Last Sunday in February of 2018

Bagels anyone?

Pretty much any topping you would like!

Over half the team came to bid farewell to Bill who is fifth from the right.

I guess it is about time to wrap up this month.
Above are most, but not all, of the tennis team and wives who came to our gathering yesterday.  I would say a great group of guys and gals.  They come from Delaware, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Minnesota,  and Vermont.  Their professional lives vary from scientist for the US government, CFF of a fortune 500 company,  commercial real-estate, lumber guy and finance.  But on the tennis court they are teammates and friends.  Fun to be with and fun to play with.  It is a lot of fun to see a team come from nothing to being competitive on the court and enjoy each other off the court. I think I have said in the past that we are on the down hill swing in the league and I am expecting and hoping that we can end the season on a positive note.

On the home front I am struggling to stay on the bright side of my leg.  It is just too darn easy to be on it too much.  Yesterday I was so so sore from PT on Friday.  My right leg was worse than my hurt left leg, go figure.  The leg seems to be doing fine so it is difficult to not use it too much.  The legs ached to the point of 3 IB yesterday but I do not like to take too much of that.  This too shall pass.
I am hoping the the month of February contains all of the bad new for the year.  Five deaths, one in his 50s, three in their 60s and one 90.  On top of that a friend down the street has flown to his home town of Cleveland to doctor with a serious kidney issue.  When I asked Joe's wife how he was she said "bad".  He has only one kidney and that appears to be shutting down.  We will wait and pray.  As I have told so many people, my leg is no big deal when you look at the big picture!

I am at a loss as to what to do.  Here I am, almost 11 years into retirement and I have so many things to do I do not know where to start.  I am getting ahead of myself but I am already thinking ahead to this summer and trying to prioritizing project on Niles ave.  There are the new kitchen windows to prime and paint, the living room to fix and paint, the stairs to replace, the bathroom to finish, the guest bedroom and sunroom to finish, projects in the wood shop to work on and enjoy, some things on the garage to fix and as I list them I am already tired!!!  Oh, I am positive there are many many more.  AND to make matters worse I have come to the point where I would much much rather be in my wood shop than doing house projects!  That does not bode well for getting things done!  Oh I almost forgot but Terry would like more garden boxes!

As I look to this week it seems that it is not too busy.  I have PT on Monday and Thursday, a home tennis match on Wednesday, I need to watch some guys play Monday at 8:00 and then I have a appt on Tuesday.  Other than that I should have some time to work on taxes and continue to get some order to our paper work.

Sundays are a day to kind of look back and reminisce but I have come to the conclusion that I am tending to do that too much so will forgo that today.  I have enjoyed my pot of FP and will now get on with other things for the day.