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Rep Retirement Lodge #171: On Turkeys.

Rep Retirement Lodge #171: On Turkeys.

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St. Clown said:
How old/what grade is he in now? Would Connect Four be something he'd like? It's using checker pieces to place into slots, an expanded tic-tac-toe game, essentially. I was going to mention Monopoly, but I'm not sure they make an edition using large pieces. Would Sorry! work for him? A lot of the board games I liked either had small pieces or were for what I expect to be an older age than what little g is. (Risk or Stratego, for instance). Is teaching him chess an option? I don't know his limitations, if the board would be too much or if it's grasping the pieces or just a simple lack of interest in it. I grew up with a huge chess board with commensurately large chess pieces. I always liked it, but I think my youngest brother ended up with it when my dad died.
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Little g is seven. He has connect four and it's not much of an issue for him. Sorry! Should be ok as well. Chess...........I have never taken even one second to learn it. Maybe now is the time.

Have any of you played or know about the game called Ticket to Ride?
 
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If you'd like to drive everyone else in the house crazy, get him Whac-A-Mole.

Seriously, me and my wife and our two kids all played that for HOURS. :D It ain't chess, though. :o



EDIT!!! -- A quick check online, and I'm not sure this is in stores anymore. Four crazy moles wearing hardhats, and four big plastic mallets. Hmmm. Sorry if I've suggested something unavailable.
 
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I liked Monopoly from a single-digit age, Clue a little latter (including the silly storybooks). Despite an interest, I never had the drive to figure out chess.

From teen years on-going, I was (and am) a card shark. I love hand & foot/ponytail canasta. Will play poker when it's offered. Blackjack = "simplest" and greatest card game ever. :D
 
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Anyone who plays euchre isn't playing with a full deck.

/came out of the womb knowing to never trump your partner's ace
 
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Sonofabea----!!!!!! Just stubbed all of the little toes on my foot out in the kitchen. then about gave myself a cramp in the hamstrings while I was hopping around in pain. Let that be a lesson to you kids. turn on the light when you wanna go fix yourself a snack in the kitchen.
 
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St C: what others said about blurting out wrong things unintentionally, and also the keeping in touch. Ran into a LOT of that with my SIL's and gpa's passing in the past few months.

Games? Connect Four is always awesome, and when in doubt: Candyland and Chutes And Ladders are always classics. I still love playing them with my nieces. Monopoly is simple enough to play, but to master it (in theory) you have to be an adult. ;)

Chinese Checkers, maybe? Simple to learn.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Sonofabea----!!!!!! Just stubbed all of the little toes on my foot out in the kitchen. then about gave myself a cramp in the hamstrings while I was hopping around in pain. Let that be a lesson to you kids. turn on the light when you wanna go fix yourself a snack in the kitchen.
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Or, you know, don't kick the refrigerator...
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Or, you know, don't kick the refrigerator...
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Actually, when the pain subsided, I saw that I had hit it on the little step ladder that mom uses to get some of the stuff on the top shelves. It was left right where the tile meets the wood laminate floor and it caught on the strip of molding in between the two floors. :p
 
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My sympathy too, clown.

leswp1 said:
I had a patient who was in rabbi school and she told me the Jewish tradition she grew up with was so sit Shiva for a week and then go to the Synagogue every AM for a whole yr in remembrance. She said that way you met people every day in all stages of grief. THat is a lot of synagogue but I bet people are more well versed in what to say or not.
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That is exactly correct although I am not that religious.
 
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Still awake. Tried sleeping and failed, figured I could study a little more. I'm really badly in need of a vacation.
 
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Pecan pie in the oven. Hoping it comes out OK. My cousin, who passed this past summer, always made it. I have the recipe but have never seen it made except on You Tube. After that is the apple pie, the sweet potato casserole and setting out the table. Was so paranoid because I had to go out last night to PTO that I think I am actually ahead of the game.
 
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Good Morning Lodge.

A little worried about brining the turkey tonight. It's not usually this cold on Thanksgiving eve. Afraid that the bucket of brine with the turkey in it will freeze on the porch or in the garage.
 
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morning.

Working from home today to avoid the weather and commute the day before a major holiday.
 
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