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Morning Coffee Time #53.
Good morning everyone and Happy Monday to you as well! The coffee is ready for you so please help yourself and sit down with us while we spend some relaxing time today. It is a beautiful day and a bit of a mixed day for weather. We had a dusting of light snow early this morning, then sunshine, followed by a shower of snow pellets and back to a vivid blue sky and sunshine once more. Now more clouds are showing up and we are supposed to get some showers this afternoon with a high temp of 41F (5C) so I should be able to get that ice off my deck today which would be very nice indeed. And it should be a nice day for another walk to the river this afternoon too. Feels just like spring, but no, it isn’t spring yet, but it gives a nice break and reminds us that spring is coming, sometime.
Now for some games:
The above game more commonly known as Snakes and Ladders was actually invented in India sometime back around the second century AD. It was first brought back to England back in the 1800’s and changed slightly and from there it was introduced to other countries. Milton Bradley introduced it to the United States about 1943 as Chutes and Ladders. That name was used here too as well as the name Ups and Downs. This particular game is from 1920 It became immensely popular especially for younger children. This game was often sold with other games, in this case Parcheesi which is an adaptation of a game from India called Pachisi, but there are differences. Parcheesi was invented in the U.S. during the 1850’s and first sold commercially around 1870 and it also became a very popular game for all ages. There have been other similar type games sold over the years as well.
Wink Tennis: This particular game I have is from 1956, apparently the year it first came out. Based on the old Tiddly winks game (or Tiddledy winks) but adapted as a table tennis game. The “wink” is attached by a string so it can’t be lost and you just flip it back and forth like table tennis. A game for 2 to 4 players and I can imagine it could get quite lively! It does work good and I would say it could be a lot of fun. Well, I hope you enjoyed another look at 3 more games and there are still more to come! Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Morning Coffee time #52.
Good morning and Happy Sunday to all of you! The coffee and tea are ready for you, please help yourself to a cup, or two, and relax with Muffin and I for a few minutes. It’s a beautiful morning, a few clouds blocking the sun at the moment, but lots of blue sky around. And it’s mild again today, right now the temp is 14F (-10C), with a high today expected to be 28F (-2C), that’s getting into spring temps! This doesn’t mean that spring is here, however, but it’s definitely a welcome change for a few days. The chickadees were here bright and early singing their spring song again and coming for food before I have a chance to put it on the feeder, landing on the rim of the plastic cup I use for the sunflower seeds.
The blue jays were half an hour earlier this morning and there is 6 of them today, busy going after the peanuts and calling loudly back and forth to each other. The downy was the first of the woodpeckers to show up, but the hairy was here very shortly after and chased the downy from the suet feeder. So he flew up into the tree for a bit, then came back down to the other suet feeder. There are two feeders, just for such an occasion. It seems no matter which one the downy is at, if one of the hairy woodpeckers show up they will chase the downy away. Much like the way people do things sometimes.
The nuthatches seem to be enjoying the milder weather too. They don’t have to work so hard to get the suet. In that cold weather the suet was frozen hard as ice and those little nuthatches really had to pound at it to get some food. It’s still frozen, but not so hard, so it’s easier for them. There are a few redpolls around again, but still no sign of the evening grosbeaks. I haven’t seen the Canada jays around for a few days either, guess they are busy with nest building now, the female could be sitting on eggs by this time. Some more bright flowers are here to enjoy today, have a sunny Sunday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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