Tuesday Morning

Well Monday started out cold for us down in the low 40's and no frost. The skies were clear and yet a breeze out of the northwest kept it chilly most all day. We did see some low 60's by late afternoon. The morning started much the usual with a 5:30 wake up from the dueling roosters next door. After my cup of hot green tea, a few quiet moments and a lite breakfast I pedalled out to the rec for a couple hours of pickle ball.

We had a large gang today with 3 courts going and a couple folks waiting to get on to play. The gym was rather cool inside all morning and despite the play I never did soak my shirt but I felt like I had a good workout. One of our better players twisted his knee and fell trying to retrieve a drop shot thus he was out the rest of the period and maybe out for a while as he already has a zipper on both knees. I headed for home and temperature had risen a little by 10 AM.

I spent the next hour or so watering the gardens, cutting lettuces and picking tomato's. We were heading over to Riverview later in the afternoon so I took Bobby a nice bunch of lettuce and a spaghetti squash plant. Nancy was making her second chocolate birthday cake in 3 days to take with us as well as we are once more celebrating her birthday and daughter-in-law Jill's. Jill's is on Tuesday(today). We headed out around 2:30 as we were picking up GG and bringing her with us as well. Her plans changed from visiting with her older sister and hubby down on Long Boat Key for a week as he fell and hurt his knee, Uncle Warnie is in his 90's. I hung GG's new clock for her before we headed to Tampa.

We met up with Jill and Annsley at the Golden City Gymnastics in east Tampa around 4 PM to watch Annsley perform with her gymnastics group. She is coming along quite nicely and some of those young teen age girls are Olympic prospects for sure. What a busy place with kids running around everywhere doing all kinds of flips, dances and somersaults, yeow I was thoroughly impressed with some of the talent on display there. We headed back to Bob and Jill's for supper as Bob was preparing a gourmet meal.

Their new puppy "Sugar" is a sweetie no pun intended and just so playful with the kids. Amy and Tyler came shortly thereafter and the kids were in their own little world playing together. Sam and Gabe had a few altercations but Ava and Annsley where great together. Bob fixed a meal of grilled marinated skirt steak and brown rice also he roasted beets and carrots and put them over a bed of beet greens with a homemade dressing and of course crusty bread. The chocolate cake was very good as well and we left the rest of the cake there when we headed for home after the kids all took baths.

Well it was after 9 before we pulled out for Seminole and the temps were starting to drop again; already it was down in the 50's. We dropped GG off then headed home for the shower. It wasn't long afterwards I called it a day and hit the sack watching some news before lights out. Boy the spare tire has been inflated since Friday night with 3 pieces of chocolate cake, crusty bread, potato's and rice. All the stuff that will add to the tire but they tasted good, Oh well!!! LATER