Saturday 12-27-25 Home Assistant, Workout, Diamond Painting & Games

 

Smile and be happy

 

We had a very nice day of relaxing. The temperature in the morning was 69 degrees and the high was 82 degrees. 

We spent the day just hanging around the house. Larry kept busy playing with home assistant. I spent most of the day working on my diamond painting of Dog In Hammock.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Experts Only Mini of 5 games. It took me 2 hours, 4 minutes and 38 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with the Synth Riders for 35 minutes with four songs two times a piece. They Nightmare Cure (2:32), Delight (3:36), Light Up The Night (3:36) and Imperfection (3:13). While working out with Nightmare Cure I did two new high scores. During working out with Delight I earned a new high score and Light Up The Night I earned a new high score. I didn't get a new high score in Imperfection but I did two Outstanding scores.

 

Delight

 

Imperfection

 

Light Up The Night

 

Nightmare Cure

I played one game of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade. I played the game better than yesterday but it wasn't a great game. I earned a bronze trophy, awoken the manor, banister buster and stunned the manor once. I had fun even though I didn't play well. I played it for 10 minutes.

 

Monster Manor

I played seven games of pinball, which were Dark Chaos, Dracula, Lord of the Rings, Nightmare Before Christmas, No Fear, Transformers and Tron. While playing Dark Chaos and Lord of the Rings I became high score #3. While playing Transformers I became high score #4. I played pinball very well this afternoon.

 

Dark Chaos

 

Dracula

 

 

Lord of the Rings

 

Nightmare Before Christmas

 

No Fear

 

Transformers

 

Tron

 

We watched some YouTube music videos, we also watched videos by Joshua Charow and others we follow. Larry likes to watch different types of videos, by doing this he comes across some interesting people and their talents.

My new vacuum cleaner arrived this afternoon. It's a NuYupo cordless vacuum cleaner. It came with 2 batteries, stick vacuum with charging dock, handheld vacuum cordless for pet hair, carpet and hardwood floor. It looks very nice. I'll try it out tomorrow.

 

Vacuum Cleaner Box

 

NuYupo cordless vacuum cleaner

 

Some of the vacuum cleaner attachments

 

More attachments

 

In the evening we watched The Secret of Moonacre on Prime. It was a fantasy movie about a thirteen year-old girl who inherited a book of secrets from her father. She moves in with her uncle on Moonacre estate, where her adventures begins. I thought it was very cute. When Larry went to bed I started to watch the Star Wars movie series of six movies. I watched Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.    

  

 

   

Friday 12-26-25 Happy Friday, Projects, Diamond Painting & Games

 

It's Friday have fun

 

We had a warm day with sunshine. The low this morning was 63 degrees and the high was 86 degrees. It's suppose to be warm for awhile. It's weird to have temperatures in the mid 80's to low 90's in December. 

Larry kept busy doing a few projects. He spent most of the day playing with Home Assistant. He did take a break after lunch to treat for weeds in the gravel to keep them under control. 

He also cleaned the battery posts on the Minnie and topped it off with water. 

I spent most of the day working on Dog in Hammock diamond painting. I'll have plenty of time to work on it because we don't have any virtual dancing this week because of the holidays. 

 

Dog in Hammock

 

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 2 hours, 29 minutes and 59 seconds, which put me in 19th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2. 

After working on the last Free Cell game in the event for a couple of hours I took a break and worked out. I worked out with the Synth Riders for 40 minutes. I worked out with four songs twice, which were The Evil Dab (3:39), Behemoth (4:40), Got You (3:40) and Hex (3:41). I earned to outstanding rates on both times I did Evil Dab. I did a new high score on the second time in both Behemoth and Hex. This group of songs are under specials so sometimes they won't let you choose the easy level of playing so you may have to play at normal speed or at their own song. I tried to do one song where they set the speed for the song and it was super fast. The song was Flight of the Bumble Bee twice and I missed too many balls so they stopped the song. The speed I usually workout with is easy. I had a good workout with the Synth Riders songs.

 

Behemoth

 

Got You

 

Hex

 

     The Evil Dab

 

I played Monster Manor and Pirate's Plunder on Bounce Arcade for 30 minutes. I didn't do too well on Monster Manor. I played Monster Manor two times the second game was the best. I earned a bronze trophy and awoken the manor. 

 

Monster Manor

 

I played Pirates Plunder a lot better. I earned a silver trophy. I got three Jolliest Rogers and defeated my enemies three time. I was successful in hitting the banister enough times to earn the Cutlass Clash and played Skeleton Skull (earn points by hitting skeleton skulls). It was a great game.  

 

Pirate's Plunder

 

I played seven pinball games, which were Big Bang Bar, Blizzard of Ozz, Dark Chaos, Great Houdini, Jaws, Magic Pinball and Tron. I didn't get on the board but I had fun.

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Blizzard of Ozz

 

Dark Chaos

 

Great Houdini

 

Jaws

 

Magic Pinball

 

Tron

We watched the YouTube we follow, that was available.

In the evening we watched The Dark Tower on Prime. It a science fiction, action, drama and fantasy movie based on Stephen King's novel series with the same name. It was about a boy, who was haunted by visions they were coming true. It starred Idris Elba, Mathew McConaughey and Tom Taylor. It was weird but ok movie. When Larry went to bed I watched Twisters. I ended up doing 1,500 steps.

 

 

 

 

Thursday 12/25/25 Merry Christmas to Everyone

 

Merry Christmas

 

Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! 

The weather was overcast with a low of 63 degrees and a high of 77 degrees. There was a little breeze that kept it cool.

I got up about 7:30 and got dressed. Larry surprised me, he had all his electronics off the dining room table. Now I can put our Christmas table cloth on the table and get it ready for our Christmas lunch. I put a relish tray together, which had sweet pickles, pepper jack cheese cubes, ham and stuffed olives. I made deviled eggs.

Louise showed up at 8:30 with Alice. While waiting for lunch to be served we snacked on the relish tray and deviled eggs and visited with each other. Lunch was served at 11:30. We had ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, baked beans, Stove Top stuffing and Texas Roadhouse rolls. For dessert Louise brought the leftover apple pie from yesterday. We were too full to have any so she ended up taking it home with her. We had a super Christmas celebration with Louise and Alice.

 

Christmas lunch

 

Getting ready to eat lunch (Alice didn't want her picture taken but I made her)

 

I do Christmas a little different than I use to, I decorated the house with the ornaments Larry made me and the bear ornaments we bought many years ago. Most people decorate after Thanksgiving and take them down after Christmas. I put the decorations up yesterday and will wait until after the new years. I hung the decoration in both the living room and dining room. I had to be creative around the pinball cabinet but had fun. 

 

Decorations on the china closet and Larry's paper crafting shelf

 

Closer look at the decorations on shelf

 

More decorations on another paper craft shelf in the dining room

 

Decorations on the kachinas shelf and chair by the television

 

Ornaments hanging from kachinas shelves and around the pinball cabinet

After saying good-bye to Louise and Alice I played my games and Larry went back to playing with Home Assistant.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 39 minutes and 54 seconds, which put me in 24th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked out with Synth Riders for 40 minutes. I worked out with five songs twice. They were Never Gonna Die (2:42), New Comedown (3:08) and Hard to Love (3:10), Carol of the Bell (1:56) and Shangri-La-La-La (3:34). On both Carol of the Bell and Shangri-La-La-La I earned a new high score,

 

Carol of the Bell (Christmas decorations as background)

 

Hard To Love

 

Never Gonna Die

 

New Comedown

 

Shangri-La-La-La (Tour of a Miniature Golf Course)

 

After dinner I played six games of pinball, which were Dr. No, Medieval Madness, Transformers, James Bond 60th Anniversary, Goldeneye and Tron. I played Dr. No twice and  came in as high score #2 the seconds game. Just having fun playing pinball.

 

Dr. No

 

Goldeneye

 

James Bond 60th Anniversary

 

Medieval Madness

 

Transformers

 

Tron

We spent the afternoon snacking on Russell Stover chocolates, we received them from Larry's aunt Barbara.

 

Box of chocolate from Barbara

 

In the evening we watched The Polar Express out of our movies collection. The Polar Express is our annual tradition on Christmas night. After watching The Polar Express Larry called his mother (Shirley) to wish her a Merry Christmas and to see how she was doing. When Larry went to bed I watched Twister. I ended up doing 2,000 steps. 

 

 

Polar Express

One of my Christmas gifts from Shirley was a diamond painting called Dog In Hammock. I decided to get the diamond painting ready to be assembled. It's made by Leisure Art and has 39 different colors of diamonds. The fabric size is 17.15" X 14.15" and the design size is 14" X 11". I haven't done a diamond painting in a long time (6/18/25) so it's going to be fun.

 

Dog In Hammock