Tuesday, November 30, 2021 (Court Day #440)

SCPC Treasurer Dave Witte stopped by my work to pick up several Derby Park court donation envelopes from me. It’s the end of the month and it’s easier for him to reconcile bank statements if he gets all the club donations in. I like Dave. He’s a very nice fellow.

Night Ball

Skypark had 4 tennis players and 36 pickleball players when I arrived at 6:45. There were pickleball players I’d never seen before or didn’t recognize in the slightest. The sport is still growing and growing.

Janet, Mark Dettle taking on Larry Y. and Tim.

I had a bunch of good games. No holding back tonight.

Mustache Matt was there with his wife, though they had none of their adult children this time.

Great and Nightmares

The game of the night was the last one. Tim and I took on Mike B. and Paul. It was a great game. There was one phenomenal rally. It was 15-20 hits . . . net volleys, reset, dinks, you name it. I think it was the best point I have ever been in. This game was a battle. Later in the game, the score was 10-9, they were up by one point and they had served. The ball went back and forth some, then got popped up and I slammed it—but unlike so many earlier in the evening, this one I over-swung and it rocketed to about 6 inches outside the sideline. ARGGGG! Game over! Lost. Those are ones that you definitely want back!

By 8:45 and there were no more players available to play. I was forced to go home with still 45 minutes of lights left. Ah, well.

My wife had kindly texted, “There is chicken and rice on the top shelf in the refrigerator…” How thoughtful! “…it’s for the dogs, don’t eat it.” LOL! Well, then!

And?

I felt good about my play tonight. I did serve 3-4 serves into the net over the course of two hours. That said, I had more than that which were returned into the net by my opponents. I had at least 5 in one game where Matt and Tim couldn’t get my serves back. I was kind of amazed. I guess my serve can be a bit formidable . . . when it’s not hitting into the net!

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 (No Play)

Yesterday afternoon, I received an email about a new pickleball magazine, Pickleball Fire, the official magazine of the International Federation of Pickleball (IFP):
https://www.ifpickleball.org/pickleball-fire

It’s always nice to have more resources. I will say that the magazine looks like it was laid out by an amateur and not a professional graphic designer. I haven’t read it yet, hopefully, the content will be better than the design—but that’s the way you always want it.

Number of days on a court: 440
Number of total hours: 2,154.5

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