On Wednesday morning we were scheduled to do a Pickleball Skills Clinic in Leesburg at the Highland Lakes community. The weather here in Florida this winter is either rain or COLD.........Tuesday was rain most of the afternoon and today the temperature is in the 40's, but they say it feels more like 38, and the winds are whipping at 18-20 mpr. Usually when we visit Highland Lakes we get to play inside. They have a beautiful "arena". But today was not a regular pickleball day - so we were meeting at the outdoor courts.
Click on picture to enlarge: use back arrow to return to this page: Despite the weather the lessons went well. That's Rich and I in the center along with some of the participants practing what they learned. Im sure you'll recognize some of these people. That's Marie (lower left corner). You just saw her and Manny having dinner with us at the Rusty Fox a few days ago. Just above her, in the middle is Ken and Lynn is the lady in the upper right corner. They are our friends from North Carolina that you also saw having dinner with us at the same place.
After the clinic we managed to get a group picture. The gentleman in the back row (far left) is Don Gullakson who teaches all the new pickleball players at Highland Lakes, so he got some real good ideas to help him with beginner training and clinics for the group.
We always enjoy the opportunity to spend time with Manny and Marie and Ken and Lynn - so that made the trip to do the clinic even more fun.
We stopped for breakfast (at noon) at the Cracker Barrel in Clermont on the way back, stopped to ship a USAPA banner off to Ft. Myers, mailed our tournament registration forms, picked up water and a few groceries and then headed for home. They are calling for rain again on Friday - so we will make sure we head to the courts in the morning. 
Wow, I can't believe Florida's temperature is in the 40's when we are in the 50's on the west coast. It is amazing to see the players wearing jackets and mitts playing pickleball. In fact, we have the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Feb 12-28 but our mountains don't have enough snow that they have to make snow and ship snow from other mountains. The El Nino made our weather unusually warm this year. Shirley
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