F-U-N!
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 15-30 snowbirds plunge into the chilly, chlorinated pool to have F-U-N!
This is my third-year wintering in the Florida Keys. Keyzee pool volleyball is one simple pleasure I’ve allowed myself this year while focusing on draft two of Finding Joy in the East. Goal-setting guru Jon Acuff challenges people to make goals measurable and fun, but also to set fun goals.
Sometimes, the age gap is over sixty years. What other sport or setting would you see a large group of teenagers and eighty-somethings competing for fun? It’s such a pleasure to see eighty-year-olds sometimes “schooling” visiting college-aged grandchildren.
The rules are simple:
• Do whatever it takes to get the ball over the net.
• Each player and team can hit the ball any way they want, as many times as needed.
• To remain in play, the ball must stay in the pool, above the water, and in the shallow end.
• If players miss their first serve, they get a do-over.
• The first team to score eleven points wins. Teams switch sides after each game.
• No arguing with the scorekeeper. She’s a volunteer and a retired math teacher.
We laugh and joke and cheer from beginning to end. I dream of former students enjoying games like this Keyzee version of volleyball. Of course, no one wants to be the one to end the volley, not because we need to win, but because we secretly hope to set a world record for the longest volley in snowbird volleyball history. That record will never happen, though. The players don’t want to hear the volley count, and the writer of this blog can’t count unless she’s counting out loud. So, for now, I will focus on having fun, for fun’s sake. Not every goal has to be measurable, right?
So, what is your one simple pleasure? What do you like to do just for F-U-N?
*Photo by Anita
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Joy M. Walker
March 12, 2026 @ 3:06 pm
I love those rules! Or lack of…LOL.
March 12, 2026 @ 10:09 pm
Just fun, huh? You would love it.
March 12, 2026 @ 4:30 pm
Now that I have a grandson, each week we drive an hour to get him for the day. Recently, we taught him how to play “Shut the Box”, a good and simple math game.
He loves it, and it is not uncommon for him to win. Simple pleasure!
March 12, 2026 @ 10:10 pm
Keep building those fun times with that little one.
March 12, 2026 @ 8:12 pm
Watching you play is fun too!
March 12, 2026 @ 10:12 pm
Like children who want adults to watch them play, I love it when you watch. Thanks for your support.
March 15, 2026 @ 5:15 pm
I love those FUN rules!
March 15, 2026 @ 5:45 pm
Don’t cha, though!?