Pine Island

We arrived here on Wed the 21st of Jan. These are two of three Club Houses. The first is where you register and has a gift shop, bike rental ($5.00 for the "whole" day), mail room and laundry room. The second is the guest relations office to sign up for trips, etc. This is the one that has the weight room, a game room, computer room, etc. The third I forgot to take a picture of..duh. That is where the pot lucks are, bingo, etc. It's also where the swimming pool, hot tub, swings, shuffle boards are.

There were reveiws written about this park that weren't so good.. I think it's pretty good myself !!

We went over to Fort Myers yesterday to an Urgent Care Facility. There just wasn't anything any closer that our insurance co would pay for..... Got tired of hubby and the "cousins" telling me that I should have my finger looked at. Injured it bowling on the 12 of this month. Anyway, I went... I am now trying to eat, type, write, pick things up, etc without the use of one of my fingers, since it is now in a splint for a while. Not broken, but was told I would probably be better off if it had been since this kind of injury takes a lot longer to heal. Just what I wanted to hear :( The plus side to this ... Butch has to do the dishes. hahaha

Good News !

Got a call from my Daughter in Law tonight and we are going to be grandparents one ore time !!

Monster Lemon

There is no trick photography here.. this is the real deal !! A member of our church brought some in today for anyone who wanted one. I wonder how much lemonade this baby will make !!

Christmas at Lori's

We spent Christmas afternoon and evening over to Lori and Johns in Z-Hills. There were just "too many" people here to blog everyone!! Like about 30! Sandy and Jami are in the first picture. The you have Lori, Jess, Bobby. John and Lori. It was good to have family here and took the "sting" away of not being "home" for Christmas... first year.

Christmas 2008

This mess is from the puppy child ! Butch and I were not going to exchange this year since he bought me a computer monitor and I bought him the gate for his truck... birthdays etc. But since we have started playing Pickle Ball, I couldn't resist getting us the paddles from "Santa". You see what they look like in the first photo. Yes, Sassy child made quite a mess! Since she has a habit of destroying her sqeaker toys by pulling all the stuffing out to get to the sqeakers, we found these... the one is an allegator that has egg babies inside... so she can literally open up the allegator and pull out the eggs without destroying anything. She loves to toss the little eggs and jump to play with them... The other one is designed like a tree trunk with baby squirels in it that she has to pull out... same principal and she isn't pulling the stuffing out of anything. Good job Care-a-lot Pets.

Pickle Ball

Well, for some reason these didn't post so it's a do over and if by chance they appear twice, lucky you !

As I had mentioned in the original, I got brave this year and ventured up to the Pickle Ball court in Orlando TT. Too chicken last year :) Made Butch go with me this year. We have met some wonderfully patient folks there who taught us how to play. Both of us are really enjoying playing, even though we aren't very good ! Still wondering if I have everything down.... like am I a one or a two and when did it change????

Catherine explained it well in their blog... it's like playing on the size of a badmitten court, using a tennis net, playing with ping pong paddles and a woofle ball. You win on 11 unless it's really close and then you have to win by two.

Pickle Ball

I know I haven't entered much since we've been here so I need to get on the ball !! Pickle Ball that is....

Last year I said we were going to learn how to play this game, but never got around to it... This year, I got brave and drug Butch with me to the Pickle Ball court. So very glad that we did cause we have met and made friends with a lot of really great people and hope to stay in touch with them.

I still have trouble deciding if I'm a one or a two and when did it change????? Think I have it now.

These folks are so patient !! And wonderful teachers. Hope to see them soon.