Wednesday 8-13-25 Virtual Dancing, Music Project, Puzzle & Games

 

Virtual Square Dancing Day

 

We had a beautiful day with sunshine and the high of 92 degrees.

I attended three virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di called five tips to 1 participants. We had some sad news from Di yesterday about a couple (Shirley and Steve) from the U.K. They were square dancing in Poland and Steve had a heart attack and died. Di and Terry decided to dedicate the dance to Steve. Shirley and Steve loved to dance both square dancing and round dancing, Steve would have like us to dance in his honor. Di called all five tips today and the songs began with the letter S. We had a special guess, who was Bill Silver. He was a caller for many years in California and moved to Oklahoma. He shared some of his memories of calling. Dawn from Florida wore a cute hat with pandas on it. She got the pandas headband from a dance from China when she and her husband Charles were at the Nationals here in the states. I had a great time dancing to Di and dancing with friends.

 

Dawn wearing her panda hat

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 dance at 1:00 for an hour. Ett called four tips to 15 participants. A couple from New Jersey (Frank and Susan) showed up to dance C1 after being a way from Zoom dancing for five years. Ett cued a little bit the first tip to help them out. Ett can be very complex because she puts in positions you're not used to being in and doesn't cue. She's not a site caller so she reads the sequences from her computer and doesn't see when the screens are broken down. There was one sequence I stopped dancing because it was too complex and I lost my phantoms. I also noticed there were other screens where they did the same thing. I had fun when I was successful.

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped him call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 7 participants, three tips of A2 to 9 participants and two trivia question in between the A2 tips. I had super time dancing with friends and to Karin, Greg and Dave.

Larry finished working on his music project. He was putting Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Shows onto the Rowe jukebox. There were 101 shows and he has all of them. It took him longer then expected because he had to re-record some of them in order for them to work. He had fun doing the project.

 

Music Project complete

I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Solitaire World Tour of 30 games. It took me 3 hours, 26 minutes and 31 seconds to complete, which put me in 12th place in my group. I played Angry Birds.

 

I played seven games of pinball. They were Elvira Scared Stiff, Godzilla, Goldeneye, Time Lord, Willy Wonka, Np Fear and NBA Fast Break. I entered my initials as high score #5 in Godzilla. I played well even though I didn't get on the board.

 

 

 

Elvira Scared Stiff

 

 

 

Godzilla

 

 

 

Goldeneye

 

 

 

No Fear

 

 

 

Time Lord

 

 

 

Willy Wonka
 

I played one game of Bounce Arcade, which was Pirate's Plunder. I earned a silver trophy. I defeated my enemies twice and got two Jolliest Rogers. I also played the skulls a couple of times. I started out playing poorly but I was happy when I earned a trophy.

 

Pirate's Plunder

I continued working on the Playground puzzle.

After Dave's dance we started to watch the third season of Professor T on PBS. Then I watched 101 Dalmatians from our movies collection. I ended up doing 3,000 steps.