ANDY , TAMMY , AUSTIN , AND "KIWI" COME TO THE VILLAGES

WE GOT OUR FIRST VISITORS THIS WEEK AND WE HAD A BALL. WE HAD A GOLF BALL , A BOCHI BALL , AND A TENNIS BALL.

WE ATE WELL AND DRANK EVEN BETTER.

NOTE: THE BIRD ON THE SIGN POST IS NO INDIGENOUS TO FLORIDA BUT MIGRATED WITH ANDY FROM NASHVILLE.

ITS NOT EASY BEING FIVE YEARS OLD!

THE HIGHLIGHT OF AUSTINS TRIP WAS HIS DAILY OR TWICE DAILY TRIP TO OUR HOT TUB. ANDY AND I HAD TO USE IT TO HELP EASE OUR ACHING JOINTS BUT AUSTIN USED IT AS HIS OWN PERSONAL POOL.

KEEP THE DOGS OUT OF THE HOT TUB!

GOLF / GOLF / GOLF

ANDY AND I PLAYED GOLF EVERY DAY AND TAMMY JOINED US ONE DAY FOR NINE HOLES. THE WEATHER WAS PERFECT , THE COURSE'S WERE GREAT AND WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIT THE BALL MANY MANY MANY TIMES.

WE RENTED A GOLF CART FOR ANDY ,TAMMY AND AUSTIN DUE TO THE FACT YOU CANT GO ANYWHERE IN THE VILLAGES WITHOUT ONE .AS YOU CAN IMAGINE WE CONSTANTLY HAD TO TRY AND RUN EACH OTHER OFF THE ROAD ON A DAILY BASES. GROW UP!

BOCHI BALL

NO TRIP TO A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY WOULD BE COMPLETE WITH OUT AN EXCITING GAME OF BOCHI BALL . THIS GAME RATES RIGHT UP THEIR WITH WATCHING THE GRASS GROW BUT IT DOES NOT TAKE A LOT OF ATHLETIC ABILITY EITHER.

WE OF COURSE WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE PLAYING BOCHI BALL WITH A LARGE SUPPLY OF COLD BEER TO ASSIT OUR GAME.

TENNIS ANYONE

AS YOU CAN SEE WE ALSO EXPANDED OUR ACTIVITIES TO TENNIS AND THIS ALSO REQUIRED THAT I GO OUT AND PURCHASE THREE MORE RACQUET'S SO WE COULD ALL PLAY. I MUST SAY I WAS EXTREMELY IMPRESSED WITH THE ABILITY OF ANDY AND TAMMIE WHO HAD NOT PLAYED FOR A LONG TIME. SANDY ALSO DID QUITE WELL ALSO AND WE HAD A GOOD GAME AND SOME EXTENDED VOLLEY'S

I DOUBT THAT THE TENNIS PROS WITH THEIR NOSE UP THEIR BUTTS WOULD APPROVE OF THE ATTIRE AND THE STYLE BUT THEN AGAIN _ _ _ _ THEM!

A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THE ROGER AND SUSAN

WE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW ANDY WHERE ROGER AND SUSAN LIVE IN THE VILLAGES WHEN THEY SHOW UP (MAYBE OR TWO MONTHS A YEAR)
HE WAS SO IMPRESSED THAT HE INSISTED ON LEAVING THEM A CHRISTMAS PRESENT ON THE FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE.

EVERYONE WANTS TO MARK THEIR TERRITORY!

MY FACE CAUGHT ON FIRE AND THEY PUT IT OUT WITH A PITCHFORK

My last post I mentioned I would expand on the subject of getting old and my plans to live to be 166 years old. As I scanned some of our recent pictures I found this "head shot" and turned it into a cartoon just to view myself as others see me... maybe?

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.Intellectual blemishes, like facial ones, grow more prominent with age.

At twenty we worry about what others think of us; at forty we don't care about what others think of us; at sixty we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.

The amazing thing is that the longer I live in the "Villages" all these old people don't look as old as they did when I arrived. Last week I decided to get back into tennis of which I was quite good at when I was younger, I took a few refreshing lessons from the club pro and offered to substitute as needed on some of the leagues. The results were that I got a groin pull and tennis elbow and sat in the hot tub for two days. Some of these old guys are in great shape!

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

NO LIP JOKES PLEASE

My lips are my birthright and they are the only thing that are remaining the same on my body as i get older.We all know that men get better looking with age. Brad, George, Harrison, Sean, even Jack, to name a few. You may expect them to get sexier as the decades go by, but i doubt that to be a fact.

Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten.The thing is "Old age comes at a bad time."

WHAT IS THIS ? ITS OLD AGE IN MOTION!

I will let you ponder this image before i explain. Hopefully you are not eating dinner as you view this fine example of old age in motion. Although I plan to live to be 166 years old I find that some parts o f my body have not yet got the message and continue to pursue what they think is only destiny.

Some of you may remember, I was so afraid to turn sixty—well, I was and I had every right to be! It’s everything they said it was and more. The nineteen-year-old inside me took off like a bat out of hell, I guess he finally threw in the towel.