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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 27, 2024 5:13:07 GMT
Bit of a snow day here so did not take outdoor photos. Spent two hours in the yard removing snow and filling bird feeders. Most of our many Christmas cacti are flowering again. These were shot on the dining room table using ambient light coming through the patio doors. Minimal cloning out of unwanted leaves.   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 27, 2024 6:35:09 GMT
These were shot on the dining rook table
As soon as supper is et, the table is cleared and the Rook cards powdered and dealt, and the game is on until the wee hours.
That tiny house is full of "partners" waiting their chance to play the winners; often thirty, forty, or more.
Rook is "High" and they use the Black One as well; and, they turn the top card up on the Widder.
The whole gang chain-smokes; a stranger would think the house was on fire.
There is a cloud of smoke from ceiling to about three feet down; and, it is pouring out the open front door like a chimney - plus coming out the actual chimney as well.
Spend a few minutes in there and you will smell like you have been fighting a forest fire; more than a few minutes and you will have Nicotine cravings the rest of your life. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 27, 2024 15:05:28 GMT
My in-laws have a Dining/Rook table as well. Thanks for the story BuckSkin. This is funny on two counts. 1) Fun story and your description is perfect. I can visualize it. 2) I made a typo and meant to write dining room vs dining rook. I am pleased about the mistake. |
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Post by hmca on Feb 27, 2024 16:24:34 GMT
Beautiful flower images, Clive! Love the orange one.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 27, 2024 18:09:12 GMT
Beautiful flower images, Clive! Love the orange one. Thanks Helen. Agree about the orange one. The background was already darkish but I darkened it more in PSE. And I had placed a small sheet of dark green craft foam a few inches behind the flower to block some clutter. That made for easier processing. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 27, 2024 19:35:23 GMT
your description is perfect. I can visualize it.
After a few minutes in such a house with a whole neighborhood of heavy smokers denned up inside, a deck of cards will get so sticky that you can hardly shuffle or deal them; and, being so sticky, they are easily bent.
Three, four times a night, when they have became so sticky that you can't turn loose of them, the whole deck is put in a big zip-loc bag along with about half-a-can of Talcum Powder, the kind that causes cancer if you live in California --- we don't live in California so we should be all right --- the bag of powder and cards is given a vigorous and thorough shaking and they are good to go for a while longer. |
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Post by jackscrap on Feb 27, 2024 23:06:00 GMT
I love these flowers, had to go out and see what my plant was up to, sadly nothing yet, usually flower in the middle of the year here. Then I had to google what the card game Rook was, enjoyed BuckSkin’s story. |
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Post by Jim on Feb 27, 2024 23:09:48 GMT
we don't live in California so we should be all right  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 27, 2024 23:19:24 GMT
Then I had to google what the card game Rook was,
I didn't think there was a human alive that hadn't ever played Rook. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 27, 2024 23:33:44 GMT
You're just kidding..., right ...? Me too. I might have heard the name but no idea what rook is. we don't live in California so we should be all right What Jim said! Too funny.  |
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Post by jackscrap on Feb 28, 2024 2:51:32 GMT
Then I had to google what the card game Rook was,
I didn't think there was a human alive that hadn't ever played Rook.No, I never kid about card games. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 28, 2024 3:15:06 GMT
I never kid about card games.
A new set of Rook cards have four colors, each containing cards 1 thru 14, plus a Rook.
For whatever reason, you always discard the 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4,s.
5s are worth five points; 10s and 14s are worth ten points; Black One is twenty points and Rook is thirty points for a total of 150 points.
Plain old cards have four suits of thirteen cards.
Let the Aces be the 14s.
Remove the 2s, 3s, and 4s and designate one of these to be the Rook and another to be the Black One and you have yourself a set of Rook cards. |
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