Into the new year

I just looked back on the blog and realized that the last time I wrote was January 1st.  It is hard to believe that we are now a week and a half into the new year. 
Life continues to roll on and it seems as if with increasing speed.  We are settled into winter in Naples and more than keep busy. 
We have been reading a lot which is something I am enjoying very much.  Last night I finished "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett, all 973 pages of it!  I hesitate to recommend books to people as there are as many interests as people but I can not remember enjoying a book more than that one.
I have gotten into more tennis and continue to enjoy it immensely.  It helps that I have raised my level of play so that I can compete with better players.  Well I say that and then remember yesterday was mostly a disaster!
We finally were able to get some furniture out of the house.  It was really very nice but too large, I mean way too large.  Now the task of trying to replace it with some things.  We went looking a week ago and the quality one finds is less than encouraging unless a person is willing to mortgage their house for it!!  We will keep on looking until we come up with something.
Yesterday for lunch we attended a seminar at a place called the Capital Grill.  We had thought about going there for a meal as it is supposed to be really nice and you guessed it expensive too.  Well we thought we would sign up for this seminar to see what kind of food they serve.  The free lunch was very very good and the people we sat by were so funny we almost laughed ourselves silly.  An 83 year old man said he is a history buff and was talking about his great great grandfather who was in the Civil War.  Another older man chimed in and said so was my  g g grandfather, I bet they knew each other!   As I write about it I can not get the spirit of it right but we laughed so hard.  I thought his wife was going to fall off the chair. 
We had two couple over for dinner Wednesday and served Grandma Lee's cream potatoes again.  They are always a big hit. 
As we do the many activities here I have to remind myself that it is OK to enjoy fun times. I am so enjoying the competition in tennis.  Of course the object is to have fun and really sometimes a good shot against me is more fun than a mistake by an opponent.  It is fun to win but more fun to engage in an activity where there is competition, fun and fellowship, win or lose.  I was disappointed that I did not get on a team.  There are too many guys trying to play on teams and it is kind of who you know!  I was surprised to find out that but then should I have been surprised?  Anyway if I had gotten on a team with too many players I may not have played much so will enjoy being free to play when and againist whomever I want.
More FP and no more words for today.