Monday 7-6-26 Happy Monday, Yard Projects, Workout I More

 

Summertime Fun

We had a beautiful sunny day. Summer is differently here with the high of 98 degrees and the morning temperature of 73 degrees.

We usually have a Monday morning C1 dance with Di Green and Terry McCann but for the next two weeks there won't be one because their in Germany for the European Square Dancing Convention. That's ok because it gave us a chance to do what ever we want.

Larry did a couple of projects in the frontyard. 

First was straightening the landscaping border around the oak tree. The border is a metal band that goes around the tree. We installed it years ago. Over years of mowing it has gotten hit many times causing it to be out of alignment and bent. Larry worked on it for about an hour, he got it back together by drilling holes at the connection points and using screws. He also used a huge pair of pliers to bend some of it back into shape. It once again looks great.

The landscaping around the oak tree

Next he moved over to the other side of the yard to work on a sprinkler. A couple of weeks ago Larry discovered someone had drove over it and it was broken. Hi did a quick repair to get it working so today he dug it up and replaced it. Years ago he had used some extensions to get it high enough to spray above the grass. Today he replaced the old 4" popup and extensions with a 6" popup. He dug it up, replaced it and then filled the hole back in He then had to adjust the spray so it covered the area right. He also made sure the other sprinklers in the zone worked correctly. They work perfect.

The sprinkler Larry worked on

Testing the sprinklers out

I'm very lucky to have Larry around to do a lot of projects that need to be done. Thank you Larry. 

While Larry did his projects I played games. I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Tri Peaks Mini of 10 games. It took me 2 hours, 34 minutes and 18 seconds to complete, which put me in 21st place in my group. I got stuck on the last game. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

In the afternoon I worked out for an hour and forty-five minutes. 

I worked out for 45 minutes on the Wii Fit using the Wii Fit Plus Routine of 12 exercise for 28 minutes and the other 17 minutes I used Training Plus (Perfect 10 for 2 minutes), Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing for 8 minutes) and Balance Games for 7 minutes (Table Tilt 4 minutes and Balance Bubble three times for 3 minutes). The Wii Fit Plus Routine was four Strength Training exercises (Jackknife, Lunge 10 reps, Single-Leg Extension 6 reps and Tricep Extension 10 reps), four Training Plus exercises (Island Cycling, Obstacle Course and Rhythm Parade) and five Yoga exercises (Chair, Palm Tree, Tree, Triangle and Warrior), I had a super workout.

Wii Fit Plus Routine

Strength Training (Jackknife, Lunge, Single-Leg Extension and Tricep Extension)

Training Plus Games (Island Cycling, Obstacle Course and Rhythm Parade)

  

Yoga (Chair, Palm Tree, Tree, Triangle and Warrior)

Aerobics (Rhythm Boxing)

Balance Games (Table Tilt and Balance Bubble)

Perfect 10

I workout with Just Dance for 30 minutes using Just Dance 2016. I danced nine songs, which were When The Rain Begins to Fall, All About The Bass, Kaboom Pow, The Choice Is Yours, Gibberish, Junto a Ti, Lights, Balhan Blash Emix (Angry Birds) and This Is How We Do. I had a fun workout.

Just Dance 2019 (When The Rain Begins To Fall, All About The Bass and Kaboom Pow) 10 minutes

Just Dance 2016 (The Choice Is Yours, Gibberish, Junto A Ti, Lights, Balkan Blast Remix and This Is How We Do) 20 minutes

I worked out with the Synth Riders with three songs twice, which were Carry On, I'll Fight Back and Voidwalkers for 30 minutes. Another great workout.

Carry On

I'll Fight Back

Voidwalkers

I played eight games of pinball. I played four games on the mini cabinet, which were Dr. No, Great Houdini, Mission Impossible and Transformers. While playing Great Houdini I became high score #3. I played four games on the big cabinet, which were Apollo 13, Star Trek The Next Generation, The Beach Boys and Willow. I got a new high score playing the weekly challenge of Apollo 13, which was 1,202,039,740. This score put me in 16th place out of 33 participants. I had a good day of playing pinball.

Dr. No (Mini)

Great Houdini (Mini)

Mission Impossible (Mini)

Transformers (Mini)

Apollo 13 (Big)

Star Trek The Next Generation (Big)

The Beach Boys (Big)

Willow (Big)

While I played pinball we watched YouTube videos.

In the evening we watched The Sheep Detectives from our movies collection. A couple of months ago we had seen this movie in the theater, it was very cute. It is now available via Amazon Prime. 

After Larry went to bed I watched The Suicide Squad and Men In Black from our movies collection. I ended up doing 5,000 steps. 

While I was watching movies a doe and her two fawns showed up. They walked through the frontyard and the backyard. As they walked they stopped and grazed. The fawns still have their spots but they're grazing along side of their mother.