Cribbage Hands and Posts of the Week

Frank and I play a lot of Cribbage. It's a great game, and no matter how far behind one might be early on in the game, anything can happen to turn things around.

Frank has been playing since he was a child and has never attained the much-desired perfect hand of 29 points. He thinks that he may have had the second best hand of 28 points only once, when he was fifteen. Forty five years and countless games of Cribbage have passed, and he has not repeated that feat. He has, however, had the humiliating (for me) pleasure of having double skunked me once - just a few weeks ago, in fact. If you play Cribbage, you know how embarrassing that might be. It didn't help that Frank drew circles around the score, and added stars, fireworks and smiley faces to it each time he found it in the score pad.

Fortunately for me, I was able to redeem myself somewhat when a couple of weeks later, I managed to get my very first 28 point hand.


This is what my hand looked like the night that I managed to acquire the elusive 28 point score.




And this is what Frank's hand looked like.
The truth is that Frank is a great sport. The camera missed the high-five he gave me seconds later. (It still hurts to sit down.) ;)

And now, without further delay, here are the Posts of the Week.

The icon below is yours for the taking if if your blog post is named as a Post of the Week - either as top post or as a runner up.

This week's Post of the Week goes to one which was recommended by Shammickite. It had me laughing out loud and though I usually include recommendations at the end, I thought this one needed to be read, particularly if you need a good laugh. This dog makes crazy little Benny appear totally sane. Enjoy...

What Did Your Dog Have for Breakfast?
by Ken
at Grumpy Old Ken

Other wonderful posts are categorized below (they may well fit into more than one category but I'm only selecting one for each):

While I've Been Gone
by Pauline
at Writing Down the Words

Sight Seeing
by Louciau
at Décolleté Glimpses


Unsung Heroes
by Jo
at A Majority of Two

Cosmic Flow
by Nancy
at Life in the Second Half





Reighton Sands
by Technogran
at My Photos

A Balcony...
by Robin
at Rambling With a Cantakerous Old Mule

Mamma Squirrel Moves Her Family
by Tammie Lee
at Spirithelpers


Seeking
by Reena
at Missing Moments

A Fairy Tale
by CherylK
at Lake Mary Musings

Please drop by their blogs for a visit and leave a kind comment if you have the time. Also, please feel free to add your own choices (for any blog except this one) for a specific blog post in the comments section below, where others can see them.

Thank you.