Thursday 11-12-26 Just Another Day of Having Fun

 

We didn't have anything on our agenda. We hung around the house doing this and that and having fun.

The weather was very nice. The morning temperature was 52 degrees and the high temperature was 79 degrees. The temperatures are getting cooler, which is great.

Larry spent the day playing with a computer program for movies. He played a little pinball while checking out the VR rooms of the pinball games we have on the big cabinet. Larry played Mass Effect and Sexy Girl. He had a super time.

I spent the day playing games and working out. 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Free Cell and 10 Pyramid). It took me 1 hour, 41 minutes and 53 seconds to complete, which put me in 15th 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 Dark Chaos, JP Dead Pool, No Fear, No Good Goffers! and Red & Ted Road Show. While playing No Fear I became Grand Champion. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Mass Effect, Nightmare Before Christmas, Whirlwind, Willow and World Joker Poker. While playing Mass Effect I became high score #1. I had fun playing pinball.

Dark Chaos (Mini)

JP Dead Pool (Mini)

No Fear (Mini)

No Good Goffers! ( Mini)

Red & Ted Road Show (Mini)

Mass Effect (Big)

Nightmare Before Christmas (Big)

Whirlwind (Big)

Willow (Big)

World Joker Poker (Big)

I worked out for one hour and 45 minutes with Wii Fit, Just Dance and Synth Riders.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 30 minutes. I had the Wii Fit choose a routine for me for 28 minutes using 12 exercises. The other 2 minutes I did Perfect 10 two times from the Training Plus menu. The exercises I did with the routine were two exercises from the Aerobics menu (Advance Step and Hula Hoop), four exercises from the Strength Training menu (Balance Bridge 6 reps, Jackknife 10 reps, Lunge 10 reps and Sideways Leg Lift 10 reps), two exercises from the Training Plus menu (Big Top Juggling and Obstacle Course) and four exercises from the Yoga (Chair, Deep Breathing, Half-Moon and Warrior). I had a super workout with the Wii Fit.

Aerobics (Advance Step and Hula Hoop)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge, Jackknife, Lunge and Sideways Leg Lift)

Training Plus (Big Top Juggling, Obstacle Course and Perfect 10)

Yoga (Chair, Deep Breathing, Half-Moon and Warrior)

 I worked out for 40 minutes with Just Dance 2015 to 10 songs. The songs were Love Is All, Holding Out For A Hero, Diamonds, Happy, 4X4, The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?), Bas Romance, You're On My Mind, Burn and It's My Birthday. I had a great workout with Just Dance 2015.

  

Just Dance 2015 (Love Is All, Holding Out For A Hero, Diamonds, Happy,4X4, The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?), Bas Romance, You're On My Mind, Burn and It's My Birthday)

I worked out for 35 minutes with four songs on Synth Riders, The songs were All Night, Free, L.O.V.E. and Phoenix. While working out with All Night I earned 2 Outstanding Scores, Free I earned 1 Outstanding Score and One New High Score and L.O.V.E. I earned 2 Outstanding Scores. I had another great workout.

All Night

Free

L.O.V.E.

Phoenix

I played one game of Gunpowder Gulch with the Bounce Arcade. While playing the game I earned a gold trophy and an extra ball. I played six multiballs, which were two Wooden Sign Rally, two S.A.L.O.O.N. one Jailbreak and one Safe Crack. I played the events six times, which were Barrel Barrage two times, Quick Draw two times, Gunfight once and Safe Cracked once. I was successful in the Safe Crack event. I had a fun time playing Gunpowder Gulch for 30 minutes.

Gunpowder Gulch

We watched some YouTube videos. 

In the evening we watched Smurfs: The Lost Village. It was a cute animated movie about the Smurfs. I enjoyed it very much. After Larry went to bed I watched Star Trek Into Darkness from our movies collection. 

I ended up doing 5,000 steps. 

  

    

 

   

  

Wednesday 11-11-26 Three Dances, Projects & More

 

Smile and have fun

We had a great day. We kept busy.

The temperature was very nice. It was partly cloudy. The morning temperature was 58 degrees and the high temperature was 80 degrees.

We started the day out by going to town for Larry's annual wellness appointment. His appointment was at 9:00 am. It didn't take long, we were back home by 9:40 am.

I attended three virtual dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 am for and hour. Terry didn't dance or call but he was sitting in his chair. Di called five tips to 10 participants. She worked on Quarter Thru, Left Quarter Thru, Partner Hinge, Scoot & Dodge, Pass The Sea, Spin Chain The Gears and Coordinate. Di did an outstanding job of calling and dancing at the same time. The dancers were from the U.K., U.S., France and Mexico. I had a fun hour of dancing to Di and with friends.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Ett called four tips to 15 participants from Netherlands, U.K., U.S., Sweden and Germany. Ett called a lot of Vertical Tag, Vertical Half Tag, Dixie Sashay, Percolate, Scoot and Plenty and Regroup. This week I danced a lot better. I had fun dancing with friends and to Ett. 

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 foe. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore were calling in person so Dave called the dance by himself. The format was three tips of C1, three tips A2 and one Trivia question. During the C1 session we had 7 participants from U.S., Canada and Australia. During the A2 session we had 9 participants from U.S., Canada. It was a small group of dancers  I had a great evening of dancing with friends.

Participants for the C1 session 

Participants in the A2 session

While I danced to Di Larry did a few projects. 

First he changed the oil of the Equinox. When he was draining the old oil he missed the pan so he had to clean a bit of oil off the driveway using Dawn and Simple Green. After draining the oil he replaced the oil filter. He also changed out the air filter and the cabin air filter. After changing the oil he put the old oil in the oil container. Then he cleaned the oil pan and put everything away. 

Larry changing the oil in the Equinox 

Next he treated the clover in the grass. We have a lot of clover. Over the summer he tried a couple of different chemicals, one failed miserably, the other killed some clover but had no effect of a different type. He hopes this chemical will work. 

Next Larry walked around the house and put cover on the spigots. Before putting the cover on each spigot he put an automatic freeze protection valve on. The spigot on the southside wall by the garage was leaking a little bit so Larry had to replace the stem and the vacuum breaker. In order to do this we had to go to town to get parts. 

After Ett's dance we went to town. Larry thought he could get everything at Ham & McCreight, they were out of the vacuum breakers and they did not stock the stems. He bought an entire spigot that had the correct stem. We then went to Ace Hardware to buy a vacuum breaker. We stopped by Best Buy to pickup Louise's new television.

Running Errands

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 52 minutes and 33 seconds to complete, which put me in 24th 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 Attack From Mars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, Willy Wonka and World Joker Poker. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Beetlejuice, Dracula, Indianapolis 500, Queen and Whirlwind. I didn't get on the board playing pinball but I had fun trying.

Attack From Mars (Mini)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mini)

The Lord of the Rings (Mini)

Willy Wonka (Mini)

World Joker Poker (Mini)

Beetlejuice (Big)

Dracula (Big)

Indianapolis 500 (Big)

Queen (Big)

Whirlwind (Big)

After Dave's dance we watched a movie off of Amazon called Hotel Transylvania Transformania. It was an animated movie about monsters becoming human and a human becoming a monster. It was cute. When Larry went to bed I watched Star Trek from our movies collection.

By the end of the day I had done 4,000 steps.

   

 

   

Tuesday 11-10-26 Liberty Hill A2 Dance

 

Partly Cloudy Day

We had a partly cloudy day. The clouds had it very humid. The morning temperature was 61 degrees and the high temperature was 76 degrees. 

In the morning we usually attend Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance but today Di cancelled it. Di said she was in the middle of a project. That was ok because we went to Liberty Hill and danced A2 to John Kephart for two hours. 

We had lunch around 11:00 am and left the house about 11:25 am to go to Bob and Kay's house in Liberty Hill, which is about 60 miles from the house. It takes us an hour and fifteen minutes to get there. The dance started at 1:00 pm and was over by 3:00 pm. We got to the dance about 12:40 pm, which gives us time to visit and Larry doesn't like being late. Larry surprised Kay by giving her Mr. and Mrs. Scarecrow to decorate her garage for fall. She loves to decorate for each season and holiday. She already had decorations up but she was so excited she hung the scarecrows with the other decorations. We had enough people for one square and one extra person. Larry and I danced each tip. John gives enough time in between the tips to rest so it wasn't too bad to dance each tip. It is a pleasure to dance to John and with friends. John walked us through a few moves we were having problems, which were Split Transfer, Box Transfer and Transfer And. These moves are hard because you're only working with four people on the same side. We had a super time dancing.

Mrs. and Mr. Scarecrow

Dancing to John Kephart from San Antonio 

We got home from the dance at 4:15 pm. It was time for dinner. I barbecued chicken breast skewers from Aldi. They came out delicious. It only takes 10 minutes to barbecue them. 

Chicken Breast Skewers

Before and after the dance I kept busy playing games. 

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour and 37 seconds to complete, which put me in 10th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played nine games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Jaws, Michael, Mission Impossible and Queen. While playing Jaws I became high score #3. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were John Wick, The Beach Boys, The Godfather, Whirlwind and Willow. While playing The Beach Boys I played two players and became high score #2 and #3. While playing Whirlwind I got a new high score of 3,385,110, which put me in 53rd place of 60 participants so far. 

Jaws (Mini)

Michael (Mini)

Mission Impossible (Mini)

Queen (Mini)

John Wick (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

The Godfather (Big)

Whirlwind (Big)

Willow (Big)

 

We watched our YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Two By Two: Overboard, which was a reunited cast from All Creatures Small and Large about Noah's Ark. It was just as cute. It was about the ark finding land, out running a volcano and having a peace treaty among the animals on the ark and island. When Larry went to bed I watched the fourth chapter of John Wick. 

By the end of the day I did 4,000 steps.   

  

Monday 11-9-26 Rainy Day, Dancing with Di, Jukebox Project & More

Another Rainy Day

We had another rainy day. It rained on and off all day but not hard. The morning temperature was 59 degrees and the high temperature was 66 degrees.

We started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour. Terry hadn't been dancing lately and he wasn't sitting in his chair. Bill asked if he was ok and Di said yes he was in the other room. The next tip he moved to his chair so people wouldn't be worried. Di called five tips to 13 participants. Larry danced four of the tips with me. I had a little metal block on a left-handed Percolate so Di walked us through it a few times. I kept on hinging to the right instead of left. Overall we danced well. We had a super time dancing to Di and with friends.

We love square dancing virtually and in person

We spent the rest of the day doing this and that. 

Larry kept busy working on his jukebox. He's working on designing a skin, which is the music player with the list of your songs. He wants the skin to display and play a whole album instead of song.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 13 minutes and 45 seconds to complete, which put me in 24th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I did some housework for 45 minutes. I cleaned the bathrooms, dusted the house, vacuumed the house and laundry.

Doing housework

I worked out for an hour. 

I worked out for a half hour with the Wii Fit. I did my own routine. I did two exercises from the Aerobics menu for 10 minutes (Hula Hoop for 2 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes), three exercises from the Balance Games menu for 6 minutes (Balance Bubble two times for 2 minutes, Penguin Slide for 2 minutes and Soccer Heading for 2 minutes), and three exercises from the Strength Training menu for 10 minutes (Balance Bridge 10 reps for 3 minutes, Lunge 20 reps for 4 minutes and Torso Twist 6 reps for 3 minutes) and two exercises from the Yoga menu for 4 minutes (Triangle for 2 minutes and Warrior for 2 minutes). It was a great workout.

Aerobics (Hula Hoop and Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Balance Bubble, Penguin Slide and Soccer Heading)

Strength Training (Balance Bridge, Lunge and Torso Twist)

Yoga (Triangle and Warrior)

I worked out to four songs two times on the Synth Riders, which were Code War, Phoenix, You Know That You Love Me and Wolves. While working out with You Know You Love Me I earned two outstanding scores and Wolves I earned two outstanding scores.

Code War

Phoenix

You Know That You Love Me

Wolves

I played 10 games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Batman Forever, Dark Chaos, JP Space Cadet, The Goonies and The Lords of the Rings. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Borderlands, John Wick, Mass Effect, Medieval Madness and Whirlwind. While playing Borderlands I became high score #2. I had a fun time playing pinball.

Batman Forever (Mini)

Dark Chaos (Mini)

JP Space Cadet (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

The Lord of the Rings (Mini)

Borderlands (Big)

John Wick (Big)

Mass Effect (Big)

Medieval Madness (Big)

Whirlwind (Big)

We watched our YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched All Creatures Small and Large, which is the same movie as we have Ooops! Noah Is Gone. It's an animated movie about Noah's Ark. It's a good movie and cute. After Larry went to bed I continued watching John Wick. I watched John Wick Chapter 3. 

By the end of the night I had done 6,000 steps.