Friday, January 12

Overscheduled

 You are hearing from a woman who likes her downtime. I am a basic introvert. It takes a long time for me to get lonely. I enjoy my own company. My crafts have taken a back seat while there has been more emphasis on Trivia and Pool(billiards). Photography has also slipped down a ways. I enjoy reading as well and still get some. And we backed up two or three decades this week and returned to square dancing! So it has been an active week. Butch adjusts to the go-go-go much better than I do. I slept in today until nearly 8:00 am!

L to R-Butch, Barb, Caller Ron, his wife, and Mary & Dave Bruun

Yesterday, Butch and his partner Paul Kelleher played at Fast Eddy's in the Golden Age Olympic doubles pool tournament. They won it last year but failed to repeat the feat this year. There were some rule changes, and new 7 ft. pool tables whereby they played on 8 ft ones last year, as well as perhaps just being off their game. Hey, it happens.

There were several other Trophy players in the tournament but none could take home a medal. And the trophy players are tough competition as any of their opponents will attest to.

Arriving at Fast Eddy's-Butch Brooker


Claudette Hogensen



Deb Thompson


Jeff Golly

Paul Kelleher




Butch Brooker


Alex Stinson

Bob Evens





Tuesday, January 9

Where do I begin?

 Sunday Pool...My partner was Kinley Poulsen and we won 7 games of the 10 we played. I think we came in first but I have not seen the official tally yet. Butch and his partner won 6.

Monday I had a dermatology appointment and I saw a different doctor this time. Dr Gonzales took one look at me and said, "You have burned your face!!" "Why did you do that?" I said I thought I was following directions. She said, "No, because you have used way too much!" So I am on a completely different regimen and have to return in a week. I can tell it is much better already.

And then at noon, we went to Alamo Palms with neighbors Dean and Diane R. to a square dance lesson. Yes, you read that right. We haven't square danced for 20 years and we decided to see if we had lost it all or at least tabulate how much. It seems you can go 20 years and still do it!  Oh, we are very rusty but it is coming back. We plan to attend a dance tomorrow night and see how it goes.

I had to get back by 3:00 for a pool hall board meeting. That went smoothly. Paul Kelleher is our Pres. and he is doing a great job. Paul is also Butch's pool partner.

We have a singer/songwriter in our park. He is also Pastor Randy Parks. Randy had helped another neighbor of ours, Gail Feild to write a song. She debuted her song with Randy's help at happy hour! Randy shared a few of his songs and how they came about. Our happy hours are always fun, informative, and entertaining. We hate to miss any of them.

Way too much got crammed into one day and I thank God that doesn't happen all that often. If it did, I would crash and burn more than my face!

Some random photos.

Do you wonder where all the scrap metal goes? A fair amount of it is in South Texas. This metal is not too far from us. 



Sunrise (7:00 am) a week or more ago.


Our neighbor Gail decided to spruce up this very faded fire hydrant. It has its color back! Gail is a woman of many talents.



Sunday, January 7

It happened

 Last night it finally happened. I beat Butch at Pool. Straight up. No special rules. I think he let his guard down a bit too much. It will take more wins to seal the deal and I plan to keep plugging away. I may never be on equal footing but I do plan to give him a challenge worth paying attention to.😁