Social distancing is turning into social isolation. To keep my sanity, I’ve been trying to find new ways to play with old friends. Like making up new games to play on zoom video conferences and WhatsApp group chats. Here’s one: an endless game of “picture UNO.”
My sister is going to teach me how to play Settlers of Catan together using zoom video conferencing.
I found a surprisingly well done website for multi-player card games like pinochle; it’s called trickstercards.com. You can play in a browser or on a mobile device using their app. Tonight we played 4-handed pinochle with Doray and Tom from our respective bunkers.
Happy Champagne Day!! My calendar tags August 4th every year for this bubbly celebration. Google also lists various other champagne-related days in October and December. I, for one, will celebrate them all!
We sipped as we played a few rounds of pinochle with these nifty vintage cards – found in the time capsule.
We headed down to our nearby pub after work to grab dinner while playing a few rounds of cards with Tom and Doray. This hand was typical of most of mine all night. “I pass.”
We met Doray & Tom at BB Rover’s tonight for dinner and to play a few rounds of pinochle. The ladies won a tightly contested best-of-three match.
Today is the last day of winter. Spring will officially be upon us at 12:14 AM local time tomorrow morning.
I have a couple of unrelated other shots I wanted to post… one is of a deer that has taken to laying outside the guest bedroom window. He’s got an injured foreleg, and has been back here a couple of times. This shot is from the bedroom window. He’s only inches away. Forgive the crummy shot through the solar screen on the window. You get the idea.
Oh deer!
And this is a shot of a bunch of Texas Mountain Laurel seeds that I harvested from a bush growing in the greenbelt when we were there on Saturday afternoon. I looked online to learn how to prepare the seeds for germination. These seeds are from last season, they are hard and red and have shrunk a bit. Conventional wisdom says to knick them and then soak them till they swell a bit, and then plant them about an inch deep. The little dimples on the seeds in the picture below are where I cut through the shell of the seed. The seeds soaked for about 8 hours, so they are plumped up a bit from when I knicked them. I’ve got these guys in pots in the back room now so that I can tend them. I hope they take! We want to plant a bunch of mountain laurels along the back fence line. I’ll let you know how they turn out… FYI these are supposed to be poisonous, so if you try this at home… don’t eat them 🙂
Texas Mountain Laurel seeds.
There is rain in the forecast…it’s been slow getting here. But as I type this post, there’s a big red line just moving into our area. I’ll have to sign off now to watch the weather channel (my favorite).
Sheila365 