Wednesday 10-16-24 Two Dances, Games & Crafting

 

Cooling Off

We had a cool day with a high of 70 degrees. It's suppose to be a little cool for a few days. Then it's suppose to get back in the 90's. 

We had an awesome day. We didn't have much that needed to be done so we just had fun. 

Larry finished working on a Halloween card today, he mailed it out. The card came out very cute. Saturday afternoon we mailed out three Draculas and three Frankenstiens. Louise and his mother received their packages yesterday. Louise called Larry to thank him as soon as she got her package. His mother e-mailed us she received her package. We were surprised they received them so quickly considering Monday was a holiday and we didn't mail them out until late Saturday. 

 

Frankenstein and Dracula

 

Halloween card

I attended two virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour. They took turns calling five tips to 11 participants. They worked on the diamond formations of cutting and cutting the diamond. Di worked on Spin Chain the Gears, Spin Chain the Gears and Exchange the Gears, Coordinate and Spin Chain Thru. I had a great hour of dancing with friends.

Second was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 8 participants, three tips of A2 to 9 participants and in between the A2 tips we had two Trivial questions. Dave called an extra tip because he had six more sequences he didn't call. He worked on the concept of replace the two circulations in Scoot and Plenty with Quarter Thru and Flip Back. I had a super evening of dancing with friends.

 

Having fun with friends

 

In between the dances I worked out with the Synth Riders for an hour

Larry played pinball while I worked out. He had a great time. When he finished I played four games of pinball. They were Fun House, Theater of Magic, Black Rose and Elvira House of Horrors. I didn't get on the board on any of the games but I had fun.

 

Black Rose

 

Elvira House of Horrors

 

Fun House

Theatre of Magic

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 10 games. It took me 1 hour, 32 minutes and 52 seconds, which put me in 23rd place in my group.

After the second dance we finished watching the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. After Larry went to bed I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.

 

 

  

Tuesday 10-15-24 Dancing, Crafting, Games & Having Fun

 

Happy Tuesday

We had a wonderful day of having fun. It got into the mid 90's.

We started the day out by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance at 10:00 for an hour. Di and Terry took turns calling five tips to 14 participants. Di worked on Right Turn and Deal and Left Turn and Deal. Di and Terry danced with us and this helped a lot. They also cued the moves through out the dance. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We had an outstanding time dancing with friends.

Get a partner and dance

After the dance we went to town, Larry wanted to renew his library card at the Temple Library and he wanted to mail a card to Chris and Joe Saltel. 

Before going to the post office and library we went to lunch. We decided to try out Cotton Patch Cafe in Temple. It was our first time to eat at a Cotton Patch. It is a chain restaurant with locations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. We shared a bacon cheese burger and fries. The food was good and the service was great. 

The Cotton Patch Cafe is located in the local mall so after eating we walked around the mall. The mall has been struggling for years. We saw a few stores still there but no one was shopping in them. The mall itself is falling apart.

After lunch we went to the post office and mailed the card.

When we first moved to the area we wanted to get a library card. Our mailing address is in Belton but we live in the county outside of the city limits. The Belton library wouldn't let us join because we didn't live in the city. Temple would let anyone join their library for free. Today they let us renew the card but said since we live outside the city limits we would have to pay $30 a year to check anything out. No idea when they change their policy. This was a little disappointing. We seldom use the library but there is a book Larry wanted to read and they have a copy. The E-Book is available to purchase via Amazon for a reasonable price so he will probably do that.

 

 

 

Temple Library 

 

 

When we got back home I worked out with the Synth Riders for an hour.

 

 

 

Working out is fun

 

After working out I played pinball. I used the Random button, where the cabinet chooses three games to play. They were Game of Thrones, Goldeneye and Terminator 3. While playing Game of Thrones I entered my initials as the 4th high score and Terminator 3 I entered my initials as the 3rd high score. I also played the weekly challenge Elvira House of Horrors and got a new high score of 6,143,060, which put me in 16th place out of 26 participants.

 

 

 

Elvira House of Horrors

 

 

 

Game of Thrones

 

 

 

Goldeneye

 

 

 

Terminator 3

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 19 minutes and 32 seconds, which put me in 5th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.

 

I worked on my diamond painting.

 

In the evening we continued watching the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Amazon. Then I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.

 

 

  

Monday 10-14-24 Dancing, Crafting & Games

 

Happy Monday

We had a super day. It got up to 90 degrees. We hung around the house all day.

We started the day off by going to Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di and Terry were back from Germany and everyone was happy to see them. Di called five tips to 14 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We went fifteen minutes over because the dancers were very talkative in between the tips. Larry and I had a great time dancing with friends.

Get a partner and dance

Yesterday when Larry was working on the Minnie he dropped a nut and was unable to find it. This morning he bent a clothes hanger and used it to probe where he thought the nut may have fallen, he used the clothes hanger to try and sweep the area and push the nut to the back. The nut did not fall out but he crawled under the Minnie and with a flash light he could now see it and was able to use the clothes hanger to drag it out. He was happy he didn't have to run around to get the replaceable nut nor worry about where the old nut went.

Larry spent the morning cleaning up his workroom and organizing his paper crafting things. After lunch he started to organize things for his next paper project.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. I was stuck on one of the Solitaire game and it took me hours before I solved it. I did the event, which was Event: Pyramid Mini of 5 games. It took me 10 minutes and 50 seconds, which put me in 15th place in my group. I didn't playing any Angry Birds challenges yesterday but I did have a chance to do them today.

Playing Angry Birds

I worked out with the Synth Riders for an hour.

 

Working out

 

Then I moved onto playing pinball. I played five games. They were Black Rose, Dirty Harry and three Elvira games (Elvira Party Monsters, Elvira House of Horrors and Scare Stiff). When playing Dirty Harry I became Grand Champion. I had a great afternoon playing games. 

Black Rose

Dirty Harry

Elvira House of Horrors

Elvira Party Monsters

Elvira Scared Stiff

I worked on my diamond painting.

In the evening we started watching the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. We already watched it but we wanted to refresh our memory before watching the second season. When Larry went to bed I watched Rogue One: A Star Wars Story from our movies collection. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in first place in my group.

Sunday 10-13-24 Plus Square Dancing, Minnie Project & Games

 

Awesome Day

It was a hot day with a high of 102 degrees. It felt like a summer day instead of a fall day. I can hardly wait for the temperatures to drop.

Keeping cool under the air conditioner

We started the day out by going outside and doing a Minnie project. The front air bags came in yesterday so Larry decided to replace them this morning. He wanted to do this before it got hot. To start the job he had to jack the Minnie up and remove the top shock absorber nut. The airbags go inside of the front springs, in order to replace them he had to unhook the airlines and remove the springs. To get the old bags out he had to cut them into pieces. Then he deflated the new bags and stuffed them inside the springs. Then he reassembled everything and put air in the bags. He checked to make sure them didn't leak. One did but he found the leak and fixed it. 

While Larry was removing the shock nuts he dropped one and can't find it. We went to town to get a replacement nut. First stop was O'Reilly Auto Parts, they didn't one, nor did Auto Zone. Then we stopped by Taco Bell and had lunch. After lunch we went to Ace Hardware Store. They also didn't have the nut. Tomorrow he will decide what to do about getting the nut.

New air bags for the Minnie

The old air bag

 I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Spider and 5 Free Cell). It took me 1 hour, 30 minutes and 56 seconds, which put me in 11th place in my group.

Then I played last week challenge of pinball Deadpool. I didn't get a new high score but I came in 26th place out of 62 participants. The new weekly challenge is Elvira House of Horrors. Larry downloaded the game and installed it in both 2D and Virtual Reality. I played it and got a high score of 1,901710, which put me in 11th out of 12 participants. But we still have to six more days.

 

 

 

High score in Deadpool

 

 

High score in Elvira House of Horrors

 

I workout with the Synth Riders for an hour.

 

Working out

 

In the evening we did something special. We went to Sun City to dance with the Sundancers for their Plus dance from 6:00 to 8:00. We had exactly enough people for two squares. Gary Bible worked on Tea Cup Chain, Relay the Duecey, Spin Chain the Gears, Spin Chain the Gears and Exchange and Chase Right and Left. Everyone was happy to see us considering we hadn't danced with them since COVID happened. This was the first time we danced to Gary and had a great time.

 

Dancing with friends

When we got home we watched YouTube videos. When Larry went to bed I watched The Little Mermaid and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea form our movies collection. I ended up doing 16,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group for the week with a total of 121,264 steps.

 

 

   

Saturday 10-12-24 Paper Crafting, Diamond Painting & Games

 

Happy Saturday

We had an awesome day.

Larry started the day out by finishing up on his Halloween crafting project. 

 

Frankenstein and Dracula

 

I started the day out by finishing up my diamond painting project of a sunset and flowers. Then I started another one, which is robins.

 

Finished project

 

New diamond painting project

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Pyramid and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 22 minutes and 38 seconds, which put me in 36th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.

After lunch we went to town. We checked our mail at the UPS Store. Then we went to Walmart to pickup bread. While there we went to the Pharmacy and got our Flu and COVID vaccines.

 

Doing errands

 

When we got home I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour. 

Then I played four games of pinball: The Little Mermaid, Dirty Harry, Elvira Party Monsters and Deadpool. Larry loaded the The Little Mermaid on the pinball cabinet. He had a hard time getting it to work. Once he got it to work he converted the game to VR. It worked well but it is an old style game. It is gorgeous but we're into games with more action, sounds and call outs. I liked it but I know I wouldn't play it much and we already have a lot of games. In the end he deleted it. I got to enter my initials in Elvira Party Monsters as the 4th high score player. I didn't get a new high score in Deadpool, which left me in 24th place out of 50 participants.

 

Deadpool

 

Dirty Harry

 

Elvira Party Monsters

 

Little Mermaid

In the evening we finished watching the fourth season of Van Der Valt. Then I watched Armageddon out of our movies collect. I ended up doing 17,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 10-11-24 Equinox Project, Crafting, Dancing & More

 

Have fun it's Friday

 

We had a great day of doing this and that.

Larry started the day working on the Equinox. The other day when Larry went to replace the battery he found that the positive cable had a lot of corrosion on it. The battery is located in a compartment hidden under a large computer module so there is noway to see the corrosion buildup. He said he had never seen so much acid buildup. Once he got the corrosion cleaned off he discovered the cable clamp was severely eaten away. He ordered a new cable and it came in yesterday. This morning he replaced it. The cable has two large leads, one goes to the starter, the other to the main fuse block. To get to the starter he had to use his new jack to raise the car. Once he got the cable out he fed the new one in the old ones place. Then he put the battery case back in the car. He put the new battery in the car. Then he lowered the car and started it. It started right up. He connected the battery to the battery charger just to make sure that the battery was fully charged. Then he put all his tools away. Now we just have return the old battery to Walmart to get the core money back. 

 

Equinox project

 

Cable Larry replaced

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. Then I did the event, which was Event: Free Cell Adventure of 20 games. It took me 2 hours, 38 minutes and 26 seconds, which put me in 10th place in my group. 

After doing the Equinox project Larry went back to paper crafting. Today he worked on another Halloween creation, which was Frankenstein. Frankenstein is another joint character. Larry shrunk it down a bit. Then he chose paper he wanted to use. He didn't have a plaid paper so he found one he liked and printed it out on the inkjet printer. Once he got all the pieces cut out he assembled it. It came out very cute.

Frankenstein

I played five games of pinball. I played the weekly challenge of Deadpool. I didn't get a new high score but did very well. The other four games were James Bond Dr. No, James Bond 60th Anniversary, James Bond Goldeneye and Mission Impossible. While playing the 60th Anniversary games I put my initials at the 4th high score. I had great day of playing pinball.

 

Dr. No

 

Goldeneye

60th Anniversary

 

Mission Impossible

 

I also continued working on my diamond painting project.

In the evening I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. This was her last dance for a couple of weeks because she going on a cruise. She called four tips to 9 participants. We just danced and I had a great time with friends.

 

 Get a partner and dance

 

After the dance we finished watching the second season of Ridley on PBS. Then we started watching the fourth season of Van Der Valt, which is another detective series. It's takes place in Amsterdam. After Larry went to bed I watched Pinocchio starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Pinocchio. The movie was from our movies collection. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 2nd place in my group.

 

 

Relaxing in front of the television