Monday 6-2-25 Dancing with Di, Paper Crafting, Ceiling Fan & More

 

Have a great day friends

 

We had a beautiful day with the high of 95 degrees.

We started the day out by going to town for my lab appointment at 7:30 am. We got there a little early at 7:20. Larry checked me in last night so all I had to do was tell the ladies at the desk I was here and answered a few questions. The questions were about how I was feeling. When the nurse in the lab took my blood it took a couple of times. The first time the blood just trickled into the tube so she tried another time it was a little better. Now I just have to wait until next Monday to see what the doctor has to say about my lab results.

On the way home we stopped by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts and bought donuts for our breakfast.

When we got home we had an hour to relax before Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am. Di called five tips to 13 participants. Larry danced four of the tips. We had a great time dancing with friends. The last break during the dance they were talking about the 42nd IAGSDC Convention, which is taking place in San Francisco. Di and Terry are going to attend this event. I told her we would also be attending the convention. Larry told her we decided to go because she and Terry were going to be there and we wanted to meet them. We had never met them or many others from Zoom, who we have been virtually dancing with for over five years. Di was very excited and so were the other dancers, who were going to be at the convention.

 

Having fun during Di's C1 dance

After the dance Larry again worked on the ceiling fan in the master bedroom. He modified the blades so they won't rattle when in use. 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Klondike Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 29 minutes and 57 seconds, which put me in 26th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

In the afternoon Larry did another paper project for the 4th of July, which was another Eagle. He was going to give up on it because there was a lot of weeding to do. So I weeded the piece that had the most weeding to be done. Larry thanked me. He was motivated to finish the project. The eagle came out outstanding.

 

Fourth of July Eagle

After the paper project was finished Larry played some pinball. He played the Creature From the Black Lagoon and Indianapolis 500. He had a great day of playing pinball.

I played a little pinball. I played three different games, which were World Cup Soccer, Creature From the Black Lagoon and Indianapolis 500. I did great on the board in the games but had a great time trying. 

 

Creature From the Black Lagoon

 

Indianapolis 500

 

World Cup Soccer

In the evening we watched YouTube videos. We watched the movie Battleship. I watched it the other night but Larry hadn't. When Larry went to bed I watched Wonder Woman from our movies collection. I ended up doing 12,000 steps.

While watching television I worked on my diamond painting. 

 

 

     

 

Sunday 6-1-25 Dancing with Loren and Gary, Paper Project & New Pinball Challenge

Happy June

 

 We had a super day. The high was 95 degrees. 

Larry started the day by doing another Fourth of July paper project for Kay, it was an eagle. It came out very cute and colorful. He made two of them.

 

 

4th of July eagles

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Medium Mayhem Mini of 5 games. It took me 9 minutes and 37 seconds, which put me in 11th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

At 1:00 we attended a virtual square dance. It was Ett McAtee's Weekly C Series Dance. This week she was still out of town so Loren Smith from Canada filled in for her. He called five tips of C1 to 6 participants. Larry danced the whole dance with me. Loren called some moves we don't dance that often virtually. He worked on Hourglass formations such as cut the hourglass and squeeze the hourglass and Galaxy formations such as squeeze the galaxy. When we squeezed the hourglass you form a galaxy and when you squeeze the galaxy you form a hourglass. I had a great time dancing with Larry. Loren did a super job in calling the dance. 

 

We love square dancing

 

After the dance Larry continued working on the caster. Now it works and looks like the old caster. Thank you, honey.

Today is the beginning of the week so I have a new weekly pinball challenge. This week the challenge is World Cup Soccer. Before last week challenge (Star Trek the Next Generation) was over I played it and was unsuccessful in getting a new high score but I still came in 51st place out of 82 participants. When the new challenge started I played it and my first high score in World Cup Soccer was 1,494,575,880, which put me in 7th place so far. I also played Transformers and came in as high score #3. 

 

Star Trek the Next Generation

 

Transformers

 

World Cup Soccer

After playing pinball I played two games of Pirate's Plunger on the Bounce Arcade. First game I earned a bronze trophy and the second I earned a silver trophy. I defeated my enemies twice and tried another time. I earned an extra ball, got two Jolly Rogers and Skeleton event. I had a great second game.

 

Pirate's Plunder

 

In the evening we went to Sun City and danced with the Sundancers Plus dancers. Gary Bible called the dance for an hour and forty-five minutes. We had three squares and one extra dancer. While we were dancing some of the ladies saw a fawn right outside the door. They were all excited and ran out and took a picture. Larry and I had a great time dancing to Gary and with friends.

 

Get a partner and dance

When we got home it was 8:45 so we watched YouTube videos. Larry signed me in for my lab appointment in the morning. When Larry went to bed I watched The Legend of Bagger Vance from our movies collection. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.

In the afternoon while we were relaxing Larry saw a doe in the backyard, I looked out the window and saw she had a young fawn. We watched the fawn nursing while mom was eating the grass and cleaning the fawn. When we got home from the dance the doe and fawn returned. When Larry went to bed he looked at the security camera and said they were gone. While I was do this blog I looked up in the camera and saw that the fawn was bedded down under the tree. Mom came back about midnight to get the fawn. They both walked away. We always enjoy watching the deer in the backyard just eating or bedded down for a bit before moving on. 

 

The doe and fawn in the backyard 
 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Saturday 5-31-25 Home Projects, Car Shows & Onn Project

 

Happy Saturday

 

We had a fun day doing this and that.

Yesterday, when Larry woke and asked Alexa to turn on morning lights. The device turned on all the lights that were programmed except the one for the desk. He tried a number of things to get the switch to work but finally was convinced the switch had gone bad. He had a spare so he replaced it, that fixed the problem. 

When he ordered a replacement via Amazon there was a new option. He was able to choose a time for delivery. He could have it delivered the next day between 4:00 am and 8:00 am, 8:00 am and 12:00 pm, or later in the day. He chose 4:00 am and 8:00 am. The switch was delivered this morning at 7:00 am.

 

Amazon delivery

  

Larry started the day off by doing home projects. He fertilized the yards, sprayed for weeds in the gravel area, cleaned the cobwebs off the eaves and weedeated around the sprinkler control boxes. 

Next he took the motorcycle for a ride. 

Then he worked on the sidewalls of the VR version of World Cup Soccer, the game looks great. Next he worked on Creature From the Black Lagoon, he upgraded the game in 2D yesterday. Today he installed the new VR version. The new VR room looks great. The creature actually swims around the pinball machine while you play.

 

The creature swimming on the left of the pinball cabinet

The water of the lagoon the creature swam in

 

The creature swimming on the right of the pinball cabinet

 

We attended two different car shows. First car show was at the Belton High School, it was Belton Tiger Orchestra Car Show. The entry fee and raffle ticket money went to the orchestra. It was a small show but it had a lot of nice cars.

 

Belton High School Orchestra

 

Thunderbird

 

A Volkswagen Bug

 

 

A beautiful coupe in the show

Second was the Mist Texas Corvette Club Memorial Day Open Car Show in Killeen at Bubba's 33 restaurant. They had a lot of cars, they took up most of the parking lot. We parked on the street by the U-Haul place. We saw a lot of gorgeous cars and motorcycles. Some of the cars we saw in other shows but it was nice to see them again.

 

Bubba's 33

 

Chevy SS and it's helper

 

The Queen in the trunk had a crown in it

 

A gorgeous corvette in my favorite color

 

 

Orange Volkswagen Bug 1960

 

After walking around we went inside and had lunch. We shared a pork tenderloin sandwich and fries. We really ordered the sandwich with tater tots but they gave us fries instead. We told the waiter it was ok but he went back into the kitchen and got us an order of tater tots. The food was delicious. We didn't finish the fries or tater tots because it was too much food for us.

 

Pork tenderloin sandwich with fries and a pickle spear

 

On the way home we stopped and got gas in the truck. We don't drive the truck much so we only filled it halfway. 

When we got home I took a nap for a couple of hours. While I was napping Larry installed the new ONN streaming device. He worked on getting it to work like the other caster device. He wants to customize the main menu to look like the old one. He loves doing this kind of thing.

 

ONN streaming device

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The two day event of Solitaire World Tour of 30 games I came in 9th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I played seven different games of pinball. I played both version of Creature From the Black Lagoon, Star Trek the Next Generation, World Cup Soccer, Mission Impossible, Playboy and Fun House. While playing Fun House I became Grand Champion. When playing Playboy I got all 12 playmates but failed to do the Mansion Mania. I had a great time playing pinball.

 

New version of Creature From The Black Lagoon

 

Old version of Creature From The Black Lagoon

 

Fun House

 

Mission Impossible

 

Playboy

 

Star Trek the Next Generation

 

World Cup Soccer

In the evening we watched R.I.P.D. from our movies collection. Larry had just added this movie to our collection. I watched it the other day but Larry hadn't. I still enjoyed it the second time. When Larry went to bed I watched Forrest Gump on Amazon. It's an old movie but I still enjoyed watching it. I ended up doing 13,500 steps. 

 

   

      

  

   

Friday 5-30-25 Jukebox & Paper Projects, Games & More

 

Let's do the happy dance

 

We had a great day. 

Larry wants to give the paint on the jukebox a few days to dry before he reassembles it but since he painted the marquee piece a few days ago he was able to work on it. Larry decided to paint the jukebox orange because it's my favorite color.

 

The marquee

 

Back of the jukebox

After breakfast we went to town to do a few errands. On the way to Walmart we stopped by the Little Bohemian bakery to buy a couple of cinnamon rolls for dessert. Larry bought a raisin cinnamon roll and a apple cinnamon roll. Next we stopped was HEB, where we picked up a few items. Then we went across the street to The UPS Store to pick up our mail. Last stop was Walmart. Yesterday, Larry discovered Walmart had gotten the new ONN (streaming device) in. We already have one but this is an upgrade. We bought the ONN Steamer and a few items we were getting low on. 

 

Shopping at HEB

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event today is a two day event, which isn't over until Sunday. The event was Event: Solitaire World Tour of 30 games. It took me 4 hours, 10 minutes and 52 seconds, which put me in 7th place so far in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked out on my Wii Fit for a half hour. I played a game of Asteroid Outpost in Bounce Arcade. I mined for asteroids seven different times and was successful two time. I did two multiballs. I earned a silver trophy and had a great time.

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

While I played games Larry did some paper crafting. Kay Kurczewski likes to decorate for the different holidays, Larry had made her some decorations for Easter and she loved them. The next holiday is the 4th of July and Larry wanted to make her some decorations. He started his project today. He made an Uncle Sam figurine. 

 

Larry having fun paper crafting

 

Uncle Sam

Larry thinks that my new weekly pinball challenge will be World Cup Soccer so he downloaded and installed it on the cabinet in both VR and 2D. Then he played it and had a great time. A little later I played four games of pinball, which were Star Trek the Next Generation, World Cup Soccer, Dark Chaos and Goldeneye. I got on the board in World Cup Soccer as high score #2 because it's new, the other three I didn't get on the board but had a great time.   

   

World Cup Soccer

 

Star Trek the Next Generation

 

Goldeneye

 

Dark Chaos

 

I started a new diamond painting, which is a tree. 

In the evening we finished watching the first season Genius ( Albert Einstein). It was a really good series. After Larry went to bed I watched Battleship and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back from our movies collection. Battleship is a new movie for us and was very good. Battleship is an American military science fiction movie based on the board game Battleship. It starred Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson. I ended up doing 13,000 steps.

 

 

 

Thursday 5-29-25 Projects, Games & Diamond Painting

 

 

Busy Day 

 We kept busy doing this and that through out the day.

Larry did a few projects. First he finished painting his jukebox. Then he started working on making labels for the buttons. 

Our septic uses a chlorinator to put bleach into the system. Most months we use about 1.5 gallons of bleach. All of a sudden it quit using bleach. Larry opened up the tank and found a filter in the line going from the chlorinator to the pump. The filter seemed to be plugged. He removed it, if that fixes the problem he will order a new filter..

Yesterday, Larry worked on the ceiling fan in the bedroom, it was making a lot of noise. He got it to calm down. It still makes a little noise but in our experience all ceiling fans make some noise.

 

Doing projects

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Games Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Klondike and 3 Free Cell). It took me 14 minutes and 41 seconds, which put me in 25th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I worked out with my Wii Fit for a half hour and Just Dance for a half hour (20 minutes with 2016 and 10 minutes with 2018). The songs I worked out with 6 songs on 2016, which were Same Old Love, Lights, All About That Bass, Stuck On A Feeling, Cool For The Summer and Uptown Funk. I worked out with three songs on 2018, which were Footloose, Got That and Kissing Strangers. Then I worked out on Synth Riders for a half hour.

 

Songs on 2016 Just Dance

 

Songs on 2018 Just Dance

I played Gunpowder Gulch two times on Bounce Arcade. First game I earned a bronze trophy and the second game I earned a gold trophy. While playing the gold trophy game I earned a new ball, completed to events (Cracked the Safe and Gunfight). I played three multiballs (Saloon, Safe Crack and Jailhouse Brake). I had a lot of fun playing Bounce Arcade.

 

Silver Trophy game

I played four games of pinball, which were Nightmare Before Christmas, Elvira Party Monsters, Monster Bash and Star Trek the Next Generation. I didn't get on the board today but had fun.

 

Elvira Party Monsters

 

Monster Bash

 

Nightmare Before Christmas

 

Star Trek the Next Generation

 

I finished working on my diamond painting, which was the sun. I started it 5/21/25 and finished it 5/29/25, which was nine days.

 

Finished Diamond Painting

 

In the evening we continued watching Genius ( Albert Einstein). After Larry went to bed I watched Hellboy II Golden Army and Jack Reacher from our movies collection. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.