Snow!
When we left home Saturday morning it was snowing wet snow, but we had, made it more than 15 minutes south before that switched to blended snow and rain, and by the time we reached David's parent's house (45 min south of us) it was more rain than snow and it mostly rained for much of Christmas Eve. Luckily, as evening came in the temperature dropped enough that it switched to a wet snow and we had almost 1 cm accumulation of snow that froze to the underlying ice so that walking was nice and easy. Then yesterday was clear and colder, so that this morning when it clouded up again it started snowing real snow, and I am much happier to see it. I took a cute photo of one of their out buildings (the one from the late 1700'), I will try to remember to post it next time I am on line on a computer (can't do it from my phone).
Yesterday we had fun playing när då då?(when was it then?), a fun triva game wherin each person starts with a randomy drawn card with a date on it. In your turn you roll to pick a catagory and then get a question about when something happened. One must say either before or after the card one has. If one is correct one gets that card with its date and, if one wishes may roll again. The next question one must decide if the when is before one's oldest date, between the two, or after one's most recent date. If course, the more cards one has the harder it is because there are more bracketing dates to choose from. One's turn ends when either one is wrong (in which case one loses all of the cards obtained this turn), or when one decides to lock in the card or cards one has gained this turn by passing on the dice. The game procedes till one person (or team) gets 10 cards. If one team gets a question wrong the next team gets a try at that card without rolling the dice, which can be easier as one now knows one time interval during which that event didn't happen. If they get it wrong the next team also gets a chance and so on around the ring. This means that it is possible that one gets a second chance at a card one missed on the first try, so it is important to pay attention to the guesses of the others. Once someone finally gets the problem card it sits in their unlocked zone till there next turn (when they can decide to just lock it to thier timeline and pass the dice, or roll and try to earn another card (or more) and risk losing it). No matter which team finally gets the problem card, once someone has the game sequence returns to them which should have been next.
Yesterday we had fun playing när då då?(when was it then?), a fun triva game wherin each person starts with a randomy drawn card with a date on it. In your turn you roll to pick a catagory and then get a question about when something happened. One must say either before or after the card one has. If one is correct one gets that card with its date and, if one wishes may roll again. The next question one must decide if the when is before one's oldest date, between the two, or after one's most recent date. If course, the more cards one has the harder it is because there are more bracketing dates to choose from. One's turn ends when either one is wrong (in which case one loses all of the cards obtained this turn), or when one decides to lock in the card or cards one has gained this turn by passing on the dice. The game procedes till one person (or team) gets 10 cards. If one team gets a question wrong the next team gets a try at that card without rolling the dice, which can be easier as one now knows one time interval during which that event didn't happen. If they get it wrong the next team also gets a chance and so on around the ring. This means that it is possible that one gets a second chance at a card one missed on the first try, so it is important to pay attention to the guesses of the others. Once someone finally gets the problem card it sits in their unlocked zone till there next turn (when they can decide to just lock it to thier timeline and pass the dice, or roll and try to earn another card (or more) and risk losing it). No matter which team finally gets the problem card, once someone has the game sequence returns to them which should have been next.