Sunday, February 19, 2023. (Court Day #579)
Last night, René called and asked if I wanted a white board that she and her friend Rick were seeing at CVS a few miles away. Not that club has immediate need for it, but I figured we’d need it sooner or later, so I told them to grab it. They stopped by my house shortly thereafter and dropped it off with me.
Also, last night, Binh texted me asking if I’d be at Derby Park today. I told him yes. We have that tournament coming up next month.
Derby
I got to Derby early—before 9 a.m.—and there were three people there dinking at one of the two city nets and Mark G. was out blowing off the courts again with his personal blower. I told Mark that I’d have to give him my pay for the day . . . we both know that the pay is zero!
Of immediate note was the brand new storage bin! The rusting one was replaced. No doubt, this was Dan Bliss at work!
With a tournament going on in Monterey today, there were a handful of players not around. Rick and René were not in attendance, for example.
I played my first two games of the day left-handed against weaker players.
Binh and I joined up at 10 a.m. when skill time started. We won all of our games except one . . . KA—a friend of Ms. J—played really well. A solid 4.0+. She and Dan R. took on Binh and me. Before the game, Dan told KA that we’d kick their butts. That didn’t happen. Binh and I lost 11-6 or something like that. KA doesn’t live around here but I told her she’s welcome any time!
Wrapping Up
Rick Abend and I counted the donations from the session. We also changed the chain linking the two bins together. It was passed through one link in the fence. In other words, one quick cut of the relatively thin wire and the chain was free from the fence. I talked Rick into helping me and we were barely able to secure the chain around the big pipe at bottom of the fence. Another inch and we probably couldn’t have done it.
Not Wrapping Up!
As I was about to leave, Nicole asked if we were leaving and she though we (Rick and I) were going to take on the winners. Ha, ha! So it is with pickleball: “One more game!”
Rick and I played Max and Mike (both of whom often play at Skypark in the evenings). Max has really come along. He got off shots I was not expecting. Rick and I won 11-6, but they were not cannon fodder by any stretch.
Nicole and her twin sister Tiffany still wanted to play and so I played with Tiffany and Rick played with Nicole. Tiffany and I won.
It was 10 minutes to 2 p.m. by the time I actually left the courts.
Number of days on a court: 579
Number of total hours: 2,573.5
Number of paid coaching hours: 1
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