Friday 11-22 Dance Begins

Having fun with friends

Before leaving the house I finished loading a few things in the Minnie. The drive to tool takes about 3 hours and the dance didn't start until 3:00 but we don't mind being early so we left the house around 9:00. The distance was 132 miles. The drive was interstate and two lane highways through small towns. When we got to Corsicana, which was about 30 miles from Tool we stopped and had lunch. When we arrived at Tool there were already a few RVs there. After setting up the Minnie we had two and a half hours to relax before the dance.

The Log Cabin Swingers invited Randy Dougherty to call a two day event of A2 dancing and C1 Star Tips. Today's schedule was 3:00 to 5:00 A2, followed by a C1 Star Tip and A2 from 7:00 to 9:00 followed by C1 Star Tip. For the afternoon A2 dance we had two squares and two couples sitting out. The C1 tip had six couples so Randy called a six couple tip which was a lot of fun. Randy put us in a lot different positions which made it very challenging. In the evening we had enough people to have three and a half squares for A2 and six couples for C1. Randy kept the evening as challenging as the afternoon. We had a super day of dancing to Randy and friends.

Our friend Becky out of the Houston Area

Our friends Yasuko and Jan out of Houston area

Friends having fun in between tips

Joe, Gary, Shannon and Coleta 

Friends enjoying the dance

Randy Dougherty and his dog Abbey

More friends from the Houston area

   

Friends having fun dancing to Randy calling

Grace and Dan enjoying dancing with friends

Thursady 11-21 Getting Ready

Have a great day

Yesterday, I cut up some pork ribs and marinaded them overnight. For lunch I made Sweet Teriyaki Pork Skewers on the grill. They came out delicious.

Sweet Teriyaki Pork Skewers

This weekend we're going to Tool Texas to attended a two day A2 dance at Promenade Hall. They have a big grass field behind the hall with RV sites with power. We like to take the Minnie because it's convenient to rest in between dances and have meals. This morning we went to the storage center and got the Minnie. When we got home we started getting it ready for the weekend. We loaded it up with food and clothes. It didn't take long because we're only going to be gone a couple of days. 

After getting the Minnie ready I did some housework.

Doing housework

In the evening we went to Sun City to dance with the Sundancers. We arrived at 5:00 for the C1 session. Then we danced A2 from 6:30 to 8:00. Afterwards we did another C1 tip. For the A2 dancing we had two squares plus an extra couple. A couple of the couples are brand new A2 dancers and they did very well. The C1 dancing had one square. The dancing was very challenging and fun. 

When we got home I finished my 13,000 steps. I finished watching The Heart Man. We had a super day.

Wednesday 11-20 Just Another Day

Smile be happy

It was just another day hanging around the house. I finished reading my book and worked on writing my annual book. Larry did a little home maintenance, he changed out the prefilters on all of our air purifiers and replaced the filter on the house air conditioner. 

In the evening we finished watching the third season of Durrells in Corfu on PBS. Then I watched a few episode of the third season of The Heart Guy.

Tuesday 11-19 Terrific Tuesday

We woke up to a warmer morning, it was in the 50s. It was sunshine all day and no wind. The temperature got to the low 70s.

I spent the morning reading and Larry continued working on electronic stuff. After lunch we went to town to pick up a couple of packages waiting for us at The UPS Store. They were electronic stuff. We swung by HEB to pick up a few things I forgot yesterday. When we went to Walmart yesterday we bought a spiral ham. The ham comes with a glaze to put on it, we don't use the glaze and the ham taste delicious. Today I split the ham up in different containers and froze a couple of the containers. We ate some of the ham as a snack and in our dinner salad. It tastes good but we felt it tasted a little salty.

In the evening we started watching the third season of Durrells in Corfu on PBS. We also watched an episode of Boston Legal. I finished watching the second season of The Heart Guy. 

Monday 11-18 Weekly Sundancers Dance

Sun Shiney Day

We had another sunny day. In the morning we went to the UPS Store to pickup our mail and while we were there we walked over to Walmart and bought a few grocery items. By the time went got home it was time for lunch.

Last year some friends of ours who live in South Austin invited us and other friends and family to their house for Thanksgiving, we went and had a great time. Amazingly they invited us back, last year I broke one of their dishes and then I fell and cut my head open on their window sill. Louise will be going with us.

Grocery shopping

I spent the afternoon reading while Larry messed around with some electronic stuff.

In the evening we went to Sun City and danced with the Sundancers. The first tip was at class level and we had six squares. The students left and we only had enough folks left for three squares. The dance started at 7:30 and finished by 9:30. The first half hour was mainstream and plus and then the rest was plus because the mainstream dancers had left. One of the plus tips was challenging because Brad called an easy pattern and then a more complex pattern. Another tip we had two squares and Brad had the dancers go from one square to another. Everyone had a lot of fun. At 9:00 we had an A2 tip with five couples. In between each square dancing tip Lucy Pate cued a round dance. We had a great evening dancing with friends and to Brad Caldwell. 

Having fun square dancing with friends

When we got home Larry read his e-mail and then he went to bed. I stayed up and watched three episodes of The Heart Man. We had a great day.

Sunday 11-17 Doing This and That

Doing this and that

We had a beautiful day. 

It was another chilly morning. While I worked on my annual book Larry read the paper and we watched an episode of the GizWiz.

After lunch it had warmed up so Larry went outside and treated for bugs and weeds. While he did this I continued working on my book, I also did laundry and a little housekeeping.

Doing housework and laundry

In the evening we finished watching the third season of Good Karma Hospital and the second season of Durrells in Corfu on PBS. Then I started watching the second season of The Heart Guy.  

Saturday 11-16 Another Trip to Round Rock

Awesome Day

We had an awesome day. We started it out by going to Round Rock. Larry had completed rebuilding Louise's computer and he wanted to return it, he also wanted to undate Louise's router with a newer one. We arrived around 9:00. Larry setup her computer and then went to work on replacing the router. Some things hooked to it perfectly and others gave him troubles. One of her security cameras logged into the new router without him doing anything, another one which was a different brand he worked on for more than an hour, he discovered he had hooked up something incorrectly and once he fixed that he was able to get the other camera to work. Around 11:00 Louise had to leave to attend a get together with some friends. While Larry worked on the router I worked on a jigsaw puzzle and played with Alice. We left Louise's house around 2:00.

Doing brother dos

On the way home we stopped at Fuddruckers for lunch. We shared a burger and an order of onion rings. 

In the evening we watched two episodes of Doc Martin and two episodes of Good Karma Hospital. When Larry went to bed I finished up the first season of The Heart Man. We had a relaxing evening.

Relaxing in front of the television