WELCOME 2013 PICKLEBALL AT TT PALM SPRINGS

Jan 02 - Our first time at the courts in the New Year!!  A beautiful day and lots of fun!!

Martin has arrived from Canada.  Playing with Jim

Chuck also just arrived; playing with Bill

Clint and Rick

Ken and Roy

Clint and Rick

Linda B and Jim

Bill and Ken

Bill with some fancy footwork!

Dick and Oland

Sandy and Ken

Bonnie and Dick

Faye and Ed

Linda S and Dick

The Peanut Gallery!!  Alan, Ken, Chuck and Bill

Clint and Cathy

Norby and Oland

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!

NEW YEAR'S EVE AT TT PALM SPRINGS, CA

Dec 31 - Many of the Pickleball players at TT Palm Springs had a Potluck Dinner to celebrate the coming of 2013!!  There was plenty of food and plenty of fun!!

Clint and Carol.  Carol was the instigator of the Potluck.  What a great job she did in organizing the affair!!

Becky and Tom.  They are actually staying at TT Wilderness Lakes but come over to TT Palm Springs to join us!!

Joe and Barb just left the campground but came back for dinner!

We welcome Linda S and Merlin to our group!

Pat and "Wild Bill"

Larry and Claudette, good friends of Pat and Bill

Barb and Dennis

David and Linda O

Paulette and Big Larry

Sandy and Ed

Faye and Ken

After dinner, Barb came over to remind Ken of their first meeting on the Pickleball courts at TT Orlando!  The story had something to do with Barb's new shoes!!  Fun memories!!

It was a great way to say Good Bye to 2012 and Welcome to 2013.  Thanks so much to Carol for putting it all together!

LAST PICKLEBALL OF 2012 AT TT PALM SPRINGS

Dec 30-31 - Closing 2012 Pickleball at TT Palm Springs.  There were quite a few players getting their last strokes of the year!!

Richard and Ken playing against

Jim and Linda B

Ken and Richard again.

Dick and Marilyn

You just can't get one over Dennis!!  Gloria watches.

Jim and Linda B

Merlin and Dennis

Linda S and Oland

Merlin and Ken

Ray and Ed

Marilyn and Ed

Clint and Linda S

Gloria and Sandy

Faye and Richard

So, that's the end of Pickleball for 2012.  It's been a really fun year thanks to all the great players we have been with!!

CHRISTMAS POTLUCK DINNER AT TT WILDERNESS LAKES!

Christmas Day - Thousand Trails Wilderness Lakes sponsored a Christmas Buffet Dinner at Noon today!  They provided Turkey and Ham and attendees brought the side dishes.  The price was certainly right!!  It was FREE!!  And plentiful.  And delicious!

I have a Spinach Salad that I make that is pretty good.  Today I decided to add red pepper strips and made it into a CHRISTMAS SALAD!!  What a good idea, Faye!!  HA HA  That was our contribution to Christmas dinner!!

Mark and Laurie, Pickleball players, joined us; or we joined them at the Potluck!!  It was a lot of fun!!

Merry Christmas, Everybody!!

VISIT WITH RUSSELL AND JACOB AND THE HOBBIT!!

Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve we drove 75 miles down to Chula Vista to spend some time with Ken's Grandsons, Russell, almost 18, and Jacob, already 11.  Russell just received recognition as Number One Defensive Linesman at Hill Top High School at this year's Football Banquet!  Jacob is looking forward to going to Middle School next year!  They are two good looking boys!

We took them to see The Hobbit!  It was good but had a lot, a lot, a lot of talking!!  Hope the boys enjoyed it!!

Merry Christmas, Guys!!

STUFFED SHELLS WITH PAM AND WALT

Dec. 23 - Pam was experimenting with another dish.  Shells stuffed with cheese and ground Italian sausage!!  They invited us over to share dinner with them!!

Here are the Shells, broccoli, and my contribution - a spinach salad! UUMMMMMM!

The four of us enjoying dinner!  Faye, Walt, Pam and Ken!

Pam topped the evening with delicious cheese cake and some of her special Almond Rocha!!

Thanks a lot Pam and Walt!  That was so much fun!  And delicious!!

KEN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY!!

Dec. 14 - We returned from our sudden trip to Richmond, VA in the middle of the night on Wednesday, Dec. 12.  The next day we went to Temecula Valley RV Service to finish up having a new awning installed where the previous awning had ripped away in the wind.  After the repair, we checked in at TT Wilderness Lakes for two weeks.

On Friday, Dec. 14, Ken turned 80 years old!!!  We went to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate!

This time we ordered their Rib Eye Steak, baked potato and salad.  I'm showing this picture so you can see how large the potatoes are!  In fact, we each took half of our potato home.  Ken made the most awesome hash browns ever!!

After we had finished our dinner, the waitresses brought Ken a serving of ice cream with chocolate syrup.  But he had to work for his ice cream!!  They made him ride the birthday saddle while everyone in the restaurant, Ken included, yelled YaHoo!!!

When we left the restaurant, Ken took us on our own Tacky Lights Tour!

HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY, KEN!!