Thursday 11-6-25 No Dancing, Minnie & Games

 

Just Another Day

 

We had a laid back day. Thursdays we don't dance. It was a beautiful day with sunshine. The high was 82 degrees.

Larry received a text from Wisener's about what they think should be done on the Minnie. They wanted it to have new tires before they did the work. We decided to go pick it up and put it in storage. Larry either wants to get a second opinion or possibly inspect the things they are suggesting himself. There is no hurry.  

 

The Minnie

Larry spent part of the day reading. He also did some research on the web and watching YouTube videos on how to do the front end work that Wisener's is suggesting. 

While doing this and that in the house the mowers showed up. We were surprised because we thought they came last week and they're suppose to come every other Thursday. This week they had only two guys doing the work, they usually have three or four. It only took them about 10 minutes to do the job. This should be our last week for them to mow this season.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong last night before going to bed. Today I played the event, which was Event: Easy Street Mini of 5 games. It took me 9 minutes and 18 seconds, which put me in 11th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds and Friends. Later evening I played Angry Birds 2.

I played one game of Asteroid Outpost on Bounce Arcade. I played the game for 45 minutes. While playing I earned a silver trophy, I played one multiball, mined the asteroids nine times and was successful once and I earned an extra ball. I had fun playing the game.

 

Playing Asteroid Outpost

 

After playing Asteroid Outpost I played seven games of pinball, which were Avatar, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Addams Family, Dr. No, JP Space Cadet, Fun House and Medieval Madness. I didn't have a great day playing pinball. I did earn a new high score for the weekly challenge of Avatar but I didn't submit it because it was a little blurry. It would have moved me up one position, which is 36 out of 41 participants. I will play the game again tomorrow to see if I can get a new high score.

 

Avatar

 

Dr. No

 

Fun House

 

JP Space Cadet

 

Medieval Madness

 

Nightmare Before Christmas

 

The Addams Family

 

In between playing games I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.

In the evening we watched another superhero movie called Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings from our movies collection. Then I watched the fifth Mission Impossible movie called Mission Impossible - The Rouge Nation. I ended up doing 2,000 steps.

  

 

 

Wednesday 11-5-25 Virtual Square Dancing Day & Quick Projects

 

We had a beautiful day with sunshine. It feels great with the temperatures in the high 70's. Today it got up to 80 degrees. In the afternoon a breeze came up, which made it very nice.

In the morning Larry did a few quick projects, which were treating for weeds in the gravel, treating fire ant hills, breaking down boxes to put in the trash container, he also installed our freeze protectors and covers on the outdoor water spickets. On Wednesdays our trash gets collected so Larry got rid of his boxes.

I attended three virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00am for an hour. They were out of town so Loren Smith covered for them. Loren called four tips to 7 participants. The last two tips he worked shopped a couple of moves, which were Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears and Linear Cycle from Waves. He worked shopped Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears because people were having problems see the formation virtually because most of us were working with seven phantoms. He worked shopped Linear Cycle from Waves because at this level the dancers usually don't do the move at this formation. He is always a pleasure to dance to because he is very smooth and site calls to the screens. I had a great time dancing to Loren and with friends.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00pm for an hour. She called four tips to 16 participants. This week I danced very well to Ett. I had a fun hour of dancing to Ett and with friends.

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00pm for an hour and a half. The format was three tips of C1, three tips of A2 and two trivia question in between the A2 tips. Karin Rabe was in Chili so Greg Moore showed up and helped Dave call the dance. During the C1 tips we had 9 participants and A2 had 9 participants. At the end of the dance Karin Zoomed in to say hi. I had a great evening of dancing to Dave and Greg and with friends.  

 

Get up and dance with friends

In between the dances I played games.

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. Before Loren's dance I played the event, which was Event: Tri Peaks Adventure of 20 games. It took me 57 minutes and 33 seconds, which put me 6th place in my group. After Ett's dance I played Angry Birds and Friends. In the evening I played Angry Birds 2.

In between Loren's and Ett's dances I played seven games of pinball. They were Avatar, Fun House, Cactus Canyon, Big Bang Bar, Willow, Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss and Cirqus Voltaire. I had a great day of playing pinball even though I didn't get on the board but once. I was very close to getting a new high score in Avatar and Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss I became high score #3.

 

Avatar

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Cactus Canyon

 

Cirqus Voltaire

 

Elvira House of Horrors Blood Red Kiss

 

Fun House

 

Willow

Larry played a couple of games of pinball, which were Indianapolis 500 and Mustang.

I played two games of Monster Manor and one game of Gunpowder Gulch on Bounce Arcade. While playing Monster Manor both times I earned a bronze trophy, stunned the manor once and busted the banister. The second game was the best score, where I was successful on getting the spiders to appear twice by getting rid of their webs with a firs ball. I had fun playing Monster Manor.

 

Monster Manor

 

While playing Gunpowder Gulch I earned a gold trophy. I played all four events and was successful in completing two. I played Quick Drawl and Cracked Safe and was successful. I was unsuccessful to complete the Barrel Barrage twice and Gunfight twice. I played the multiballs, which were Wooden Sign Rally twice, Saloon, Sade Cracked and Jail Break. I had a super game.  

 

Gunpowder Gulch

While I danced Larry read.

 

Relaxing with a book

After Dave's dance we watched Step Into The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough. They recreated some of the dances that were inspired by seven different movies. They performed a dance from Singing In The Rain, Saturday Night Fever, All That Jazz (Chicago), Roxanne (Moulin Rouge), Beauty and the Beast, La La Land and Dirty Dancing. It was well done and the performers did a great job. Then we watched some YouTube videos. When Larry went to bed I watched the sixth Mission Impossible, which was Mission Impossible - Fallout and Crocodile Dundee. While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle. I ended up doing 2,000 steps. 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Tuesday 11-4-25 Lab, Dancing to John Kephart and Games

 

Awesome Day

We had an awesome day. We had blue skies with wind. The low was 48 degrees with the high of 78 degrees. 

 

hold on Pooh

Larry started the day off by going to Baylor Scott and White lab to get blood taken for his annual wellness appointment on Monday.

 

Drawing blood

 

We spent the day in Liberty Hill dancing C1/A2 to John Kephart. We left the house at 10:15 am to be at the Ski's house at 12:00 pm. On the way to Liberty Hill we stopped at a convenience store to have lunch. I made a sandwich before leaving the house and put chips and snacks in a Walmart bag. After eating lunch we continued to the Ski's house. It was nice to see them again. We got there a little early and Susan and Henry arrived a few minutes after we did. We started dancing C1 a little before noon. We danced C1 to Johnny Preston and Tony Collingwood for an hour. We had a great time dancing with Susan and Henry. At 1:00 we danced A2 for a couple of hours. We had two squares and two guys sitting out. John called to two squares by using cards, that way dancers know what square they dance in and what tip they dance. We had exactly eight women so we had to dance all tips. We had fun dancing to John and with friends.

 

Get a partner and dance

About 10 minutes before the dance was to be over the power went out so we all left a few minutes early, we were home by 4:30. We would have been home earlier but there was road construction. When we got home I started playing games. I played the daily challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. Then I played the event, which was Event: Two Game Tango of 10 games (5 Klondike and 5 Spider). It took me 1 hour, 7 minutes and 5 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds and Friends. Later in the evening I played Angry Birds 2. 

After dinner I played four games of pinball, which were Avatar, Dark Chaos, Godzilla and Fast Break. I entered my initials as high score #7 in Godzilla. 

 

Avatar

 

Dark Chaos

 

Fast Break

 

Godzilla

While playing games we watched YouTube videos. We watched the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever from our movies collection. After Larry went to bed I watched the fourth Mission Impossible movie, which was Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Men In Black II. I ended up doing 2,500 steps. I worked on my jigsaw puzzle.

   

 

Monday 11-3-25 Dancing to Di and Terry & More

 

Have a great day!

 

We had a super day with a lot of sunshine. The low this morning was 48 degrees and the high was 78 degrees. 

We started the day off by attending Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 for an hour. Terry danced with Di while she called five tips to twelve participants. Larry danced four of tips with me. We had a great time dancing to Di and with friends.

 

   We love square dancing

 

After the dance we took the Minnie to Wisener's. While we were on our trip Larry noticed that the front right side tire was wearing. When we got home Larry replaced the front shocks and rotated the tires in the front. He decided to take the Minnie to Wisener's to check out the alignment and the front end. Larry drove it there and I followed in the car. The lady in the office said they could look at it after they were finished with the truck on the lift. He told her we were going to drop it off. They didn't have to be in a hurry to look at it. 

On the way home we stopped at the new Tractor Supplies Store, that just opened up in Temple. We weren't in any hurry to get home and this gave us something to do. While there we found out that they can fill propane tanks on RV's. This will give us another option when the Minnie needs to be filled.

When we got home we had lunch. After lunch I took a couple hour nap. 

Before going to bed last night I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. When I woke up I played the event, which was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 1 hour, 19 minutes and 34 seconds, which put me in 17th place in my group. I played Angry Birds and Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played one game of Pirate's Plunder on Bounce Arcade. I earned a silver trophy by defeating my enemies twice, get two Jolliest Roger, doing the Skeleton Key twice and raising the sails twice. I had a great game.

 

Pirate's Plunder

 

I played seven games of pinball, which were Avatar, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dr. No, Big Bang Bar, Big Buck Hunter Pro and Fish Tales. While playing Avatar I got a new high score of 24,216,810, which put in 17th place out of 22 participants. I didn't get on the board in the other games. It was an ok day of playing pinball.

 

Avatar

 

Big Bang Bar

 

Big Buck Hunter Pro

 

Dr. No

 

Fish Tales

 

Guardian of the Galaxy

 

Star Wars

While I played games Larry read.

In the evening we watched Black Panther from our movies collection. When Larry went to bed I watched Mission Impossible III and Men In Black. While watching television I worked on my jigsaw puzzle. I ended up doing 4,000 steps. 

 

Relaxing in front of the television

 

        

Sunday 11-2-25 Visiting Louise, New Pinball Challenge & More

 

Beautiful Fall Day

 

We had another beautiful fall day with a lot of sunshine. The low was 42 degrees and got up to 73 degrees. 

A couple of weeks ago Louise called to see how our trip went. She mentioned that one of her switches in the bathroom wasn't working. Larry finally got all his projects done so we decided to go to Round Rock to fix the switch. We hadn't visited with her in quite awhile so this was a good enough excuse to do so.

We left the house a little after 8:00 am and stopped by Jack 'n' Jill to buy a few donuts for our breakfast. We arrived at Louise's house at 9:15 am. Before we left the house Larry called her to let her know we were coming. Alice was very excited to see us and ran all over the front yard. We visited for a bit. Then Larry fixed her switch. He brought a switch from home he had laying around the house and it worked perfect. Next project was reprogramming her Alexa device so she can see her security cameras. While Larry did the projects Louise and I visited. I played with Alice. Louise had already decorated the house for Christmas. The only thing left for her to do is put up her Christmas tree. The house looked great. Louise asked me to take a picture of a couple of Christmas stockings, that Shirley had made her.

 

Christmas stockings from Shirley

Before leaving home I packed a lunch for all of us. We had sandwiches with pepperoni, ham, provolone cheese on a Brioche buns and chips. Louise made peanut butter cookies for dessert. After lunch we visited a little longer and said our good-byes. We had a super visit. 

Today starts a new week for my weekly challenge on pinball. This weeks game is Avatar. Larry had it on the cabinet before and still had the files so he re-installed it. Then he played it. He also took off a few games that we seldom play. He reset Indianapolis 500 back to 5 balls instead of 3 balls from last week challenge. I didn't have time to play Indianapolis today before it ended today. My final high score was 821,601,640, which put me in 39th out of 73 participants. I played Avatar a few times and got my first high score of 16,740,570 I didn't submit it because the score was a little blurry. I also played six other games, which were Star Trek The Next Generation, Elvira Scared Stiff, Big Lebowski, Willie Wonka, The Great Houdini and Playboy. While playing Playboy I played Mansion Mania and entered my initials as a Mansion Champion. I had fun

 

Avatar

 

Indianapolis 500

 

Big Lebowski

 

Elvira Scared Stiff

 

Playboy

 

Star Trek The Next Generation

 

The Great Houdini

 

Willie Wonka

 

I played two games of Monster Manor on Bounce Arcade. The first game was my best, where I earned a bronze trophy, woke the manor and stunned the manor once. It wasn't a great game but I had fun.

 

Monster Manor

I played the Daily Solitaire and Mahjong games. Then I played the event, which was Event: Pyramid Adventure of 20 games. It took me 1 hour, 20 minutes and 9 seconds, which put me in 6th place in my group. I played Angry Birds and Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I worked on the jigsaw puzzle while watching television.

In the evening we watched The Last Samurai from our movies collection. We hadn't watched it in a long time. It was a lot better than I remembered. When Larry went to bed I watched Mission Impossible II and Frozen 2. I ended up doing 1,500 steps.