All skill
We were playing Rummikub tonight all together when Peter told me, “Do you know that the first two times I played Dad Rummikub I beat him?” “That was lucky!” I commented. Peter clarified: “No, it was all skill. Pure skill.”
"By small and simple things are great things brought to pass." (Alma 37:6)
We were playing Rummikub tonight all together when Peter told me, “Do you know that the first two times I played Dad Rummikub I beat him?” “That was lucky!” I commented. Peter clarified: “No, it was all skill. Pure skill.”
We seem to have had a proliferation of funny quotables this weekend. I caught a few of them on paper. For example, we just sat down to a minimal dinner with a maximal helping of dessert: angel food cake with berries and freshly whipped cream (after …
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