Saturday 5-24-25 Plus U, Car Show, Terp's Comics & More

Beautiful Day

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. The high was 96 degrees. There was a breeze, that kept it bearable.

Larry started the day working on his jukebox project. He took the jukebox apart and started preparing it for painting. 

I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Free Cell Adventure of 20 games. It took me 2 hours, 47 minutes and 37 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds. 

At 10:30 we went town. 

First stop was the TEF Car Show at the Temple High School. The show was from 10:00 to 2:00. There were a lot of beautiful vehicles: Classic, Modern Muscle, Low Riders, Imports, Trucks and Motorcycles. The car show took place in the parking lot of the high school. We walked around for about 45 minutes. They also had food vendors. It was starting to get hot. Below are some of the vehicles we saw.

 

Corvette

 

Barracuda

 

Volkswagen Beetle

 

Corvette Stingray

 

Bel Air

 

Motorcycle (Stallion) and car

 

1941 Chevy Sedan

 

2006 Dodge Magnum with a cool wrap on it

 

Cool looking vehicle

Second was a comic book swap meet at Terp's Toys and Comics in Temple. It wasn't a big swap meet but it was worth going because it was the first time we've been at a comics store. The owner and a worker were very friendly and helpful. He had a lot of comic books and clocks made out of LP records. The owner's friend makes they for him using a lazer. They were very cool. He had a huge picture on the back wall with different characters from the comics in it. They was a little boy about three looking at it and the owner asked him to locate some characters on the wall. He located the ones he knew. The store was well organized.

 

Terp's Toys and Comics (from website)

After attending the events we stopped by the UPS Store to get our mail. Then we went to Walmart to pick up a few items we were getting low on and paint for the jukebox. While there we picked up a chicken for lunch. Larry was going to take me out for lunch but I thought it was easier just to get a chicken. Then we went home.

When we got home I continued playing my Solitaire Event. Larry went back on working the jukebox.

I played three games of pinball, which were Mustang, World Joker Poker and Guardians of the Galaxy. When playing Mustang and World Joker Poker I matched so I played them two times. The second game of both games was better than the first. While I played Guardians of the Galaxy I entered my initials as high score #2.

 

Guardians of the Galaxy

 

Mustang

 

World Joker Poker

In the afternoon we received an e-mail from Paula Ferguson (Brad Caldwell's wife), reminding folks that tonight at 7:00 there was a Plus U dance in Georgetown.

 We attended the dance. It was for two hours. Brad called eight tips to four squares of dancers plus one extra dancer. We had a super time dancing to Brad and with friends.

 

Square dancing with friends

We got home a little before 10:00. Larry checked his e-mail and then went to bed. I watched a movie called R.I.P.D. It was a good movie. It reminded me of Men in Black. Afterwards I watched Star Trek Into Darkness. I ended up doing 13,000 steps. 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Friday 5-23-25 Mowers, Games, Jukebox Project & More

 

Do the happy dance

 

We had a great day. We got up to 96 degrees with a lot of sunshine.

Larry spent the day working on his Rowe Jukebox. He finished painting the monitor bezel, wiring, LED lights and added lighting to marquee. It works great and looks super. He needs to make button covers and finalize the marquee, after that he will strip it totally down and start working on the case.

 

Rowe Jukebox

 

The wiring of the Rowe jukebox

 

While Larry worked on the jukebox project I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango Mini of 6 games (3 Pyramid and 3 Tri Peaks). It took me 13 minutes and 47 seconds, which put me in 9th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

In the afternoon I played seven games of pinball. They were Creature From The Black Lagoon, Elvira Scared Stiff, Iron Man, Metallica, Nightmare Before Christmas, No Fear and Spiderman. While playing Nightmare Before Christmas I became high score #1. I didn't get a new high score playing Elvira Scared Still but I had fun.

 

Spiderman

 

 

No Fear

 

 

Nightmare Before Christmas

 

 

Metallica

 

 

Iron Man

 

Elvira Scared Stiff

 

Creature From The Black Lagoon

I worked out with a half hour on the Wii Fit and a half hour with Just Dance (10 minutes with 2014 and 20 minutes with 2015).

I played two games of Monster Manor and earned a bronze trophy in both of them. The second game was the best. During the last game I stunned the manor, earned a skeleton key and had a great time.

 

Monster Manor

 

While I was playing games and Larry was working on his jukebox our mowers came and mowed. They were in and out within fifteen minutes. The mowers were scheduled on every other Thursday. Two weeks ago they didn't show up when they were scheduled so Larry called the company and they said they were behind scheduled due to rain. So they came Friday. We really don't care when they come. We were glad that the mowers showed up today.

 

Mowing our yard

 

In the evening we watched Elementary. When Larry went to bed I watched You've Got Mail and Men in Black II. I did 13,500 steps.

 

 

Relaxing in front of the television

 

I worked on my diamond painting in between playing games and watching television. 

 

Thursday 5-22-25 National Solitaire Day, Music Project, Workout & Games

 

Wonderful Day

 

We had a wonderful day. The high was 93 degrees.

We kept busy doing this and that.

I started the day out playing games. Today was National Solitaire Day, where every Solitaire game (Klondike, Spider, Free Cell, Pyramid and Tri Peaks) were worth triple the points after they were completed. I played the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: National Solitaire Day of 10 games. It took me 26 minutes and 51 seconds, which put me in 21st place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

 

Celebrating National Solitaire Day

Larry continued working on his music project. He is going through about 900 to see which ones he wants to keep.

 

I worked on my diamond painting of the sun.

 

I played pinball on the large cabinet. I played seven games, which were Elvira Scared Stiff, X-Men, Elvira Party Monsters, Great Houdini, Attack From Mars, Dark Chaos and JP Space Cadet. I had a super day of playing pinball. While playing Elvira Scared Stiff I got a new high score of 10,999,680, which put me in 30th place out of 54 participants. When I played X-Men I came high score #1 Larry is still Grand Champion, Great Houdini I came in high score # 4 and JP Space Cadet I came in high score #2.

 

 

 

Attack From Mars

 

 

 

 

Dark Chaos

 

 

 

 

Elvira Party Monsters

 

 

 

 

Elvira Scared Stiff

 

 

 

 

Great Houdini

 

 

 

 

JP Space Cadet

 

 

 

 

X-Men

 

 

I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour and Gold's Gym for a half hour. I hadn't worked out with the Wii Fit for five days and Gold's Gym for a week.

 

 

 

Working Out

 

 

I played a game of Asteroid Outpost on Bounce Arcade. I earned a silver trophy, two multiballs, mined the asteroids three times out of six and earned an extra ball. I had a great game.

 

 

 

 

Asteroid Outpost

 

 

In the evening we watched Elementary. When Larry went to bed I watched The Golden Voice. It was a good movie about a homeless boy and a veteran, who become friends. Then I watched Twister. I ended up doing 14,000 steps.

 

 

 

Relaxing in front of the television

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 5-21-25 Two Dances, Projects & Games

 

Awesome Day

 

We had an awesome day of doing this and that.

Larry spent the day working with movies and music. He hadn't used the program for downloading for a long time so it took some time to relearn. He downloaded music and movies at the same time. While he was doing this he experimented with the music on the yellow Rock Ola jukebox. He has a lot of fun doing these projects.

 

 

Playing with the Rock Ola jukebox

 

 

I attended two virtual square dances. First was Di Green and Terry McCann's Weekly Plus at 10:00 for an hour and fifteen minutes. Di and Terry took turns calling five tips with 10 participants. Di worked on Coordinate, Spin Chain the Gears, Relay the Deucey, Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears and other moves the dancers were having problems with. I had a great time dancing with friends and to Di and Terry.

 

Second was Dave Eno's Weekly C1/A2 at 6:00 for an hour and a half. Karin Rabe and Greg Moore helped call the dance. The format was three tips of C1 to 10 participants, three tips of A2 to 10 participants and two Trivia questions in between the A2 tips. I had a super evening dancing to Dave, Karin and Greg and with friends.

 

 

 

Having fun dancing with friends

 

 

In between the dances I played games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. I played the event, which was Event: Experts Only of 10 games. I only did 9 of the games because I got stuck on one of the Free Cell games. I worked on playing the games for 2 hours, 26 minutes and 29 seconds, which put me in 12th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

 

I played for games of pinball pinball. I played Elvira Scared Stiff and got a new high score for the weekly challenge of 7,849,140, which moved me into 35th place out of 47 participants. I played The Addams Family, World Joker Poker and Metallica. While playing The Addams Family I became Grand Champion and Metallica I became high score #3.

 

 

 

Elvira Scared Stiff

 

 

 

 

Metallica

 

 

 

 

The Addams Family

 

 

 

 

World Joker Poker

 

 

I played two games of Pirate's Plunder on Bounce Arcade. The first game I earned a silver trophy and the second game I earned a bronze trophy. While earning the silver trophy I defeated my enemies twice, earned an extra ball and one Jolly Rogers. I had fun playing on bounce arcade.

 

 

 

Pirate's Plunder silver trophy game

 

 

 

After Dave's dance we watched a couple of episodes of Elementary. Then I watched Twisters and Men in Black. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.

 

Last night I started another diamond painting, it's a sun. While watching television I worked on the diamond painting.

 

 

 

New diamond painting

 

 

  

  

 

Tuesday 5-20-25 Morning Surprise, Dancing & More

 

Morning surprise

 

Larry gets up at 6:00 and reads his e-mails, news groups and groups his follows. We have security cameras around the outside of the house and a monitor at the desk. While he was reading a doe triggered our camera on the side of the house. This was 6:15 and she moved over to the neighbor's yard by the pool wall, where she gave birth to twins. I got up at 8:00 and he told me about it. The doe was a great mother, she cleaned the fawns. They were laying in grass. The fawns tried to stand up and fell back down but they didn't give up. The doe fed them and patiently waited for the fawns to get ready for them to move on. They were there for over four hours. We had to leave at 10:15 to go to our dance in Liberty Hill. The doe and fawns were a lot more stable when standing. The dow was grazing and the fawns stayed close by. When we got home they were gone. This was a special event to watch.

 

Mom and babies 

Today we went to Liberty Hill to do our weekly C1/A2 dance at the Skis house. We met up with Henry and Susan to dance C1 to Johnny Preston on tape for an hour at 12:00. We danced four different tips on the tape and had a super time. At 1:00 the A2 session started. John Kephart showed up by himself, he usually comes with John Carlton and his wife from San Antonio. John Carlton had to get his hearing aide fixed because it broke. We were shy one person to have two squares. The dancers were very rusty so John spent most of the dance working on moves. I danced most of the dance because there were three single men and two single women so sometimes one of the men needed a partner. It was an ok dance.

 

We love square dancing

We got home at 4:15. We watched YouTube videos.

I played my Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Hard Road Mini of 10 games. It took me 2 hours, 2 minutes and 5 seconds, which put me in 27th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

I played the weekly challenge of pinball, Elvira Scared Stiff. I got a new high score of 7,544,080, which put me in 31st place out of 39 participants. 

In the evening we finished watching the 6th season of Elementary and started the 7th and final season. Then I watched Star Trek and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs from our movies collection. I ended up doing 13,500 steps.