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Coffee At Steve’s Country #67.
Good morning everyone and Happy Monday! It’s another beautiful morning here and you’re just in time to have some coffee and join Muffin and I for awhile and relax. Muffin is really looking forward to seeing you all again today (so am I) and sitting here checking her little list to see who she will sit with today. She likes to be organized so she doesn’t miss someone. Good thing one of us is organized around here. I kind of do things sort of, at random. Probably not the best way to do things, but it works. Hmm, Muffin is rolling her eyes again. Saturday night she woke me saying it’s time for breakfast. Already? I get up, feels like I just went to bed. I look at the clock. 11 pm. I just went to bed at 10 pm. No wonder I’m still tired. It’s not time for breakfast I told her. Okay, she says, midnight snack then, let’s go. She actually was hungry and finished off her food rather quickly.
Let’s Look at More Games Today:
The Game of Finance. This is a Parker Brothers game that came out in 1932 and actually has some aspects to it that are similar to Monopoly (which we will look at another day). You travel around the board buying properties on which you collect rent from other players in the game. Plus you can add houses onto the properties to increase the rent that other players must pay. There are squares that say ‘chance’ and a person can pick up a chance card where you can collect money, pay money, move around the board and other things. The player with the most money/property at the end wins the game. It quickly became a very popular game and continued until the 1970s as a popular board game. My game is from 1958.
Peter Coddles Trip to New York. This is not your usual type game but is more of a story game. There are no winners or losers in this game. It is a story of a genuine country man that goes on a trip to New York City and can’t believe all that he sees there. It came out on about 1880 and went through several updates until 1936. Basically there is a story booklet and a bunch of cards with various words and phrases on them. One person reads the story and when that person comes to a blank then one other player fills in that blank with one of the cards he has. Cards are always face down so they don’t know what is there, they just read whichever is on the top card. It makes for a comical story and everyone has a lot of laughs. Mine is from the early 1900’s making it my oldest game. Well, I hope you enjoyed another look at a couple of my games today. Have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Coffee At Steve’s Country #66.
Good morning everyone! The coffee is hot so just help yourself to a cup and relax for a few minutes. It’s another beautiful start to the day, we are really getting spoiled with this early look at spring weather. But it sure is nice so I won’t complain about it. And today we have a strong south wind to really help melt that snow a little faster. I’m a little earlier today so that means I’m a bit earlier than the birds even though it is daylight already. But they don’t have to get at the food quite so quickly now with the warmer weather, they can take their time, perhaps sleep in a bit, or whatever else they do before coming here for their breakfast.
I spent time just sitting on the deck yesterday afternoon enjoying the warm sunshine. And it does get quite a bit warmer on my deck than elsewhere. The wall of the house really radiates the heat and with no wind it can be several degrees warmer on my deck than the actual temperature. This weather could start waking up some of our sleeping critters. Yesterday morning I could very strongly smell the skunk, so they are now awake again. I’m sure the raccoons won’t be far behind, which will mean I will have to start bringing the bird feeders in at night again too. I should probably start doing it before they show up and break something.
They have broken more than enough of my hanging bird feeders the last 5 years. If they wouldn’t break the feeders I wouldn’t mind having them around. Muffin was scared of them at first, but not anymore. When she fought that one through the window and he fell over backwards onto the deck, it gave her renewed courage. I wonder what she really thinks of them? Perhaps thinking they are long haired cats? She wouldn’t actually want to meet up with one though, those critters can fight when they need to. Usually they prefer to just leave. To be honest, I’m surprised they haven’t been around yet. Then, of course, there’s the guy with the black fur coat. But we won’t talk about him right now. I hope you all have a nice sunny Sunday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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