Saturday 5-27-23 Cleaning Garage, Games & Puzzle

 

Just having fun

The day was hot and humid. There was only a 4% chance of rain but at 3:30 it started to sprinkle. It didn't last long.

We spent part of the day working in the garage. I cleaned the window sills, windows and blinds. They were filthy. 

I played my games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Klondike and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 11 minutes and 34 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.

I played Medieval Madness on the pinball cabinet. On the arcade cabinet I played two poker games (Poker King and Big Poker) and three pinball games (Junk Yard, Iron Man and Cactus Canyon).

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.

In the evening we watched two episodes of Beyond Paradise. Afterwards we watched an episode of Poirot. When Larry went to bed I watched The X Files and The X Files: I Want to Believe from our movie collection. I ended up doing 20,000 steps.

Relaxing in front of the television

Friday 5-26-23 Dancing, Puzzle & Playing Games

 

Have a fun day

We had a great day. 

Larry kept busy working in the garage.

I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. I did the event, which was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Pyramid and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 8 minutes and 42 seconds to complete, which put me in 22nd place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.

I did a few games of Sudoku. I played pinball. I played Medieval Madness and four other games, which were Queen, Aerosmith, Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton.

Aerosmith

Johnny Cash

Queen

 

Dolly Parton

I worked on the York jigsaw puzzle most of the day.

Amazon delivered a package. Larry bought me a new pair of hiking sandals from Dream Pairs. They are multiple colors so they go with anything I wear and they are very comfortable. My old pair are not worn out but these are more supportive and we hope they help my feet.

New shoes

I attended Ett McAtee's Weekly A2 dance at 6:30 for an hour and fifteen minutes. She called five tips to 15 participants. We just danced and had a great time.

After the dance we started to watch a new series on Acorn called Beyond Paradise. It is a spin off from Death In Paradise. DI Humphrey Goodman went back to the UK and started a new life. It's still a detective series and is very good. After Larry went to bed I watched two of our movies, Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. They were both old movies but are still good and funny. I ended up doing 20,000 steps. 

Thursday 5-25-23 Dancing, Games & Puzzle

 

Smile and have fun

We had a wonderful Thursday. 

I did my Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Free Cell and 3 Pyramid). It took me 15 minutes and 11 seconds, which put me in 34th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.

I attended Dayle Hodge's Weekly C1 dance at 11:00 for an hour. He called four two couple tips to 13 participants and one four couple tip to 11 participants. I danced by myself and had a great time dancing with friends.

 Get a partner and dance

I spent the afternoon assembling my jigsaw puzzle and playing games on both the pinball machine and arcade machine. 

On the arcade machine I played three arcade games (Mortal Kambat, Mr. Do! and Millispecle, three slots (Pink Panther, Pinball Wizard and Pac Man), three pinball games (Junk Yard, Monster Bash and Rock 'n' Roll Diner) and a poker game (Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack). Kambat is a fighting game and I didn't do too good. Millispecle is like Space Invaders and did ok. 

Monster Bash

 

Mr. Do!

 

Rock 'n' Roll Diner

 

Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack

On the pinball machine I played the weekly challenge Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars and three James Bond games (60th Anniversary, Dr. No and Goldeneye). 

60th Anniversary

 

Dr. No

 

Goldeneye

In the evening we watched a movie of Freevee called The Post. It was a good movie based The Washington Post Newspaper. It was about reporting the truth on Vietnam War. Then I finished watching Endeavour. I ended up doing 16,000 steps.

Wednesday 5-24-23 Dance Day & More

 

Dancing Day

I attended four virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour. They called five tips but I only did four. They took turns calling the dance to 17 participants. Di worked on four couple moves: Relay the Deucey, Coordinate, Track Two and Spin Chain the Gear. I had a super time dancing with friends.

Second was Dayle Hodge's Weekly A1/A2 at 11:00 for an hour. He called two tips of A1, two tips of A2 and one tip of four couple A2 to 12 participants. I danced by myself. Dayle put us in positions that were challenging and fun. He cued when necessary. I had a great time dancing to Dayle and with friends. 

Third was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. She called five tips to 25 participants. She has her sequences written down so if they are requested to do over she can call it the same way. Ett spent the dancing working on Linear Action, Pass the Axle and the Axle. I had a fun time dancing to Ett and with friends.

Fourth was Dave Eno, Karin Rabe and Greg Moore's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:30 for two hours. This week Dave Hutchinson came back to help call the dance for the summer. The format was two tips of C1 with 9 participants, five tips of A2 with 11 participants and one tip of C1 with 8 participants. The two Daves called the first C1 tip and Karin and Greg called the second tip. The first A2 tip was called by Dave Hutchinson. The second and fourth A2 tips were called by Karin and Greg. The third A2 tip was called by Dave Eno. The fourth A2 tip was called by the two Daves. The last C1 tip was called by the two Daves. In between the A2 tips we did some trivia. I had a super evening of dancing with friends. 

I played my Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Spider and 3 Free Cell). It took me 15 minutes and 8 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.

I played four games of pinball on the pinball cabinet: Medieval Madness, Mustang, Fast Break and Shrek. I hadn't played three of them in a long time so it was fun to see how well I did. I didn't get any new high scores but did very well. 

Fast Break

 

Mustang

 

 Shrek

When Larry needs to get under a vehicle he uses a creeper. He has had a wooden creeper for years, he has had it so long he can't remember where he bought it or when but it is more than 30 years old, maybe even 40. Well he was using it today and it broke. The wooden piece that you lay on cracked and buckled. He probably could have fixed it but he really wanted a new one with an adjustable headrest. After Ett's dance we went to Harbor Freight and bought one. It is much nicer than the old wooden one, it is made a lot better, it's padded, has an adjustable head rest and six nice wheels. The creeper is more stable and doesn't flip up when he gets off it. If it last as long as the last one it will certainly out last him.

New creeper 

 

Old creeper

After Dave's dance we watched an episode of Poirot. Then I finished watching the seventh season of Endeavor and started the eighth season. I ended up doing 15,000 steps. 

 

Tuesday 5-23-23 Errands, Lab, Games & Puzzle

 

Busy having fun

We started the day going to town. I had a lab appointment at 7:40 so I had to get up early. My doctor made the appointment so he could go over the results when I have my wellness appointment next week. On the way home we stopped by Walmart to buy breakfast. Then we stopped at the UPS Store to pick up our mail.

I attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly A2 dance at 10:00 for an hour. Di and Terry took turns calling five tips to 18 participants. Barry and Cindy had attended a DVD dance last weekend in Washington and had problems doing a few moves. Di decided she would workshop the moves, which were Coordinate, Spin Chain The Gear and Ace Deucey. As she called the move she cued us through them. They were plus moves but we had a great time dancing the moves. Di and Terry did a super job of calling the dance. I had fun dancing with friends.

After lunch we went back to town to get a couple of items for a project Larry has been working on. While we were out we put gas in the truck, the last time we filled it up was in November. Obviously it does not get driven much.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Klondike and 3 Spider). It took me 17 minutes and 11 seconds, which put me in 22nd place in my group. Then I moved onto playing Angry Birds.

I played pinball on both the pinball cabinet and the arcade cabinet. On the pinball cabinet I played Medieval Madness, Monster Bash, The Munsters, Batman and Tales of the Arabian Nights. Medieval Madness is the weekly challenge I didn't get a new high score. On the arcade cabinet I played Diner, Doll Parton and The Rolling Stones.

Diner

 

Dolly Parton

The Rolling Stones

Then I assembled more of the jigsaw puzzle I started a couple days ago, York 1500.

In the evening we watched a movie on Freevee called Driveways. It was a good movie about a nine year old boy who becomes friends with his elderly neighbor. It starred Lucas Jaye, Hong Chau and Brian Dennehy. Then we watched an episode of Poirot. Then I started the seventh season of Endeavor. I ended up doing 12,000 steps. 

 

Monday 5-22-23 Dancing With Di Green & Games

 

Just another Monday

We started the day attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00. Di called five tips to 19 participants. Larry danced with me. We just danced and Di worked on moves we had problems with. She helped us by cueing through out the dance. We had a great time dancing to Di and Terry and with friends.

Dancing with friends

I played my games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. Today was National Solitaire Day so the event was Event: National Solitaire Day of 10 games. It took me 32 minutes and 10 seconds, which put me in 27th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

Happy National Solitaire Day

In the afternoon I played the weekly challenge Medieval Madness and got a new high score of 31,743,020. Then I played four other pinball games on the pinball cabinet. They were: Scared Stiff, Star Wars, Star Trek and Attack From Mars. Afterwards I moved onto the arcade cabinet and played three games of pinball (Batman, Elvis and Cactus Canyon) and three fruit/slots ( Pink Panther, Open The Box and Red Hot Roll).

Medieval Madness new high score

The Red Hot Box

Pink Panther

In the evening we watched The Finest Hours on Disney Plus. It based on a real story about the coast guard rescuing 32 people from a sinking ship in 1952. Then we watched an episode of Poirot. Then I finished watching the sixth season of Endeavour. I ended up doing 11,000 steps.

Sunday 5-21-23 Yardwork, New Weekly Challenge & Other Games

 

Awesome Sunday

We had an awesome day of doing this and that.

Larry started the day installing my new weekly pinball challenge, this weeks game is Medieval Madness. These games always require a certain amount of configuration and tweaking to get them running correctly. Once he had it working to his satisfaction he played a couple of games. Then I played it awhile. I ended up with a high score of 8,778,620 while Larry's high score was 32,827,030. Guess I will have to practice a bit to get ahead of him.

Larry's high score 

 

My high score

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. I did the event, which was Event: Free Cell Mini of 10 games. It took me 47 minutes and 37 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds and Friends.

After playing pinball Larry went outside, he fertilized the yards, treated for bugs and trimmed some low hanging branches from our tree in the front.

While Larry was doing the yardwork projects I played games. I played five games on the pinball machine. One was the weekly challenge. The other four were the pinball games we had played on our trip (Monster Bash, Godzilla, Creature From the Black Lagoon and Aerosmith). Then I moved over to the arcade machine, where I played three fruit games (Popeye, Play It Again and Pinball Wizard) and two arcade games (Moon Presta and Moon Patrol). 

Godzilla

 

Aerosmith

 

Monster Bash

 

 Creature From the Black Lagoon

 

Pinball Wizard

 

Play It Again

 

Popeye

After playing games I decided put a jigsaw puzzle together. I hadn't done one in a long time. The puzzle I started is York, it has 1500 pieces. It's going to take awhile because there's a lot of the same color.

York 1500

In the evening we watched the movie Wonder Woman from our collection. It is a really good action flick. Then I started to watch the sixth season of Endeavor. I did 11,000 steps.