us headed outside to play which is a totally different game using a different ball as well. It takes some getting use to with the sun and wind as they are a big influence on the game as well as the style of the game. Most older players like it outside as its a dink and dunk game whereas inside it's more of a power game. I prefer the inside game as that's what I've been playing mostly for the past 10 years or so.
We had a good workout both inside and out and I will try that venue once a week until the snowbirds fill the courts and make it difficult to get in a good wet shirt workout. I'll be back at our Rec. for the remainder of the week as it close with just a short bike ride away. I'm more interested in the workout than the competition at this stage. I think my tournament play is somewhat limited but now that I'm 70, I will be in another age group so I may reconsider later in the year. I'm definitely not considering outside tournament play at this stage. This sport is addicting and I do love to play it in both arenas but like the power game better.
I game back before lunch and found where a squirrel must have climbed onto one of my staked tomato plants and broke it off near ground level. It had several small tomato's set. That's the second large tomato plant they have broken off. They are a pesky nuisance and are always digging up or burying acorns in the gardens thus I have to keep newly sowed seeds covered with chicken wire. I sure wish they had a critter to keep them in check and except for the ones I find squashed by a car in the road I know of no other control. GG, Amy and Eliza Faye came for lunch of Zuppa Soup. I had to be at the dentist for a teeth cleaning at noon so I missed the soup for lunch but finished the leftovers for supper. Wow that is one delicious soup. I piddled around in the garden hand watering and so far the recently transplanted lettuce seedlings are doing great. I showed off the garden to one of the players that stopped by and now he wants some of my blooming vines that grow on my fences. These vines send up runners so I'll dig up a couple for him for his fences. I'm not sure what they are called but an old friend from FHP gave me a cutting or a slip a few years back and they have just proliferated and make a dense border between the houses with a red bloom.
Well that was about it for the day after a very nice bike ride before supper. Nancy's muscles are acclimating as well as are mine and maybe we can take a ride soon on the Pinellas Trail to the various small cites in the county. We are hoping the Botbyl's will be up for some adventures on the Trail as well as they too have new bikes. We settled into the Fox Cable News and learned once again the biased media are excoriating the Trump presidency with false accusations and innuendos about the transition from this inept administration of Obama who they helped elect to the Trump victory which they vigorously opposed. The working class of the nation was finally fed up with the secular progressive agenda, the racial strife and disrespect for the rule of law and the lack of border control and voted the sleazy corrupt candidate Clinton out. It's a wonder this ever occurred due to all of the money they spent and the influence of the biased media that Trump won so big in both popular and electoral vote. The libs are so discouraged they are beside themselves and can not accept defeat of their chosen Hillary who by the way is the most contemptible woman ever. She belongs in prison for her treasonous acts of disregard for classified data and money grubbing for influence while in office, LATER
