Friday 11-15 Uncommon Squares Dance

A beautiful day

We had a beautiful day in got up to 65 degrees with no wind.

We didn't have anything on our agenda so we spent the day hanging around the house. I finished reading my book. Larry read. I played my World Tour Event Solitaire challenge, which was 30 games today. 

Hanging around the house

When it was time for dinner I made some more Empanadas.

Empanadas I baked

In the evening we went to Cedar Park to dance with the Uncommon Squares Club. They invited Brad Caldwell to call the dance. We had five squares of dancers. We started at 7:00 and went to 9:45 because Brad challenged himself to call 15 tips. He made his goal. The club supplied a lot of food for snacks. We had an outstanding evening of dancing with friends that we hardly get a chance to dance with. Leonard and Kathy did a great job of hosting the event. Kathy made a beautiful quilt for Brad to thank him for a great evening.

Brad calling the dance

Our friends Sue and Jay promenading home

Having fun dancing with friends

Our friends Colleen, Peter, Sue and Jay waiting for the next call

Friends having fun dancing to Brad, look at Leonard's shoes

Friends having fun dancing to Brad

We got home from the dance at 11:15. Larry checked his e-mail and then he went to bed. I watched an episode of The Heart Man. I did my daily challenges. I finished up my steps. I ended up doing 13,000 steps, which was over my goal of 11,000 steps. 

Thursday 11-14 A Wet Cold Day

A wet cold day

It rained most of the day. It felt warmer today because the wind was gone.

Last week Larry called the dealer and made an appointment to change the oil in the Equinox. This morning we went for the oil change. When we checked in we noticed most of the employees were new but the service was still excellent. Afterwards we went back to the house because it was too nasty to do any running around.

Time for an oil change

We spent the afternoon reading. I studied Taminations to refresh my memory on some of the C1 moves before tonight.

Reading is fun

In the evening we went to Sun City to dance C1 and A2 with the Sundancers. This was the first week starting at 5:00 so we could have an hour and a half of C1 dancing. We had one square of dancers. The tips were a more complex today, which was good. At 6:30 we danced A2 for an hour and a half. We had two squares and two couples sitting out. After the A2 dancing we did another half hour of C1. We need all the floor time we can get. We had a super evening of square dancing with friends.

Dancing with friends

 

When we got home I did dishes and watched three episodes of The Heart Guy. Then I did my daily challenges.   

Wednesday 11-13 Just Another Day

Another cold day

Today, it didn't get out of 30s. We spent the entire day at home. I finished reading the fifth book of the Penny Green series written by Emily Organ. I worked on my annual book while Larry read. We watched some YouTube videos we follow.

Yesterday, when we went grocery shopping we picked up some Empanada shells. We hadn't had empanada's in a long time. I usually put pork sausage in them but today I decided to put chicken fajitas meat from Aldi. They tasted very good.

In the evening we started to watched three episodes of the second season of Durrells in Corfu. Afterwards I started a new series on Acorn called The Heart Guy. It's an Australian series about a heart surgeon that had to return home after making a mistake as a heart surgeon. We had a relaxing day. 

Relaxing day

   

Tuesday 11-12 Another Cold Day

Keeping warm

It was cold all day, the wind blew early but died down as the day went on. 

In the morning we hung around the house keeping warm considering it was in the 20s. I read and worked on my annual book. Larry read.

After lunch we went to town to do our weekly grocery shopping. On the way we swung by the UPS Store because they said we had a package waiting. Larry went inside and was walking towards the door with the box when he checked the address and found out it wasn't for us. It was actually for Box 275, we are 175. Then we went to Dollar Tree to pick up some more rice rolls but they were out. We didn't leave empty handed we picked up some tostadas shells and bread. Next stop was HEB for our grocery shopping. Then we swung by The Home Depot to buy some bug killer.

Weekly grocery shopping

 A few months ago Larry had a crown come off a tooth, the dentist put it back on but since then that tooth has given him problems, not all the time but off and on. It was bothering him this afternoon so he called the dentist office while we were at The Home Depot. They asked him how soon he could come in, he said in about fifteen minutes. The dentist fit him in between other patients. They took an x-ray and discovered the tooth was cracked below the crown. When Larry would chew on that side the tooth would move around and the moving was causing the pain. The dentist had to numb him up and remove the crown. There is no fixing the tooth, he will have to go to an oral surgeon and have it removed. Looks like he will be going down the path of another implant. While he was in the dental chair the office building was evacuated, all ten stories of the building had to climb down the stairs to the lobby. It ended up being a false alarm caused by a defective fire alarm in the basement. Once we were back upstairs the dentist finished removing the crown. 

Going to the dentist

By the time we got home it was almost time for dinner. After dinner we started to watch the third season of Good Karma Hospital on Acorn. It's a cute series about a hospital in a coastal town in tropical South India. Then I finished watching Hidden. I didn't really like it, it was very hard to follow because it was in Welsh and English. It was also a little too graphic at times. 

    

Monday 11-11 It's Cold

It's cold

The high today was early in the morning, by afternoon the temperature was dropping. The wind came up and clouds rolled in. When the wind came up it looked like fall because leaves were blowing out of the trees. It started sprinkling in the afternoon and didn't stop until the evening. By midnight the temperature had dropped to 33 degrees at the house. 

Tomorrow, it's suppose to be cold all day and not get out of the low 40s.

This morning Larry winterized the Minnie. He drained the water heater and emptied the tanks because he didn't want things to freeze up. Then we took the Minnie to the storage center where she is parked indoors. The stall has power so Larry plugged the Minnie in and setup heaters in the Minnie to keep it warm. Since we have heaters keeping the temperature above freezing we didn't really have to winterize but it doesn't take all that long and we don't have to worry about if the power has gone out.

Afterwards we went home. I read and worked on my annual book. Larry continued working on Louise's old computer and read. 

Our trees in the yards needed to be trimmed. The branches were starting to grow over the roof and we had small limbs rubbing on the Minnie when we back her next to the house. Last week a gentleman from Brothers Landscaping Tree Service came door to door to see if anyone needed any services. Larry had told the gentleman no but a little while later he called him on the phone and asked him to come by to give us a quote. When he came back Larry made an appointment to get our trees trimmed. A crew of three guys showed up around 2:30 to do the trimming. We were surprised because it was cold and really windy. We watched them trim the trees, it was scary to watch them because they used ladders to climb on the trees and then one gentleman would shimmy up the trees on the branches to trim the little branches. Another gentleman trimmed some of the branches with a gas powered extension saw that worked excellent. They hauled off the trimmings in a flat bed trailer. After trimming up the trees they sealed the areas trimmed to prevent oak wilt. They were here about an hour and did all the trimming we needed. They did an excellent job. 

One of the trees before it was trimmed

Trimming up the tree

Trimming the small branches off a limb

The oak tree in the frontyard all trimmed up

On Monday evenings we usually go to Sun City to dance with the Sundancers but today we decided to stay home because it was cold and drizzling. The temperature was going to continue dropping. During evening we finished up watching the first season of Boston Legal and watched a couple of episodes from the second season. Afterwards I watched a couple episodes of Hidden. I did my 12,000 steps. We spent the evening keeping warm.  

Sunday 11-10 Dancing to Jimmy Johnson

Having fun

Today was a gorgeous day with sunshine and temperatures in the 70s.

We started the day out by hanging around the house. We watched a couple of episodes of the GizWiz, now we're all caught up. Larry read the newspaper and worked on Louise's old computer while I worked on my annual book. 

After lunch we went to Georgetown to dance with Jimmy Johnson's DBD square dancing group. They try to dance once a month but sometimes they can't get enough dancers and the dance gets cancelled. The dance has been held in Briarcliff which is over 100 miles from the house, this time it was in Georgetown which was a lot more convenient. We have been spending about five months a year on the road so we are not always able to dance with the group. When we showed up today the group was happy to see us and gave us a warm welcome. We had one square plus an extra person. We use to get three squares. The schedule for the dancing was 2:00 to 4:00, 4:00 to 4:45 dinner break and 4:45 to 6:45 dancing. Today we only danced to 6:00. We had a great time of dancing. 

Square dancing with friends

When we got home Larry worked on Louise's computer while I read until it was time for Larry to go to bed. Then I watched a couple of episodes of Hidden and finished up my steps. Today I did 12,000 steps. After watching Hidden I did my daily challenges. We had a super day.

Saturday 11-9 Beautiful Day

Beautiful Day

The day started out with fog. When Larry woke up the sun was shining and there was no fog but by 7:30 when I woke up the fog had rolled in.

We spent most of the day in Round Rock doing things for Louise. It was Christmas time at Louise's house. She has her Christmas tree up already and her Christmas decorations out. She did a super job of decorating for Christmas.

Christmas at Louise's house

First project was taking down cable wires. Months ago Louise changed internet provider. When they came over and disconnected her from the old service they unhooked the cable from the pole and left it hanging from her house. It looked horrible so Larry removed it this morning.

What a mess

Larry removing the cable wires

The next project was fixing her toilet. At times the toilet did not want to stop running so the other day Larry picked up a kit for it. When he looked at it today he found that the flapper ball was in bad shape, he replaced it and hopefully that will fix the problem. 

The next project was phone service and it took a lot longer than we expected. Louise has been having problems with her cell phone provider, which is Cricket. At home her phone sometimes wouldn't work at all. When she went to the Cricket Store it would work perfect. She has been fighting this problem for a long while. Cricket works on the AT&T network. She can't continue having a cell service that is so unreliable. Recently Larry had changed our cell service over to a new provider called Visible which works on the Verizon network, so far we have been happy with the service. Louise decided to switch to Visible which meant buying a new phone. She ordered it from Visible so today Larry setup the new phone. This took some time.

While we were traveling Louise's home phone service had quit, when we got home Larry got it fixed but he also wanted to move her home phone number over to Google Voice. Last week he started working on porting her phone number. Google Voice could not port her number directly from her current provider so Larry ported the number to T-Mobile and then had Google Voice port the number from them. To do this he bought a T-Mobile Sim card and during the activation he transferred her home phone number. Today he had Google Voice port the number away from T-Mobile.

Now that he had both her cell phone and home phone working he wanted them to work together. He setup Google Voice so that whenever someone calls her home number both her home phone and Cell phone will ring, she can answer the call on either one. If she calls anyone from either device the caller id will be her home phone number. It took a lot of time to work through everything and setup her new cell phone but when we left it all worked perfectly. Louise is one happy woman.

While Larry worked on the project I worked on a jig saw puzzle and played with Alice. For lunch Louise surprised us with chicken she had bought at Walmart. We love Walmart's chicken. Along with the chicken we had potato salad. 

We had left to go to Louise's before 8:00 and didn't get home until 5:30. We had a long day at Louise's house but it was nice to visit with her.

In the evening we watched Captain Marvel again. Then I finished doing my steps. My goal for the day is 10,600 steps but I have been doing 12,000 steps. Today I only did 11,000 steps. We had a busy day but it was fun.