Saturday 5-16-26 Car Show, Minnie Projects & More

 

Hold on tight

We had a beautiful windy cloudy Saturday. The morning temperature was 69 degrees and the high was 87 degrees. At 9:15 pm it was 80 degrees and overcast. The clouds rolled in and out. When the clouds were covering the sun it was very comfortable. But when the clouds went away it was pretty warm.

We kept busy doing this and that. 

First we went to Temple High School to attend a car show called Temple Education Foundation Car Show. The proceeds go towards the students scholarships for Temple ISD. Each registration for the show helps fund the scholarships. We attended it last year and had a great time so we went back at 10:00 am. Some of the cars were there last year and some were new. It was a very nice size show. We walked around for about 45 minutes and we saw a lot of beautiful vehicles.

Mach 1 Mustang

1941 Willys Coupe

Larry checking out the 1968 Shelby GT 500 Mustang

A Belair

Corvett

A superman car

After walking around the car show we went to Panera Bread. We shared a Roasted Italiano sandwich and a bag of chips. The sandwich was good. Then we went home.

Larry did a few maintenance projects on the Minnie. He parked the Minnie on the side of the house to do the projects. First he changed the oil and oil filter. Then he cleaned out the oil pan. Second he dumped the tanks. He decided to flush out the tanks and put Calgon and dawn in the tanks to clean them. Finally he boiled water and put it down the two kitchen sinks and bathroom sink. Then he poured baking soda and vinegar down the sinks. Then he boiled more water and poured it down the sinks. We do this to our drains in the house when they start to smell. The baking soda and vinegar breaks down the food, soap and other stuff, that goes down the drains. The vinegar creates a chemical reaction with the baking soda. The smell goes away. I vacuumed the Minnie inside to get it ready to go back to storage. It should now be ready four our next trip (end of August).

The Minnie is getting on in years and mileage, she is now 30 years old and has 170,000 miles. She does require a bit of maintenance but then again all RV's require maintenance. We do almost all the maintenance ourselves, it saves money and we trust our work more than others. Of course some things have to be done by repair shops, especially if we are on the road. We have been really fortunate (lucky) to find good shops to do repairs while travelling. 

Mileage we have on the Minnie (170,004.4)

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 35 minutes and 35 seconds to complete, which put me in 7th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played 10 games of pinball. I played five on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Fun House, JP Space Cadet, Playboy and The Goonies. While playing Playboy I became high score #5 and I played Mansion Mania and entered my initials on both boards. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar, Dracula, Fish Tales, Tales From the Crypt and The Big LeBowski. I didn't get a new high score for the weekly challenge on Tales From the Crypt but I did enter my initials as high score #4. I had a good day of playing pinball.

Batman Forever (mini)

Fun House (mini)

JP Space Cadet (mini)

Playboy (mini)

The Goonies (mini)

Big Bang Bar (big)

Dracula (big)

Fish Tales (big)

Tales From the Crypt (big)

The Big LeBowski (big)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched the last two episodes of season 2 of Dalgleish on PBS. We thought it was a new season of Dalgleish but we had already seen it. It was still good the second time around. When Larry went to bed I watched Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Stuart Little from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,500 steps.

 

Relaxing in front of the television

I worked on the puzzle while watching television.  

 

      

  

Friday 5-15-26 Minnie Projects, Dancing with Loren & More

 

Celebrate it's Friday

We had an overcast day with wind. The morning temperature was 65 degrees and the high was 85 degrees. The wind and overcast skies kept it cool outside.

Minnie Projects

I woke up at 7:45 and Larry was already working on the Minnie. I went outside and he took a little break for breakfast. After breakfast he went back to the project. Years ago Larry had used Gorilla tape on the awning because the material along the top edge was deteriorating. This lasted a few years and he had to remove and replace the tape. It has now been a few years more and the tape started failing on our trip so Larry did a temporary repair. Today he removed the old Gorilla tape and replaced it with Eterna Bond tape. Removing and replacing the tape is a bit of a pain, you have remove the tape and then clean all the old adhesive off with mineral spirits. This must be done using a ladder and you have to keep moving the ladder. We never use the awning but we don't really want to remove it so this is a way to keep it maintained.  

Putting Eterna Bond on the awning

Next project on the Minnie was resealing around the antenna area. Years before we bought it the antenna for the television was knocked off and sealed up. The area started to leak so Larry patched the area with Eternal Bond. The other day when we had the rain storm the area started to leak again. Today he repatched the area with Eterna Bond.

Larry purchased a new air filter so he started to replace it and discovered the breather filter also needed to be replaced. He didn't have one but he found it at Advance Auto Parts. Then we had to go to town to get it. When we were in town we stopped and checked our mail at the UPS Store. 

While Larry was doing the Minnie projects I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Klondike Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 7 minutes and 59 seconds to complete, which put me in 20th place in my group. Today when I played the challenges of Solitaire and the event my score was tripled instead of doubled. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Jaws, Medieval Madness, Red & Ted Road Show and World Joker Poker. While playing Medieval Madness I became high score #3 and Jaws I became high score #2. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Attack From Mars, Godzilla, Tales From the Crypt and Willow. I didn't get on the board while playing games on the big cabinet but had fun.

Jaws (mini)

Medieval Madness (mini)

Red & Ted Road Show (mini)

World Joker Poker (mini)

Attack From Mars (big)

Godzilla (big)

Tales From the Crypt (big)

Willow (big)

In the evening we attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour. This week Loren Smith covered for her because she was out of town. Loren called five tips to 10 participants. Ett forgot to send an e-mail so it was a small group but it was fun. Larry danced with me the whole dance. Once again we were the only couple dancing. We had a great time.

Get a partner and dance

After the dance we finished watching the 16th season of Call The Midwife. When Larry went to bed I watched Inferno and Sonic the Hedgehog from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

Relaxing in front of the television

 

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle while watching television. 

     

   

Thursday 5-14-26 Paper Crafting, Housework and Games

 

Have a great day

We had a great day. The sun was shining and windy. The morning temperature was 64 degrees. The official high was 88 degrees but at our house it got up to 92 degrees.

Larry spent the day working on his paper crafting project of making a graduation card for Keileigh, who is graduating from Lake Belton High School. It took him a bit because he wanted it to be very special. He downloaded the project. Next he had to modify the file for the size he wanted to make. Next he decided on what color paper he wanted to use and what type of paper (glitter or cardstock). He used both. Then he cut out and assembled the pieces. He also wrote a salutation and printed it out. He found a special picture for the inside and used AI to change the color on the picture (graduation gown, hair color and the length). It came out perfect. He had a great time making the card and it came out fantastic.

 

The front of the card 

The envelope

The card inside

While Larry worked on the card I did my housework. I cleaned the bathrooms, dusted the house and vacuumed.

I spent most of the day playing games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Pyramid and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 12 minutes and 12 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played ten games of pinball. 

I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Big Buck Hunter Pro, Great Houdini, No Fear, No Good Goffers! and The Goonies. While playing Great Houdini I became high score #2 and The Goonies I became high score #4. 

Big Buck Hunter Pro

Great Houdini

No Fear

No Good Goffers!

The Goonies

I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Dracula, Indianapolis 500, Nightmare Before Christmas, Superman and the Justice League and Tales From the Crypt. I didn't get on the board on any of the games but I had a great time playing pinball. I didn't get a new high score on the weekly challenge of Tales From the Crypt but I'm still doing well. I'm 26th out of 83 participants.

Dracula

Indianapolis 500

Nightmare Before Christmas

Superman and the Justice League

Tales From the Crypt

In the evening we continued watching the 16th season of Call the Midwife. When Larry went to bed I watched Angels & Demons and R.I.P.D. from our movies collection. I ended up doing 5,500 steps. 

While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle art by Nancy Wernersbach. 

 

 

Wednesday 5-13-26 Back to Dancing, Paper Crafting & More

 

Awesome Day

We had an awesome day. 

It was a beautiful day with sunshine. The morning temperature was 61 degrees and the high was 88 degrees. 

We kept bus doing this and that. 

I attended three virtual dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Terry called the first tips and Di called the other four tips. They had 10 participants. Di continued working on the new moves, that was taken from A2 level of dancing to the Plus level. The moves were:  Quarter Thru, Left Quarter Thru, Scoot and Dodge, Pass the Sea, Partner Hinge, Partner Tag, Clover and, Pair Off, Circle To and and Roll. Everyone was happy to see me back after seven weeks on the road. Larry even popped in to say hi. I had a great time dancing with friends and to Terry and Di.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. She had another comment so Loren Smith covered for her. He called four tips to 7 participants. Larry danced with me the whole dance. Loren was happy because we were the only couple there. He worked on moves Larry and I were having problems with. They were Relay the Top, Galaxy Formation and Triple Box Concepts. Larry helped me get in the right place a few times. Everyone was happy to see us back dancing. We had a super time dancing to Loren and with friends. 

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped Dave call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 7 participants, three tips of A2 to 10 participants and two Trivia questions. Once again everyone was happy to see me back. I had a lot of fun dancing to Dave, Karin and Greg and with friends. 

Grab a partner and dance

While I danced Larry did a couple of projects. He sprayed for weeds in the gravel and continued working on his paper crafting of making the graduation card for the neighbor. 

After Loren's dance we went to town to do a few of errands. First was Walmart to pick up a couple of things I forgot to order the other day. Next was O'Reilly for some hose. Next Michael's to buy a set of four tassels because the one we got yesterday at Dollar Tree was too big. Last stop was PenFed Credit Union to get some money. Then we went home. 

Checking off our list of things to do

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Klondike and 10 Free Cell). It took me 1 hour, 28 minutes and 11 seconds, which put me in 10th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played four pinball games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar, Queen, Tales From the Crypt and Theatre of Magic. I had fun playing pinball even though I didn't get on the board. 

Big Bang Bar

Queen

Tales From the Crypt

Theatre of Magic

After Dave's dance we watched an episode of Call the Midwife on PBS. We watched YouTube videos. After Larry went to bed I watched the De Vinci Code from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.