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Originally Posted by CFrance
We are not big party people, and we don't golf. We also don't enjoy large groups but prefer to have a few close friends to do things with occasionally, as opposed to partying with "80 of our closest friends." We have found common enjoyment in pickleball and enjoy the people we've played with, and I like to walk the dog (after dark because he's big and gets hot in the sun) and do some exercise classes. My husband likes model trains and enjoys that club and also volunteers for SCORE, a part of the SBA. And we go to a few Three Rivers Club functions. That's not a whole lot, but it's our comfort level. We enjoy our home and especially the lanai and front porch in the mornings and evenings, and we spend a lot of time reading and surfing the net.
We've gotten to know and love our next-door neighbors, but not too many others; it's a quiet street. We're fine with all of that. We like to make friends coincidentally and not determinedly. (Is that a word?) We just went to our first TOTV meet-up at Crispers after a year of being on this forum, and we met some very ice people.
When we feel like doing something different, it's time to do it. No pressure.
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We don't go out to the clubs at night, we frequently have small groups to our house to eat. I love to cook and I can hear conversation better in the quiet of my home and I love to hear what people have to say and to laugh until my sides ache.
We used to drink more than we do now but I find that as we get a little older that many of us are finding we are cutting back for a variety of reasons. I can't think of anyone in our very small (53 home) ONE year old village who go to the square much at all. Many were second time home owners here and many moved from other areas of Florida.
We love to play golf, cards, I love my art classes. Sitting on our front porch sometimes gathers a little party of walkers and we will share cookies and coffee with them on a nice evening. We have dine arounds and potlucks in our little village and because we are so isolated we have a "Mail Kiosk" party once a month, just us residents of our Village. We will bring snacks and desserts to share and folding chairs and some even come and sit in their golf carts.
We have a knitting group, mahjong, bunco, poker, all in our neighborhood.
I am blessed to play Golf with a very special group of ladies who have become my very close friends out of the neighborhood on Friday.
This is the most amazing place. I get up, read the paper and read TOTV and then do a bunch of other stuff and it is time to think about supper.
Sweetie says the same thing, four o clock comes so much quicker here than any other place we have lived.
I just love it.