News from the Wingnut Frontlines

It’s been an action packed week around the Wingnut household. We hosted a good friend from sunny Sacramento for six days. His visit took us up to Maine to go Rock Hunting! He knew what he was doing. He could actually find crystals and such. I focused on the rock hunting outfit, as that is the most important part of any hunting expedition. We didn't find any bears or meese on our adventure. We bashed rocks with hammers and had a blast in the fresh air. Did you know they crumble under pressure? There were lots of sparkly flakes in these rocks. They have a name…and I knew the name last week. Hmmm… sparkly flakey things… Well, it was almost like books of plastic pages in the rocks. We have some at home. It’s fun stuff. Word on the street is that they used it in the 40s to make snow for the movies.

After our action packed day in Maine, we toured Coolidge Corner and took a trip in to the game store in preparation of Game Night! This store is the best place ever! There’s puzzles and games up the wazooo. Anything you could dream of, they have it! We picked up Super Scrabble and Pitch It! (a game of storytelling). Super Scrabble has more squares on the board (three extra rows), double the letter tiles, quadruple letter scores, and quadruple word scores. What fun!

Game Night, however, featured good friends (that’s what really makes it), homemade soups (turkey chili and clam chowdah), cornbread and snacks! Oh yes, let’s not forget the delicious salad and brownies brought by the good friends. Are you wondering about the games? We played Cranium (the Turbo edition)! It was wild! There was acting, drawing, putty sculpting, and mind bending word games. This sounds like a commercial huh? The game is perfect for parties and great for teams of three or more J Of course, my team won, but who’s keeping track?

We goofed around with Pitch It for a while and had a lot of laughs. It’s a great improvisational game and perfect for sitting around the campfire. (No, we didn’t have a campfire this time…. My house would’ve burned down if we did.)

The female multi-taskers also convened the first meeting of our newly started Book Club! We’ll get a website going and a link for all of you who’d like to follow along virtually. The first book is “The Alchemist” by Paolo Coehlo. I’m loving it so far! The Book Club’s theme is “quality fiction”.

Stay tuned….