pickleball – Out of the Wilderness

Pickleball on Garmin Watch

I’ve been playing pickleball pretty consistently for the last few weeks and while I’ve inched forward in my skills, the most interesting part is looking at the maps recorded on my Garmin watch. To record this, I just set up a new “activity” because as far as I know there isn’t a pickleball setting onContinue reading “Pickleball on Garmin Watch”

I have a DUPR rating! But what does that even mean?

If you would’ve asked me just a few months ago what a DUPR rating is, I would’ve probably tried to be inventive. It’s the hurricane strength level of a house. The probability of an online dating profile getting a date. How brown a banana is. Nope, none of those. It’s a pickleball player’s rank inContinue reading “I have a DUPR rating! But what does that even mean?”

5-Photo Friday #11 – The Natural and Unnatural World Around Me

This installation of 5-Photo Friday is a glimpse at what I saw when I walked around the family property. Just a moment in time, lasting only an hour at the most and I got to see some cool things. Check them out… The dragonfly. Plotting its next move and getting a tan at the sameContinue reading “5-Photo Friday #11 – The Natural and Unnatural World Around Me”

Are we really doing pickleball shoes now? Skechers says yes!

Yesterday I saw a pickleball shoe commercial. Is this really where we are now? I definitely did NOT have pickleball shoe on my 2023 bingo card. Of course, crazier things have happened even just this year*, but I think we’re going to look back on this commercial and laugh… the same way I did whenContinue reading “Are we really doing pickleball shoes now? Skechers says yes!”