Sunday 2-15-26 Dancing to Loren, Olympics & New Pinball Challenge

 

Smile and have fun

We had another beautiful day. It started out overcast but cleared off in the afternoon. The morning temperature was 57 degrees and got up to 71 degrees. There was a breeze which kept the temperature a little cool.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 16 games. It took me 47 minutes and 6 seconds to complete, which put me in 23rd place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

Today started a new week for the pinball challenge, which is Who Dunnit. We have had this on the pinball cabinet previously but Larry removed it. We try to only keep games loaded that we enjoy the most otherwise we simply end up with too many games to choose from. Larry had installed the game before because it was a weekly challenge. He still had the files but there was a new version. He installed the new version on the big cabinet. Then he played it to make sure it ran correctly.

I continued working on my jigsaw puzzle.

We like the new water bottles we bought a month ago so Larry order three more. They came in today. They're not the same color as the old ones because the color wasn't available. The bottles are from the same company.

New water bottles

Old water bottles

I played last weeks pinball challenge of The Game Show for a half hour before the challenge ended. I didn't get a new high score so I ended up with the score of 12,430,400. This score but me in 40th place out of 112 participants. When the new challenge started of Who Dunnit I played it. My first new high score was 907,411,600, which put me in 16th out of 22 participants so for. I also played three other pinball games on the big cabinet. They were Dracula, Junk Yard and Medieval Madness. While playing Medieval Madness I became the Grand Champion. 

  

The Game Show

Who Dunnit

Dracula

Junk Yard

Medieval Madness

I played four games on the mini cabinet. They were No Good Goffers!, Tales of Arabian Nights, The Big LeBowski and Scared Stiff. While playing Tales of Arabian Nights I became Grand Champion. I got all seven jewels and tried to rescue the princess from the Genie. While playing The Big LeBowski I became high score #2. While I played No Good Goffers! and Scared Stiff I became high score #3. I had a great day playing pinball on the mini cabinet.

No Good Goffers!

Scared Stiff

Tales of the Caribbean Nights

The Big LeBowski

We attended Ett McAtee's Weekly C Series dance at 1:00 for an hour. This week it was C1 and Loren Smith was covering for her. He called four tips of C1 to nine dancers. During the C1 tips Loren worked on Tally Ho in different positions and All Eight Recycle. Loren is learning the C2 moves so he decided to call one tip at the end to the C2 dancers, which was seven dancers. Larry and I aren't C2 dancers so we thanked Loren and the rest of the dancers and signed off after the C1 session. We had a great time dancing to Loren and with friends from Australia, Canada and United States.

 

Get a partner and dance

After the dance and during the evening we watched a few events of the Olympics. The events were Men's 4 X 7.5km Relay Cross Country Skiing, Snowboard Mixed Couple, Speed Skating Women's 500m and Short Program of Ice Skating Pairs.

After the Short Program we watched a few YouTube videos. When Larry went to bed I watched the next super hero movie, which was Spider-Man: No Way Home. Then I watched Sonic the Hedgehog from our movies collection. I ended up doing 2,000 steps.    

Saturday 2-14-26 Happy Valentine's Day, Workout, Olympics & More

 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! I hope you had a great day, we did.

We had a rainy day. It rained on and off all day. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and the high was 69 degrees. At noon the temperature started to drop by 9:00 pm it was 55 degrees.

We spent the day hanging around the house doing this and that.

Larry continued playing with the old cell phone and voice output. 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed. The event was Event: The Hard Road of 16 games. It took me 1 hour, 46 minutes and 1 second, which put me in 12th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I spent most of the day working on my jigsaw puzzle.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes. I worked out with three songs, which were Hard To Love, Never Gonna Die and New Comedown. I did the songs three times because they were about 3 minutes long each. I had a great workout.

Hard To Love

Never Gonna Die

New Comedown

I played one game of Gunpowder Gulch on Bounce Arcade for 15 minutes. I didn't play that well but had fun. I earned a bronze trophy, played two events (Quick Drawl once and Safe Crack twice), earned an extra ball and played two multiball (safe cracked and wooden sign rally). 

Gunpowder Gulch

I played eight games of pinball. I played four on the mini pinball cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, Pirate's Life, Playboy and The Big LeBowski. While I played the Big LeBowski I became the high score #2. When playing Playboy I became Playboy Champion because I did the mansion mania. I played four games on the big pinball cabinet, which were Fast Break, Star Trek the Next Generation, Space Lord and The Game Show. I got on the board as high score #3 on the Game Show but didn't get a new high score in the challenge. I'm 30th out of 86 participants.

Ace of Speed (mini)

Pirate's Life (mini)

Playboy (mini)

The Big LeBowski (mini)

Fast Break (big)

Time Lord (big)

Star Trek the Next Generation (big)

The Game Show

We watched the Olympics all afternoon and evening. We finished watching the Men's Free Skate Part 2. Then we watched Men's Snowboard Halfpipe final, Men's Giant Slalom and Short Track Women's 3000m Relay and Men's 1500m.

Before Larry went to bed we watched a few YouTube videos. After he went to bed I watched the next super hero movie, which was Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings from our super hero collection. I also watched Up out of our movies collection. It is a cute movie about a cub scout and an elderly man, who become friends and go on an adventure in the man's house. I liked the movie. I ended up doing 3,000 steps. 

Friday 2-13-26 Friday the 13th, Olympics, Dancing and Projects

 

Happy Friday

It's Friday the 13th! Are you superstitious? I'm not. We had a super day.

It was a beautiful day with the morning temperature of 57 degrees and the high of 80 degrees. 

We had a very productive day doing this and that. 

Larry kept busy doing projects. Larry continues playing with the old cell phone. He has once again wiped it clean and started over. It seems every time he does this he has to work out some issue. Today he had to spend a lot of time getting voice output to work. He is having fun researching things and figuring them out. He has been using AI for lots of help. 

The toilet handle on the master bathroom toilet broke. In order for Larry to fix it we had to go to The Home Depot to get the replacement part. He was going to order the part from Amazon but that meant we had to either use the second bathroom or pull the chain on the toilet everytime we used it. 

We received the last of our tax forms so Larry did our taxes. Good news, we will be getting money back. Just in case a late change comes in we will wait a bit before we actually file them.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 54 minutes and 9 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 45 minutes. I worked out with five games twice. They were:  A Matter of Time, Interstellar, Rendezvous,  Sledge and We Were Young. I didn't get any outstanding score or new high scores but I had a great workout.

A Matter Of Time

Interstellar

Rendezvous 

Sledge

  We Were Young

I played one game of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade. I played the game for 15 minutes and earned a bronze trophy. During the game I awoken the manor twice, stunned the manor once, banister buster once and tried to do the spider multiball once. I played a good game.

Monster Manor

I continued working on my jigsaw puzzle.

I played seven games of pinball. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Fish Tales, Jaws and Red & Ted's Road Show. While playing Jaws I became high score #3. I played four games of pinball on the big cabinet, which were JP Viper Night Driving, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Game Show and Willy Wonka. While playing The Game Show I got a new high score of 12,430,400, which put me in 25th place out of 78 participants.

Fish Tales (mini)

Jaws (mini)

Red & Ted's Road Show (mini)

Nightmare Before Christmas (big)

The Game Show (big)

JP Viper Night Driving (big)

Willy Wonka (big)

We watched more of the Olympics. The events we watched were Men's Team Curling U.S. vs Canada, Snowboard Women's Cross Finals and Men's Free Skate Part 1.

We attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 at 6:30 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Loren Smith from Canada called the dance for Ett. He called four tips of A2 and one tip of C1. During the A2 tips we had 12 participants and the C1 tip we had 10 participants. Larry and I were the only couple dancing so a lot of the dancers pinned us. Liz thanked Larry for dancing because he helped her get in the right place because she dances the man's part. We had a super time dancing to Loren and with friends.

 

We love square dancing

After the dance we continued watching the Olympics. When Larry went to bed I watched the next super hero movie, which was Eternals. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

Thursday 2-12-26 Cultural Activities Center, Grocery Shopping and Olympics

 

Awesome Day

We had an awesome day. The weather was gorgeous with blue skies. The morning temperature was 41 degrees and the high was 80 degrees.

Gorgeous Day

I wrote yesterday about the new Web browser having a problem doing my blog. Larry fixed it. He had to teach me how to get my photos from my pictures to my blog. Today I'm using the new browser.

We started the day out by going to town. We wanted to get out of the house and needed to go grocery shopping.

Before going grocery shopping we stopped by the Cultural Activities Center (CAC) in Temple. As you enter into the center there is an art exhibit. Currently it is part of the permanent Howard Collection. The CAC has two galleries. In the Salusbury Gallery the exhibits were from the artist Kicheko Sykes Expression of Beauty collection. She is a very talented artist out of Detroit Michigan and went to college at California State University in Los Angeles. She remained in southern California and retired from the Los Angeles County Probation Department. She relocated to Temple, Texas in 2025.  Her art is clay figures and oil paintings.

The Howard Gallery currently has exhibits from the Professional Artist of Central Texas group. The artists were Brent Maxwell, Kristin Larson, Melanie Stokes, Charles Wallis, Kevin Malone, Barbara Fontaine-White, Susan L, Sistrunk, Chesley Smith, Carol Fox Hendrichs, Haley E. Herrera, Judi Simon and Linda Williams Filgo. The exhibits are on display from January 16th to February 27th. We walked around the galleries and saw a lot of beautiful art exhibits. Then we walked down the hallway to offices and upstairs to the classrooms. The hallway had art on the walls for sale and you pick the price. Some of the art was in bad shape. We had a great time visiting the Cultural Activities Center.

Azalee Marshall Cultural Activities Center

Desire by Kichek Sykes

Still I Rise by Kichek Sykes

In Prayer by Kichek Sykes

Cathedral Mountain Resolute by (Jack) Brent Maxwell

Under Texas Skies by Kristin Larson

Morning Light by Melanie Stokes

Still Life with Ginger Kitten by Charles Wallis

Feral Fowl by Barbara Fontaine-White

Hail Damage (top) and Leftover Ham and Egg (bottom)

by Judi Simon

On the way home we stopped at the UPS Store to get our mail. Then we went grocery shopping at Walmart. Afterwards Larry stopped at Jack 'n' Jill Donuts to buy donuts. Then we went home.

 

Grocery Shopping

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. The event today was Event: Klondike Mini of 10 games. It took me 41 minutes and 37 seconds, which put me in 28th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.

We spent the afternoon into the evening watching the Olympics. The events we watched were Couples Free Dance Skating ( U.S.A. got Silver Metal), Men's Skeleton 2nd run, Women's 5000m Speed Skate, Women's Snowboard Half Pipe Final (U.S.A. got Silver Metal), Men's Snowboard Cross Final, Women's 500m Skate/Men's 1000m Skate and Men's Moguls.

When Larry went to bed I watched the next super hero movie, which was Spider-Man: Far From Home. I also watched The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.