May 3: Filing

Being the nerd that I am, I enjoy filing away paperwork. The other day, my husband and I found a box of papers that had not been sorted into my filing cabinet, so I went through them all today to sort them into their appropriate files. I found a few delightful little things that I had forgotten about. 

A few years ago, I bought six different types of apples for a private apple tasting at my house (we were interested in apples because we were buying apples trees, and I used to use apples in brewing beer). My favorite apple had always been Pink Lady, so I knew I was getting a Pink Lady Apple Tree, but I didn't know what other apples I liked, so we tasted these:

Fuji: really all water, no flavor (tied for my least favorite)

Gala: watery, chewy skin, sweet/tart bite (tied for my least favorite, but my husband liked)

Granny Smith: sour tart, "sour apple" (okay, but not my favorite)

Cortland: Good, different, chewy, sour-y, melt in your mouth but crisp (my third favorite of the bunch)

Empire: sweet, meaty, hmm not bad, would consider (my second favorite of the bunch)

Honey Crisp: earthy, very chewy skin, sweet like honey, no bite (my favorite of the bunch)

By the way, the apple trees we ended up planting are: Pink Lady (x2), Honey Crisp, Gala, and Black Arkansas (a very rare dark-colored apple, supposedly tart and crisp with a sweet sugary finish with hints of vanilla, almond, and cinnamon). We also planted other fruit trees: Toka plum, Black Tartarian cherry, and Bing cherry). 

I also found a note with what used to be my favorite drinking game, called "Kings". Super simple set up, just need a deck cards, shuffle it, and splay them out in a circle face down. Players take turns picking cards at random and different things happen depending on what card you pick. There are a million different ways to play with a million different rules, but this was my favorite set up:

2: you (pick someone to drink)
3: me (drink a drink yourself)
4: floor (last person to touch the floor drinks)
5: sky (last person to reach for the sky drinks)
6: dicks (guys drink)
7: chicks (girls drink)
8: mate (pick a partner and you both drink)
9: rhyme (you start by saying a word, go around in a circle saying rhymes of the word, first person who can't make a rhyme drinks)
10: category  (you start my picking a category (like "Flavors of Ice Cream") then go around in a circle named things that fit the category, first person who can't drinks)
J: Never Have I ever (everyone starts with three fingers. Each person says a Never Have I Ever. If you have, you put a finger down. First person with all three fingers down takes a drink). 
Q: Question (everything said after this card is picked must be in the form of a question. First person to mess up drinks). 
K: Waterfall (you start drinking, everyone around the circle in turn starts drinking. You choose when to stop drinking, and everyone around the circle in turn chooses to stop drinking). 
A: Make a Rule (my favorite, you make a new rule. For example, you can't say Proper Nouns, or else you drink. Or you say a sexual innuendo, you drink (which is where my "drink" joke comes from... whenever my husband or I say a sexual innuendo, we almost always say "drink"... kinda like our own version of "That's What She Said.")

When I was the director of an after school program, I actually turned this game into a non-drinking game for kids, and they LOVED it. 

Oh the memories!

With delight,

♥Jamie