Batting Tee

I bought a batting tee to practice my softball swing in the backyard of our house.  We have a really big backyard considering we are in a retirement village.  I use Barb's new bag of pickleballs to hit off the tee so they don't go too far because they are whiffle balls.  I had been out a few times hitting balls.  I told Barb that there were only 11 balls and I wondered how that could be because I would expect them to come by the dozen.  She said that there was definitely a dozen there when I started hitting them.  A couple of days later, I hit one of the balls in the flower bed under the big tree in the backward.  When I went to pick up the balls, I found 2 balls in the flower bed.