Tuesday 3-3-26 Liberty Hill Dance, Puzzle & Games

 

We had an awesome day. 

The weather was very warm. The day started out being overcast. The clouds rolled out about 10:00 am and a wind out of the south came up very strong. The morning temperature was 66 degrees and the high was 88 degrees.

Yesterday it was so warm in the house we turned on  the air conditioner. It also ran today. Beginning of March and we already needed the A/C.

We spent most of the day in Liberty Hill dancing at the Ski's house. We left the house at 10:15 am to go to the dance. We stopped by the UPS Store to pickup our mail because we were expecting new credit cards. Then we continued on to Liberty Hill. We stopped in Liberty Hill to eat our lunch. After lunch we went to the Ski's house to dance. 

We got to the Ski's at 11:45 am. We said our hellos to Kay, Bob, Henry and Susan. Then we danced C1 via tape for an hour to four callers; Tony Collingwood from the U.K., Don Moger from Canada, Ross Howell and Johnny Preston. We had a super time.

At 1:00 pm we danced to John Kephart for two hours. We had enough dancers for two squares and three extra dancers sitting out. We had good news, Kay danced a little bit after her heel surgery and she is no longer on crutches. John Kephart workshopped Spin Chain the Gears, Motivate, Switch to an Hourglass and other moves the dancers were having problems with. John Carlson called one tip. We had a fun afternoon dancing at the Ski's house.

Get a partner and dance

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed. I did the Daily Event before going to the dance. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 Free Cell and 5 Pyramid). It took me 40 minutes and 25 seconds, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games of pinball on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, Batman Forever, No Good Goffers!, Pirate's Life and Pirates of the Caribbean. I didn't get o the board but had fun. I played five games of pinball on the big cabinet, which were JP Viper Night Drivin, Magic Pinball, Medieval Madness, Metallica and Theatre of Magic. While playing Magic Pinball I entered my initials on the board as high score #4. I had fun playing pinball.

Ace of Speed (Mini)

Batman Forever (Mini)

No Good Goffers! (Mini)

Pirate's Life (Mini)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mini)

JP Viber Night Drivin (Big)

Magic Pinball (Big)

Medieval Madness (Big)

Metallica (Big)

Theatre of Magic (Big)

When we got home from the dance we watched the YouTube videos of people we follow. While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.

After dinner we watched a documentary on YouTube about Willa Cather. It was shown on PBS and is now posted on YouTube. Larry has read a few books written by Willa Cather and I read one of her books. Willa is a very interesting woman, she wrote 12 novels, some about life on the plains in Nebraska. She was born December 7, 1873 and died April 24, 1947. She earned a BA from the University of Nebraska. The documentary was very well done and interesting. Then we started to watch The English Patient on Kanopy until it crashed 45 minutes into the movie. We'll try to finish watching it tomorrow. We went to Hoopla and watched a movie called The Great Buck Howard. It was a comedy about a young man who became an assistant to an illusionist in decline. It starred Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks and John Malkovich. We enjoyed the movie. When Larry went to bed I watched The Sound of Music from our movies collection. I ended up doing 2,000 steps.   

         

Monday 3-2-26 Dancing, Workout, Home Projects & Games

 

Happy Monday

We had a wonderful Monday. The weather was very nice. We had partly cloudy skies on and off all day. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and the high was 81 degrees. We had a little breeze.

We started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di called five tips to 15 dancers and Terry danced with her. Di's internet connection was giving her problems. Halfway through the second tip it said she had low connection and the screen we follow her with went small. She tried to fix it but was unsuccessful. The dancers told her we could hear her and asked her to continue calling. We just couldn't follow her on screen because the screen would freeze up. She has been trying to get her newer lab top to work with Zoom because the other lab top she has been using for six years to call Zoom died. It will just take a little time to get everything to work again. She worked shopped Tally Ho from Two-face lines because it was requested. She did a super job of workshopping it. She is great at explaining the moves and getting the dancers to understand it. Larry danced four of the tips with me and I was happy he did. We had a great time dancing with friends virtually.

Get a partner and dance 

After the dance Larry did a few home projects. Yesterday, Jason (our neighbor) mowed the southside of the front yard so Larry mowed the north side today. He mowed it a few times to mulch the leaves from the oak tree. Next he spread the preemergence and fertilizer on both the front and back yards. We're suppose to get some rain in the next couple of days. Then he started the irrigation system. Before starting the irrigation system he had to turn the water back on. He made sure the irrigation system worked correctly by turning on each zone one at a time. It worked great. Next he put the covers on the septic systems correctly. Last project was changing the spark plug on the lawn mower and adjusting the height up on the lawn mower. 

Larry spreading the preemergence and fertilizer

While Larry did his projects I did some housework. I dusted the house, cleaned the bathrooms and vacuumed the house. 

  

Doing housework

After lunch Larry change the spark plug on the motorcycle and took it for a drive. He said it ran great. 

I worked out on the Wii Fit for 46 minutes. I did my own routine. I worked out using Aerobic games for 10 minutes:  Basic Step for 3 minutes, Advance Step for 5 minutes and Hula Hoop for 2 minutes, Balance Games for 10 minutes:  Table Tilt for 3 minutes, Balance Bubble three time for 3 minutes and Snowboard Slalom four times for 4 minutes, Strength Training for 8 minutes: Push-up and Side Plank rep. of 6 for 2 minutes, Plank for 30 seconds twice for 3 minutes and Triceps twice for 4 minutes, Yoga for 12 minutes: Deep Breathing 2 minutes, Dance for 2 minutes and a few stretches programs for 8 minutes (Cobra for 2 minutes, Bridge for 2 minutes, Spinal Twist for 2 minutes and Solder Stand for 2 minutes) and I did Perfect 10 in Training Plus three times for 6 minutes. My balance isn't too good so I didn't do too well with Dance but I'm not going to give up on it. My strength has declined in the years so I didn't do too well with Push-up and Plank but I'll try it again. I had a super workout.  

Aerobics

Balance Games

Strength Training

Yoga

Training Plus Games

Perfect 10

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 10 minutes and 19 seconds, which put me in 9th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played seven games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Jaws and Monster Bash. While playing Jaws I became high score #3. I played three games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar, Blizzard of Ozz and Metallica. While playing Blizzard of Ozz I became high score #2. When I played Metallica I got a new high score of 78,177,980, which put me in 20th place out of 51 participants. I had a fun day of playing pinball.

60th Anniversary James Bond (Mini)

Creature From the Black Lagoon (Mini)

Jaws (Mini)

Monster Bash (Mini)

Big Bang Bar (Big)

Blizzard of Ozz (Big)

Metallica (Big)

I worked on my puzzle in between doing this and that.

In the evening we watched a movie on Kanopy called Allied. It was about two spies falling in love with each other while being undercover in Casablanca in 1942. It was a good movie starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. When Larry went to bed I watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang out of our movies collection. It was a cute movie about a widower, who is an inventor raising two children own his own and falls in love with Truly Scrumptious (daughter of a candy factory owner). It starred Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.   

Sunday 3-1-26 New Month, New Pinball Challenge, Workout & Games

 

Smile and have fun

Today started the month of March and it's Sunday. I hope everyone had a great week of doing whatever you enjoy doing. We kept busy doing this and that. We had a lot of fun doing so.

Happy March

Today was a very warm day with a lot of sunshine. The morning temperature was 64 degrees and it got up to 83. It also was very windy.

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, 25 minutes and 26 seconds, which put me in 23rd place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.  

Today is the beginning of a week so I got a new weekly challenge of pinball, which is Metallica. We already have the game installed but our version was a bit older so Larry had to download and install the newer version. He also had to change the number of balls from 5 to 3.

Before last week's challenge of Guns N' Roses was over I played it for about an hour. I didn't get a new high score but I came close. When the challenge was over I came in 65th place out of 119 participants. The participants were from U.S., France, Finland, Italy, Argentina, Germany, U.K., Netherlands, Japan, China, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Australia and Curacao. I played this week's challenge of Metallica and got my first high score of 28,949,640. I'm in 11th out of 19 participants. 

Guns N' Roses (big)

Metallica (big)

I played seven other pinball games. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were 60th Anniversary, Dr. No, Goldeneye and Medieval Madness. While playing Dr. No I became high score #2. I played three games on the big cabinet, which were Willy Wonka, World Cup Soccer and Tour Joker Poker. I didn't get on the board playing on the big cabinet but had fun.

60th Anniversary (mini)

Dr. No (mini)

Goldeneye (mini)

Medieval Madness (mini)

Willy Wonka (big)

World Cup Soccer (big)

World Tour Joker Poker (big)

Larry spent a good part of the day reading. Yesterday he started reading The Professor's House by Willa Cather, He finished it today. Willa Cather was born in 1873 and she wrote 12 books. Larry has now read three of  them. He has enjoyed all of them. Reading them today they are historical fiction but at the time she wrote The Professor's house (1925) it would have simply been fiction.

Relaxing with a book

I worked out for a little over an hour and a half.

I worked out using the Wii Fit for 35 minutes. I usually use the Wii Fit routines but today I did my own routine using the menu board. The routine was 10 minutes of Balance Games (2 minutes with Soccer, 2 minutes Snow Skiing, 2 minutes Ski Jump, 2 minutes Tight Rope Walking and 2 minutes Penguin Catching Fish), 10 minutes of Aerobics (4 minutes Boxing, 2 minutes of Hola Hoop and 4minutes of Super Hola Hoop), 5 minutes of Strength Training (1 minute of Single-leg Extension, 1  minute of Torso Twists, 1 minute of Single-leg Twist and 1 minute of Side-ways Leg Lift) and 10 minutes of Yoga (2 minutes of Half Moon, 2 minutes of Warrior, 2 minutes of Tree, 2 minutes of Palm Tree and 2 minutes of Chair).

Aerobics

Balance Games

Strength Training

Yoga

I worked out a half hour with Just Dance with Just Dance 2018 (10 minutes) and Just Dance 2019 (20 minutes). Just Dance 2018 I did three songs (Another One Bites The Dust, Risky Business and Foot Loose) and Just 2019 I did six songs (Mad Love, Not Your Ordinary, Finesse, Rave In The Grave, A Little Party Never Killed No Body and Toy). I had fun.

Just Dance 2018

Just Dance 2019

I worked out with the Synth Riders for a half hour to four songs twice. The songs were Escape, Hypothermia, Stay and The Wild. While working out with Escape I got an outstanding score and a new high score. While working out with Stay I got one outstanding score. While working out with The Wild I got two outstanding scores. I had a great workout.

Escape

Hypothermia

Stay

The Wild

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle when I had time.

In the evening we watched Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Kanopy. It was about a boy, who was born old and gets younger as he gets older. We have seen this movie years ago and enjoyed watching it again. It stared Brad Pitt as Benjamin and Cate Blanchett as Daisy, Benjamin's girl friend. When Larry went to bed I watched Battleship from our movies collection. It was a movie about a fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. It about two brothers in the navy and are opposites. It was a good movie. I ended up doing 4,000 steps.