Quail Run Olympics begins

Well.... my part of the QR Olympics (QRO) started this morning. Don Walrath who lives in the Montana across the street with his beautiful bride Billie, wanted ping pong added to the QRO so a table was brought in. He did a great job getting people to sign up for the tournament. Don is known by many names from "Mouth from the South" (Idaho) to "Peacock of the Park" but whatever name he's known by, he always loves to make people laugh and see that they are having fun. Here his antics get him a little closer to his Silver Medal. Neither Snookie nor I made it to the platform, but you can ask anyone that saw us play... we were very entertaining. Snookie is a class act as she congratulates Martha. Just remember Snookie, your route to the loser's bracket was due to your game with the champion. I can't say I was beat by the Gold Medal winner, even though Donna was very good. Donna was so scared to play me, someone had to call her to come to the "table" from her house. (u believe that, i got some ocean front property....) We had too much fun and I wish I had a picture of my husband watching from the back of the room. Bless his heart.... I hope I didn't embarrass you too much, Hon. That's Donna consoling me because she "took me right passed the school house straight to the wood shed." That's a Snookie-ism for "she kicked my backside" (cleaned up a little bit.)Men's Gold Medal winner Bill Turner, Ladies Gold Medal winner Nancy Reid, Men's Silver Medalist Don Walrath and Ladies Silver Medalist Pat Turner. A fabulous, fantastic fun time was had by all and that's the .... of the ping pong tournament. Medal ceremony will be Saturday evening.

Quail Run Olympics begins

Before I get started reporting today's happenings, let me tell you what I forgot about yesterday. While I was getting ready for the day, Don was riding my bicycle around the block. That's right, you read right... Don was riding my bicycle. He got back to the "house" at the same time as I was getting ready to walk out the door. There he was trying to muster up the energy to climb the steps into the house, breathing rather heavy and rubbing his back side. You can imagine my concern: "What's the matter, Hon?" inhale "I" exhale "rode" inhale "the" exhale "bi" inhale "cycle." exhale Me: "What?!" Now, for everyone who has seen Don today... hmmmm.

I really do love to see him feeling better and I know it's so hard not to do things you feel like doing. It's easy to forget there are usually consequences for those choices. I gave him a hard time, but in all honesty, his lack of energy today is probably his blood pressure going to the low end. It's so hard to get the meds adjusted.

Today, the Quail Run Olympics started. While waiting for Ladies Bible study to begin, I walked around taking pictures of the different events going. The men and ladies were tossing horseshoes. Our neighbor, Bob Quinn, was an official for this event. The shuffleboard teams were engrossed. These are two games that I am going to experience before we leave here. I am clueless about shuffleboard and how it is scored. I know, I know.... Google it. Here's Kathy Weyer exhibiting great athletic form. Today was the last day of our ten week Beth Moore study, "To Live Is Christ." We have all thoroughly enjoyed it and have grown spiritually. We had about one half the class present today and they took me to Duffer's for lunch after class. LaVon, JoAnne & Alaina Nancy & Elaine. Elaine has done remarkably since her fall out of their RV. She even played nine holes of golf yesterday, walking the whole nine holes. Nancy is all tan from her week down at Rocky Point in Mexico. Jane & Nancy. Jane and hubby Ron are leaving in a few days for a tour of Israel. She is so excited about it and we are looking forward to her report and pictures when they return. Since the Olympics started here, we have very quickly learned that Nancy is VERY good at ping pong. When she showed up with her ping pong paddle in a zippered case, we knew the rest of us were in trouble. I played my first game this afternoon. Here's Margie, beating me. The truth is, I just didn't want to go into the winner's bracket with NANCY. Seriously, she's even beating most of the men that have been brave enough to play her. Go Nancy! This evening, we went over to Eloy A & M Pizza and ate dinner with Dave, Darlene, Carol & Steve. What absolutely delightful friends we are making here.

I almost forgot! The funny story for today: Snookie wasn't so lucky. She drew Nancy as her first game opponent. Unfortunately, I didn't see the game, but Snookie knocked on our door when she got back from her game. When I got to the door, there was the saddest face... "She KICKED my butt!!!" I laughed and asked, "Did she take you to school?" Snookie: "She took me right passed school and straight to the wood shed!" I'm still laughing. She's a hoot. I think she was serious about the butt kickin'.