This is Nicky giving our next door neighbor at Venice, Pat, some sugar.
Nicky really enjoyed Pat and Rob and so did we. Next year we are going to try to get in this same spot so we can visit more with all the lovely people we met in this park.

Each morning Nicky got to play with his friends Liam and Sadie. Jack and Mike and Lee had fun together too.

We are now in Peace River again and back to playing Pickle Ball with the group here.

The collage below is made up of pictures taken at the Pickle Ball Mixer at Dean and Margie's. What fun, good food, good conversation, music and line dancing.

Over the years as we've wintered in Florida we have made some really good friends--these are just a few of them.

We have not seen Will and Ella since Palm Springs last year. It is so good to see them again. We were invited over to their place and Ella had made a Pecan pie that is just out of this year!!! They introduced us to Steve and Lauree friends they have made along the way.

Venice, FL 2010

Here we are in Venice, FL. at the Rambler's Rest. We had been here a week when Jim and Tracy Tull arrived. We were able to get side by side sites. It's remained cooler but we have had several nice beach days.
This is one of the beach accesses we go to and as you can see we have it pretty much to ourselves.

Lee and I drove to Lemon Bay Park which was quite nice.

Nice places to sit and relax and nice trails to walk.

Nicky has had some really nice dogs to play with here. Liam, Sadie and Goldie. I don't have pictures of Sadie and Liam yet but Goldie a 2 year old Golden doodle is below and she is gorgeous.

Nicky loves her because she likes to play ball as much as he does.

Tracy fell in love with her too. She feels like silk.

One of the things I like about this park is this development which is close by. I take my 5 mile walk here with Nicky. Tracy is with us today.

Today we went to the Venice Area bird sanctuary. Lots and lots of birds.

This time of year they all have their babies.

This is where we play Pickle Ball while we are here. We have had some really good games with Jim and Tracy. The courts have a really nice finish on them.

As you can see, there is shade and a nice place to sit in between games.