PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT

This is my partner Joyce Staffen and me. We are in Mesa, AZ (about 60miles from our park) at the Venture Out RV resort. The resort was holding a 3 day tournament. The first day was mens doubles (see below). I had forgotten the order. Anyway the 2nd day was womens doubles.

We had a long day. It was double elimination. We won our first 2 matches, then lost the 3rd match. So that sent us to the losers bracket. But lo and behold we worked our way back to the winners bracket and wound up playing for the gold and WON. John said it was way more stressful for him than for me.


Did I mention that it has been cold here, it warmed up pretty good this day for John and his partner.
I seemed to have lost a picture, it was of John and his partner Ken. This is suppose to be of John and all the clothes he has on. Anyway if another picture shows up it is Ken Davenport and John. This was Kens first tournament and he really enjoyed it.
John and I were suppose to play next day in the mixed doubles, but was postponed because of RAIN. We finally got to play Saturday. We won Bronze! Next up ..... Tuscon tournament

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN THIS LONG

I've always heard it is never too late to start anything. So here it goes ...... This was on the 25th of December and of course as soon as the picture was taken, it didn't look like that any more. We had a nice Christmas, kind of quiet, went out to eat, and couldn't believe how many people besides us were eating out for lunch.

Now look carefully at this picture, notice all the trees you can see just over the wall.

This happened one day last week. I can see how "batten down the hatches" came from. It had sprinkled just a little right before the big blow, so we thought oh no the coach will be a super big mud paddy. But fortunely a slow moving "raining cats and dogs" front moved thru and washed it all off. Life is good.

The most beautiful skys around here occur right after a wind storm. The reds come from dirt pollution. This was taken before the big blow.
Coming up is a saga of our tournament travels.