Monday 1-26-26 Starting to Thaw, Dancing & More

 

Starting to thaw

 

Today was still a very cold day. We had plenty of sun so somethings were starting to thaw out. The morning temperature was 15 degrees and the high was 35 degrees at 3:00.

 

 

Our temperature at 3:00

 

Even though things were starting to thaw we still have a lot of ice around so you need to be careful when walking outside. I went out to the trash can on the side of the house in the afternoon and the driveway was very slick. We watched the deer walk across our driveway and even they were walking carefully. We still have some snow hanging around. Our trash collection company said everything was going to be running a day late because of the weather. We still didn't have a lot of traffic going down the street. The schools are all closed today and tomorrow due to the weather.

 

Ice-cicles on the gutter system next store thawing 

We attended Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly C1 dance at 9:00 am for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di called five tips to 19 participants. It was a very nice size group because some people were snowed in. We saw people we don't dance with show up because of the weather. Amy from Maryland showed because she couldn't travel due to the 24 inches of snow they received yesterday. It is always a pleasure seeing Amy because she is very friendly and keeps it very interesting. Di called tips with songs starting with O, Amy suggested when we got home to celebrated with our arms forming the letter O. I jumped up in down like always at the same time forming an O. Larry danced with me for three of the tips. The last tip Di walked us through the different Tracks (0,1,2,3,4). Each track puts you in different formation. The walk through was very helpful. Another great thing Di and Terry do is cue the moves through out the dance, this helps a lot. They also help us because they dance with us. Participants were from the United States, U.K., Germany, Canada, France and Russia. We had a super time dancing with friends.

 

 

 

Participants having fun in between tips

 

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong before going to bed last night. The event today was Event: Easy Street Mini of 15 games. It took me 28 minutes and 18 seconds, which put me in 7th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

 

While I napped Larry finished the book he was reading. He said it was an excellent book. He also worked on some pinball stuff. He loaded a game and it had multiple DMDs so he worked on removing the extra ones.      

 

I spent most of the day working on the Cambridge jigsaw puzzle by Charles Wysocki.

 

I played five games of pinball. Three of the games were on the mini cabinet, which were Cirqus Voltaire, Dead Pool and Medieval Madness. The other two were on the big cabinet, which were Big Bang Bar and Cactus Canyon. While playing Cirqus Voltaire I joined the cirqus and the other two were good games. While playing Cactus Canyon I got a new high score of 23,067,610, which moved me from 48th place to 29th place out of 55 participants.

 

 

 

Cirqus Voltaire (mini)

 

 

 

Dead Pool (mini)

 

 

 

Medieval Madness (mini)

 

       

Cactus Canyon (big)

 

Big Bang Bar (big)

In the evening we watched Freddy on Prime. It was a documentary about Freddy Mercury and Queen. It was very good. Then I watched Guardians of the Galaxy from our super hero movies collection. Afterwards I watched Finding Nemo from our movies collection. I ended up doing 2,000 steps.