My leukemia's back.

[donrae]

We've done UNO and Phase 10, and Skip-Bo. Those are all good, but we keep losing cards

Honey is so uncreative when playing Scrabble. He won't let us spell words backwards. Sugar Monkey and I are very fluid on our rules when it's just the two of us

 

[N F C]

Scrabble is great, DH & I play that a lot. Dominoes are fun too (and no cards to lose

)

 

[Blooie]

Little Diane got me hooked on Phase 10. Now Katie, Evan and I play it whenever we can. We also love to play 10,000. Trivia Pursuit is another one that my South Dakota family plays when we get together. You'd think after so many years a lot of the answers would be kinda remembered by now, but nope.....except for one. Everyone in my family knows that Thomas Gainsborough painted Blue Boy and we'll never forget that one!!

Ma was an amazing woman - clear cheerful blue eyes, a ready laugh, exceptional cook, and the most loving woman I've ever known. Um, but Ma wasn't real bright. She never finished the 6th grade in school, and if you remember Gracie Allen and George Burns then you knew Ma and Dad. One time I came home from school, full of the tidbits of information I learned in my home-ec class and ready to show off my superior knowledge of all things food. While we were making a salad for supper, I said, "Do you know that even lettuce contains trace amounts of iron?" She kept cutting 'maters and thought about it for minute. Finally she said, "Hmmmm, no wonder it rusts so easy in the refrigerator." Yeah, that was Ma.

So we used to play Trivia as a family in pairs. Bless Ma's heart, we took the game pretty seriously and nobody wanted to be her partner. But she loved it and she's usually the one who suggested it for an activity. Rule was first answer said out loud counted, and she would blurt out some of the worst answers ever. (Bet you didn't know that Henry Ford invented the Kitchen Aid mixer.) <sigh> She was finally getting the hang of whispering what she thought might be the answer to her partner first, but didn't always remember. So this night she was Linda's husband Russ' partner and the question was "Who painted Blue Boy?" She blurted out "Thomas Gainsborough" as loud as can be. Russ dropped his head on the table and Ma got up to go up to use the bathroom. Dad flipped the card over. Yep, it was Thomas Gainsborough! Dad said, "LaVonne, you GOT it!!" Ma just smiled over her shoulder at him.

She came back down, sat in her chair and then said, "While I was sitting up there I kept wondering, 'How did I know that?' but I think I remember where I heard it....on the Gong show." Man, I miss that remarkable lady!!

Oh, as far as the rinse for Pulmicort, I was told plain water....

 

[Bunnylady]

Blooie, have you ever heard of a game called Mad Libs? It's basically a few paragraphs on a certain subject, with key words left out of the sentences. If a person knows what a noun or a verb is, they can be called on to fill in the blanks, and the more random the word choices, the funnier it gets. It sounds like your mother would have been brilliant at it.

(At our house, we still sometimes get a giggle remembering a game almost 40 years ago that involved " . . . . a deluxe, 3-speed chicken!")

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Little Diane got me hooked on Phase 10. Now Katie, Evan and I play it whenever we can. We also love to play 10,000. Trivia Pursuit is another one that my South Dakota family plays when we get together. You'd think after so many years a lot of the answers would be kinda remembered by now, but nope.....except for one. Everyone in my family knows that Thomas Gainsborough painted Blue Boy and we'll never forget that one!! Ma was an amazing woman - clear cheerful blue eyes, a ready laugh, exceptional cook, and the most loving woman I've ever known. Um, but Ma wasn't real bright. She never finished the 6th grade in school, and if you remember Gracie Allen and George Burns then you knew Ma and Dad. One time I came home from school, full of the tidbits of information I learned in my home-ec class and ready to show off my superior knowledge of all things food. While we were making a salad for supper, I said, "Do you know that even lettuce contains trace amounts of iron?" She kept cutting 'maters and thought about it for minute. Finally she said, "Hmmmm, no wonder it rusts so easy in the refrigerator." Yeah, that was Ma. So we used to play Trivia as a family in pairs. Bless Ma's heart, we took the game pretty seriously and nobody wanted to be her partner. But she loved it and she's usually the one who suggested it for an activity. Rule was first answer said out loud counted, and she would blurt out some of the worst answers ever. (Bet you didn't know that Henry Ford invented the Kitchen Aid mixer.) She was finally getting the hang of whispering what she thought might be the answer to her partner first, but didn't always remember. So this night she was Linda's husband Russ' partner and the question was "Who painted Blue Boy?" She blurted out "Thomas Gainsborough" as loud as can be. Russ dropped his head on the table and Ma got up to go up to use the bathroom. Dad flipped the card over. Yep, it was Thomas Gainsborough! Dad said, "LaVonne, you GOT it!!" Ma just smiled over her shoulder at him. She came back down, sat in her chair and then said, "While I was sitting up there I kept wondering, 'How did I know that?' but I think I remember where I heard it....on the Gong show." Man, I miss that remarkable lady!! Oh, as far as the rinse for Pulmicort, I was told plain water....

That reminds me of the time my daughter was on a local television show called "High School Bowl" it was a student competition trivia show...... They asked who invented the geodesic dome. No one knew..... Except my daughter when she blurted out the answer..... Everyone just looked totally shocked.

 

[Blooie]

 

[N F C]

Good morning all

 

[sourland]

Hope the week end went well for everyone.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Slow here..... Hope that's a good thing

 

[N F C]

Hi Phil!