Wednesday 11-11-26 Three Dances, Projects & More

 

Smile and have fun

We had a great day. We kept busy.

The temperature was very nice. It was partly cloudy. The morning temperature was 58 degrees and the high temperature was 80 degrees.

We started the day out by going to town for Larry's annual wellness appointment. His appointment was at 9:00 am. It didn't take long, we were back home by 9:40 am.

I attended three virtual dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 am for and hour. Terry didn't dance or call but he was sitting in his chair. Di called five tips to 10 participants. She worked on Quarter Thru, Left Quarter Thru, Partner Hinge, Scoot & Dodge, Pass The Sea, Spin Chain The Gears and Coordinate. Di did an outstanding job of calling and dancing at the same time. The dancers were from the U.K., U.S., France and Mexico. I had a fun hour of dancing to Di and with friends.

Second was Ett McAtee's Weekly C1 at 1:00 for an hour. Ett called four tips to 15 participants from Netherlands, U.K., U.S., Sweden and Germany. Ett called a lot of Vertical Tag, Vertical Half Tag, Dixie Sashay, Percolate, Scoot and Plenty and Regroup. This week I danced a lot better. I had fun dancing with friends and to Ett. 

Third was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 foe. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore were calling in person so Dave called the dance by himself. The format was three tips of C1, three tips A2 and one Trivia question. During the C1 session we had 7 participants from U.S., Canada and Australia. During the A2 session we had 9 participants from U.S., Canada. It was a small group of dancers  I had a great evening of dancing with friends.

Participants for the C1 session 

Participants in the A2 session

While I danced to Di Larry did a few projects. 

First he changed the oil of the Equinox. When he was draining the old oil he missed the pan so he had to clean a bit of oil off the driveway using Dawn and Simple Green. After draining the oil he replaced the oil filter. He also changed out the air filter and the cabin air filter. After changing the oil he put the old oil in the oil container. Then he cleaned the oil pan and put everything away. 

Larry changing the oil in the Equinox 

Next he treated the clover in the grass. We have a lot of clover. Over the summer he tried a couple of different chemicals, one failed miserably, the other killed some clover but had no effect of a different type. He hopes this chemical will work. 

Next Larry walked around the house and put cover on the spigots. Before putting the cover on each spigot he put an automatic freeze protection valve on. The spigot on the southside wall by the garage was leaking a little bit so Larry had to replace the stem and the vacuum breaker. In order to do this we had to go to town to get parts. 

After Ett's dance we went to town. Larry thought he could get everything at Ham & McCreight, they were out of the vacuum breakers and they did not stock the stems. He bought an entire spigot that had the correct stem. We then went to Ace Hardware to buy a vacuum breaker. We stopped by Best Buy to pickup Louise's new television.

Running Errands

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The Daily Event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 52 minutes and 33 seconds to complete, which put me in 24th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I played ten games of pinball. I played five games on the mini cabinet, which were Attack From Mars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, Willy Wonka and World Joker Poker. I played five games on the big cabinet, which were Beetlejuice, Dracula, Indianapolis 500, Queen and Whirlwind. I didn't get on the board playing pinball but I had fun trying.

Attack From Mars (Mini)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Mini)

The Lord of the Rings (Mini)

Willy Wonka (Mini)

World Joker Poker (Mini)

Beetlejuice (Big)

Dracula (Big)

Indianapolis 500 (Big)

Queen (Big)

Whirlwind (Big)

After Dave's dance we watched a movie off of Amazon called Hotel Transylvania Transformania. It was an animated movie about monsters becoming human and a human becoming a monster. It was cute. When Larry went to bed I watched Star Trek from our movies collection.

By the end of the day I had done 4,000 steps.