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.