The only certain thing in life is CHANGE (well maybe taxes too)

As I get ready for our first tennis match of the season I find it is interesting to look back at the past and remember.  "For sure" sometimes remembering brings back sadness as well as happy memories.  This picture is of our team party WAY back in 2015.  The history is this:

• one person has died
• two players are not playing any more
• one player is at a different club
• one player can not play any more because of health reasons
• one player is playing at the same level we were at but my team has moved up one level
• one of the players is on my 2019 fall team
• The gal in the pink and her husband behind her are our two pros

So time marches on, life changes, good and bad happen but in spite of it all we thank God for life and live each day knowing it is a gift from God.

Our first team tennis match of the fall is at Copperleaf tennis club today.  We will play at 2 PM when the temperature is supposed to be 88 with humidity of 97%.  Should be fun!!!  

As I was looking for a picture today I thought what better picture for today than this team picture.  I was actually surprised to see that ONE guy is still on the team.  AND he is only on the team because we are short this fall.  He was on my team for a couple of years and then opted off as he felt he did not get to play enough and with the right guys.  As I look back he was right and I was wrong.  One could also call Naples a kind of melting pot of people.  Of the couples here they are from places like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Illinois and Colorado!  There is only one couple that is here year around and of course the pros are here as well.

As I write the screen people are here.  They will re screen the top of the cage, take out the south screen entirely and then put a cap that one can open so a person can get up and clean the gutters.  They will do 95% of the work today and finish tomorrow.  They require they get paid in cash, I wonder why?

Enough for now.  The FP is totally gone, the experiment with breakfast sandwiches is finished and the homemade one beat the frozen one hands down.  I will eat something about noon today, drink 16 oz of water with something called Liquid I.V. in and then hope for the best on the court.  May the best team win and may it be mine!!!  I may have said this before but this fall I will mix players up, play them on different courts and with different people with the idea that this is the fall but really it is spring training for the winter!