Toe Nail

When we were packing to move to New Hamburg, it was raining.  We had a moving van with a ramp and I spent the whole day walking up and down the ramp.  My running shoe on my left foot kept pressing against my big toe every time I walked down the ramp.  After the move, I noticed that my left big toe was badly bruised and eventually the nail turned black.

In Florida, my toe nail finally fell off as I was putting on my socks to go and play softball.  I left my black toe nail on the kitchen table and left for softball.  When Barb got home from pickleball, she noticed the black toe nail on the table and was surprisingly happy for me to have a white toe nail again.

Early Christmas Present

Near the end of last winter here in Florida, I broke the hinge on the toilet seat in the spare bathroom.  With the broken hinge, the toilet seat did not stay up.  So I had to hold the seat up when I went pee.  It was not very convenient. 

Barb looked on EBay for new metal hinges.  The old hinges were plastic.  She bought new metal hinges but when they arrived, Barb found that they didn’t fit on the seat or the toilet.  So she tried to return them but the supplier wouldn’t take them back.  They would also only give her half her money back.

So Barb went to Walmart and found a whole new toilet seat with metal hinges.  She installed it one morning while I was sleeping and surprised me with an early Christmas present.  The toilet seat is very solid and stays up great.  So I no longer have to worry about the toilet seat falling down when I am peeing or breaking the hinges again.

Satisfying Silver

Barb is not usually satisfied with a Silver medal at her pickleball tournaments but this time she was sort of satisfied because her and Deb beat the mother and daughter team of the Elliots and were happy about that.  The 4.5 and the 5.0 levels were combined and Barb and Deb play as 4.5’s.  They beat 3, 5.0 teams to win the silver.  When the beat the Elliots, the Elliots had a lot of fans there cheering them on and they even had coaches there that tried to help them.

Strange End to Batting Practice

I go to batting practice on Monday and Wednesday mornings and to exhibition games on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  I was at batting practice this morning and we each get 40 swings and there are usually about 10 of us there.  There were 2 more guys who needed to hit and suddenly the sprinklers came on to water the grass.  The sprinklers come right out the ground and sprinkle the whole outfield.  We didn’t stop.  We just cursed the groundskeeper and continued batting, trying not to get wet.  It had never happened before and never happened again.

Neighbourly Shortcut

I was sitting in my big comfy chair in the livingroom and I saw a golf cart stop at the end of the driveway.  Our lady neighbour who lives in the house behind us got out of the cart.  Then she walked up the driveway with her golf cart.  I was still in my pyjamas and was afraid she was going to stop in for a visit but she walked right up the driveway and out through the backyard to her house. 

I found out later that her next door neighbour sits out on his front porch all day long and every time she goes outside he calls her and invites her in for a drink.  So rather than go by his house on her way home from golf, she has decided to walk through our backyard to her house.

Sprinklers

Barb noticed that the sprinkler system in the backyard was broken.  One of the sprinklers was not squirting and that was causing all of them to fail.  Barb dug around the broken sprinkler and figured out how to take it apart.  Then she went on Youtube and found out how to replace the head of the sprinkler.  She went to the Lowe’s hardware store and bought the replacement part.  She had it fixed it in a minute or two.  She was surprised at how easy and cheap it was to repair.  Now all the sprinklers in the backyard are working fine.

Barb’s Good Deed

Barb was telling John about how we go to Florida for the winter.  John said that his best friends were planning to go to Florida again this winter and were looking for somewhere to rent a place.  Barb asked them where they went in Florida and they said Avon Park. Barb thought this was a real coincidence because who ever heard of Avon Park.

The next day Barb was on the Crystal Lake Facebook page and found out that someone in Crystal Lake was looking to rent their place for the winter.  So she got the couple from Morningside in touch with the guy from Crystal Lake and they worked something out. 

When the couple from Morningside came down to Florida, Barb asked them how they were enjoying themselves.  The husband was into the golf at the park but the wife wasn’t finding much to do.  She missed all of the activities in Morningside.  I guess she was into everything there.

It turned out the husband was an old friend of Gerry Hergot, the husband of Daphne’s friend Sharon.  They had been best friends 30 years ago and they had fun getting re-acquainted.  Gerry told me that the fellow from Morningside was really enjoying himself with the other Canadian golfers.