Wednesday 7-15-26 Overcast Day, Dancing & Having FUn

 Overcast day with rain

We had overcast skies and an occasion sprinkle. At lunchtime it thundered and got dark but we only got a sprinkle. The morning temperature was 73 degrees and the high was 84 degrees. The rain kept it nice and cool all day.

Temperature at the house

Larry started a book. 

Relaxing with a book

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Experts Only Mini of 5 games. It took me 1 hour, 2 minutes and 33 seconds to complete, which put me in 16th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out on the Wii Fit for 31 minutes. I did the Wii Fit Plus Routine of 12 exercises for 29 minutes and Perfect 10 once for 2 minutes. During the routine I did two exercises from the Aerobics menu (Advance Step and Basic Run), one exercise from the Balance Games menu (Table Tilt), two exercises from the Strength Training menu (Torso Twist 3 reps and Single-Leg Twist 10 reps), three exercises from the Training Plus menu (Rhythm Kung Fu, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye and Island Cycling) and four exercises from the Yoga menu (Half Moon, Sun Salutation, Chair and Triangle). It was a great workout.

The routine I did

Aerobics (Advance Step and Basic Run)

Balance Games (Table Tilt)

Strength Training (Torso Twist and Single-Leg Twist)

Training Plus (Rhythm Kung Fu, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling and Perfect 10)

Yoga (Half Moon, Sun Salutation, Chair and Triangle)

I worked out with Gold's Gym for 30 minutes. I did my own routine two exercise from the Advance Lesson menu (Left and Right Step Combo for 8 minutes and Triple Combo for 15 minutes) and one exercise from the Intermediate Lesson menu (Ducking Combo for 7 minutes). It was a super workout.

Advance Lesson (Left and Right Step Combo and Triple Combo)

Intermediate Lesson (Ducking Combo)

I worked out with the Synth Riders to four songs two times, which were All Night, Free, L.O.V.E and Phoenix. While working out with All Night I earned 1 outstanding score, Free I earned 1 outstanding score, L.O.V.E I earned 1 outstanding score and 1 new high score (best score of the two) and Phoenix I earned 1 outstanding score. I had fun working out with the four songs.

All Night

Free

L.O.V.E

Phoenix

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Ace of Speed, Batman Forever and Metallica. While playing Metallica I became high score #2. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were AC/DC, Beetle Juice, Star Fox and The Beach Boys. While playing AC/DC I became high score #3. I played ok today.

60th Anniversary (Mini)

Ace of Speed (Mini)

Batman Forever (Mini)

Metallica (Mini)

AC/DC (Big)

Beetle Juice (Big)

Star Fox (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Usually on Wednesdays I have three virtual square dances but this week I only had one. The dance I attended was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 dance at 6:00 pm for an hour and a half. The formation was three tips of C1, three tips of A2 and two Trivia question in between the A2 tips. This week Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. During the C1 tips we had 6 participants and A2 tips we had 10 participants. I had a fun evening dancing to Dave, Karin and Greg and with friends from United States, Canada and Australia.

 

Participants during the A2 session of the dance

After the dance we watched a documentary on Amazon called Being Naked: A Burlesque Story. It was a great documentary about different burlesque dancers and how hard it is to be burlesque dancer. After Larry went to bed I finished watching the 4th season of Harry Wild and started the 5th season. I ended up doing 3000 steps.

While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle the Horse of Iron. 

The family of deer visited us again this evening. They ate a bit and laid down to relax. 

Family of deer hang out in our backyard

 

  

 

Tuesday 7-14-26 Rain & Doing This and That

 Just having fun

Shirley congratulations on your new addition to the family. 

We had an overcast morning with the temperature of 75 degrees, The high was 81 degrees at 10 am when the rain came. 

It rained in sheets for an hour and the rain stayed around through out the day. It rained so hard that the creek at the back of our backyard was running. When Jason built the house north of us Larry made sure they put in drainage to help prevent rain from running across our backyard, the drainage works well. Jason sold the house to Marcos, it has a cool gutter system and it works super. I don't know how much rain we got but it was a lot.

Gutter System at Marcos house

Drainage between Marcos house and our house

Creek running at the back of our house

I needed new jeans because I out grew my old ones. Amazon has their own brand so Larry ordered me a pair. He had to get it bigger than I needed because they didn't have the size I needed. They were suppose to come in Saturday but was delayed. They came in Sunday. I tried them on yesterday and they fit great. Larry said if I didn't like them he would wear them. We wear the same size in jeans. The weird thing was they were just coming from Round Rock. The jeans are very comfortable because the waist line is flexible, which made it fit comfortable.

New jeans

Larry spent the morning working on the new camera he got for Zoom. He had been doing some research on the camera and found some settings to try on it. He tried changing the settings and compared the camera we use now to the new camera. He found out that our camera still looks far better. He still is looking for a camera.

In the afternoon he did some paper crafting. He had the file but the video for it had to be removed from the website because of copywrite problems. He had to make it from memory. 

While Larry was doing his projects I played games and worked out. 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 1 hour, 43 minutes and 5 seconds to complete, which put me in 25th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out on the Wii Fit for 45 minutes. I had the Wii Fit Plus do it's routine. It had 12 exercises for 31 minutes, which were two exercise from Aerobics (Advance Step and Rhythm Boxing), one exercise from Balance Games (Lotus Focus), six exercises from Training Plus (Big Top Juggler, Snowball Fight, Obstacle Course, Rhythm Kung Fu, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye and Skateboard Arena) and three exercises from Yoga (Deep Breathing, Chair and Triangle). I did four exercises from the Strength Training for 13 minutes (Single-Leg Extensions 20 reps for 3 minutes, Torse Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes, Lunges 20 reps for 4 minutes and Balance Board 10 reps for 3 minutes) and one exercise from the Training Plus for 1 minute (Perfect 10) to make the 45 minutes. It was a great workout.

Wii Fit Plus Routine

Aerobics (Advance Step and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Lotus Focus)

Strength Training (Single-Leg Extension, Torso Twist, Lunges and Balance Bridge)

Training Plus (Big Top Juggling, Snowball Fight, Obstacle Course, Rhythm Kung Fu, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Skateboard Area and Perfect 10)  

  

Yoga (Deep Breathing, Chair and Triangle)

I worked out with Just Dance for 30 minutes with Just Dance 3 to the Duets Menu. Where you choose what dancer you wanted be from a couple.

Duets Playlist

I worked out for 30 minutes on the Synth Riders to four songs twice, which were Code War, Phoenix, You Know That That You Love Me and Wolves. While working out with You Know That You Love Me I earned 2 outstanding scores and Wolves I earned 1 outstanding and 1 new high score. I had a great workout.

Code War

Phoenix

You Know That You Love Me

 

 Wolves

I played ten games of pinball games. I played five on the mini cabinet, which were Jaws, Mission Impossible, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Goonies and Willy Wonka. While playing Willy Wonka I became high score #2. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were AC/DC, Beetle Juice, JP Space Cadet, Star Fox and The Godfather. While playing AC/DC I became Grand Champion and a new high score in the weekly challenge. My score was 12,422,240, which put me in 48th place out of 51 participants.

Jaws (Mini)

Mission Impossible (Mini)

Nightmare Before Christmas (MIni)

The Goonies (Mini)

Willy Wonka (Mini)

AC/DC (Big)

Beetle Juice (Big)

JP Space Cadet (Big)

Star Fox (Big)

The Godfather (Big)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we finished watching Spider-Noir on Amazon. It was a great series. I hope it comes back for a next season. 

At dinnertime we had a family of deer show up. The family was a doe and twin fawns. They stayed around for over two hours. They ate a little grass and laid down. The fawns were nursing a little but mostly the doe let them eat the grass and do their own thing. She wasn't too far away.

The family of deer

The fawn laying down

After watching Spider-Noir Larry was looking at what shows Amazon offers. We use to subscribe to Acorn via Amazon and Acorn has some new episodes of series that I like. We cancelled both Acorn and Brit Box because we weren't using them. By doing so we saved $18.38 per month. We stopped back in June of 2025. Acorn is now $9.99 a month and you get a week for free. Larry signed us up so when he went to bed I started watching the 4th season of Harry Wild. After this season I have season 5. Harry Wild is a woman private detective series. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

While watching television I worked on Horse of Iron. I have done the bottom part of the frame. I can't do this puzzle the way I did the other puzzles because of the shape, which is a train.

Horse of Iron so far