Well it was chilly here in usually hot sunny Florida this morning as I rode out to the Rec around 7:45 on my bike. I needed a flannel shirt and ball cap to help ward off the chill which was somewhere in the low 50's and no humidity for a change. It felt great after getting back from the Rec and close to 2 hours of pickle ball play to work outside in the gardens and yards until lunch time. I had started the day much the usual with a before 6 rollout to my routines that start with some quiet time to honor my Lord and give thanks for another day and all the blessings that go with life and then lifting several up by name for comfort and healing after posting this blog.
We had an old friend who is back from Canada on the courts with us so that made for good play. We had 7 players all closely matched in talent but we needed and another to have two courts in action. The play was good but when you have to set out despite being a winner it made for some boring down time, oh well. Hopefully we can get many of the good players back in the future. I made a library stop on the way home and then piddled around in the gardens. I decided to start taking out the front yard shrubs as Nancy wants to redo the front area. I got about a third of them out and cut up into trash cans before lunch and then I took the afternoon off. Nancy was in Clearwater at a doctor's appointment and then she picked up Betsy and they shopped at several stores in the local area until nearly 3.
We were supposed to go to Ava's game which was across the county and leave at 4:30 for the 5:30 game but there was a mixup by the school so the game started an hour early. We picked up Amy and got there about halfway through the 3rd quarter and Ava's team was winning 55-to 11. We got to see her score and make several good defensive moves and the final was a win by close to 70 point difference. The evening chill had started to set in as we dropped Amy and Ava off at home after the game. We had eaten early around 4 as we thought the game was during the dinner time period. I tuned into the Lightning game and they won and then NFL on Prime TV and it was snowing and very cold in Wisconsin. I think our good friends the Nymark's are heading there today for the Thanksgiving holidays for 2 weeks.
The 1/2 runner beans are now all up and I'm waiting on cukes and Swiss chard to break ground after sowing them twice. I transplanted about 20 lettuce seedlings as well as kale seedlings so we should have plenty of greens for salads in a couple weeks, LATER
