Saturday 5-30-26 Two Car Shows, Projects, Working Out & More

 

Happy Saturday

We had a super day with overcast skies and a breeze. The morning temperature was 72 degrees and the high was 90 degrees.

Larry started the day out by working on our security camera systems. Last night Larry cleaned the camera lenses and the pictures are a lot clearer. We didn't know how foggy the pictures were until the cameras were clean. A few weeks back one of the cameras quit, we really didn't care because we don't really pay attention to that particular camera. We really only look at four of our cameras because we like to watch the wildlife and to see when someone comes to the front door. These cameras have a trip wire program into the software so when there is motion we are notified by trip wire. This morning Larry worked on updating the cameras and fixing the camera, that wasn't working. He got all the cameras working. A couple of the cameras are over 10 years old. 

We attended two car shows in the morning. Both shows began at 8:00 am, we arrived at the first one about 9:00 am because we know people don't show up on time. Before going to the shows we stopped by the UPS Store to check our mail. We only had some junk mail so Larry came back to the truck empty handed. Then we stopped by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts for breakfast. After Larry bought donuts we drove to the first show.

First was the Belton Tiger Orchestra Car Show at Belton High School parking lot. There wasn't a lot of cars but some of the cars were very nice. It only took a half hour or so. The proceeds go directly the orchestra students (100% of the proceeds). 

Belton High School 

1958 Edsel Pacer Convertible

1937 Chevrolet 5 Window Business Coupe

Larry checking out 1972 Chevrolet C10 Stepside

A coupe in the Belton Tiger Car Show

Second was the Mid Texas Corvette Club Car Show at Bubba's 33 in Killeen, which was 16 miles away. This car show is open to all categories, which are Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Foreign, Domestic and Mod. It takes up three rows and more of Bubba's 33 parking lot. It had a lot of super looking vehicles. They had two Corvette Clubs there. One was already there and the cars were lined up on the side of Bubba's 33 building in two lines. It took us about an hour to walk through the show. 

Bubba's 33

Dad's 51 Chevy 3100

Beautiful paint job

 

1966 Mustang

1967 Pontiac GTO

Paint job under the hood of the GTO

Beautiful Coupe

 

Spiderman Corvette

Iron Man Corvette

On the way home we stopped by Lake Stop Grocery and bought a Hunt Brothers Pepperoni and Sausage Pizza. We had the pizza for lunch and dinner. 

Hunt Brothers Pizza

After lunch I went outside and finished cleaning the railing. I did the railing on the steps. It took me about 45 minutes. 

The railing we have been cleaning on the back porch

What the railing looked like before being cleaned

The finished project

While I did this project Larry worked on Internet Radio. He has been playing with the internet radio stations we have on our jukebox via a computer. It's working great and sounds good. He continues to tweak the program. He loves keeping up with computer and other technology.

After doing the railing I worked out for an hour using the Wii Fit and Synth Riders. 

I worked out for a half hour using the Wii Fit using the Aerobics Menu, Balance Games and Training Plus Menu. I did two routines on the Aerobics for 10 minutes, which were Basic Run the Island for 6 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 4 minutes. I did four routines on the Balance Games for 10 minutes, which were Soccer Heading for 2 minutes, Ski Slalom twice for 2 minutes, Ski Jump twice for 2 minutes and Table Tilt for 4 minutes. I did three routines on the Training Plus for 10 minutes, which were Obstacle Course for 4 minutes, Basic Run for 2 minutes and Perfect 10 three times for 4 minutes.

Aerobics

Basic Run Distance: Island Lap

Rhythm Boxing

Balance Games

Ski Jump

Ski Slalom

Soccer Heading

Table Tilt

Training Plus

Basic Run Plus

Obstacle Course

Perfect 10

I worked out for a half hour with the Synth Riders to four songs twice, which were Empires, Light Up The Night, I Loved You Then and It Ain't Right. While doing Empires I earned two outstanding scores, I Loved You Then I earned one outstanding and one new high score and It Ain't Right I earned two outstanding scores and one new high score.

Empires

I Loved You Then

It Ain't Right

Light Up The Night

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Free Cell). It took me 1 hour, 3 minutes and 29 seconds, which put me in 10th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2. 

Yesterday I forgot to say what games I played. I played the same games I did today except the event was different. The event was Event: Pyramid Mini of 5 games. I came in 6th place in my group.

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, JP Space Cadet, Metallica and Nightmare Before Christmas. While playing Nightmare Before Christmas I became high score #3. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Batman, Indianapolis 500, JP Viper Night Driver and Mustang. While I played JP Viper Night Driver I became high score #4.

Ace of Speed (Mini)

JP Space Cadet (Mini)

Metallica (Mini)

Nightmare Before Christmas (Mini)

Batman (Big)

Indianapolis (Big)

JP Viper Night Driver (Big)

Mustang (Big)

In the evening we watched an document on Kanopy called Starman. It was very interesting and well done. We really enjoyed it. It was about space exploration and narrated by Gentry Lee, who is a legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author. He talks about his life. After Larry went to bed I watched Armageddon and The Little Mermaid II from our collection of movies. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

I continued working on The Blue Truck jigsaw puzzle.

 

The Blue Truck so far
 

 

    

 

 

      

Friday 5-29-26 Wildlife, Cleaning Project, Workout & More

 

Doing the happy dance

It's Friday, do you have anything plan for the weekend?

We had a hot humid day. The morning temperature was 66 degrees and the high temperature was 93 degrees at 2:00 pm at the house. We had sunshine but humidity was higher.

We spent the morning watching a doe and her newborn fawn. It was a lot of fun watching them. The doe let the fawn do some exploring. The fawn was so small it just squeezed through Jason's fence. Afterwards it walked around the yard and went down the hill towards the tree line. The doe kept an eye on the fawn. About lunchtime they wandered off into the trees. While watching the doe and fawn we saw two hawks flying around. When they flew overhead they would screech. 

Mom laying down and baby looking through the Jason's fence

Hawks on the neighbor's chimney

Larry spent the afternoon doing some cleaning outside. He was going to do the cleaning earlier but didn't want to disturb the doe and fawn. First he cleaned the grill and it looks great. Then he moved on to the porch railing. The railing was filthy we usually clean the railing once a year. Larry cleaned the porch railing. Tomorrow I'll work on the railing for the steps. While he was cleaning the railing he sprayed off the porch and cleaned the threshold going into the house. He was busy from 11:30 am to 3:30 pm. He did a super job.

Larry cleaning the railing

The grill all clean

While Larry was cleaning the railing he heard an ice cream truck going down the street. He told me to watch out for it because it was going pretty fast. I waited for the truck to come back down the street. I bought a Blue Bunny Big Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwich. Larry and I shared it.

Blue Bunny Big Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwich

While Larry was cleaning the grill and railing I worked out. I worked out for an hour and a half. 

I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour. I did one routine off the Aerobics Menu, Which was Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes, I did four routines off the Strength Training Menu for 5 minutes, which were Single-leg Extensions (2 minutes), Single-leg Twists 10 reps (1 minute) and Sideways Leg-Lift 10 reps (1 minute) and Rowing Squats 15 (1 minute), four routines off the Yoga Menu for 10 minutes, which were Half Moon (2 minutes), Standing Knee twice for (4 minutes), Palm Tree (2 minutes) and the Chair (2 minutes) and two routines off the Training Plus for 7 minutes, which were twice with Table Tilt Plus (6 minutes) and Perfect 10 (1 minute).

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing)

Training Plus (Table Tilt Plus and Perfect 10)

Strength Training (Single-Leg Extension, Single-Leg Twist, Sideways Leg-Lift and Rowing Squats)

Yoga (Half Moon, Standing Knee, Palm Tree and Chair)

I worked out with three disc of Just Dance for a half hour, which were Just Dance 2016, Just Dance 2018 and Just Dance 2019. I did ten minutes on 2016 to three songs, which were Same Old Love, All About That Bass and I Gotta Feeling. I did ten minutes on 2018 to three songs, which were Blow Your Mind, Diggy and Bad Lier. I earned three new avatars because I worked out to the songs for the first time. I did ten minutes on 2019 to three songs, which were Rhythm of the Night, New Rules and Bang Bang Bang. I earned two new avatars (Rhythm of the Night and Bang Bang Bang). 

Avatars I earned on Just Dance 2018

Songs I danced to 2018 Blow Your Mind, Diggy and Bad Liar

Avatars I earned in 2019

    

Songs I danced to 2019 Rhythm of the Night, New Rules and Bang Bang Bang

Songs I danced to 2016 Same Old Love, All About That Bass and I Gotta Feeling

I worked out with four songs on Synth Riders for a half hour, which were Delight, Imperfection, Light Up The Night and Nightmare Cure. While I worked out with Imperfection I earned two outstanding scores.

Delight

Imperfection

Light Up The Night

Nightmare Cure

I played ten pinball games. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Cirqus Voltaire, Fish Tales, The Godfather, The Goonies and World Joker Poker. While I played Cirqus Voltaire and World Joker Poker I became high score #3 and The Godfather I became high score #2. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Attack From Mars, Batman, Big Bang Bar, Cactus Canyon and Mission Impossible. While playing Batman I got a new high score for the weekly challenge. The new high score was 117,010,300, which moved me to 79th place out of 101 participants.

Mini

Cirqus Voltaire

Fish Tales

The Godfather

The Goonies

World Joker Poker

Big

Attack From Mars

Batman

Big Bang Bar

Cactus Canyon

Mission Impossible

  

I usually attend Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 on Friday nights but today Ett cancelled it because she was calling for a local club. So this evening we watched some YouTube videos and a movie off of Kanopy called On Any Sunday. It's was a documentary about all the different types of motorcycle riding. It a very good movie. After Larry went to bed I watched Death on the Nile and The Little Mermaid from our collection of movies. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle of The Blue Truck.