Thursday 1-16-25 Mini Pinball Cabinet Decals, Playing Pinball & Fairy Diamond Painting

 

We had a gorgeous day of sunshine and no wind. The low was 38 degrees and the high was 65 degrees. 

We spent the morning working on the mini pinball cabinet. I helped Larry put the graphics on the bottom of the cabinet. The graphics were in three pieces. First we started with the front piece. Larry trimmed it and then pressed it on the front. As he pressed the piece on I slowly removed the backing and held the piece up so it didn't stick or get bubbles. Once the piece was in place Larry cut the holes out where the buttons and plunger go and trimmed the piece back. Next he touched up the edges with a paint marker. We used the same procedure for the two sides. It came out excellent.

Front decal 

 

Side decals

 

Larry trimming decal after it was installed

Larry touching up the edges

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 12 minutes and 17 seconds, which put me in 13th place in my group. I played Angry Birds.

I got my Wii Fit out and did my measurements. 

In the afternoon I took a nap.

While I was napping Larry applied clear paint over the decals to protect them from getting damaged. He applied five coats to each of them. 

When I woke up we went to Walmart to buy more clear paint. Then we went across the street to Dollar Tree to buy some cookies and bleach for the septic.

When we got home I played seven games of pinball. They were White Water, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek The Next Generation, Aerosmith, NASCAR, The Machine Bride of Pin Bot and Spider-Man. While playing NASCAR I became the Grand Champion and The Machine Bride of Pin Bot I became high score #4. I did very well considering I had played in a couple of days.

 

Aerosmith

 

Guardians of the Galaxy

 

NASCAR

 

Star Trek the Next Generation

 

The Machine Bride of Pin Bot

White Water

 

I worked on my Fairy diamond painting.

In the evening we continued watching the fifth season of Creatures Small & Great on PBS. Then I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.

    

 

Wednesday 1-15-25 Dancing, Dentist, VR Room & Diamond Painting

 

We had a wonderful day. The morning temperature was 44 degrees and got up to 64 degrees. 

Larry spent part of the day working on making a VR room for Superman and the Justice League. He got the pinball cabinet and the actual room working. The next step is to put graphics on the cabinet in the room. He is having a great time doing this project.

Before my dances I worked on the Fairy diamond painting.

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 12 participants. One of the couples out of Florida (Dawn and Charles) made elephants out of gallon jugs of milk for their dance. The theme is for a Big Top Circus. Dawn used fabric to cover the jugs. They came out very cute. We just danced and when we had a problem Di and Terry would walk us their the move. Di helped us by cueing the moves. I had a great time.

 

Dawn showing her purple elephant

 

Dawn showing another elephant off

 

I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour.

I didn't attend Ett's Weekly C1 dance because I had to go to the dentist. My appointment was at 1:00 to get the back lower right side molar removed. It took Dr. John over an hour to remove most of the molar and Dr. Littlefield finished it up. It took them an hour and a half to remove the tooth. Dr. John said usually the tooth would have come out in three pieces but today the tooth broke into 14 different pieces. Dr. John said it took so long because the roots were twisted. Dr. Littlefield finished up the tooth and stitched it up and said before he would put the implant I would have to wait six months. He wanted to make sure it heeled right. I have to eat soft things for the next two days.

 

Time to remove a tooth

On the way home we stopped by HEB to pickup a prescription. While we were there we picked up a couple of things we were getting low on.

 

Shopping at HEB

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Mini of 10 games. It took me 30 minutes and 5 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

Last night and this afternoon I cut up peppers, onions, sausage links and potato to make a bake for dinner. I have made this before. I didn't have the bake but Larry did. He said it was good but a little bland. Maybe I'll had some hot sauce to it to spice it up.

 

Sausage, Peppers, Onions and Potato Bake

 

At 6:00 I attended Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped him call the dance. During the C1 session of three tips they called for 7 participants. During the A2 session of three tips they called for 8 participants. In between the A2 tips we did two Trivia questions. It was Greg's birthday so we sang Happy Birthday to him. I had a fun evening of dancing to Dave, Karin and Greg and with friends.

In the evening we started watching the fifth season of Creatures Great & Small on PBS. Then I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me 3rd place in my group.

Maybe tomorrow I will play pinball and Bounce Arcade. I'm not sure about the Synth Riders because I have to take it easy on working out for a couple of days.

  

 

Tuesday 1-14-25 A2 Dancing & Games

 

It's a beautiful day

We had another cold day with the low of 30 degrees and the high of 58 degrees. The wind was down and a lot of sunshine.

Larry is waiting on the paint to cure on the mini pinball cabinet so he started playing with virtual reality rooms for the pinball games.

I started the day out by doing a little preparation for a bake I'm planning to make. The dish is sausage, peppers, onions and potato bake. I cut up some sausage and red and yellow peppers. Tomorrow I will cut up the onions and potato and finish making the dish.

At 10:00 Larry and I attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance for an hour. Di and Terry took turns calling five tips to 13 participants. Di worked on Right & Left Turn and Deal and Right & Left Pass and Roll. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We had a great time dancing with friends.

After lunch we went to dance A2 in Liberty Hills at Bob and Kay Ski's house. The dance started at 1:00 and finished at 3:00. It took us an hour and fifteen minutes to get there so we had to leave at 11:30. The caller was John Kephart out of San Antonio. He did a super job of calling the dance. We had exactly two squares and had a great time.

 

 

Get a partner and dance

We were home by 4:30. I fixed leftovers for dinner. We watched YouTube videos.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Klondike Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 17 minutes and 15 seconds, which put me in 16th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked on the diamond painting of a Fairy.

In the evening we finished watching the fourth season of Vienna Blood on PBS. After Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in fourth place in my group.

 

Monday 1-13-25 Peguin Dance, Pinball Cabinet, Fairy Project & Games

 

Penguin Mania

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. We started with the temperature of 32 degrees and got to 53 degrees.

When I woke up Larry was playing with the big pinball cabinet. Yesterday, a gentleman made a YouTube video on how to create VR pinball cabinets and rooms for games that don't have them. Larry is thinking about creating VR rooms on the games we have that don't have a room. The problem is finding the time, he has other projects that he also wants to work on.

We started the day attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. The dance theme this week was Penguin. The dancers dressed up in tuxes, winter sweaters (some of them had penguins on them) and others wore black and white. Larry and I wore black pants, white shirts and white hats with black band on it. The dancers shared their penguins nick-knacks with the group. I shared one of Larry's paper craft projects. A couple of years ago he made a penguin gift box. I also shared a stuffed animal penguin and her chick, I have had it for decades. There were 12 participants and Di called five tips. Larry danced four of the tips with me and we had a great time. In between the tips the dancers visited with each other. It was a very fun dance.

 

Penguin treat jar

 

Penguin and her chick stuffed animals

 

The dancers at the dance

 

Larry is painting the mini pinball cabinet. We had to go to Walmart in the afternoon because he was getting very low on the black paint he was using.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 45 minutes and with Gold's Gym for a half hour. I didn't do any Synth Riders. 

Working out

After I finished my workout we went to Walmart to buy some more paint. Before going to Walmart we stopped by HEB to check on the transfer of a prescription. This year we changed our prescription drug provider, our old provider increased their premium about 400% so we switched. Walmart is not in network for the new provider but HEB is. If we stayed with Walmart Larry's blood pressure medication would be $24 (last year it was free), by moving it to HEB it is once again suppose to be free. Last Friday Larry called HEB to get the prescription transferred, they said it would be ready Saturday. Today he found out it didn't happen. HEB again said they would get in touch with Walmart and take care of it. He's in no hurry because he has enough of the medication. 

 

 HEB Pharmacy

We went across the street to Walmart and bought some of the paint Larry needed. We had an empty canister for propane for the grill. We stopped by the self-service station but they were out of refills. We ended up going to another Walmart. There Larry picked up the paint he couldn't get at the other Walmart. Then he replaced the propane canister at their self-service.

When we got home I played Asteroid Outpost on Bounce Arcade. I played one game for about an hour. I mined the asteroids 11 different times but was unsuccessful. I got a gold trophy and a new high score. I had fun.

 

Asteroid Outpost new high score

 

I played four games of pinball. I did the weekly challenge of Spider-Man and got a new high score of 82,559,350, which moved me from 23rd place to 13th place out of 27 participants so far. I also played World Joker Poker, The Lord of the Rings and Monster Bash.

 

Monster Bash

Spider-Man

The Lord of the Rings

World Joker Poker

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event is Event: Easy Street of 15 games. It took me 28 minutes and 31 seconds, which put me in 13th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked on the Fairy diamond painting. 

Larry surprised me, he bought me three more diamond paintings in a kit by RYMILIE. We received them today from Amazon.  

In the evening we started watching the fourth season of Vienna Blood and an episode of Elementary. Then I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.

 

    

     

Sunday 1-12-25 Dancing with the Sundancers, New Challenge, Pinball Cabinet & More

 

Cold Day

Today was another cold day. The morning temperature was 36 degrees and got up to 60 degrees.

The wind was down so Larry decided to work on the mini pinball cabinet. He waited for it to warm up a little bit then he started back on the cabinet. He painted the cabinet a black color. He put six coats on the cabinet in order to make it look the way he wanted. It's looking great. 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: The Hard Road of 16 games. It took me 1 hour, 23 minutes and 25 seconds, which put me in 7th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

Today starts a new week so I got a new weekly challenge in pinball. This week is Spider-man. Larry downloaded the game. Then he installed Spider-man on the pinball cabinet in both 2D and VR. He changed the number of balls in Tales of the Arabian Nights from three to five, which was last week challenge. I played Tales of the Arabian Nights to try to get a new high score before the challenged ended. I was unsuccessful. I ended up coming in 25th out of 71 participants. Then I played Spider-Man and got my first high score of the challenge, which was 34,693,090. This score put me in 12th place out of 16 participants.

 

Tales of the Arabian Nights

 

Spider-Man

I played three other pinball games. They were Playboy, Die Hard and Terminator 3. While playing Terminator 3 I entered my initials as high score #4. While playing Playboy I got all 12 playmates and played Mansion Mania.

Die Hard

Playboy

Terminator 3

I played Gunpowder Gulch twice in Bounce Arcade. The first game I got a bronze trophy and did the Barrels Barricade, Jailhouse Break Multi-ball and Quick Draw. The second game I got a silver trophy, earned a new ball and got a new high score. I did the Quick Draw, Shoot Out, Saloon Multi-ball and the Barrels Barricade twice. 

 

New high score and silver trophy in Gunpowder Gulch

 

I worked on the Fairy diamond painting for a couple of hours.

In the evening we went to Sun City and danced with the Sundancers for their Weekly Plus Dance at 6:00 for 1 hour and 45 minutes. This week they were shy of one couple from getting a fourth square. Gary invited his plus class from Mondays over to get some floor time. The dance was a lot of repetition, which was good for everyone. We knew this was going to happen and it was ok. The last tip we joined with two other ladies and danced a two couple square. They were happy we joined them. Larry and I had a great time dancing to Gary and with friends.

We got home about 9:00 and relaxed in front of the television. We watched an episode of Elementary. When Larry went to bed I watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group for the week with 126,218 steps.

 

 

Saturday 1-11-25 Pinball Cabinet, Diamond Painting and Games

 

Smile and be happy

We had a super day. It was cold and breezy. The high temperature was 58 degrees. 

Due to the cold and wet weather Larry hadn't worked on the mini pinball cabinet for a few days. It was still too windy to paint the cabinet but he decided to work on a couple of test pieces and put the graphics on the upper part of the cabinet. He needed my help to hold the graphics off the cabinet while he used an applicator to apply the graphic. After doing this he trimmed the edges. Next he took a crafting paint marker to touch up the edges. The installation came out great.

 

The top sides graphic of the cabinet

 

I worked on the Fairy diamond painting.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Pyramid Mini of 5 games. It took me 13 minutes and 43 seconds, which put me in 25th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked out with my Wii Fit for a half hour, Gold's Gym for a half hour and Synth Riders for a half hour. 

Then I played Monster Manor a couple of times on the Bounce Arcade. I ended up getting a new high score, woke up the manor, stunned the manor and got a bronze trophy.

 

Monster Manor new high score

 

I played five pinball games, which were Tales of the Arabian Nights, Scooby Doo, Superman and the Justice League, Willy Wonka and The Flintstones. 

Scooby Doo

Superman and the Justice League

Tales of the Arabian Nights

The Flintstones

Willy Wonka

We watched some YouTube videos. We had a home delivery of our groceries from Walmart.

Grocery shopping online

In the evening we finished watching the third season of Vienna Blood and an episode of Elementary. Afterwards I watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.

Relaxing in front of the television

  

 

Friday 1-10-25 Cold Day, Dancing with Ett, Pizza Night & More

 

It's cold

It's still cold. The high today was 40 degrees. I'm glad we live in Belton because our weather wasn't as bad as in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. We got the rain but not the ice and snow. We didn't do too much today because it was cold.

For the last two days it has been too cold for Larry to work on his mini pinball cabinet so he read. In two days he read two books. I probably would be still reading one of the books because I'm a very slow reader.

 

Reading is fun and relaxing

 

I did my Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Free Cell Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 52 minutes and 23 seconds, which put me in 14th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.

I worked out on my Wii Fit for a half hour and Just Dance for a half hour. I danced to two different programs with Just Dance ( 20 minutes with Just Dance 2019 and 10 minutes with Just Dance 2018). I danced to nine different songs. I did the Synth Riders for a half hour, which was four songs twice.

 

The six songs I danced to in Just Dance 2019

 

I did bounce for 45 minutes. I played Pirate's Plunder (three times). I got Jolliest Roger for the first time, where I hit and light up the skull on the pirate's flag this occurred during the second game. I got a silver trophy and a new high score. This occured during the third games. I'm learning more about the game everytime I play it. 

 

Jolliest Roger success

New high score in Pirate's Plunder

I played six games of pinball, which were Elvira Party Monsters, Playboy, Metallica, Scooby Doo, Rambo and Tales of the Arabian Nights. I didn't play that well but I had fun.

Elvira Party Monsters

Rambo

Metallica

Playboy

Scooby Doo

Today was pizza night for us. I was going to bake a three meat pizza on the grill, Larry suggested I cook it inside because it was so cold. I turned on the oven when Larry suggested trying the air fryer. We watched a few YouTube videos on cooking frozen pizzas. I turned off the oven and preheated the air fryer. I cooked it for 12 minutes. It tasted good. Next time I probably will cook it directly in the air fryer without a grate and lower temperature because it wasn't cooked completely.

Three Meat Pizza

In the evening I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. She called four tips to 15 participants. The first tip I struggled a bit but it got better as we danced. I had a fun time dancing with friends.

Get a partner and dance

I continued working on the Fairy diamond painting.

The fairy before the diamonds on it

 

After the dance we continued watching the third season of Vienna Blood on PBS. Afterwards I watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.