Tuesday 7-7-26 Dancing with Loren, Project, New Electric Company & More

 

Smile it's summertime

We had a beautiful day with partly cloudy skies. The morning temperature was 72 degrees and the high was 99 degrees.

Our contract with Discount Power expired yesterday. For the past couple of weeks Larry has been keeping on eye on electricity rates from other providers. He found Chariot Energy was almost 30% less than Discount Power, using their online system he was able to move us over to them. As soon as he changed over we received an e-mail from Discount Power saying that our contracted was cancelled. 

We started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance at 10:00 for an hour. Di and Terry are going to be in Germany for the next two weeks so Loren Smith covered for Di and Terry. Loren is covering this week but won't be able to cover next week so we won't have a dance. Loren called four tips of A2 to 10 participants and one tip of C1 to 6 participants. Loren did an excellent job of calling. When the dancers had problems with a move he would walk us through the move. Larry danced all of the tips with me. We had a super time dancing to Loren and with friends.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Klondike and 1- Spider). It took me 2 hours, 47 minutes and 51 second to complete, which put me in 17th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with the Wii Fit for 45 minutes. I let the Wii Fit choose my routine. The routine consisted of 12 exercises, which were two from the Aerobics menu ( Advance Step and Super Hula Hoop), one from the Balance Games menu (Lotus Focus), four from Strength Training (Lunge 10 reps, Row Squats of 15, Torso Twist 3 reps and Tricep Extension 10rep) and five from Training Plus (Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Obstacle Course, Rhythm Parade, Snowball Fight and Skateboard Arena). I worked out with this routine for 33 minutes. I did three exercises from the Training Plus menu for 12 minutes (Basic Run Plus for 2 minutes, Perfect 10 three times for 5 minutes and Table Tilt Plus two times for 5 minutes). It was a great workout.

Wii Fit Plus Routine (earned an extra 2 minutes)

Aerobics (Advance Step and Super Hula Hoop)

Balance Games (Lotus Focus)

Strength Training (Lunge, Rowing Squats, Torso Twist and Tricep Extensions)

Training Plus (Basic Run Plus, Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Obstacle Course, Perfect 10, Rhythm Parade, Snowball Fight, Skateboard Arena and Table Tilt Plus) 

I worked out with Gold's Gym for 30 minutes. I did my own routine from the Advance Menu, which were Warm Up: Left and Right Step Combo for 8 minutes and Ducking Combo for 22 minutes. It was a great workout.

Left and Right Step Combo and Ducking Combo

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the the mini cabinet, which were Fun House, No Fear, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Godfather. While playing No Fear I became high score #1. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Apollo 13, Dark Chaos, JP Space Cadet and The Big LeBowski. I didn't get on the board but I had fun trying.

Fun House (Mini)

No Fear (Mini)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mini)

The Godfather (Mini)

Apollo 13 (Big)

Dark Chaos (Big)

JP Space Cadet (Big)

The Big LeBowski (Big)

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. It a good action movie. After Larry went to bed I watched Aquaman and Men In Black II. I watched Aquaman to refresh my memory. All the movies were from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.

  

 

        

Monday 7-6-26 Happy Monday, Yard Projects, Workout I More

 

Summertime Fun

We had a beautiful sunny day. Summer is differently here with the high of 98 degrees and the morning temperature of 73 degrees.

We usually have a Monday morning C1 dance with Di Green and Terry McCann but for the next two weeks there won't be one because their in Germany for the European Square Dancing Convention. That's ok because it gave us a chance to do what ever we want.

Larry did a couple of projects in the frontyard. 

First was straightening the landscaping border around the oak tree. The border is a metal band that goes around the tree. We installed it years ago. Over years of mowing it has gotten hit many times causing it to be out of alignment and bent. Larry worked on it for about an hour, he got it back together by drilling holes at the connection points and using screws. He also used a huge pair of pliers to bend some of it back into shape. It once again looks great.

The landscaping around the oak tree

Next he moved over to the other side of the yard to work on a sprinkler. A couple of weeks ago Larry discovered someone had drove over it and it was broken. Hi did a quick repair to get it working so today he dug it up and replaced it. Years ago he had used some extensions to get it high enough to spray above the grass. Today he replaced the old 4" popup and extensions with a 6" popup. He dug it up, replaced it and then filled the hole back in He then had to adjust the spray so it covered the area right. He also made sure the other sprinklers in the zone worked correctly. They work perfect.

The sprinkler Larry worked on

Testing the sprinklers out

I'm very lucky to have Larry around to do a lot of projects that need to be done. Thank you Larry. 

While Larry did his projects I played games. I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Mini of 10 games. It took me 2 hours, 34 minutes and 18 seconds to complete, which put me in 22nd place in my group. I got stuck on the last game. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

In the afternoon I worked out for an hour and forty-five minutes. 

I worked out for 45 minutes on the Wii Fit using the Wii Fit Plus Routine of 12 exercise for 28 minutes and the other 17 minutes I used Training Plus (Perfect 10 for 2 minutes), Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes) and Balance Games for 7 minutes (Table Tilt 4 minutes and Balance Bubble three times for 3 minutes). The Wii Fit Plus Routine was four Strength Training exercises (Jackknife, Lunge 10 reps, Single-Leg Extension 6 reps and Tricep Extension 10 reps), four Training Plus exercises (Island Cycling, Obstacle Course and Rhythm Parade) and five Yoga exercises (Chair, Palm Tree, Tree, Triangle and Warrior), I had a super workout.

Wii Fit Plus Routine

Strength Training (Jackknife, Lunge, Single-Leg Extension and Tricep Extension)

Training Plus Games (Island Cycling, Obstacle Course and Rhythm Parade)

  

Yoga (Chair, Palm Tree, Tree, Triangle and Warrior)

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Table Tilt and Balance Bubble)

Perfect 10

I workout with Just Dance for 30 minutes using Just Dance 2016. I danced nine songs, which were When The Rain Begins to Fall, All About The Bass, Kaboom Pow, The Choice Is Yours, Gibberish, Junto a Ti, Lights, Balhan Blash Emix (Angry Birds) and This Is How We Do. I had a fun workout.

Just Dance 2019 (When The Rain Begins To Fall, All About The Bass and Kaboom Pow) 10 minutes

Just Dance 2016 (The Choice Is Yours, Gibberish, Junto A Ti, Lights, Balkan Blast Remix and This Is How We Do) 20 minutes

I worked out with the Synth Riders with three songs twice, which were Carry On, I'll Fight Back and Voidwalkers for 30 minutes. Another great workout.

Carry On

I'll Fight Back

Voidwalkers

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Dr. No, Great Houdini, Mission Impossible and Transformers. While playing Great Houdini I became high score #3. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Apollo 13, Star Trek The Next Generation, The Beach Boys and Willow. I got a new high score playing the weekly challenge of Apollo 13, which was 1,202,039,740. This score put me in 16th place out of 33 participants. I had a good day of playing pinball.

Dr. No (Mini)

Great Houdini (Mini)

Mission Impossible (Mini)

Transformers (Mini)

Apollo 13 (Big)

Star Trek The Next Generation (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Willow (Big)

While I played pinball we watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched The Sheep Detectives from our movies collection. A couple of months ago we had seen this movie in the theater, it was very cute. It is now available via Amazon Prime. 

After Larry went to bed I watched The Suicide Squad and Men In Black from our movies collection. I ended up doing 5,000 steps. 

While I was watching movies a doe and her two fawns showed up. They walked through the frontyard and the backyard. As they walked they stopped and grazed. The fawns still have their spots but they're grazing along side of their mother.

  

  

 

      

Saturday 7-5-26 New Pinball Challenge & Having Fun

 

Just having fun

We had a fun day of hanging around the house and keeping cool. We didn't have anything on our agenda and was too hot to hang outside. The morning temperature was 77 degree and got up to 100 degrees and the skies were mostly sunny.

The temperature at our house at 3:00

Larry kept busy. First he went outside and treated for weeds in the gravel and around the yards. Next he took the motorcycle for a ride. He hadn't done it for awhile and he wanted to make sure it ran good. He drove it to Rogers Park boat ramp in Morgan Point. He was surprised that it wasn't busy because it was Sunday on the July 4th weekend. Then he worked on some movies.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Free Cell and 5 Pyramid). It took me 38 minutes and 38 seconds to complete, which put me in 12th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out for 31 minutes with the Wii Fit. I had the Wii Fit choose a routine for me. The routine was for 25 minutes but I had internet problems so I only did 23 minutes of it. That was ok I did another 8 minutes to complete the workout. I redid two the of the 12 exercises the Wii Fit had on it's routine. The routine was 2 exercises from Aerobics (Basic Run and Super Hula Hoop), 2 exercises from Strength Training (Single-Leg Extension 6 reps and Single-Leg Twist 10 reps), 4 exercises from Training Plus (Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling, Perfect 10 and Rhythm Kung Fu) and 4 exercises from Yoga (Chair, Half Moon, Palm Tree and Sun Salutation). The exercises I redid were Bird's Eye Bull's Eye and Rhythm Kung Fu for 4 minutes. I did Perfect 10 three times for 4 minutes to complete my workout. I had a great workout.

My routine

Aerobics (Basic Run and Super Hula Hoop)

Strength Training (Single-Leg Extension and Single-Leg Twist)

Training Plus (Bird's Eye Bull's Eye, Island Cycling, Perfect 10 and Rhythm Kung Fu)

Yoga (Chair, Half Moon, Palm Tree and Sun Salutation)

I played ten games of pinball.

I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Fast Break, Michael, Monster Bash, No Good Goffers! and The Goonies. While playing Fast Break I entered my initials as high score in playing Milwaukee Bucks with 151 points. While playing Monster Bash I became high score #3. 

Fast Break (Mini)

Michael (Mini)

Monster Bash (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

The Goonies (Mini)

I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Apollo 13, Big Bang Bar, Big Buck Hunter Pro, Game of Thrones and The Beach Boys. I started by playing the weekly challenges because a new challenge started today. I played Game of Thrones to get a new high score for last week's challenge but failed. I had fun trying. My ending score was 336,583,630, which put me in 50th place out of 94 participants. This week's challenge is Apollo 13. My first high score is 857,133,440, which put me in 7th place out of 14 participants so far. Then I played the other three games. I didn't get on the board but had a great time trying.

Game of Thrones (Big)

Apollo 13 (Big)

Big Bang Bar (Big)

Big Buck Hunter Pro (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Larry was working on the movies Sheep Detectives, How to Train Your Dagon and Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom.

In the evening we watched Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom. When Larry went to bed I watched Suicide Squad and 101 Dalmatians from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.