Canadian

The Villages has their own radio station and they go out and about The Villages talking to residents doing recreational stuff.  Today they were at Barb's pickleball courts and the interviewed Barb and some of the other ladies.  They asked Barb where she was from and she said Canada.  They said that explains why you are wearing short sleeves and a tennis skirt in the cold morning weather.

Geckos

There are geckos that seem to always be in between our bistro window and the bistro screen.  We don't know how or why they always get in there.  Today Barb wanted to check if it had stopped raining.  So she opened the door in the bistro and a gecko fell off the top of the door in front of her and almost landed on her head.

Lost and Found

Barb uses a small plastic cooler that she brought from home to carry her drinks when she plays pickleball.  Today she was out in the garage and found another similar cooler.  It was a little bigger.  Then she realized that the cooler she was using was not the one from home, it was one she won at a tournament and the one she found in the garage was the one she brought from home.  She looked inside the cooler and found the cooling towel and three new pickleballs that her partner had given her a while back and could never find.  I guess when she was cleaning up for the girl's visit at Christmas, she put the towel and balls in the cooler and put the cooler away in the garage and forgot about it.

Useful Key

I was driving Barb to Sebring for her pickleball tournament and Barb brought her crochet to do on the drive.  She was mad at herself because she forgot to bring a pair of scissors to cut her wool when she needed to.  Then she thought of using the house keys and I thought how resourceful she was.

Barb's Big Fan

There was a lady at Barb's pickleball tournament who came up to her and her partner.  She said she was a big fan and that she had watched all of their games at a previous tournament and she was so honoured to get to play against them.  She asked if she could get her picture taken with them.

Credit Card

I couldn't find my Mastercard in my wallet or in my briefcase or in any of my desk drawers and clothing drawers.  So I paid my System Dynamics Society dues using my Bank of America Visa card.  However, it wasn't that easy because I hadn't updated my address and I had to remember my old address.  Barb had bought me a new wallet and I was worried that maybe when I threw out my old wallet, I had thrown out my Mastercard too. When Barb got home, I told her I couldn't find my Mastercard.  She and I searched all over the house and couldn't find it.  Then Barb asked me if she could look in my wallet.  She looked at my wallet for a few seconds and quickly found all my cards.  She said my wallet has too many pockets.

Snake

On the way back to the house after picking some oranges, Barb noticed a snake skin on the grass.  It was very long and very cool.  However, Barb didn't realize that if there is a snake skin on the lawn there must be a snake living around somewhere.  A couple of days later, I was getting dressed in the bedroom and I saw our neighbour with a shovel chasing a big 4 foot long black snake.  The snake got away by climbing up the trellis and into our patio roof.  I told Barb about it and she was freaked out.  Later when I was coming home from softball, Gerry was outside and he came over to whisper to me that he found and chased a big snake and two little baby snakes up into our roof.  He said that you really shouldn't kill black snakes because they are good at killing mice.  But he said he didn't want to tell Barb because he knows how women don't like snakes.