Paul & Judy Adams' blog

Good Morning Dancers

Looking like another beautiful day in the Capital of our Nation, I think this is the nicest spring we've seen in many a year. At this time the temperature is at 14C and heading to about 24C with 77% humidity, so it should be good for Square Dancing tonight.

Yes, it's Wednesday once again and time for our Advanced Dancing Practice Session. Last Wednesday's dancing was great, with everyone doing very well on some difficult positioning and tonight we hope to continue that trend. I was thinking, I wish I had the time to do this type of Practice Session with the Dancers in the Mainstream and Plus Programs, because it sure makes a huge difference in the quality and quantity of content we Callers can build into the program. Maybe the Dancers in those Programs are not interested in this type of idea, because it's much easier to learn New Calls than it is to learn Positioning and Definitions of Calls, which they think they already know, or, they haven't yet discovered the other element in the meaning of FUN where success of completing the challange far over-powers the laughter & giggles of break-down. Please Feel Free To Comment!

The program for tonight is to review the Calls we have not had time to practice a lot like,"All 4 Couples Square Chain Thru", "All 4 Couples Left Square Chain Thru", " All 8 Dixie Style To A Wave", "All 8 Left Remake", "All 8 Pass & Roll Your Neighbour & Spread, "Facing Recycle" same sex, "As Couples Box Transfer", as well as "All The Calls" we have had practice dancing. New for tonight I want to look at "Spin The Windmill from a Tidal Wave", "All 8 Recycle" which has a little different twist to the meaning of "All 8" than we've seen so far. Also "Split Motivate", "In Roll Motivate", "Out Roll Motivate", "Cast A Shadow from a 3&1 Line, with the Centre Dancers Facing In" I reckon this program will more than fill the evening but I'll do my best to get through it all.

Take care of yourself and each-other and I see you on the Dance Floor or I'll see you when I see you.

Another Nice Day

Good Morning, it is a very nice morning, the temperature is about 13C now at 7am and should get up to about 28C by mid-afternoon. So it looks like L.D. is the place to be.

Great Dancing last night despite the heat & humidity. From my vantage point I have seen and I hope you can feel, that there has been a huge boost to your dancing confidence and competence, from just dancing this stuff repetitively every week over the past four weeks. "Perfect Practice Makes Perfect". I apologize for not getting everything on my program covered, such as "All 8 Recycle" and "Transfer And Anything" I will work them for sure next week.

Enjoy the great weather we are having and I will post the Program for next Wednesday's A2, on Wednesday morning. Take care of your self and each-other and Ill see you when I see you.

Wow, What Great Weather

Good morning! Looking like another beautiful day is well on it's way.

The Program for tonight's A2 Practice is to dance all the Calls we have reviewed so far some of which are "Split / Box Transfer", "Checkmate, from Columns, Double Pass Thru & Completed Double Pass Thru", "Pass & Roll", "All 8 Pass & Roll", "Pass & Roll Your Neighbour & Spread", "Motivate, from a Completed Double Pass Thru", "In Roll Circulate", "Out Roll Circulate", "Scoot & Weave". New for tonight will hopefully be "All 8 Dixie Style To A Wave", " As Couples Box Transfer", "Transfer And", "Split Square Chain Thru", " Facing Recycle" & "All 8 Recycle". I sure hope you won't find it too boreing.

Gotta run now we have to be at Montfort Hospital for 8:30 am ,so have to leave soon. Have a great day and I see you tonight.

Good Morning

Wow, it is looking like another beautiful day is on the way. Right out of the gate I must congratulate everyone and the good Advanced Dancing last night, "The Best Night Yet". Looking at the planned program, we only missed "Scoot Chain Thru" and "Left Remake" so,"great job everyone, Perfect Practice Makes Perfect".

I will not likely write here again till Tuesday unless I get some free time, but that is doubtful. Take care of yourself and each-other and I'll see you when I see you.

Here I am at last

I bet some of you were saying, where is the new Blog, this one is a week old. Okay, it's summer with lot's of yard work, walking with Judy, going to the Heart Institute, running for my doctor's appointments, blood tests, camping and enjoying the nice weather while doing things outside, that I don't write every day.

Tonight's A2 Practice program is to Review Where or When Required "Box/Split Transfer", "Checkmate" from Columns, Double Pass Thru & Completed Double Pass Thru Positions, "Pass & Roll", "Single Pass & Roll", "Pass & Roll Your Neighbour & Spread","In Roll Circulate" from Two Faced Lines & 3&1 Lines, "Out Roll Circulate" from Two Faced Lines & 3&1 Lines, "Scoot Chain Thru" from a Quarter Tag, "All 4 Couples Pass The Sea", "All 4 Couples Square Chain Thru" and "All 8 Swing & Mix". Calls we will take a closer look at tonight will be "Scoot & Weave", "Spin The Windmill" Right, Left, In, Out, Ahead or As You Go, "Remake", "Left Remake", "Remake The Thar", "Grand Remake", "Motivate" from Completed Double Pass Thru, and maybe an "IN ROLL Motivate", and "All 8 Pass & Roll Your Neighbour & Spread". I know this is a large program and if it's not too hot in the hall and we're all dancing well ,we might get through it all, if we do, I know I will be tired and so will you.

Well that about does it for now, gotta go get some stuff to take to the Camp. Take care of yourself and each-other and I see you when I see you.

Another Grey Morning

Good morning, it's kind of a grey sky this morning and only 6C heading for 19C by this afternoon. I hope things dry up a little so I can cut the grass before the weekend, I'm still considering getting a goat.

So how did you do at the Advanced Practice Session last night? I think the dancing was stronger than last week, by a good bit. I apologize for not covering every Call I had said was on the program, missing "Remake" and "Scoot & Weave", but we did manage to slip in that "Motivate" starting from a Completed Double Pass Thru. "Good Job"!

So, if you are checking off the Calls we have worked on over the last two weeks, here they are. "Box & Split Thransfer", "Checkmate" from Double Pass Thru & Completed Double Pass Thru, "Pass & Roll", "Single Pass & Roll", from a Single Column, "Scoot Chain Thru", "In Roll Circulate", "Diamond Chain Thru", "Out Roll Circulate", "Motivate" from completed Double Pass Thru, "All 4 Couples Pass The Sea", "All 4 Couples Right & Left Thru", "All 4 Couples Square Chain Thru", "All 4 Couples Chase Right", "All 8 Left Swing THru", "All 8 Mix". My theory is that, the more times we dance these Calls successfully, the stronger Advanced Dancers we become, "Successful Repetition" is the key, like perfect practice makes perfect.

That about does it for today, I have to go visit my Rheumatologist this morning, after I take "Sir Rhythm of Larch" for his stroll and sniff of the neighbourhood and after the traffic as dissipated some what. Take care of yourself and each-other and I'll see you when I see you.

Drizzle, drizzle.

This is a day of drizzle and it's not what you would drizzle over a bowl of ice cream. On the good side, our lawn is getting greener by the day and this is great weather to help it along, of course it also helps the "little flowers with the yellow on top"(T.T.H.).

Here is the program for tonight's Advanced Practice, As many "A2" calls as I can get into the first tip Standard Application, review, "Split & Box Transfer", "Checkmate", "Scoot Chain Thru", "Single Pass & Roll", "All 4 Couples Pass The Sea" "All 8 Swing Thru" and "All 8 Mix". New to work on are, "In Roll Circulate", "Out Roll Circulate", "Scoot & Weave" "Remake & Left Remake", "All 4 Couples Square Chain Thru" and "All 8 Pass & Roll". We will try to cover as many starting Formations for each Call as possible by focusing on the DEFINITION and NOT THE ROUTE, such as In Roll or Out Roll Circulates starting from Right or Left Hand Waves, Clockwise or Counter-Clock Wise, Rotating, Two Faced Lines and 3&1 Lines, the starting formation changes but the Definition NEVER changes. Who in this group of Cookie Monsters can tell me the difference between "Heads Square Chain Thru" and "Heads Pass The Sea, Left Swing Thru, Left Turn Thru". I will expect answers by tonight.

"Village Squares Executive Handover meeting tonight 6:30 R.G.Hobbs, you have to finish before the Cookie Monsters Start at 7:30.

Oh, oh, here HE comes, with that "I Gotta Go" look in his eye, Sir Rhythm of Larch" so I'll end it here for today and see you on the dance floor, take care of yourself and each-other and I'll see you when I see you, maybe in the mall, walking, or walking in the mall.

Beautiful Weather

Wow, what a beautiful weekend and more, it's nice outside right now and I hope it continues but The weather-man is calling for showers by tonight. Today I'll give the lawns a little treat of Scotts Turf Builder and that will help keep the dandelions to a minimum, I hope. Although, I think, it's a loosing battle I'm fighting.

Judy continues to get stronger every day, she said yesterday she felt the best since coming home, so she baked a whole bunch of cookies, did an ironing, was up and down stairs a bunch of times. Today if she's feeling good we'll do some walking. We also have a bit of running around to do, getting stuff (food) for the trailer, a couple of light bulbs, 9V & AAA batteries etc.

Then there is a program to finish for Wednesday evenings Advanced Practice. Reviews on last week's Calls like "Split/Box Transfer", "Checkmate", "Scoot Chain Thru" from a Quarter Tag, "Single Pass & Roll" and "All 4 Couples Pass The Sea". If you are inclined to look stuff up on TAMination try "In Roll Circulate", "Out Roll Circulate", "Remake", "Scoot & Weave", "All 4 Couples Square Chain Thru" and "All 8 Pass & Roll your Neighbour". These are the Calls we will be working on Wednesday May 9th.

Here comes "Sir Rhythm of Larch" poking his head around the corner, so I guess we're off for our walk to check out the neighbourhood for good spots to go, we can't check out new spots because there aren't any new spots on our circuit. Take care of yourself and each-other and I see you when I see you or at the Mall.

Great Moon

It is looking like another perfect day out there, good day to work outside and maybe plant the flowers? just not sure, yet. It's 5C now heading for 18C by this afternoon and there are a few clouds, but nothing to worry about.

Yesterday was a perfect day and we sure got a lot accomplished. Got the pickup loaded and headed for The Beautiful Shores Of Lake Dore, got the Cypress all opened up, flushed out all the water lines, opened up the gas lines, furnace works, hot water works, stove works, Slide-outs are out, vacuumed everything, raked up some leaves and we're now ready for next weekend.

After driving the Venza and then getting into the pickup, there is sure a difference in the ride. I think as the auto-makers design smoother riding cars, the road maintenance people neglect to attempt to keep the highways half smooth, so by the time we bounced home late afternoon we found our shoulders had jiggled down to our hips and hips to knees, so we had to roll into the house. ROUGH RIDE for the TRANS CANADA HIGHWAY second only to the logging trails in Northern Ontario. Maybe it is just old age! Anyway we got home before supper and had time to mow the lawns, get the BBQ fired up, have a Corona & lime while watching the kabobs cook, a good day all around, to say nothing of the fantastic moon last night.

I must go now as Sir Rhythm has risen and is in need of his walk so by,by for now. Take care of yourself and each-other and I see you when I see you.

Grey Day Friday

Did it rain at your house last evening around 10pm.? Wow, it sure rained here, it's still cloudy and I reckon it will stay that way all day, with about a 40% chance of more rain this afternoon. Sun for tomorrow, and Sunday and Monday, maybe I'll get the hay-field that was my lawn cut when it dries up a bit.

Judy had a good day yesterday as we walked 5 laps around Place in the morning, then she baked a batch of cookies in the early afternoon, and we went back to Place and did 4 more laps later in the afternoon. I reckon we will be doing that again today, I tried to find out how far it was to walk around Place but know one I asked knew. Anyway we do a lap in about 8 minutes and a few seconds, which is pretty good I guess.

Square Dance wise, I was working on next Wednesdays program, for a while yesterday and will do the same today.

I had to interrupt this post as Sir Rhythm of Larch needed his walk, because of all the rain last night we didn't get to walk far enough to get everything accomplished, but he did well this morning. good job Sir. Gotta go for now so take care of yourself and each-other and I'll see you when I see you.