BACK HOME - ON THE COURTS WITH THE MP PICKLERS

On Wednesday we were back in Wesley Chapel. Left The Villages early that morning. On the way we stopped for breadfast at the Waffle House. I have never been a big fan of the Waffle House, but Rich absolutely loves their Waffles with Strawberry topping and lots of Whip Cream.

During this visit we learned that (imitation) strawberries are now being added to the waffle batter; they no longer carry the strawberry or blueberry topping. I silently smiled to myself, thinking YES!!!!!! This will be our VERY LAST VISIT to Waffle House!!

Continuing south on I-75, we were just north of SR 52 when we hit some heavy rains. It was definately a high speed windshield wiper type of rain, take the car off cruise control rain, and slow down kind of rain. But when we took Exit 275 to Wesley Chapel, it was clear that the rain had not found it's way here yet.

YET, being the Key word here. Pickleball days seem to coincide with rain these days. It wasn't long after we arrived home that the skies began to darken............

This is the view from the back lanai. The clouds came in quicky.

I know this looks like a nice afternoon - but about 5 minutes after this picture the rain started. Thunder, lightening - typical afternoon Florida shower. But fortunately, the weather cleared mid afternoon, the sun came out, the air was thick.............and pickleball was on at MP II....

We were looking forward to playing tonight. We had several of our home picklers that had ordered Coach Mo's new DVD.....so we brought them with us. But we also had heard that we had five new picklers on our home courts, and we were hoping that they would be there tonight so we could meet them. Four of them were!

These are our newest pickleball players at home. This is John and Bonnie. John is playing very well, having just been introduced to the game. Bonnie .......she is really doing well, but everyone continued to give her pointers tonight. She and I had a couple of pretty competitive ladies games tonight. FUN!!

And this is Liz, another new player with our group. She's playing very good after just a couple of weeks...............and will be one of our better woman players. Had fun taking this picture. Suck It In Liz!!!!

Here's Rich and Liz, playing against Ken ( another new player with our group ; Wife Penny was not able to make it tonight!) and Chris.

And here is Rich and Steve Long (far side) partnering against, Don Bass and Chris Brown.

We had a great time playing with the group tonight. It was after 9:00 pm, when we were ready to leave the courts. Not having had any dinner yet, we called for Chinese Take out, and picked it up on the way home and Watched "So You Think You Can Dance" while we ate dinner.

Today was yard work again. Rich was back on the ladder cutting down the dead branches from the Queen Palms. Tomorrow - Friday we are headed to Sun City Center for pickleball at 7:30 am, then a trip to the RV in Peace River to drop off a few things, back home for pickelball at 6:30 with the MP group, and then Pizza with our Meadow Pointe Picklers after playing.

Busy day tomorrow...........better call it a day!