The Weekend- A Pickleball Clinic, Father's Day and the First Day of Summer

It was an exciting weekend. Well, it started that way!

On Saturday we headed out about 7:00 am, for Kings Point in Sun City Center. The Pickleball League there had invited Rich to do a training clinic. Rich had to alter his usual clinic a little because the group was very diverse in terms of skill level. There were beginners as well as seasoned players.

The weather forecast for Saturday was for record setting temperatures; high 90's, high humidity, high dew points. That all translates to Very Hot and Very Sticky!! Seriously though, they did have a high heat advisory out for the weekend.

Great Beach Weather - but we were on the pickleball courts. !

About 16 or 18 people showed up Saturday morning for the clinic. More than we anticipated so they took down the volley ball net and set up the third court. In this picture the group is learning "dink" shots.

On this side of the court is Gary Ball, who is a very good player. He's a Florida snowbird and is heading back to Michigan on Monday.....but wanted to come to the clinic and say goodbye to Rich and I. That's our friend Nadine Powers next to him and Rich and Louann on the other side. Gary and Rich had to play a 'singles' game before we left. Gary is an excellent singles player. Rich has not yet been able to beat him in a game, and he just loves the competition!

Here's a picture of Rich and the group that attended the clinic. I think a couple of them might be missing...........I don't see our friend Colin!

We had a great time and headed for home around 11:30.

As I said the weather was horrific on Saturday, so you can imagine how excited we were when later that day it seemed to be getting much warmer inside the house. We looked at the thermostat and it read 81 degrees. A hundred years working in HVAC (well I am stretching a bit!) and Rich knows nothing about servicing the air conditioner. This man can make or fix ANYTHING, but he just couldn't make it any cooler. We turned on the fans and made it through the night. The weather on Sunday was even hotter. High 90's and heat index again well over 100!

Rich called a friend of his that he had worked with. Bob knew everything about servicing air conditioners. And he was such a great help. He walked Rich through checking things out. The funniest was when he told Rich to take a look at the capacitor, to which Rich replied " Where is it, and what does it look like?" Bob's response was "look for a small crushed beer can!" Rich found it! Rich was able to get a new capacitor and replaced it. Air conditioner now worked!! The house was cooling down............but now it would not turn off when it got down to temperature. We learned, again from Bob, that it was not unusual for the thermostat to go along with the capacitor. So .....................Rich went out and bought the thermostat and by 9:00 on Sunday evening we were back in business!!.

A litle bit of good news: Sunday was Father's day and our son Dennis called to talk with his Dad early Sunday morning. Both Dalton and Chauna have made the All Star Baseball Team, Chauna wants to play the Flute and Dalton wants to play the Trumpet! Chauna is doing her Community Service project to get her Bronze in Girl Scouts. Now this is where I was supposed to show you the picture of the beautiful 6 inch beautifully decorated Chocolate Chip Cookie that said "Happy Fathers Day" in Red icing. but Father Rich was up before me this morning, and had already cut the first peice before I could get to the camera!! Those of you who know Rich, know exactly what I'm talking about!!!

But we both got new T-shirts this weekend. Louann and the Kings Point League gave both Rich and I these Pickleball Bug T-Shirts before we left on Saturday! Thanks Louann.

Here's a Link to more Pictures of the Kings Point Clinic

Louann wrote up an article about the clinic on her Kings Point website. Thank You Louann for the kind words about Rich and I. Click this link to read her article: Kings Point Pickleball League Clinic