Tuesday 12-2-25 Liberty Hill Dance

 

Awesome Day

 

We had an awesome day. The temperature was cold but there were no clouds in the sky. It was gorgeous. We woke up to the temperature of 30 degrees and the high of 53 degrees.

This morning Larry was able to get Home Assistant to control our thermostat. He can now ask it to turn the temperature up or down, he can even ask what is the indoor temperature is and it will tell him. 

Setting up Home Assistant is very challenging. Everything is much easier with Amazon Alexa. Having a huge corporation with billions of dollars makes things a lot easier.

At 10:15 am we left the house to go square dancing in Liberty Hill, which is 48 miles from our house. It takes us an hour and fifteen minutes to get to the Ski's house. On the way we parked at a convenience store and had lunch. Then we continued on, which was ten minutes from the parking lot. We arrived at the Ski's house at 11:45 am. Susan e-mailed us to say she was still traveling so we danced one extra phantom. We danced C1 for an hour to Ross Howell via tape. It was very challenging dancing with three real people and we broke down. We talked about why and found out what we did wrong. Ross is very challenging when you don't have any phantoms but when you dance with five phantoms it's more challenging. Once we figured out what we did wrong we got through the tip. It was challenging but we still had fun. 

At 1:00 we danced A2 to John Kephart for two hours. We were short one dancer to make two squares. We were short one woman so one of guys danced the woman's part. The second square had to dance with a phantom. The last half hour John said we did very well dancing with a phantom but he was going to call two tips to one square. I danced the first tip with a single guy so we could leave a little early. We said our goof0byes and left fifteen minutes early because we had danced since noon. We had a great time dancing with friends.

 

    Get a partner and dance

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. The Mahjong Daily Challenge was working so I did the challenge from yesterday and today so I'm caught up in the challenges. The event was Event: Spider's Adventure of 20 games. It took me 2 hours, 6 minutes and 20 seconds, which put me in 10th place in my group. I played Angry Birds and Friends and Angry Birds 2.

When I logged on Angry Birds and Friends I was notified that I had to join Red's Club, which is the Angry Birds and Friends Website, they are no longer going to have the site I play on. So Larry signed me up to the club.

I played four games of pinball, which were Blizzard of Ozz, Jaws, Magic Pinball and The Godfather. I had fun even though I did get a new high score playing pinball.

 

Blizzard of Ozz

 

Jaws

 

Magic Pinball

 

The Godfather

 

While we were in Liberty Hill my phone with a new battery was delivered, when we got home it was on the front porch. Larry discovered it was not really my phone, they had replaced it. The "new" phone is in perfect condition but it would have been nice to know we would not receive the phone we sent in. While we watched television Larry worked on getting it all setup. I am happy to have my phone back.

I worked on my jigsaw puzzle. 

In the evening we watched another movie off of Kanopy, which was A Quiet Passion. It was a biography about Emily Dickinson, who was an American poet. It started out very good but it slowed down and kept getting worse. Not a movie I would recommend. Then I watched Angels & Demons from our collection of movies. I ended up doing 3, 500 steps.