BACKGAMMON!

 We have been enjoying backgammon! The winner plays the next guy, etc!  Nyki cheers us on but would love nothing better than swiping one of those pieces into the pool!

Friday Finish and Flowers

 Now all this top needs is to be layered and quilted--it will happen soon, I hope!

I only had to rip out three little units ;

I really had to watch what I was doing!

 Anyone ever play this game?!  

Bill actually played a game with me at lunch time, of course, he won!

But it felt good to play.

(the board is how you keep score for Cribbage)

 This is the Mother's Day gift that has kept on giving....a beautiful red Canna Lily with some shrimp plant flowers in the background.  It sits right outside my bedroom window in the lanai.

And for the additional sense--jasmine in full bloom that makes the whole front yard smell tropical!

Try the scratch and sniff--it just might work!

Spinners (dominoes not wheels!)

This is a new-to-us game called Spinners. It is a domino game that only includes the math when you have to add up your tiles at the end of each hand. We had a lot of fun but generally need little reason to share laughs in our family!

Little sister and family left this morning. My daughter and hers left yesterday...goodbyes are so hard.

But......hellos are nice and I have one today from my youngest son. I hit the cooking trail-big dinner, cookies and rolls are all standard visit fare for him. I don't love kitchen duties but I do love to do what pleases my guys and like their father, food is important! At least in this home, the kitchen is open to the living area so I am not cut-off from the visit while I am cooking-makes kitchen-time family-time, too, and that I love!

As far as handwork goes, this is what I knit in the few spare moments over the past week or so. It is the hand spun merino/silk blend and it is the first in a pair of socks. It is a nice pattern but just enough counting so that I can't knit while in a crowd! I didn't mind less time knitting when I could replace it with family time.