I know it's been a while since you've heard from us. We've got some inquires from some of you wondering what's been going on and we thank you for thinking of us.

Believe me, I wish I had some interesting news; some exciting new adventures to share and pictures that would excite you. But our stay here at The Villages this year seems to continue to be one of pickleball or doctors.! Seeing Denny and the family has without a doubt been the highlight of the summer. And our decision to stay in Florida this summer was definately the right one. We've been following all of our friends as they travel to the north and west and we really enjoye reading about the pickleball tournament in St. Clair, MI, and following all the pickleball fun in Chesapeake Bay! We know that Dean and Margie have gotten pickleball going in New Jersey. It's amazing how many people you run into here that know the same people you do in another state. Just the other day one of the guys that plays pickleball with Dean was at Pimlico playing pickleball with Rich!! And at breakfast the other morning we ran into a fellow USAPA Ambassador visiting The Villages from Providence, RI, and we learned that Harry and Karen were visiting family here earlier this year and we've run into people that play with some of our RV friends in Michigan!!!

And for all you friends that like Pickleball and like to Cruise - there is a pickleball cruise leaving NY in May 2011 for Bermuda with three pickleball courts available for play night and day!!!

Rich is still working with his doctors to get the feet back in pickleball shape!! Not there yet!! More recently I've given Rich a bit of a scare. For a couple of days I was getting some tingling sensations in my left arm, and that was followed by some tightness in my chest. Rich insisted that I see the doctor, and being a Friday it was too late to set an appointment, so we went to Urgent Care. They were wonderful, took my blook pressure, served me up an Aspirin, some nitro and blood pressure medication, took some blood, a chest exray and an EKG. There was a bit of an inormality on the EKG, but the blood work came out OK.

It appears right now that I may have Angina, which causes the blood vessels to the heart to spasm. As for the tingling in the arm - we think there is a good possibility that that is from Carpal Tunnel - FROM ALL THIS TYPING!!!! Pretty coincidental that they both showed symptoms on the SAME DAY!! They still want me to come in an do a stress test - and that is scheduled for tomorrow and if that's OK - I can go back on the pickleball court.

The weather here, like most places across the country, continues to be especially HOT and Humid and for the past several days we've been getting some good rain storms in the afternoons (just about the time that Rich wants to go play pickleball!!).

Not much else going on - pickleball, eating out, meeting new friends, pickleball, doctors, eating out, pickleball................