Ruth's Life is Good: Saturday 5-20-23 Brother Do's & More

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Saturday 5-20-23 Brother Do's & More

Smile and have fun

We started the day out by going to Round Rock to visit Louise and Alice. While there Larry did some projects Louise needed done.

First up was to trim a tree in her backyard. A recent storm broke a branch high up in a tree along her fence line. It was too far up to reach with a pole saw but it was hanging down far enough that Larry could grab it, by twisting and pulling it came right off. Then we all worked to cut it up into smaller pieces so Louise could dispose of it in the garbage. Her neighbor has just gotten a young goat. It was very friendly and came to the fence. It talked to us and let us pet him. I fed him some of the leaves. He seemed to like them.

Louise bought some new blinds for her front windows. One of the old blinds had broken so to keep them matching she bought two. Larry had to remove the old ones and install the new ones, as always with these things it was a bit more difficult then the box made it out to be. The instructions were also lacking but Larry figured it out and got them installed. These are the newer style of mini blinds that do not have a cord to raise and lower them. You simply pull them down and push them up. They seem to work OK. Not sure how well they would work for windows that reach almost to the floor.

Next up was her cell phone. The provider of our service is upgrading and everyone must switch to the new service which means getting a new sim card and switching to the new service. Some people were having problems when they upgraded. Larry had upgraded our phone awhile back and didn't have any problems. When he put Louise's new sim card in her phone it worked perfect.

While Larry did the projects I finished putting her jigsaw puzzle together and played with Alice.

When the projects were done we had a Papa Murphy's pizza for lunch. For snacks and dessert Louise had made brownies and sugar cookies. Lunch was delicious.

After lunch we visited a little bit and then said our good-byes. We had a super visit.

On the way home I napped a little bit. When we got home it was about 2:00.

I spent the rest of the afternoon playing games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 10 games (5 spiders and 5 pyramid). It took me 1 hour, 6 minutes and 17 seconds, which put me in 11th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

Angry Birds

Then I played three pinball games (Super Mario Bros., Great Houdini and Guardians of the Galaxy) on the pinball cabinet. I didn't bump Larry out of the Grand Champion place but I had a super game. Then I played three pinball games (Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean and Rock 'n' Roll Diner) and one fruit game (The Lord of the Rings) on the arcade cabinet.