It was a wonderfully, balmy night. October is finally getting out of the 100's and the evenings are simply marvelous. Jennie was at the house with growling stomach waiting for dinner to be ready. Gaye was just getting ready to begin cooking when the phone rang. Actually, my phone rang. Not the house phone. Not Gaye's phone. My phone rang. I never get calls. I get texts but not real people wanting to talk. So, of course, I snatched it out of it's holder to discover who would be so bold.
The caller was none other than Mom and she was inviting us to come over for dinner and game night. And just in the nick of time!
The caller was none other than Mom and she was inviting us to come over for dinner and game night. And just in the nick of time!
Off we all went, over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we went. Dinner, of course, was just delicious - but I guess not memorable because I can't remember what it was. But it was good. Then they brought out a new game. It comes in a package that looks amazingly like a banana and is called, "Banana Grams".
It is played like individual Scrabble. There are a bunch of tiles with letters but no point values. They all get turned over upside down and mixed up. Everyone takes 15. At the signal, everyone turns their tiles over and begins their own build of the crossword formation. When someone has used all of their tiles they call "Peel" and everyone takes another tile. If someone has a tile they can't get rid of they call "Scrub" and they put it back and exchange the one tile for three others.
The winner is determined by the person who finishes first after all of the tiles are gone. Play continues as long as you want and then the winnings for each person are tallied and the person with the most wins is the champion.
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