Still Irish?

This morning Ken and Jeff took a vehicle to the repair shop. While it was being worked on, they walked to a nearby mall to window shop. Later they went to this Irish pub at Lake Las Vegas to eat. It's in a resort area that we walked through last year when we visited Vegas.

Here's Jeff checking out his new camera

Meanwhile, in the RGV, it was HOT today! The truck said it was 102, and I believe it. That's one of the reasons that many Winter Texans are heading north now. Our next door neighbors to the north have left.


I danced with Don as my partner this afternoon. His regular partner, Louise, has left the Valley. Tim Ploch filled in for Darryl. He took the "workshop" designation seriously, challenging us with some difficult block calls. He showed us a useful way to collapse the blocks and then reconstitute them after doing calls like Cross and Turn or Split Transfer. These are box calls, and it's hard for dancers to do them in blocks.

He also worked with the stretch concept, telling us that the definition required completing the call before stretching it. I checked out Callerlab definitions. Although the Stretch Concept is defined by completing the given call and then the dancers who end in the center stretch by moving along the long axis, the "Teaching hints" do say

"Teaching Hint: This call is usually danced with those coming to the center actually going to the far center spots, rather than first completing the move on their own side."