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House, Games
Jun. 20th, 2022 03:07 pmHouse:
There's someone scheduled to pick up the mirror on the 25th.
Ev was there too much of yesterday, and it was miserable. She was just waiting there to sign for the new door from Lowe's (not sure which new door this is: she needs one leading into the garage, and also the front door situation is Really Something) and it was over four hours late, and she wasn't prepared for that. The water was too cold to drink, and she didn't have the kind of food she wanted and she was hungry.
It's probably time to make sure there's a filter pitcher over there, and more nut bars. (I keep bringing miscellaneous food with me, because what if we need snacks, and every now and then some of it gets eaten by not-us. Which is also why it's there.)
Painting is scheduled, and I have a light-fixture-taking-down party in the calendar.
Games yesterday weren't in the calendar, but I had a Feeling and I insisted that we do shopping on Saturday so we were available. J & P are ramping up the preparations for foster kids -- they don't know what age group, so they're getting supplies for a number of ages. We played Kids Against Maturity, which skews to bodily function humor and more innuendo than I'm actually comfortable with in a kids' game. (It's not BAD but it's apparently not for any of us, though some would work well in a curated deck of any other similar games.)
Rayne-kitty came out to say hello and sniff my bag, and I got a finger-sniff or two.
We started out with Cascadia. Fun, but there was apparently a big points-split at the end. P & I were within a couple points of each other, and Belovedest & J were within a similar range of each other.
The whole concept is habitats and the species that live there. You start out with three hexagons of habitat (hexagons are one or two habitats at a time). Each hexagon tile is marked with what species can live there. (This varies per tile: it's not as simple as saying that salmon can only live in the River habitat or whatever.) You then get to pick from four choices of 1 tile plus 1 animal, with an option to spend "nature points" and swap them up if you need a salmon but there's a bear that goes with the tile you need.
You can put your tiles pretty much anywhere that's connected to another tile, but you get bonus points at the end if you have contiguous runs of the same land type connected.
Scoring for the animal discs is variable. In setup, we select layouts for each type of animal. The previous time, elks were supposed to be in straight lines only; this time they were in groups of up to four in a diamond shape. Previously, salmon runs (line of any wiggly or straight shape you prefer, no clumping) could be longer; this time they were only scored up to five in length.
Dinner was pizza. I snagged a slice of the meat lovers', but shared the olive, cheese, and mushroom pie with J. (No red sauce; she can't have pepper or peppers and Pizza Hut has both.) They were out of ham, which she usually has as well.
We finished up with Survive the Internet and Blather 'Round, followed by shop talk from the library folks. A good time. I hit a wall eventually and we went home.
There's someone scheduled to pick up the mirror on the 25th.
Ev was there too much of yesterday, and it was miserable. She was just waiting there to sign for the new door from Lowe's (not sure which new door this is: she needs one leading into the garage, and also the front door situation is Really Something) and it was over four hours late, and she wasn't prepared for that. The water was too cold to drink, and she didn't have the kind of food she wanted and she was hungry.
It's probably time to make sure there's a filter pitcher over there, and more nut bars. (I keep bringing miscellaneous food with me, because what if we need snacks, and every now and then some of it gets eaten by not-us. Which is also why it's there.)
Painting is scheduled, and I have a light-fixture-taking-down party in the calendar.
Games yesterday weren't in the calendar, but I had a Feeling and I insisted that we do shopping on Saturday so we were available. J & P are ramping up the preparations for foster kids -- they don't know what age group, so they're getting supplies for a number of ages. We played Kids Against Maturity, which skews to bodily function humor and more innuendo than I'm actually comfortable with in a kids' game. (It's not BAD but it's apparently not for any of us, though some would work well in a curated deck of any other similar games.)
Rayne-kitty came out to say hello and sniff my bag, and I got a finger-sniff or two.
We started out with Cascadia. Fun, but there was apparently a big points-split at the end. P & I were within a couple points of each other, and Belovedest & J were within a similar range of each other.
The whole concept is habitats and the species that live there. You start out with three hexagons of habitat (hexagons are one or two habitats at a time). Each hexagon tile is marked with what species can live there. (This varies per tile: it's not as simple as saying that salmon can only live in the River habitat or whatever.) You then get to pick from four choices of 1 tile plus 1 animal, with an option to spend "nature points" and swap them up if you need a salmon but there's a bear that goes with the tile you need.
You can put your tiles pretty much anywhere that's connected to another tile, but you get bonus points at the end if you have contiguous runs of the same land type connected.
Scoring for the animal discs is variable. In setup, we select layouts for each type of animal. The previous time, elks were supposed to be in straight lines only; this time they were in groups of up to four in a diamond shape. Previously, salmon runs (line of any wiggly or straight shape you prefer, no clumping) could be longer; this time they were only scored up to five in length.
Dinner was pizza. I snagged a slice of the meat lovers', but shared the olive, cheese, and mushroom pie with J. (No red sauce; she can't have pepper or peppers and Pizza Hut has both.) They were out of ham, which she usually has as well.
We finished up with Survive the Internet and Blather 'Round, followed by shop talk from the library folks. A good time. I hit a wall eventually and we went home.
