JUST THOUGHTS and SUCH....June 5th

Today’s a short reading day. 

I remember the first card game I learned to play, Old Maid.  I always cried that I seem to end up with it time after time.  In a funny way it reminds me of getting the queen of spades in the card game hearts. I enjoyed playing old maid with my aunt; I also remember a child’s rummy game too.  Now I play card games on my iPhone; Hearts, Spades, Pitch, Solitaire and Free Cell are the apps I have.  Free Cell is a challenge to me.  I am doing this game in numeric order.  According to what I read some place there are over 10,000 possible combinations.   I don’t play more than a few games a day so at the moment I am up to over 2,000.  It was my husband who got me hooked to play Free Cell as he played it of course on the computer.  Now it seems he doesn’t play it that often.  I am on a rain kick for poems; with it being National Cognac Day I wanted to use cognac in a poem (a challenge and prompt) piece.  My husband likes to challenge me with writing something with certain theme using certain words in certain time frame.  He thought it funny to mention cognac and rain in the same piece. 

Well Phase 2 of re-opening our state will begin tomorrow.  Should be interesting to see all who will be flocking to their favorite watering holes.  Me, I plan to still practice caution. 

Until next time....It’s NATIONAL HUG YOUR CAT Day; I don’t have one but I’m hoping my neighbor’s cat, Tom, stops by.  After all the cat and I shared wine on Drink Wine with Your Cat Day awhile back. 

   

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 June 4th....DAILY REFLECTIONS 

   It’s NATIONAL OLD MAIDS DAY today.....

      I played Old Maid card game as a kid....

         first card game I learned

It brings back happy memories of the aunt 

     who taught me to play....everyone 

      thought she’d be an old maid....she was 

             not 

I always wondered if she taught her kids the 

    game....I always got the old maid 

    card....like I now always end up with the 

    Queen of Spades in the card game 

           Hearts 

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            RAINY SPRING EVENING 

            ©   Scottie-ann Murphy 

Lightning bolts across the sky 

    Thunder rumbles in the distance

       Lights flash off and on 

Rain pitter-patters upon the tin roof 

Serenading us on a warm spring evening 

   Flickering lights a warning sign 

    to light the hurricane lamps

         ready the candles 

Safe are we....side by side on the old faded 

      divan

Listening to mellow music from an old 

      transistor 

Making plans for our tomorrows

  As we sip snifters of cognac 

     At the cottage by the lake