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Southampton, England English Open Pickleball Tournament This will be one of my personal favorite posts ever, and I hope you enjoy it. It’s covers two days at the English Open Pickleball Tournament and it's about a couple of the funnest and the best days I've had in my 5+ years of playing pickleball. We showed up in Southampton, hired our car (that’s "rented" for the Americans :-), and checked in to our newest pet sit. We are taking care of Balou the cat, a beautiful Russian B

We were out walking Basie, our current most favorite dog that we were pet sitting, on a lovely shaded trail in Park City, Utah. I was thinking about my pets growing up. My father grew up in the middle-of-nowhere east Texas on land that has been in our family since my great-great grandfather homesteaded Spanish land grant land. He was a hunter and fisherman as the generations before him had been, not for recreation, but out of necessity. Grandaddy and Grandma on the family far

Pickleball Lesson with Pro Suzee Anderson in Orem, Utah

The Coffeys2Go are back on the road and it has been a busy two months of pet sitting and pickleball mixed in with other adentures.

For my recent big decade birthday on September 19th, Ky asked me what I would like for a gift. Because we're nomads and we don't have room for much stuff, my answer made life very easy for him. He hates to shop and gift giving is just not his love language. If you're not sure what that means, take a look at this Amazon affiliate link - Believe me, this book saved our marriage early on. We just had our 32nd anniversary, so there is definitely something to it! I asked for a pic

California during a heat wave, massive fires & resulting smoke on top of the coronavirus made for an unusual couple of pet sits.

The Coffeys2Go had to make quick decisions in Columbia, South America on where to go as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Happy New Year! Can you see clearly what 2020 will bring? Here we are already firmly over our New Year's Resolutions, and on with our lives. It has been a really long time since I blogged. I've been a tad bit busy, my bandwidth for writing, in large part, taken up by working on writing a book. More on that in a future post. We are back in our home in Ahwatukee. So Very Strange! We haven't lived in this house for two years, really 4 1/2 years if you go back to when we first b

A pet sit in Nottingham, England for two dogs named Izzy and Jessie turned out to be in a most interesting location near a former gate house

We were not hard pressed to accept the invitation to return to one of our favorite pets and places when asked to by pet owners Vivien and Mark. They live in Teddington, just outside of London. We first sat for them in late September, just nine months earlier. They had invited us to return to pet sit so that they could go away to celebrate their 25th anniversary. It was an effortlessly easy decision, and before we had a chance to say yes, the deal was sweetened with an offer o

Rudgear Park in Walnut Creek, CA is an awesome place to play pickleball on their 8 dedicated courts.