Barb's Followers

Barb has been spending many evenings on the Pickleball Forum thinking up and entering names of movies, songs, diseases, famous people, and all sorts of things.  She has a large number of followers who always comment on her entries because they are amazed at the number and originality of them.  When she gets going everyone on the forum just gives up trying to compete with her and say she is the best.

Tom's Birthday

It was the birthday of an old basketball friend that I saw on facebook.  I was surprised when I got a message thanking me for the birthday wishes because I didn't take the time to wish him a happy birthday.  Then I looked at the link to his message and noticed that some other Ivan had wished him a happy birthday and when he went to thank him my name came up instead. I didn't want to reply and say he had the wrong Ivan because then I would have to admit that I didn't wish him a happy birthday myself.

Best Dressed

The pitcher on my recreational league softball team said that he had an extra jersey because they spelt his name wrong on it and so he got another.  He said I could have it since I got picked up half-way through the season and was too late to get a jersey of my own. He said maybe my wife could sew some fabric over his name and put my name on it instead.  So he brought the jersey to the next game and I brought it home for Barb to fix.  Barb went to the local Jo Anne's Fabric and wanted to buy some iron on letters but they had to be ordered.  They came in the next week and Barb sewed some of her own purple fabric over his name and ironed on white letters for my name and then coloured in the letters with yellow highlighter pen to match the teams lettering and it looked great.  When I wore the jersey to the next game, all the guys were impressed and one guy said Barb could get a lot of work doing sewing for the guys.  I told him that Barb had a few choice swear words for me when she was trying to get the puckers out of the fabric.  Anyway, we didn't have too many more games until the end of the season but after the season was finished, they gave us the best dressed team award.  I think Barb helped us win the award.

Pro Show

Some professional pickleball players came to visit The Villages and they put on some demonstration games for the pickleball players in the club.  They even played some games with the members. Unfortunately, Barb wasn't a member of the club.  So she couldn't play against them but she was able to get a ticket to go and watch them play.  She misread the ticket that said her time was at 1:30 pm and she got there at 11:00 am to watch the show at 11:30.

New Couple

One of Barb's friends at pickleball came up to her and said she should meet these new people because they sound just like her.  So Barb went to meet them and it turned out they were both Canadians.  One was from Nova Scotia and the other was from British Columbia.  Barb didn't think they had any accent at all.

Whiffle Ball

I use Barb's old broken pickleballs to practice my batting off my batting tee in the backyard.  Sometimes I pull the ball into the big crab apple tree near our neighbour's house and sometimes the pickleballs get stuck in the tree and don't fall to the ground.  I have to wait until it rains or there is a big wind to blow them out of the tree.  Barb also likes to use the back patio to practice her third shot and was out practicing when Gerry's daughter-in-law and granddaughter were out in the backyard playing.  The daughter-in-law came up to Barb and told her that her daughter had something to tell her.  The little girl came up to Barb and asked her if she had lost a pickleball because she had found one in the lawn.  Barb asked the little girl if she wanted to keep the pickleball and the little girl said she did.  So Barb said she could keep the pickleball but just be careful not to get her fingers stuck in the holes.

Visitors

Barb's friend was going home and she wanted to see Barb one last time before she left.  So her and another lady came over to the house to visit in the evening after dinner.  Barb was showing them around the house and all the quilts and knitting projects she finished.  One of the ladies looked at her crochet blanket that was in progress and she said that's neat I have never seen a blanket with big holes in it before.  Barb had to explain that eventually all of the holes will be filled in and it will be a solid blanket like all other blankets.