Pups at Play at Thousand Trails Orlando

We're at Thousand Trails Orlando for about nine days and have been enjoying the familiar feel of the place. Here we see friends we've met who, like us, return to TTO every year. It's only an hour from Lazydays and the Crown Club, so we can pop down there once in a while for an omelet breakfast and happy hour. The biggest change for us this year is not seeing our friends Audrey and Dave who have returned to the world of working (what's up with that??) and Pat and John who are enjoying the warmth of Arizona. We are parked near Jim and Janice, TREK club friends from NC. Ironically, Jim and Janice now own an SOB (some other brand), as do we, but still are welcome at TREK events.

The weather continues to warm and is now much like we expect it to be in central Florida. Myron hooked up the satellite dish and the DIRECTV receiver. We can now receive over 500 channels, however, the majority of them are either junk or pay-per-view. Unfortunately, due to DIRECTV policy and silly FCC rules, we cannot receive any of the major networks, such as NBC, ABC, etc. This means we cannot receive Jeopardy or NCIS, our favorites, over the dish. Where we are now we have good over-the-air reception , so it's not a problem, but when we are parked in the boonies, we will be limited to syndicated reruns, old movies, news channels and a number of special interest channels. Better than nothing, but we sure will miss Alex, Jethro and Abby.

Matilda has been playing with old friends and has made new friends. Tipper, the Poodle/Border Collie (a poo-der?) and her family are parked on our "street" so they've been having a blast playing and running. We also have short plays with Sunshine who is a 9 year old male Australian Shepherd. Their play has to be brief since Sunshine gets really tired and sore after "Matilda time." Matilda's newest friend is Maija an 11 month old English Shepherd. She is taller and longer than Matilda with a big tail and about 11 pounds heavier. If you didn't know different, you would think Maija was as Aussie. Check out the video of them playing.

They run and tussle like Matilda and her NC Aussie friends. Oh, yeah, Maija is a digger too.

Matilda isn't the only one getting her exercise... Myron's playing pickleball again (Pat and John, we miss you!) and I've been joining a 3 mile walking fit class.