Sunday 5-17-26 Errands, New Challenge, Dancing with Loren & More

Have a great day!

We had a great day of doing this and that. 

The weather was windy and humid. The morning temperature was 75 degrees and the high was 85. We had a little fog in the morning.

I got up at 8:00 and got dressed. Then we loaded up the truck with the old oil and oil filters to recycle them. We also loaded an empty propane container to exchange it for a full container. We decided to take the Minnie back to storage, the maintenance is done and we're not going to use it for awhile. On the way to the storage center we stopped by 317 Donuts and bought donuts for breakfast.

Once it was in the storage unit we went to Walmart and recycled the oil and oil filter and exchanged the propane container. While we were at Walmart we bought items we were low on and a replacement paper towel holder in the kitchen. The old holder broke last night. We couldn't find one like the old one, which was a plastic holder that hung from the cabinet. Most of the new holders stand on the counter top. We did find one that hung from the cabinet. When we got home Larry hung it and it looks great.

New paper towel holder

While we were out we swung by Aldi to buy items we like from there. On the way home we saw some cars in the parking lot of the mall so we stopped and walked around looking at them. It was just a get together of people showing off their vehicles. Some of the cars were at the car show yesterday. It was a very small show but very nice to see the cars.

 

A Dodge viper

Just hanging out together with you cool car

Some of the cars at the get together

Larry started the day off by downloading a new pinball game, Big Trouble In Little China. We saw a YouTube on the game and it looked great. Once he downloaded the game he installed it on the big cabinet in both VR and 2D. He had a problem and went on Reddit and found other people were having the same problem. The developer said you could disable a function and it will go away. It worked and later on he played with the volume of the music and callouts. He got it working great. It has a cool VR Room. Below are pictures of the VR Room.

 

Playfield of the game Big Trouble in Little China

Skeleton on the left

 

Kurt Russel on the left in the room

Back of the room

Guards in the room

Ceiling in the room

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Spider and 10 Pyramid). It took me 2 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds, which put me in 9th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

Today is the beginning of a new week so I get a new weekly challenge in pinball, which is Theatre of Magic. Last week's challenge was Tales of the Crypt, I played it for about a half hour before the challenges ended. I didn't get a new high score but I had fun trying. I ended up in 39th place out of 127 participants. I played the new challenge of Theatre of Magic. My first high score was 402,682,430, which put me in 19th place out of 26 participants. I played two new pinball games, which were Ready Player One and Big Trouble in Little China. I had fun playing the new games.

Big Trouble in Little China

Ready Player One

Tales From the Crypt

Theatre of Magic

I also played three pinball games on the mini cabinet, which were Creature From the Black Lagoon, Pirate's Life and Red & Ted Road Show. While playing Pirate's Life I became high score #3. I had fun playing pinball.

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Pirate's Life

Red & Ted Road Show

We attended Ett Sunday C Series at 1:00 for an hour. Loren Smith covered for Ett because she was out of town. Loren called five tips of C1 and one tip of C2. Loren called to 7 participants. Larry and I danced the C1 session of the dance. Loren did a great job of calling and worked us through moves we were having problems with. We had a super time.

We love square dancing

In the evening we watched Gemini Man on Hoopla. It was a 2019 science fiction movie about cloning of a retired Force Recon Marine sniper. It was a good movie. When Larry went to bed I watched Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and Jesse Stone: Night Passage from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps. 

I worked on my jig saw puzzle while watching television and playing games.

 

The puzzle so far

  

         

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.