Sola Vita

Barb and her partner had a pickleball tournament in a community called Sola Vita.  They were impressed with the facilities.  So when they had some time off, they decided to look around at places for sale in the community.  The people who showed them around said that they would really like the community.  They assumed that Barb and her pickleball partner were a gay couple.  That was very open minded of them.

Free Pancakes

There is a Facebook page for the Crystal Lake Community to post things for sale.  Barb had wanted to go to the Pancake Breakfast the Home Owner’s Association was putting on.  She had so much success with the New Year’s Eve tickets she decided to post that she would like tickets to the Pancake Breakfast.  A nice lady replied and said she had a ticket she wouldn’t be using.  She even brought the ticket over to our house and wouldn’t take any money for it.  That made the Pancakes taste even better for Barb.

Hello This is Doug

We keep getting automated phone calls from the Republican Party that ask for Doug.  There are only two answers they will take.  Press 1 if you are Doug and Press 2 if you are not Doug.  So we press 2 and the machine says thank you and hangs up.  A few days later they phone back and ask for Doug again.  Finally after about four phone calls, I finally said I was Doug and answered the questionnaire.  It seemed to be from Rubio Marco’s campaign.  I answered the questions in favour of Rubio Marco and said that I would vote for him.  The questionnaire didn’t take too long and it stopped phoning us back.

Lost Man

Barb saw an old fellow outside on the street.  He was looking lost.  He walked up to the neighbour’s door and then walked back down the driveway.  Then he walked back and forth on the road.  Eventually, our neighbour came out to get her mail.  The man approached her and Barb was out getting our mail too.  She heard them talking and went up to them.  The man was lost.  Barb asked him where he lived but he didn’t know.  Barb asked him what his name was.  He knew his name.  So Barb hurried in to the house and looked his name up in the phone directory and found that he lived on Hogan Street.  When they were leaving the street, he said that the bags outside our neighbour’s house were the bags he put the lawn waste in.  Barb said no he lived on Hogan Street.  So she walked him up Hogan to his house.  She asked him if he lived at this house and he didn’t know but Barb saw the pile of yard waste on the side of the road and told him this was his house because there are your weeds.  Barb took him up to the door and his daughter said that he must have gotten outside by himself.

Silver Medal

Barb doesn’t usually play mixed doubles because at her level the men usually try to play the whole court by poaching the ball but she decided to play in one tournament with a friend from Okeechobee.  They didn’t get a medal but they got to play spoiler.  The only game they won was against an undefeated team and they beat them quite badly.  In fact, that bad defeat caused that otherwise undefeated team to only get a silver medal.

Scavenger Hunt

Barb wanted to go on the Scavenger Hunt here in the park but I really didn’t want to do it. I decided to go to watch the girls fastball at the college.  So Barb needed a partner who had a golf cart because we had sold our old broken golf cart.  She asked her friend Betty from knitting if she would do it with her but she said that she had to go to Orlando with her sister in law but she would love to and she would try to get out of it.

It turned out that her husband could take his sister to Orlando without her and she could go on the Scavenger Hunt with Barb.  So Barb was very happy because Betty is such a hoot.

The first thing they had to do at the Scavenger Hunt was a quiz.  Betty was great at the quiz because Barb didn’t know anything except the names of Santa’s reindeer.  They had to do activities around the park like get their picture taken with someone in their bed.  Barb got in bed with this big fat man and got her picture taken.  It was so funny.  She had go blindfolded into the lake to find a golf ball while being instructed by her partner and her partner had to drive an obstacle course blindfolded while being instructed by Barb.  My sister was watching the obstacle course contest and Barb told her about some of the other things they had to find like a condom and a morning after pill.  My sister said why didn’t they make them.  They had to find Canadian who was celebrating their birthday.  That was easy because we just over at our neighbour’s house the day before at an early birthday party for a Canadian friend.

Anyway, Barb and Betty won the Scavenger Hunt.  They had 97 points of a possible 102.  They won $30.  Barb was so happy and surprised but Betty couldn’t celebrate because she had to run off to Walmart to order donuts for Monday morning coffee for the Home Owners Association at the Club House.

Free Gift from the Sponsors

Barb often gets a bag of goodies at her pickleball tournaments.  The goodies are usually from the tournament sponsors and most of them are useless but one good thing she got was a coupon for a free jar of pickles.  She collected her free jar of pickles at Walmart using the coupon and we enjoyed the pickles with our grilled cheese sandwiches.