Sunday, November 05, 2017

Pickleball Views & VOLUNTEERS


Good luck finding a place to park near the busy tournament this week!  The whole resort is jumping with activity.



OMG!!  A huge thank you to all of Palm Creek residents and staff for another huge undertaking.

Here are a few screen shots from the video:






VOLUNTEERS
These are just a few of the volunteers I found along today's route down the pickleball lanes.















AND.....without these two women, none of it would be possible!!

Marion Nelson and Robin Perry

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MOUSE TAILS:

No more fighting over who gets the bed on top of the cat tree.


{sigh}
No more presents for me for the next three years.


We're really trying to keep peace in the family ..... BUT it's NOT easy!





Saturday, November 04, 2017

Saturday Nov 4 Pickleball overview


Saw this article in the Casa Grande Dispatch.  Looks like big dollars will be available to the skilled winners at our tournament!




We'll keep Maverick in the sky quite a bit this week.



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Cat and Mouse Tails:


Life is slowly getting better but due to the constant battle for this cat tree, we made another trip to Pet Smart and got a second tree.  Don is keeping track of our expenses.  I think this is my second birthday present and perhaps third Christmas present for the next few years since I wanted a cat.


Practice Day of Tournament Week

Maverick went up to take a look at the busy pickleball courts this morning on practice day.  Nice view!





Friday, November 03, 2017

Kitchen & Patio

What beautiful weather we are having!
Always have enjoyed seeing the colorful fall decorations and naturally, Activities has their office decorated to greet us as we enter.



Thank you to MaryAnn Brown and staff.


Robin Perry and her whole crew were outside cleaning and preparing to move into their new "kitchen on wheels".  Somehow or other, they are going to try to feed thousands of people out of this very small temporary mobile kitchen until their new facility is finished.



There's not much room to move around inside.




I see a refrigerated semi trailer across the street in the parking lot so I imagine that is their temporary refrigerator/freezer for all these upcoming events.  I know they'll be trying their best to accommodate us but please be patient and understanding of all events while construction continues.


Work continues for the Bistro.  Whoops...........I see in the November Happenings newsletter that the Bistro is now called "The Patio".





Building new fire pits too.




Work continues inside the ballroom.




Our Sonora North game room was a busy place for Mahjong today.  We had NINE tables of players already this early in the season. 


We have two types of games to offer now.  This game is called "Western" and is a modified form of the actual Chinese game.  It is very EASY to learn and has become very popular.


We also have many dedicated National players who enjoy the challenge of a more difficult game.



BIG NEWS for dog owners:  The park is installing a fancy new dog wash station over by the car wash and horseshoes area!  Will get more photos as they become available.

Photo courtesy of Sandy Morin

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Mouse AND Cat Tails:


OMG!!  What have I done now!!
Just couldn't resist this cute kitten from the shelter.  Mouse needed a playmate, right??  Mouse is VERY full of energy so I thought a playmate would be ideal.


Say hello to little Cat.  Cat is an ideal name for our duo......Cat and Mouse.


Mouse has been a rather jealous bully these first few days.
We've had to keep the water spray bottles close at hand to break up the major squabbles.



  


Someone please tell Don that life will settle down in a few days.
He's not so sure we've done a good thing by rescuing another kitten.

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P.S.  Neither cat will sleep in that new bed. 
 They both ignore it completely. 











Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Installing Entrance Beams

Dick might as well be outside taking video of the ballroom construction as I imagine living directly across the street would be a little disturbing to nap or sleep peacefully with all the noise.  Anyway.............THANK YOU, Dick Rietz for keeping us up to date.  Dick has never complained about the noise as he realizes how important the project is to all of us.





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Sorry ..... no mouse tail for today.