Hello all, hope your Father’s day was excellent. We here at Casa Rose did Dad’s favorite form of socializing these days — playing poker with my late Mom’s brother and sister, Andy and Karen.
Mostly we go to Karen’s place for this, but yesterday I invited them over to my place for tacos and root beer floats for Father’s Day, followed by poker on my catio/screened porch. (Screening in that porch was by far the best home improvement investment I ever made.)
Now I’m not all that crazy about poker myself. I much prefer a nice game of dominoes or Yahtzee, or even other card games, like spades or 31. Something that has an end in sight. But Dad loves poker. He loves to think he’s outsmarting/getting one over on somebody. He makes laughably transparent bluffs and gloats for days if one of them should actually work.
Myself and Auntie Karen can skunk him a fair amount of the time, which sort of fries his shorts, since his operating philosophy is that girls aren’t smart enough to play good poker. Where he got this idea I don’t know. Mom could beat him at most games of this sort. She killed him at Scrabble. (But to be fair, she cheated. She spent all day while he was at work looking up strange words in the dictionary.)
Buzzy, of course, was totally up for a poker game. He is the best “company cat” ever, being extremely sociable and a schmoozer extraordinaire. Even people who are nervous around kitties like Buzzy. So he did a turn around the table and kibitzed everybody’s hand, and then went and sat on the small side table to watch the game.
Uncle Andy won all the pots yesterday. Talk about being on a roll. He walked away with all of it. I think Buzzy was helping him on the sly.
Happy Monday all! Stay cool out there and don’t take any wooden nickels.
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