{"id":94117,"date":"2026-02-22T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=94117"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:11:10","slug":"94117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=94117","title":{"rendered":"The Electric Slide Was Shocking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94118\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94118\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94118\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-001.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-001-650x897.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-001-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-001-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-001-100x138.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary woke up in a rare mood.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today should be pretty slow\u2014unless you count the Santa Ana Elks Lodge Line Dancing Class, where we signed up with Dianne to learn some new steps.<\/p>\n<p>After a cup of coffee and a few chores around the house (aka my brief attempt at being a responsible adult), we headed to the Santa Ana Elks to meet Dianne and line dance\u2014because nothing says &#8220;quiet day&#8221; like aggressively stepping to the left in perfect unison with a room full of people who definitely know the counts.\u00a0 Look out, toes!<\/p>\n<p>We had lunch in the McCalla Lounge first and then went into the ballroom for the class, which, I must say, I enjoyed.\u00a0 I finally remembered two of the steps I used to do many years ago and am ready to face the music the next time we go out and about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94120\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-002.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I refreshed myself on the Electric Slide and then again learned The Black Velvet Line Dance when Mary was on the floor, and I was at the side of the room, carefully watching.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Velvet Line Dance\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_PELRa0cFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When class was over around 3:00 pm, we headed home to do some serious hot tubbing!\u00a0 We had to say goodbye to the Daddy Elks in the lobby!\u00a0 Rumor has it that he is very horny!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94123\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94123\" class=\"wp-image-94123 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-004.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-004-650x867.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-004-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-004-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-004-100x133.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notice the Elk is looking the other way!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rumor has it that if you stare at the Elks too long, you can be transformed almost instantly.\u00a0 \u00a0I overheard Dianne say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t mind me\u2014I&#8217;m just branching out.&#8221; Then, Mary said, &#8220;If you&#8217;ve got it, flaunt it (especially if it&#8217;s velvet).&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94132\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94132\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-011.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-011-650x867.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-011-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-011-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-011-100x133.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s a long story!!\u00a0 Perhaps I should give you some\u00a0 &#8220;pointers&#8221;!\u00a0 NOTE!\u00a0 Being a child-friendly site prevents me from saying they both have nice racks!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Long-time friends, over a quarter-century, are so important in life.\u00a0 Shared values beat shared hobbies over time.\u00a0 Interests can change; how someone treats you (and others) is the real glue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94124\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94124\" class=\"wp-image-94124 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-005.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-005-650x867.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-005-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-005-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-005-100x133.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary and Dianne, the Dynamic Duo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I met Dianne almost twenty years ago at a dance, probably on the Queen Mary, but I had no idea that she and Mary were very close friends.\u00a0 It was a pleasant surprise to discover this relationship; Dianne is kinda like the little sister I never had!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94125\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94125\" class=\"wp-image-94125 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-006.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-006-650x867.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-006-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-006-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-006-100x133.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be careful of the Elk, he is listening.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One more picture of us cowboy wanna-be&#8217;s!\u00a0 It looks like the movie poster for &#8220;<em>Beauty And The Beast Go West<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Oh yes, the beast is the one in black!<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all behave\u2026 I&#8217;ve got Spurs.\u00a0 \u00a0I mentioned to Mary, my hat&#8217;s bigger than my problems.\u00a0 Then Mary replied, &#8220;I always wanted to be a professional fence inspector or a &#8216;Certified yee-haw specialist.&#8221; We <span class=\"s1\">moseyed out of the lodge, holding hands, toward where we parked the hoss we rode in on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94126\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94126\" class=\"wp-image-94126 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-007.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-007-650x867.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-007-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-007-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-007-100x133.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just enjoying life.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once in the saddle and convincing The Silver Fox he was NOT a horse, we headed straight home and sank into the hot tub for a blissful 45-minute reset\u2014equal parts unwind and &#8220;gear up&#8221; for the night&#8217;s adventures.\u00a0 While soaking in the 95-degree water, we got practical: made a chores list and mapped out the week.\u00a0 And the best part?\u00a0 We&#8217;re counting down to Wednesday at South Coast Repertory with Greg and his lady!<\/p>\n<p>While preparing the Daily Diary for this day, I ran across a picture of Mary from when we went to One-Hung-Lo&#8217;s Chinese Restaurant a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Mary always likes to dress the part.\u00a0 As we started toward the restaurant, I told Mary, \u201cWok this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94127\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94127\" class=\"wp-image-94127 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-008.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-008.png 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-008-650x1029.png 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-008-95x150.png 95w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-008-768x1216.png 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-008-100x158.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;What&#8217;s on the menu today?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Returning to civilization, we landed in the Living\/TV Room and watched &#8220;Suits&#8221; until 11:00 pm.\u00a0 I did NOT realize that after nine seasons, the show was canceled, but a new series, Suits-LA, was unveiled and lasted only one season; it lacked the chemistry of the original.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94128\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-009.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-009-650x606.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-009-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-009-768x716.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-22-009-100x93.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today should be pretty slow\u2014unless you count the Santa Ana Elks Lodge Line Dancing Class, where we signed up with Dianne to learn some new steps. After a cup of coffee and a few chores around the house (aka my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=94117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,235,17,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing","category-elks","category-friends","category-working-around-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94117"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94135,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94117\/revisions\/94135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}