Words that stuck from Morning Prayer. (For the very observant, I was using the English rather than the Scottish lectionary today.)
Baruch ch. 4:
Learn where there is wisdom,
where there is strength,
where there is understanding,
so that you may at the same time discern
where there is length of days, and life,
where there is light for the eyes, and peace.
After a busy morning and early afternoon, and in anticipation of an evening meeting, I though I would take an hour of this rainy afternoon to sit and read. I have recently moved my favourite chair into my study for just such moments.
But I made the mistake of logging on first, and it seems my chance at the arm chair is gone. I suppose it’s a change from her sitting on the book…
Molly has a new hiding place. Now that I’ve created an air hole (which demanded sacrificial blood, you understand) she sees little reason to come out.
This morning I tripped over a brown wrapped package in the porch, saw the return address, considered the size of the box, and knew immediately what it was: Carcassonne (with a happy note on the box: ‘includes free river expansion’.)
Carcassone comes with good memories. The friends who sent me the present first introduced me to the game soon after I moved to Dunoon. It provided many hours of laughter and entertainment. Of course it helped that I accidentally won the first time I played. Without trying to understand the scoring, I set out to make things pretty — and found the most wonderful arch bridge that jumped over the river and connected my (well populated) town to the cathedral city next door. My friends hadn’t been married long at that point — else he might have known that I assume any city with a decent river and cathedral will eventually be mine to wander in.
So, I have a box of distraction sitting on the floor and no one to play with. With snow forecast too…
Carcassonne anyone?
(oh help. When I went to get the link for the game, I realized that there is an expansion set called ‘inns and cathedrals’. Well of course I need that. And I wonder which extension set that lovely bridge came from…)
wonderful exchange 