Games people play...us anyway

My friend Charlotte mentioned in a comment about games they played within their family. It reminded me of a game another friend started some years ago. I will write about this now and won't have to think of anything tomorrow and perhaps will get into my garden earlier tomorrow morning.

My frind LINDA (you know who you are!) is from Illinois and still has family there and visits often. Several years ago while she and her Dr. Hubby were there, she went out into the pasture and gathered cow pattys. (patties?) How many I do not know but they were not quite completely dried. She packaged them up and carried them onto the plane. Hummm. I wonder if anyone complained! At any rate, that Christmas, somehow (I don't remember how) she smuggled a Christmas package under my tree (they were still living in Tucson and I in Scottsdale) and guess what was in it! So...of course, the little gift got saved until the next year and was delivered back to their house. I think we exchanged the precious Illinois gift back and forth several years in a row. The last time I received it, it was broken in half, throughly dried of course so...I glued it back together, spray painted it a beautiful pink and glued large oh so precious plastic gems onto it and it was once again delivered. I think I won. I never saw it again.