Wednesday

Yikes it was once again rather nippy this AM as I rode out to the rec after my quiet time and a breakfast of oatmeal, blueberries and a banana at 7:25 for some 2 1/2 hours of pickle ball play. We had 10 players with some great play through out the morning. It was good to have one of our regulars back after taking yesterday off due to a cold and a nagging hamstring injury. When I left the rec with Nancy on the (t)dreadmill around 10:30 the temps had really started upwards. It reached a high of 75 today so we opened the windows before heading off to Wal-Mart and Sam's club after a salad for lunch. Nancy saves about 20 bucks on one prescription and nearly 1/3 on another per month. So it makes it worthwhile for us to fight the traffic. Wow that is really a saving when you figure one blood pressure medicine is over a grand a year.

We picked up a few snack things for Ava for next week as we will have her all week as Amy and Tyler lead a group of collegian's to Atlanta, Ga for Passion. We are looking forward to having her for the week. We have really missed her these past 10 days while they were in Kansas. We just got word this evening that Continental Airlines have cancelled their flight back to Tampa this evening and have put them on an American Airlines fight to Tampa that gets them in early tomorrow morning. Actually around 12:30 AM. So Nancy and I will head out to bring them back to Seminole around midnight.

We took a fast paced walk over to get their mail and water the garden around 4 PM. Yesterday we were about 25 degrees colder at the same time as this day. What a difference and that's usual for Florida in the winter time, however the new forecast is calling for some very cold temp's this weekend after some rain is fore casted on New Years Day. Nancy pan fried a couple of pork chops(tenderloins), baked a couple sweet potato's and cooked some fresh broccoli for dinner, YUMMM!!! No wonder I put on a little weight over the holidays.

Well not much else going on except for heading to the airport around midnight or so and tomorrow is the last day for pickle ball in 2009. Wow have I really enjoyed the exercise and the deep friendships that are a result of that sport. Tomorrow Nancy is making a pot of zuppa soup using some of my fresh garden kale for our get together with neighbors, family and church friends and a pot of bean soup to go with sauerkraut, roast pork and mashed potato's on our New Years Day get together with family. Looks like another weekend with lots of good eatin'.LATER.