Star Eights Oct. 29th

Today was our turn to be on food duty for our club. We baked sugar cookies and coloured them with fall coloured granulated sugar and also made some Shrimp Alfredo and brought it. It was a hit and was all gone before the dancing was done, so no leftovers for me. I should have taken a picture but didn't even think of it.


Here are the rounds we did tonight:


It's in His Kiss IV+1 CHA by unknown


Kiss Me Quick III+1 TS/CHA by Gafford


Change Partners III+1 FT by Gardner


Dream Awhile III WZ by Ellis


El Reloj IV+1 BOL by Trakel/Glider


Scheherezade IV+1 WZ by Gloodt


See you next week!


Note, we are dancing through Thanksgiving continuing on with the class, so if you find yourself in want of a place to dance over the Thanksgiving weekend and work off some of that turkey and all the wonderful trimmings, we'll be here!

Sunnyvale Squares Halloween Oct. 26

Halloween Party Night!

Tonight was our annual club Halloween party night, which was open and free for all area Plus dancers. We had several costumed dancers come and dance with us. Our caller Jim put together a fun program for everyone and I was able to put on several Halloween themed dances to keep the fun going between square dance tips.

My pictures didn't turn out too well, but I've included the two group shots from our club photographer, Bill Batterton that he posted on his Facebook page. 

Here is what we did for rounds this evening:

 

Pre-Rounds:

Orient Express V+2 FT by Moore

Cuando Me Cha V+2+2 CHA by Preskitt

You Make My Pants Want to Get Up and Dance IV+2 CHA by Hixson

Carnival IV+1 RB by Rumble

Kiss In The Dark III+1 WZ by Speranzo

Too Many Rivers IV+1 STS by Hooper

Little Shop of Horrors II TS by Gloodt

Web of Love II WZ by Kropf

Square Dance Doubles:

Witchcraft IV+1 FT by Slater + Dancing Shadows (Bossa Nova) II TS by Arnfield

Shadows in the Moonlight IV+1 CHA by Slater + Ev’rybody Wants to be a Cat II TS by Harris

Marilyn Marilyn IV WZ by Palmquist + Little Devil II TS by Seurer

Para Sempre III RB by Scherrer + Autumn Nocturne IV WZ by unknown with mods by Iannico/Smith

Purple People Eater II TS by Rotscheid

See you next week back to our more traditional dance attire.

Star Eights Oct. 22

Here are the rounds we were able to do this evening:


Pop Goes The Movies III+2 TS/FT/JV by Raye


Waltzing with Tammy II+1 WZ by Tucker


Very Smooth II+1 TS by Wiese


Harper Valley Cha III+1 CHA by Edwards


Tips of My Fingers II WZ by Palmquist


Hole in My Pocket II TS by Fisher


Sweetheart Tree II WZ by Scherrer


Little Devil II TS by Seurer

Sunnyvale Squares Oct. 19

I'm still getting used to the new format and after some research I've found out that there are no phone apps anymore that will work with Blogger. Apparently Google has been shutting down the ability for apps to connect to their various tools so even apps that state they work with Blogger in fact don't anymore. So, I'm trying to figure out a new way of typing things out and publishing them either later that night or in the coming days.
Anyways, back to dancing. It was a lovely but cool evening tonight for dancing, so it was good to get up and dance to get warmed up. It was even raining later on after the dancing was over, which would be good for all the nearby wildfires.
We had a very loud F-18 fly-by that drowned out our caller Jim Osborne's calling and music for a bit while they did their pass overhead. There must have been two or three of them that went by. Usually we get the C-130 Hercules doing its fly-by, but not tonight. We are in the flight path of the Moffett Federal Air Field and NASA site between Mountain View and Sunnyvale. So, that was our bit of excitement for the night.
Here are the rounds we did this evening:

Pre-Rounds

All That Jazz V FT by Sechrist
Paparazzi V+1U CHA by Kincaid
Right Here Waiting for You V+1+1 RB by Preskitt
You Make My Pants Want to Get Up and Dance IV+2 JV by Hixson
Hernando’s Tango III+1 TG by Ackerman
Laurann IV+2 WZ by Preskitt
Milica III+2 TS/FT by Tikkanen
Tender Waltz II WZ by Trankel/Glider

Square Dance Doubles

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore IV FT by Chico + Come Dance with Me II TS by Smith (me)

Pop Muzik IV CHA by Kaaria + Apassionata II WZ by Oren

Too Many Rivers IV+1 STS by Hooper + Baby’s Got a Hold on Me II+2 TS by Dollar/Galbraith

Breaking Up Jive IV JV by Croft/de Zordo + Dream on Texas Ladies II+2 WZ by Van Atta

Y Bailo III+1+2 CHA by Chadd

Don't forget next week is our Hallowe'en party! See you then if not before! Jim and I will be calling and cueing as usual and it's FREE for everyone, so we should have a lot of spooky and interesting visitors in costume next week.

Welcome Again

Welcome to my new Come Dance With Me 2 blog/website location.
I've successfully managed to manually create most everything before realizing there's a migration tool. So, I'm glad to say I won't have to lose all the old blog posts as I used the migration tool to migrate all those over.


I'm mostly up and running I guess. There will still be lots of tweaks and such to come as I learn more about this tool and what I can and can't do. It's a lot more finicky than WordPress was, but I'll see if there's a more direct way. I found an "app" for my Windows 10 laptop which I can do most of the editing and setup on but I'm hoping to use my phone for day-to-day live posts again.


Anyways, check it out. The content is mostly the same. I hope all the links still work and don't point back to WordPress any more. I tried most of them already, but I'm sure a few will slip through.


Let me know what you think and what you might want to see on it and I'll see what it takes to make it happen. I'm still new at this... :)


Add the link to your bookmarks or favourites (update or remove the old one): https://comedancewithme2.blogspot.com/


See you in a circle or square soon!

Star Eights Oct. 15

The club had a meeting last week and among a few decisions to be made was the round dancing part while we had a class. Historically, there have been no rounds during the class time. This time however, the club decided that we can have rounds throughout the class hours of the evening if the class didn't need the break for something. So, you should see an increase of rounds for the evening. This also allows the class members to take their mind off of what they're learning and dance some easy rounds if they want. Anyways, so here is what we did tonight:


Cab Driver II+1 TS by Hallman
Moon River II WZ by Hartzell
Little Shop of Horrors II TS by Gloodt
Ascot's Rumba III+1 RB by Kennedy
Laurann IV+2 WZ by Preskitt
Luna Cha III+1 CHA by Scott
Smoke Slow Two Step IV+1 STS by Chico
Fireman Two Step II+1 TS by Eddins


See you next week!

Sunnyvale Squares Oct. 12

Here are the rounds we did tonight:

Pre-Rounds:

Right Here Waiting For You V+1+1 RB by Preskitt
Rivière de Lune V+1 WZ by Palmquist
You Make Me Feel So Young V FT by Krol
Lady Marmalade IV+1 CHA by De Chenne
Smoke Slow Two Step IV+1 STS by Chico
You Make My Pants Want to Get Up and Dance IV+2 JV by Hixson
Alicia's Waltz II WX by Foust

Square Dance Doubles:

Mambo Bamboo III+2 MB by Barton + Wrapped Around II TS by Seurer


I Wanta Quickstep III+1 QS by Palmquist + Waltz Magic II WZ by Bassett


Hernando's Tango III+1 TG by Ackerman + Tractor Dance II TS by Seurer


Hello Mary Lou III+2 CHA by Scott + The Poet & I II WZ by Brown


Change Partners III+1 FT by Gardner






See you next week!

Website Ending - What is the Future???

I got the following letter in the mail and then also by email. I will need to figure out what to do with the website contents I have and how to migrate them elsewhere or just give up and let it disappear into the depths of the interwebs...

There are two kinds of information I have on here. Mostly static information like Future Events, Dance Locations and other pages that don't change or get updated so frequently and then there's the blog part where each club or dance I do, I list the program of dances that are done.

I can list the mostly static information on our NCRDTA website under my name, but don't have a way of doing "live" blogging there, so that part would go.

I could move to Blogger, which has the live blogging, but I'll have to look into the static information pages and see what they have. Anyways, it's going to be a big job to transfer everything over to another site, so let me know what you think.

There are other options in the letter below as well. I'm not a web developer, so creating my own website is not something I am able to do or maintain.

Here is the letter:

 

Dear ...,  I am sending this letter to you as a notification that the ROUNDALAB Dance Round Out Your Life (DROYL) website arrangement with RiaFox will be ending in the next few months.  This ROUNDALAB site will continue on another server, but unfortunately will not have the ability of hosting member web-sites on the new server.  The Board of Directors made this decision with great difficulty and discussion. These changes will begin November 30, 2017.  You will need to make arrangements for the continuation of your web-site before this date. We have researched options for the continuation of your web-site. These are listed below: 1. You may contact RiaFox at 13960 West Wainwright Dr, Boise, ID 83713, (208) 321-4140 or at www.RiaFox.com to find out the possibility of continuing with RiaFox as a host for your website and the subsequent cost. This option would make your web-site separate and apart from ROUNDALAB and would be a private contract between you and RiaFox.  Many there can help with this process, but our contact has been Ben. 2.  You could contact another provider for hosting your website.  If you want to attempt to move what you have to another site, you would also need to talk with RiaFox as to how to accomplish this.  Be aware that your new host provider would need to be able to utilize Word Press as this is the program that your website is created with at RiaFox. 3. You could do nothing and allow your website to be deleted. We are sorry to have to take these steps, but the Board of Directors decided this was an action that is in the best interest of ROUNDALAB.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

61st Annual Jubilee Oct. 6-8

The 61st Annual Santa Clara Valley Square Dancers Association Jubilee has wrapped up this afternoon. It was a busy and fun weekend with lots of interesting choreography from Bill Harrison, Andy Allemao and Mike Kellogg calling and Sharon & Casey Parker as the featured cuer. They were all assisted with our local association Top Ten callers as well as local cueing staff.

Here are the rounds that were done during my cueing sessions, spread out between the Plus and Advanced halls over the weekend:

Black Horse & Cherry Tree III+1 CHA by Hattrick

Manuela II WZ by Sobala

Angel Jive III+2 JV by Wagenhoffer

Sittin' On Go II TS by Smith (me)

Pop Goes The Movies III+2 TS/FT/RB by Raye

Carolina Moon III+2 WZ by Rumble

Dancing at Washington Square IV+1 FT/TS/JV by Robertson

Moon River IV+1 WZ by Rumble

Smoke Slow Two Step IV+1 STS by Chico

Last Night Cha III+1 CHA by Speranzo/Slater

Music Box Dancer II+1 TS by Malthouse

Any Dream Will Do III+1 FT by Pinks

Hope to see you at the 62nd Jubilee Oct. 5-7th, 2018.

http://www.scvsda.org/jubilee.html

Star Eights Oct. 8

After a weekend of dancing at the 61st Annual Jubilee festival, our Advanced club is dancing tonight and continuing our class that begun a few weeks ago.

I did the following rounds after the class time was over:

Every Day II TS by Harris

Answer Me III+1 WZ by Palmquist

 

Sunnyvale Squares Oct. 5

Not much to say tonight other than it was a nice evening to be out dancing. It's always lovely evenings here in sunny California. Here is the fun we had tonight for this first Thursday of October and a full moon.

Pre-Rounds:

Sunflower V+2 JV by Tonja
Ain't Misbehavin' V FT/TS by Slater
Right Here Waiting For You V+1+1 RB by Preskitt
Tammy 4 IV+2 WZ by Lawson
Chihuahua IV+1 MB by Scherrer
Au Revoir Paris III+1 WZ by Chadd
Let's Go Hoppin' II+1 TS by Heiny

Square Dance Doubles:

Too Many Rivers IV+1 STS by Hooper + Baby Come Back To Me II+2 TS by Taylor

Tango Mannita III TG by Smith (not me) + It's Four In The Morning II WZ by Mach

My Heart Is An Open Book III+2 FT by Harris + Islands II+1 TS by Slocum

Big Blue Note IV CHA by Speranzo + I'd Fall In Love Tonight II WZ by Speranzo

See you next week!

Star Eights Oct. 1

Welcome to October! It was a busy day today getting ready for a callers meeting and annual potluck barbeque, then off to cue at Star Eights A2. Our class is now two weeks along and doing great! We will accept new students until after the Jubilee next weekend. While we're running our class, we do not do rounds during the class portion of the evening.

Here are the rounds we did during the club portion of the evening:

Louisiana Saturday Night II TS by Tracey

It's In His Kiss III CHA by ???

Moon River II WZ by Hartzell - recently selected as NCRDTA Round of the Month

Getting to Know You IV FT by Prow

Dream Lover III+1 RB by Gill

See you next week after the Jubilee Festival Weekend.