SUnday 5-31-26 New Challenge, Workout & Having Fun

 

Happy Sunday

We had a laid back day. The morning temperature was 72 degrees and the high was 90 degrees. It was a little cooler then yesterday.

We hung around the house doing this and that. 

Larry treated for ants because for the last few days I have had a few ants crawling on the counters in the kitchen, Larry had sprayed a couple of weeks ago but we have had a couple of really hard rains so it probably washed the treatment away. The ants weren't fire ants, they were too small and they weren't in a long line. There were only one or two of them crawling together. Thank you Larry.

I did some housework. I dusted, cleaned the bathrooms and vacuumed the house. It took me about 45 minutes to doing the cleaning.

Housework

Today is the beginning of a new week so I got a new weekly pinball challenge, which is Creature From The Black Lagoon. We already had the game but it is an older version. Larry loaded the new version and made sure it worked. He played a game and it worked great.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 10 games. It took me 1 hour, 1 minute and 10 seconds to complete, which put me in 9th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.  

I played last week's challenge of Batman for about a half hour before the challenge ended at 2:00 pm. I didn't get a new high score but I came close a couple of times. My high score for the week was 117,010,300, which put me 100th place out of 127 participants. Then I played the new challenge of Creature From The Black Lagoon and my first high score was 85,879,240. Once the score is approved I'll be in 18th out of 22 participants so far.

Batman

Creature From The Black Lagoon

Later on I played three more pinball games on the big cabinet, which were The Addams Family, The Godfather and Time Lord.

The Addams Family

The Godfather

Time Lord

I also played five pinball games on the mini cabinet, which were Godzilla, Great Houdini, Jaws, No Fear and The Big LeBowski. While playing Godzilla I became high score #10 and Great Houdini I became high score #1. I had a super game of Great Houdini.

Godzilla

Great Houdini

Jaws

No Fear

The Big LeBowski

I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour with four songs, which were Keep On Smilin, Keep You In Line, Silent Movie and Watch Your Mouth. While doing Watch Your Mouth  earned two outstanding scores.

Keep On Smilin

Keep You In Line

Silent Movie

Watch Your Tongue

Larry started reading a book.

Reading is relaxing

 

We watched YouTube videos.

Larry bought Project Hail Mary from Amazon so this evening we watched it. After Larry went to bed I started to watched The Dark Knight movies of three. It was Batman Begins and I watched Ice Age from our collection of movies. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.

I continued working on The Blue Truck jigsaw puzzle.

  

Saturday 5-30-26 Two Car Shows, Projects, Working Out & More

 

Happy Saturday

We had a super day with overcast skies and a breeze. The morning temperature was 72 degrees and the high was 90 degrees.

Larry started the day out by working on our security camera systems. Last night Larry cleaned the camera lenses and the pictures are a lot clearer. We didn't know how foggy the pictures were until the cameras were clean. A few weeks back one of the cameras quit, we really didn't care because we don't really pay attention to that particular camera. We really only look at four of our cameras because we like to watch the wildlife and to see when someone comes to the front door. These cameras have a trip wire program into the software so when there is motion we are notified by trip wire. This morning Larry worked on updating the cameras and fixing the camera, that wasn't working. He got all the cameras working. A couple of the cameras are over 10 years old. 

We attended two car shows in the morning. Both shows began at 8:00 am, we arrived at the first one about 9:00 am because we know people don't show up on time. Before going to the shows we stopped by the UPS Store to check our mail. We only had some junk mail so Larry came back to the truck empty handed. Then we stopped by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts for breakfast. After Larry bought donuts we drove to the first show.

First was the Belton Tiger Orchestra Car Show at Belton High School parking lot. There wasn't a lot of cars but some of the cars were very nice. It only took a half hour or so. The proceeds go directly the orchestra students (100% of the proceeds). 

Belton High School 

1958 Edsel Pacer Convertible

1937 Chevrolet 5 Window Business Coupe

Larry checking out 1972 Chevrolet C10 Stepside

A coupe in the Belton Tiger Car Show

Second was the Mid Texas Corvette Club Car Show at Bubba's 33 in Killeen, which was 16 miles away. This car show is open to all categories, which are Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Foreign, Domestic and Mod. It takes up three rows and more of Bubba's 33 parking lot. It had a lot of super looking vehicles. They had two Corvette Clubs there. One was already there and the cars were lined up on the side of Bubba's 33 building in two lines. It took us about an hour to walk through the show. 

Bubba's 33

Dad's 51 Chevy 3100

Beautiful paint job

 

1966 Mustang

1967 Pontiac GTO

Paint job under the hood of the GTO

Beautiful Coupe

 

Spiderman Corvette

Iron Man Corvette

On the way home we stopped by Lake Stop Grocery and bought a Hunt Brothers Pepperoni and Sausage Pizza. We had the pizza for lunch and dinner. 

Hunt Brothers Pizza

After lunch I went outside and finished cleaning the railing. I did the railing on the steps. It took me about 45 minutes. 

The railing we have been cleaning on the back porch

What the railing looked like before being cleaned

The finished project

While I did this project Larry worked on Internet Radio. He has been playing with the internet radio stations we have on our jukebox via a computer. It's working great and sounds good. He continues to tweak the program. He loves keeping up with computer and other technology.

After doing the railing I worked out for an hour using the Wii Fit and Synth Riders. 

I worked out for a half hour using the Wii Fit using the Aerobics Menu, Balance Games and Training Plus Menu. I did two routines on the Aerobics for 10 minutes, which were Basic Run the Island for 6 minutes and Rhythm Boxing for 4 minutes. I did four routines on the Balance Games for 10 minutes, which were Soccer Heading for 2 minutes, Ski Slalom twice for 2 minutes, Ski Jump twice for 2 minutes and Table Tilt for 4 minutes. I did three routines on the Training Plus for 10 minutes, which were Obstacle Course for 4 minutes, Basic Run for 2 minutes and Perfect 10 three times for 4 minutes.

Aerobics

Basic Run Distance: Island Lap

Rhythm Boxing

Balance Games

Ski Jump

Ski Slalom

Soccer Heading

Table Tilt

Training Plus

Basic Run Plus

Obstacle Course

Perfect 10

I worked out for a half hour with the Synth Riders to four songs twice, which were Empires, Light Up The Night, I Loved You Then and It Ain't Right. While doing Empires I earned two outstanding scores, I Loved You Then I earned one outstanding and one new high score and It Ain't Right I earned two outstanding scores and one new high score.

Empires

I Loved You Then

It Ain't Right

Light Up The Night

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Free Cell). It took me 1 hour, 3 minutes and 29 seconds, which put me in 10th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2. 

Yesterday I forgot to say what games I played. I played the same games I did today except the event was different. The event was Event: Pyramid Mini of 5 games. I came in 6th place in my group.

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, JP Space Cadet, Metallica and Nightmare Before Christmas. While playing Nightmare Before Christmas I became high score #3. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Batman, Indianapolis 500, JP Viper Night Driver and Mustang. While I played JP Viper Night Driver I became high score #4.

Ace of Speed (Mini)

JP Space Cadet (Mini)

Metallica (Mini)

Nightmare Before Christmas (Mini)

Batman (Big)

Indianapolis (Big)

JP Viper Night Driver (Big)

Mustang (Big)

In the evening we watched an document on Kanopy called Starman. It was very interesting and well done. We really enjoyed it. It was about space exploration and narrated by Gentry Lee, who is a legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author. He talks about his life. After Larry went to bed I watched Armageddon and The Little Mermaid II from our collection of movies. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

I continued working on The Blue Truck jigsaw puzzle.

 

The Blue Truck so far