SPRING BREAK, SCRABBLE

Spring Break, a scrabble day!

We're also fated to have company on our Spring Break days; NICE.  

This time Clint and Jessica came over with Miss Lilly and Master Jacob.  They're so lively.  Miss Lilly squeezes between her mother and brother to get to me, "I win!  I win!" she grins, getting hello hugs and squeezes.  So, I twirl the winner, "Whee!"

Earlier in the day, a lot earlier, about six-thirty in the morning actually, I'd weeded two flower beds.  The rectangle bed by the fence got weeded, the flower bushes got trimmed, and the small green yew bushes got a good shaping.  

But the saplings were too much for me.  Since Clint arrived I enjoyed watching him heave and dig.  Up by the roots they came.  One year old Master Jacob enjoyed it, too.  He kept his eye on the shovel and when his dad dropped it, he dropped his toy, toddled up and grabbed the handle, LOL.

Piper, the cat, enjoyed my weeding of the iris bed.  She crouched lower than the sprouted blades and did some stalking.  When she snuck off behind me, I tossed weeds at her.  She likes a little bit of a tease.  She came rubbing against my pant legs to prove she was happy to play.

Scrabbling with some weeds, scrabbling in dirt, and scrabbling kitty antics naturally leads to playing a board game of Scrabble with hubby, right?

Unlike the game of Aggravation, this is one game I can sometimes win!

It was a horrible struggle.  My first set of tiles were 6 vowels and one consonant, an X of all things!  So, I complain, "Look at this!"  

Hubby chuckles, "WOW!  E, I, E, I, O!"

My only hope is to take over the special squares -- double, triple, etc.  So the word "equate" on a triple letter square got me 31 points!  Yay!

Then he plays the word "zoos" on a double word square which crosses another word netting 35 points!  Oh, boy he's keeping me on my toes.

Just as I landed on a triple word square, Clint came in.

"Look, John, Clint's here!"

Clint chuckles, "She distracted you so she could get more points."  Clint mimics me in a little girl voice, "See that!  See that!"

Boom!  My tiles are down. I win!  296 to 248!  I had to scrabble to do it, LOL, not a landslide, but like Miss Lilly said, "I win!  I win!"