Tuesday 2-24-26 Liberty Hill Dance, Puzzle & Games

 

Awesome Day

We had an awesome day. 

The weather was gorgeous with blue skies and wind out of the southwest. At times the wind was very strong. The morning temperature was 36 degrees and the high was 73 degrees. 

We started the day out by going to Liberty Hill for our weekly C1/A2 dance at the Ski's house. We left the house at 10:15 am. On the way there we swung by the UPS Store to get our mail. Our new credit cards were there waiting for us. When we got to Liberty Hill we parked in a parking lot to have lunch. After lunch we went to the Ski's house.

We arrived at the dance at 11:45 am. I had made Reese's Peanut Butter Bars for the group. We said our hellos to Kay, Bob, Henry and Susan and then started dancing. We danced two couple tapes of C1 to Johnny Preston and Tony Collingwood from the U.K. for an hour. Tony was more challenging then Johnny because of his English accent and he put us in challenging positions. Whenever we had problems we walked through the moves. We had a super time dancing with Susan and Henry. 

At 1:00 pm we danced A2 for two hours to John Kephart. There were enough dancers for one square plus five dancers sitting out. John workshopped Motivate because the dancers were having problems. We use cards so the dance went very smoothly. Larry and I sat out a couple of times. The last few weeks John has called the last tip as six couples. It's more difficult because you can forget who your partner is. He calls the tip with four head couples and two side couples. My snacks were a success we didn't have any leftover. In between tips the dancers played with the Ski's (Kay and Bob) dog Baily. We had a great time dancing to John and with friends. 

John Kephart (last week dance)

Dancing to John

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 5 games. It took me 1 hour, 15 minutes and 51 seconds, which put me in 32nd place in my group. 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 Ace of Speed, Cactus Canyon, Great Houdini and No Fear. I didn't get on the board playing the games but I played fairly well. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Guns N Roses, Jaws, JP Viper Night Driving' and Magic Pinball. While playing Jaws I became high score #4 and JP Viper Night Driving I became high score #5. I had fun playing pinball.

Ace of Speed (mini)

Cactus Canyon (mini)

Great Houdini (mini)

No Fear (mini)

Guns N Roses (big)

Jaws (big)

JP Viper Night Driving (big)

Magic Pinball (big)

I worked on my puzzle.

In the evening we watched a movie on Kanopy called The Hours. It was a good movie but a little depressing. It was about three women in different times, that had one thing in common in their life. The women were Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) a British author from  1920's who wrote Mrs. Dalloway, Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) who was a Los Angeles housewife in 1950's and Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) who was a modern day New York writer. After Larry went to bed I watched Oh, God! on Kanopy. It was a cute movie with John Denver and George Burns as God. Then I watched Crocodile Dundee from our movies collection. I ended up doing 2,000 steps. 

   

Monday 2-23-26 C1 with Di, Workout, Puzzle & More

 

Beautiful Day

We had a beautiful day with sunshine. It was a little cool, the morning temperature was 29 degrees and the high was 62 degrees.

We started the day off by attending Di Green's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour. Terry danced with Di as she called five tips to 17 dancers. Larry danced four of the tips with me. We danced a lot better today. Di had the same setup as she had yesterday She still trying to get a cable so she can hook up the television where she can see us in case we need help. She's great at cueing and telling us where we're at. We had a super time dancing to Di and Terry and with friends from France, Germany, Canada, U.K. and the U.S.A.

Get a partner and dance

Today was the beginning of a new week so before going to bed I played sixteen games of Pyramid to earn a golden ticket to double my points when playing Solitaire. Then I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. After Di's dance I played the event, which was Event: Klondike Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 15 minutes and 27 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out on the Synth Riders for 30 minutes to three songs two times. The songs were Behemoth, Got You and Hex. While working out on Got You I earned one outstanding score. The songs were about 5 minutes a piece. I workout with the songs at the Easy Mode but today I had to use Normal Mode because Easy Mode was not available. I had a great workout.

Behemoth

Got You

Hex

I played one game of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade for 15 minutes. I earned a silver trophy. I awoken the manor twice and failed to stun the manor both times. I was the banister buster and earned a skeleton key. I was able to summon the spider but was quick enough to hit it to start a multiball. I hit the clock three times to get the jack-o-lanterns. I was unsuccessful to hit all of them. I had a great game.

Monster Manor

Larry finished reading a book yesterday and started a new one today. He also played three games of pinball on the mini cabinet. The games were Ace of Speed, No Good Goffers! and The Goonies.

After working out I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Ace of Speed, Junk Yard, Nightmare Before Christmas, No Good Goffers! and The Goonies. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar, Blizzard of Ozz, Guns N Roses, Indianapolis 500 and Superman and the Justice League. I didn't get on the board as new high scores on the games but I played very well.

Mini Cabinet

Ace of Speed

Junk Yard

Nightmare Before Christmas

No Good Goffers!

  The Goonies

Big Cabinet

Big Bang Bar

Blizzard of Ozz

Guns N Roses

Indianapolis 500

Superman and the Justice League

We watched YouTube videos. I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.

In the evening we watched a movie on Kanopy called Finding Neverland. It was a movie starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Julie Christie. It was a movie about the playwriter Sir J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp), who created Peter Pan and a widow of four boys Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and their relationship. It was a cute movie and very good. It was a 2004 movie. When Larry went to bed I watched the last movie of  Fantastic Breasts, which was Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore. Then I watched Bling from our movies collection. It's about a mechanic of robots, who has been in loved with the loved anchor woman seen they were kids. It's a cute movie about the adventures he goes through when trying to propose to her. I ended up doing 5,000 steps.

 

 

Sunday 2-22-26 Dancing with Di, New Pinball Challenge & More

 

Have a great Sunday

We had a great day. 

The weather was fantastic. It was cool with a morning temperature of 35 degrees and a high of 60 degrees. There was a wind out of the north.

We received a few pictures from Shirley showing us her birthday gifts. Louise send her a gift card and three books, Ray (Larry's brother) and Mary (Ray's girlfriend) gave her flowers in a vase and  she got a few birthday cards. 

Flowers from Ray and Mary and birthday cards

Louise's gifts

Flowers on the left are flowers we gave her this year and flowers on the right are flowers we gave her last year

Shirley's birthday gifts

We attended Ett McAtee's Weekly C Series dance, which was C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Di Green called the dance to 12 dancers. She called five tips and danced with Terry. Di called from another laptop because the one she usually use died on her right before the dance. Her video looked a lot better on the newer computer. She had to take a cable from the television she uses to watch dancers while they dance so  she only had the one monitor. Larry danced four of the tips with me. At times we were in the wrong place and we're not sure why. But we had a fun time dancing with friends. The dancers were from Canada, Germany, U.K. and the U.S.A.

Get a partner and dance

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before I went to bed. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 48 minutes, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with three songs twice. The songs were Calling Out, Revenger and Showdown. While working out with Calling Out I got one outstanding and one new high score and Revenger I got one new high score.

Calling Out

Revenger

Showdown

I did some housework. I did laundry and vacuumed the house.

Doing laundry

Today starts a new weekly challenge of pinball. The game this week is Guns N Roses. We didn't have the game so Larry had to download it. He installed the game on the big cabinet in both 2D and VR. He had trouble getting it to work in 2D. After a bit of investigation he discovered a change he made a couple of weeks ago caused the problem. He replaced one file and that fixed it. Then he played the game to make sure everything worked correctly. 

Before last weeks challenge, which was Who Dunnit ended at 1:00 I played it for about an hour. I didn't get a new high score. I ended up being in 46th place out of 120 participants. I played the new challenge of Guns N Roses and got my first high score of 551,089,470, which put me in 15th out of 18 participants. 

Who Dunnit

Guns N Roses

I played five more games of pinball besides the challenges. I played two games on the big cabinet, which were Magic Pinball and Playboy. I played three games on the mini cabinet, which were Monster Bash, Theatre of Magic and Willy Wonka. I didn't play pinball too well today.

Magic Pinball (big)

Playboy (big)

Monster Bash (mini)

Theatre of Magic (mini)

Willy Wonka (mini)

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

We watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched a movie on Kanopy called Hannah Arendt. It was a biographical drama about Hannah Arendt. Hannah Arendt was a German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. It took place during the trail of a Nazi, Adolf Eichmann in 1961 in Jerusalem, she reported on the trail for the New Yorker. She wrote a report on the Banality of Evil. People didn't like what she wrote because it was critical of some Jewish leaders. It was a good movie, it was in both German and English. I would have liked it better if it was in English instead having to read subtitles. After Larry went to bed I watched the second movie of Fantastic Breasts, which was Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindelwald from our movies collection. I ended up doing 4,000 steps. 

 

  

 

Saturday 2-12-26 Olympics, Puzzle, Reading & Workout

 

Happy Saturday

We had another day of doing this and that. 

The weather wasn't bad. We had blue skies and occasionally the clouds would roll in. We had a little wind. The morning temperature was 51 degrees and the high was 68 degrees, very comfortable. 

Temperature at 2:30 pm

Larry finished reading Project Hail Mary and started another book. I'll probably will read Project Hail Mary when we go on our Spring Trip, which is at the end of March after Spring Break.

 

Relax with a book

I spent most of the day working on my jigsaw puzzle.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. The event was Event: Experts Only Mini of 5 games. It took me 1 hour, 8 minutes and 31 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. I always get stuck on solving the Free Cell game but it 's ok. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

     

In the afternoon I was going to workout with my Wii Fit but the console won't read the disc. Larry tried to get it to work by unplugging the device still wouldn't work. We even tried other workout disc. We finally gave up. Larry went on the internet and found a console so he ordered it. It was off E-Bay so it will take awhile.  Thank you Larry.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 30 minutes with three songs. The songs were Carry On, I'll Fight Back and Voidwalkers. I did all songs two times except I'll Fight Back I did three times because my right controller died. I had a good workout.

Carry On

I'll Fight Back

Voidwalkers

I played one game of Pirate's Plunder on Bouncer Arcade for 30 minutes. I earned a silver trophy, defeated my enemies three times, played Skeleton Swamp (hit the skulls with ball), Cutlas Clash (broke the banister on the ship) and I got four Jolliest Rogers. I had a great game. I hadn't played Pirate's Plunder since 2/5/26, which was 16 days.

Pirate's Plunder

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Ace Of Speed, Cactus Canyon, Jaws, Godzilla and Pirates of the Caribbean. While playing Cactus Canyon I was high score #2, Godzilla I was high score #6 and Pirates of the Caribbean I was high score #2. I had a super day of playing pinball on the mini cabinet. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Fish Tales, Mission Impossible, Theatre of Magic, Who Dunnit and World Cup Soccer. I didn't get on the board while playing on the big cabinet but I did well.

Mini Cabinet

Ace of Speed

Cactus Canyon

Godzilla

Jaws

Pirates of the Caribbean

Big Cabinet

Fish Tales

Mission Impossible

Theatre of Magic

Who Dunnit

World Cup Soccer

We watched three events of the Olympics. They were Men's Mass Start (16 Speed Skaters 10,000m), Women's Mass Start (U.S.A. got a bronze metal) and Men's Ski Cross Free Style Ski. There were other events but not events we were interested in. 

We watched YouTube videos. 

Afterwards we watched a movie on Kanopy called Infinite. It was a science fiction movie based on a novel called The Reincarnation Papers. The movie was about Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg), who was diagnosed as having schizophrenia. He finds out he is an "Infinite", who can remember past lives and retain skills from them. It was an ok movie. When Larry went to bed I watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them from our movies collection. I ended up doing 2,000 steps

 

Relaxing in front of the television