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.

THursday 5-28-26 Workout, Games & Having Fun

 

Just having fun

We had a great day of having fun. 

We had sunshine with the morning temperature of 63 degrees and the high temperature of 91 degrees. It was hot and humid.

Temperature at the house at 3:45 pm

We spent a lot of time watching the deer in the backyard. We saw another doe with twin newborn fawns. Later on we saw a couple of does chase each other around the yard. For the last two days we have had two hawks hanging around the backyard. They fly on the house roof and into the trees, they wait and hunt. Once in awhile we would see the hawks drive and catch a bug. Then they would fly into the oak tree. I have seen the fox walking around the house about 11:00 at night. Our security cameras will be notify us when the wire is tripped. We love watching the wildlife come and go through our yards. Our neighbor Jason keeps a gate open in his fence at the far back corner so the deer can walk through. I put out some nectar in a bowl for the hummingbirds on the porch railing and a couple of hummingbirds have been coming. They don't like to share so we see one at a time. We also have had a little activity in the birdhouse. We love watching the wildlife.

Today the mowers came. They didn't come last week because of rain. We were glad they showed up because our grass was growing like crazy. Larry had fertilized the yards and the rain we had helped the fertilizer to kick in. The yards like great.

The backyard after it was mowed

Wednesdays are the day the garbage is collected but Monday was a holiday so they were a day behind. They showed up at lunchtime.

Larry put in a home delivery from Walmart so it was delivered to our door at 1:30. Once the grocery was delivered I put the items away.

Grocery Shopping

 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 26 minutes and 17 seconds, which put me in 13th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour and a half using the Wii Fit, Gold's Gym and Synth Riders. 

I worked out for a half hour with the Wii Fit I used the Wii Fit Plus Routine, where the Wii chooses 12 different games for the workout. It picked four Aerobics (Advance Step, Basic Step, Basic Run and Hula Hoop), one Balance (Table Tilt), two Strength Training (Torso Twists (3 reps) and Tricep Extensions (10 reps per arm), four Yoga (Deep Breathing, Tree, Triangle and Warrior) and one Training Plus (Snowball Fight). I did all the workout but only earned 29 minutes of the 30 minutes so I did one Perfect 10 game. It was a great workout.

My routine

Aerobics Menu (Advance Step, Basic Run, Basic Step and Hula Hoop) 

Balance Games Menu (Table Tilt)

Strength Training Menu (Torso Twist and Tricep Extensions)

Yoga Menu (Deep Breathing, Hula Hoop, Tree and Triangle)

Training Plus Menu (Snowball and Perfect 10)

I worked out with Gold's Gym for a half hour. I worked out with a Prepared Workout with Alex for 23 minutes. I did the Beginning Combo Warm Up out of the Beginning Lesson (6 minutes), Ducking Combo out of the Advance Lesson (14 minutes) and Roadwork from the Exercise Menu (3 minutes). Roadwork is where your run in place for three minutes. I worked out with Forward and Back Step Combo Warm Up out of the Advance Lesson for (7 minutes). It was another good workout.

Instructor Menu where you choose your trainer

Advance Lesson Menu

Beginning Lesson Menu

Exercise Menu

I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour with three songs, which were Hard To Love, Never Gonna Die and New Comedown. I did the songs three times. I got one new high score, which was in Hard To Love. 

Hard To Love

Never Gonna Die

New Comedown

I did one game of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade for fifteen minutes. While playing I earned a Bronze Trophy, Awoken the Manor once, Stunned the Manor once, Busted the Banister once and got a Skeleton Key. I ended up playing a lot better than I thought considering I went through two balls out of three within one minute.

Monster Manor

I played seven games of pinball. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Dr. No and The Big LeBowski. While I played The Big LeBowski I became high score #2. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Batman, Great Houdini, Jaws and The Godfather. While I played Jaws I became high score #1. I had a great time playing pinball.

60th Anniversary (Mini)

Dr. No (Mini)

The Big LeBowski (Mini)

Batman (Big)

Great Houdini (Big)

Jaws (Big)

The Godfather (Big)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Cabaret on Hoopla. It was a good movie and we enjoyed it. When Larry went to bed I watched the third and final movie of Fantastic Beasts called Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore from our collection of movies. I ended up doing 6,000 steps.

While I watched television I worked on The Blue Truck jigsaw puzzle.