Did you play today?

[meganfernandez]

It is a beautiful court...sometimes when I get to the court, I am greeted by this ...I try to avoid sweeping them away..of course but...

Flower petals?

[ashkor87]

Yes..Jacaranda from the tree behind the court

[ponchi101]

It's a dirt court so you are going to slide on it anyway.
5:30. The only way for me to get out of bed at that time (other than work) is arson. I applaud you.

[meganfernandez]

It's a dirt court so you are going to slide on it anyway.
5:30. The only way for me to get out of bed at that time (other than work) is arson. I applaud you.

A flight is the only thing that gets me out of bed that early.

[dave g]

It's a dirt court so you are going to slide on it anyway.
5:30. The only way for me to get out of bed at that time (other than work) is arson. I applaud you.

My cats do that (wake me up at 5:30) to me on a regular basis.

I managed to play some doubles last night. It wasn't very pretty. I am still adapting to the change in glasses prescirptions. I played most of my tennis 25 years ago with a different glasses prescription. For the last couple of years, when I restarted playing tennis with a newer prescrition, the ball is about 2-3 inches closer to me than it would have been using my old prescription. So the new prescription is great for pickleball, but not so good for tennis. But this time, I framed relatively few of my volley, which is a sign of improvement.

[ponchi101]

Silly question, but have you tried contacts? I was never able to play with glasses; they bounced too much of my nose.

[dave g]

Silly question, but have you tried contacts? I was never able to play with glasses; they bounced too much of my nose.

I used contacts for a while, but I ran into problem putting my left contact in. My right contact went in easily, but I would have to work for about a minute to get me left contact to go in. So I changed to glasses. I had worn glasses most of my life, so going back to them was easy. My glasses stay on unless I have done something unusual like slip and fall.

[meganfernandez]

Silly question, but have you tried contacts? I was never able to play with glasses; they bounced too much of my nose.

I used contacts for a while, but I ran into problem putting my left contact in. My right contact went in easily, but I would have to work for about a minute to get me left contact to go in. So I changed to glasses. I had worn glasses most of my life, so going back to them was easy. My glasses stay on unless I have done something unusual like slip and fall.

I don't know how you play with glasses. Don't they fog up, and doesn't sweat drip on the lenses? I changed my contact prescription recently and have the same vision issues. I lose the ball all the time.

[ashkor87]

It's a dirt court so you are going to slide on it anyway.
5:30. The only way for me to get out of bed at that time (other than work) is arson. I applaud you.

Our court is booked for us all year round from 6 am to 8 am.. and it is much more fun to play in the morning than the evening, at least for me, I am usually too tired by the time evening comes..
most working people cannot control their evening hours, work has a habit of dragging on, mornings are controllable - so many reasons to play in the morning..
we water the court every day before playing so it isnt slippy-slidy..

[ashkor87]

today, a coconut fell from the tree .. if it had fallen on someone's head..! we are now looking into how to get them plucked regularly..

[meganfernandez]

today, a coconut fell from the tree .. if it had fallen on someone's head..! we are now looking into how to get them plucked regularly..

Did it land in or out?

[ponchi101]

today, a coconut fell from the tree .. if it had fallen on someone's head..! we are now looking into how to get them plucked regularly..

Did it land in or out?

Ashkor thought it was in, but the challenge showed it was out

[ashkor87]

If I had been scrambling to reach the ball...
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[dave g]

Silly question, but have you tried contacts? I was never able to play with glasses; they bounced too much of my nose.

I used contacts for a while, but I ran into problem putting my left contact in. My right contact went in easily, but I would have to work for about a minute to get me left contact to go in. So I changed to glasses. I had worn glasses most of my life, so going back to them was easy. My glasses stay on unless I have done something unusual like slip and fall.

I don't know how you play with glasses. Don't they fog up, and doesn't sweat drip on the lenses? I changed my contact prescription recently and have the same vision issues. I lose the ball all the time.

One of the results of living in northeastern Minnesota is that it very seldom gets hot enough to generate enough sweat to obscure glasses, or fog them up. That may have happened occassionally while I was still living in Charleston, SC. I did use a towel much more often when living in Charleston.

[ashkor87]

I normally wear glasses but play tennis without them.. trauma from getting hit in the face by a stray ball, the glasses can make the injury worse..so now I do without ..can see perfectly well ..and of course easier in the mild drizzle we get here..with glasses you cannot play st all..
The weather here is like that..never rains hard, just drizzle ..continuously.