Thursday 3-12-26 Trip Preparation Begins, Workout & Games

 

Sunny Day

We had a gorgeous day with sunshine. We had a very comfortable day, the morning temperature was a brisk 42 degrees and the high temperature was 65 degrees.

While waiting for it to warm up I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed. The event was Event: World Tour of 10 games. It took me 35 minutes and 8 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

We started our Spring Trip preparation after lunch. Yesterday, Larry backed the Minnie onto blocks on the passenger side to get under it to replace the shocks. He also sprayed a penetrating lubricant on the shocks bolts to make them easier to get off. Today, he got his wrenches and his his creeper out to use to crawl under the Minnie. He started the project on the left side because it would be easier to do and tell him how to do the project. He ended up going in and out of his work room multiple times to get other tools. He has air bags on the Minnie to stabilize it while driving. The bags made it a little more challenging because the shocks are behind them. He removed and replaced the left side and then he moved to the right side. When he moved over there he had to jack the Minnie up a little higher. So I went outside and sat in a chair just for safety reasons you never can tell what will happen. While sitting outside I did a few Sudoku puzzles It took him a few hours to do the job. We put the tools away and got the Minnie off the blocks. We stacked the blocks and put them on the table in the garage.

The Minnie

Replacing the shocks in the back

Sudoku puzzles

Afterwards Larry backed The Minnie on the side of the house where our dump station is to fill the Minnie with water. He filled the water tank and the hot water heater. Once the Minnie was filled with water he returned it to the driveway. Tomorrow, we'll started washing the Minnie.

When we were finished with the Minnie projects I worked out on the Wii Fit for a half hour. I worked out ten minutes with two Aerobics exercises, which were Boxing for eight minutes and Basic Run for two minutes. I worked out ten minutes with five Strength Training exercises, which were Single-Leg Extension (10 reps per leg) for two minutes, Torso Twists (6 reps) for three minutes, Single-Leg Twists (10 reps) for one minute, Sideways Leg Twist (10 reps) for one minute and Balance Bridge (10 reps) for three minutes. I worked out with five exercises with Yoga, which were Half Moon for two minutes, Warrior for two minutes, Standing Knee for two minutes, Chair for two minutes and Downward-Facing Dog for two minutes. I had a super workout.

Aerobics Exercises

Strength Training Exercises

Yoga Exercises

I played eight pinball games. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Cirqus Voltaire, No Good Goffers! and The Goonies. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Attack From Mars, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Tales of the Arabian Nights and World Joker Poker Tour. While playing Elvira and the Party Monsters I got a new high score for the challenge, which put me in 59th out of 70 participants. I didn't get on the board on the mini cabinet or big cabinet but had a good day of playing pinball.

60th Anniversary James Bond (Mini)

Cirqus Voltaire (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

Attack From Mars (big)

Elvira and the Party Monsters (Big)

Tales of the Arabian Nights (Big)

World Joker Poker Tour (Big)

In the evening we watched a movie on Kanopy called Regarding Susan Sontag. It was a biography documentary about Susan Sontag's life. She was a very interesting and brilliant person. She was an important icon politically, literary and feminist in her generation. It was a good movie. When Larry went to bed I watched the two Lara Croft movies starring Angelina Jolie from our movies collection. The movies were Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

I worked on my puzzle in between doing this and that.

Jigsaw puzzle so far

     

   

   

      

Wednesday 3-11-26 Trip Preparation Begins & Dancing

 

Hot humid day

We had another hot humid day. The morning temperature was 62 degrees and the high was 81 degrees. We had rain in the morning. It started to dry out in the afternoon.

I attended three virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 11:00 am for an hour. They called five tips to 11 dancers. Terry called the first tip and Di called the other four tips. Di continued calling the moves from A1, that were moved to Plus. The moves were Quarter Thru (right and left), Clover And, Scoot and Dodge, Partner Hinge and Partner Tag. I had a great time dancing to Terry and Di and with friends from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and France.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 pm for an hour. Ett send an e-mail to the dancers and said, that Loren Smith from Canada was covering for her. Larry danced with me the whole dance because there wasn't a lot of couples dancing for Loren to cue off of. Loren called five tips to 11 dancers. He doesn't cue the moves anymore because we have been dancing virtually for six years. He feels that he would give us too much cueing. He did walk us through moves we were having problems with. He is always a pleasure to dance to. We had a super time dancing with friends from the United States, Canada, Netherlands and Germany. 

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 pm 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 dancers, three tips of A2 to 9 dancers and two Trivia questions in between the A3 tips. I had a great time dancing to Dave, Karin and Greg and with friends from United States, Australia and Canada.

The dancers for the C1 session

The dancers for the A2 session

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed, The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Spider and 10 Tri Peaks). It took me 1 hour, 32 minutes and 6 seconds, which put me in 13th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

After Loren's dance we went to the storage center to get the Minnie. We're planning to go on our Spring Trip next week. When we got to the house Larry backed the Minnie in the driveway. He wants to replace the rear shocks and thought it would be a bit easier if he backed it in and raised it with the leveling blocks. 

I worked out with Gold's Gym for a half hour. I did the Prepared Workout and a Warm Up lesson from the Advance Lesson Selection. The Prepared Workout was 6 minutes (Beginning Combo), 14 minutes (Uppercut Combo) and 3 minutes with Punch Dodge, which was for 23 minutes. I did the Forward and Back Step Combo for 7 minutes. 

Prepared Workout with Nina

Lesson Select from the Advance Menu

I played six games of pinball. I played three pinball games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Dead Pool and No Fear. While playing No Fear I became high score #3. I played three pinball games on the big cabinet, which were Elvira and the Party Monsters, Mission Impossible and Willie Wonka. While playing Elvira and the Party Monsters I got another high score of 1,846,790, which put me in 57th place out of 62 participants. When I played Willie Wonka I became high score #2. I had a good day of playing pinball.

Batman Forever (Mini)

Dead Pool (Mini)

No Fear (Mini)

Elvira and the Party Monsters (Big)

Mission Impossible (Big)

Willie Wonka (Big)

After the last dance we watched a movie on Kanopy called The Summer Book. The movie was about a nine year old girl (Sophia) spending the summer with her grandmother and father. It was a very slowly moving movie and wasn't that good. After Larry went to bed I finished watching The Puzzle Lady on PBS. Then I watched The Suicide Squad from our movies collection. I ended up doing 2,500 steps.

While I watched television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.  

 

    

Tuesday 3-10-26 Dreary Day, Liberty Hill Dance, Puzzle & Games

 

Dreary Day

It was an overcast day, which made it very humid and hot. The morning temperature was 70 degrees and the high temperature was 82 degrees. We are on thunderstorm watch until 2:00 am. We had a sprinkle now and then. It was so humid and hot that when we were dancing we were drenched with sweat.

We spent the day in Liberty Hill at Kay and Bob's house dancing C1/A2 for three hours. On the way there we stopped and ate lunch. We arrived at the Ski's house at 11:40 am. We said our hellos to Kay, Bob, Henry and Susan. We were greeted by the Ski's dog, Baily. It took them a bit to calm her down. Once she was calm she was quiet through out the dance. We danced two couple C1 via tape for an hour. Lynn showed up so we had an extra person to dance C1. We danced to Lee Kopman, Johnny Preston, Don Moger and Ross Howell. Lee was hard to dance to because he called some old moves that are no longer called. We tried Don but was once again were unsuccessful to complete a tip. We had a great hour of dancing C1 via tapes.

I baked some cookies last night and Ann brought tootsie rolls to snack on. We were thanked for bringing the snacks. Kay and Bob always have hard candies available.

At 1:00 we danced A2 for two hours. We had enough dancers for two squares and a couple of people sitting out. John Kephart called the dance except one tip, where John Carlson called. We did something different this week, we used the computer to tell us what square we were in and with whom we will be dancing with. Lynn had brought her laptop and had the program loaded on it, which was written by Vic Cedar. Larry and I didn't dance with each other throughout the dance. Next time we'll have Lynn put us together. Because we like dancing with each other. The computer works but I really prefer the cards. We had a fun afternoon dancing to John Kephart and John Carlson and with friends.

Get a partner and dance

While driving home on I35 we saw a cute delivery truck for Oak Farms. It made us smile, it was the first time we saw this. It was a cow looking out the back of the truck over crates.

Oak Farms delivery truck

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Klondike and 3 Pyramid). It took me 10 minutes and 59 seconds, which put me in 17th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2. 

I played eight pinball games. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Jaws, Medieval Madness, Monster Bash and Red & Ted Road Show. While playing Jaws I became high score #1. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Cactus Canyon, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Fish Tales and Willow. While I played the games I became high score #2 in Cactus Canyon, I became high score #4 in Fish Tales and I became high score #1 Willow. When I played Elvira and the Party Monsters I got a new high score for the challenge but it didn't move me up. I'm # 47 out of 51 participants. I had a great day of playing pinball.

Jaws (Mini)

Medieval Madness (Mini)

Monster Bash (Mini)

Red & Ted Road Show (Mini)

Cactus Canyon (Big)

Elvira and the Party Monsters (Big)

Fish Tales (Big)

Willow (Big)

In the evening we finished watching Young Sherlock on Prime. When Larry went to bed I went back watching The Puzzle Lady on PBS. While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle. I ended up doing 3,500 steps.

   

    

Monday 3-9-26 Dancing with Di, Workout & Games

 

Overcast Day

We had a very humid day with overcast skies. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and the high was 81 degrees.

We started the day off by going to town. Larry's friend Mike is having a birthday next week so he wanted to get a birthday card to mail to him. First stop was at The UPS Store to mail a mouse back to Amazon that didn't work. On Friday we received the replacement so we had to mail the defective one back. While there he checked our mail. Then we went next door to Walmart to pickup a few items and a birthday card. On the way home we stopped by Jack N Jill Donuts and Larry bought breakfast for us.

When Larry ordered the mouse on Amazon the other day he also order some more rechargeable AA batteries, dish towels and clothes. The batteries came in yesterday and so did the dish towels and clothes. The mouse works excellent. I haven't gotten to use the dish towels and clothes yet but they look very nice. 

Dish wash clothes 

Dish Towels

We use a lot of AA batteries in our electronics devices, the Wii Fit uses four AA batteries in the board and two AA batteries in each controllers (I have two) and our VR headset uses one AA battery in each controller (two per headset). We have two VR headset. Awhile back Larry had bought eight AA rechargeable batteries to see if they would work for us. They have been working great. The other day he ordered another dozen batteries. They came in yesterday. The rechargeable batteries come in a nice case and you charge the batteries in the case. 

Rechargeable Batteries

We attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 10:00 am for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di called five tips to 10 dancers from Canada, United Kingdom, France and United States. She workshopped Tally Ho from a Left Two-Face Line. One of the hardest position you can do Tally Ho from is a two-face line either right or left. Di did a super job of cueing us through it. Larry danced with me four of the tips. Di did an outstanding job of calling the dance and we had a super time.

Get  partner and dance

Larry finished reading a book he started yesterday and started a new book.

Reading can be fun

Last night I went to bed without doing the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong so I did them today. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of six games (3 Spider and 3 Pyramid). It took me 19 minutes and 42 seconds, which put me in 29th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for an hour and a half. I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour. I did 10 minutes with Aerobics (Boxing and Basic Run), 9 minutes with Strength Training (Single-Leg Extension, Torso Twist, Lungs, Single-Leg Twist and Sideway Leg Lift), 10 minutes with Yoga (Tree, Standing Knee, Palm Tree, Chair and Triangle) and one Perfect 10.

Aerobics

Strength Training

Yoga

 

Perfect 10

I worked out with three programs of Just Dance (2016, 2018 and 2019) to three songs. Just Dance 2016 songs were Under The Sea, Born This Way and Drop The Mambo. Just Dance 2018 songs were Fight Club, Keep On Moving and The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody). Just Dance 2019 songs were Rhythm Of The Night, New Rules and Mi Mi Mi.

Under The Sea, Born This Way and Drop The Mambo

Fight Club, Keep On Moving and The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody)

Rhythm Of The Night, New Rules and Mi Mi Mi

 

I worked out on the Synth Riders for a half hour with four songs two times a piece. The songs were All Night, Free, L.O.V.E. and Unshakeable. I got outstanding scores each time I worked out with.

All Night

Free

L.O.V.E.

Unshakeable

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Cactus Canyon, Fun House, No Good Goffers! and The Big LeBowski. While playing Fun House I became high score #3 and The Big LeBowski I became high score #2. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar, Dracula, Elvira and the Party Monsters and Time Lord. While playing Dracula I became high score #1.

Cactus Canyon (Mini)

Fun House (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

The Big LeBowski (Mini)

Big Bang Bar (Big)

Dracula (Big)

Elvira and the Party Monsters (Big)

Time Lord (Big)

In the evening we continued watching Young Sherlock on Prime. When Larry went to bed I finished watching the second season of The Night Manager on Prime. I didn't like the ending of the second season of The Night Manger because they killed some main people off and left other characters as a cliffhanger. I ended up doing 5,500 steps.