Saturday 6-26 Brother Do's

 

Brother Do's

We started the day out by going to Round Rock to visit Louise and Alice (her dog). When Larry called her a couple of days ago she said her handyman was finished painting her house. Larry had a couple of projects he wanted to do for her. Today we didn't have a dance until evening so it was a perfect day to do them. 

On the way to her house Larry gave her a call and said we were on our way. She was surprised because he had said he might be there Sunday. When we arrived she and Alice were waiting for us in the frontyard. We surprised her with a few paper crafting items Larry made, a eagle, a dog and a garden card. The card was for her neighbor because she likes working in her yard and it's beautiful. Then we walked around a looked had her houses new paint job.

 

New paint job on Louise's house

First up was to fix her house phones. She doesn't use it much because she uses her cell phone but it's always nice to have a backup. Over the past 30 or so years lots of people had changed lots of wiring inside the phone box, he ended up cutting everything apart and starting over. He began by identifying which wires provided the service and testing them. Louise has three phone jacks in the house (living room, master bedroom and kitchen). He started with the living room jack by connecting her phone to the jack. Then he took one wire in the box and married it up with another one to see if he got a dial tone. I listened for the tone when I heard it I told him, that way he knew which two wires needed to be put together to get the tone. Then he put a wire nut on it and labeled the wires as living room phone. Then he moved on to the bedroom and the kitchen and did the same procedure.

 

Connecting wires together

 

The phone box

 

Second was installing a new alarm on her front door. Her front door alarm went bad so Larry had ordered her a new one. It was a little different than her old one but it's easier to work. It didn't take him too long to install.

 

 

Installing plate for the alarm

 

Louise's new alarm

 

Next up was installing a Alexa device for her entryway light. Now she can simply ask Alexa to turn that light on or off.

 

New wall switch

The last project was getting Alexa to control her TV and Roku. This took a little bit. He needed to reprogram the Alexa device. 

I brought lunch. I made a pasta bake last night and baked it at Louise's house. While I was there I played with Alice. We had a great visit.

 

Alice

When we got home I played my Solitaire games. I did the Daily Challenges and the Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 38 minutes and 19 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. 

We attended one virtual square dance, Don Moger's Saturday Night Fever at 6:00. This week Don invited Dayle Hodge to come and call with him. They called four A2 tips with 48 participants and three C1 tips with 37. They both called an A2 tip a piece and called the other two together. They also called a C1 tips a piece and the third one together. We had an outstanding evening of dancing.

After the dance we watched the Olympics trials for track and field. Then I finished watching the final season of Bosch. I ended up doing 27,000 steps, which put me in 3rd place in my group.