Well the morning started out with warm temps in the high 60, bright sunshine and clear blue skies. I did my quiet time and had a hearty breakfast of poached eggs and grits as I knew I would need lots of energy for the pickle ball tournament in Clearwater. My partner, Keith picked me up and we made the 15 mile or so trek north. The traffic was horrible and we even passed what turned out to be a fatal crash on the way there. It just happened as we passed by the area. Anyhow we got there after about an hour's drive. I can't believe I use to work in all that traffic mess. We saw more cars this morning than we see all summer in Sparta with 6 lanes of bumper to bumper cars, oh well is it time to head north!!
The Long Center in Clearwater is a huge recreation complex with an Olympic indoor size pool and we could place our whole complex in Seminole in that area only. They had 6 pickle ball courts set up and the lighting was awesome with dark colored wood floors and no windows for sunlight glare. Keith and I were in the 60-69 age bracket which had 9 teams entered. Well we started out and won every match big and didn't drop a set. The tournament director messed up in setting up the brackets towards the end of the day as we had to play another team we had already beaten convincingly. Well we lost our edge and the only match of the day and then we were out of the tournament. We were awarded the Bronze medal but the team we had beaten earlier was awarded the Gold. I didn't think that was consistent but after all they were the home team from the Long Center. We still aren't sure how that was done but anyhow we played great together, had a lot of fun and met some really nice PB players from different areas of the county.
We got back to the house a little before 3 PM just in time to watch the opening day game between the Orioles and the Ray's. The Ray's dropped the first game with giving up a couple homers to the Birds. It was a good game until about the 7th inning when the relief pitcher left one up and out over the plate and the batter knocked it out of the park with 2 runners on, oh well!!!
I snapped a bag of 1/2 runner green beans while watching the game so we had fried taters and onions and steamed green beans for supper, yeow talk about some good eatin'. Delicious. After the cleanup I headed out to water the gardens then we took a couple mile hike through the hood and made it back to watch the FOX News with Shepard Smith. I headed in to the bedroom to watch the Lightning hockey team lose a thriller in a shoot out after the overtime period. Well that's about it for the day except Nancy had an old crown taken off and a new one installed. Seems our old dentist from years ago did a lousy job on that crown which was causing Nancy a lot of discomfort due to a poor fit. Well we hope with a new dentist, a new crown and a better fit this crown will last longer. LATER
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