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Indigo Bunting Spotted Today!
We were playing cribbage this afternoon and Sena spotted a blue bird perched on top of our crab apple tree in the back yard. I rushed to get the camera and got a quick video about 7 seconds long before it flew off. I pulled a few images of the back of the bird; it…
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Sena Gets her Measles Vaccine-and Will Not Be Defeated!
Sena got a measles vaccine booster today just to be on the safe side given the increase in the number of measles cases all over the country, including Iowa. The history of the measles vaccine is fascinating by the way. It can make it challenging to figure out who might need a booster. Despite the…
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Will Not Be Defeated!
Sena has again been winning virtually every cribbage game. We always play 3 games, best of two wins and skunk wins don’t count. I think I play pretty well. She just plays better. It reminds me of the song “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better).” It’s a song from the musical “Annie Get…
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Thoughts on Upping Your Game
Today’s essay by Dr. Moffic was pretty interesting about the role of video gaming in health for men and women. Computer games were emphasized but it got me thinking about hands-on games that you might thing of as being more old-fashioned—like cribbage. I wrote a post about cribbage already today, but there’s another angle on…
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Thoughts on the Elusive 29 Hand Score in Cribbage
Sena and I were talking about the elusive 29 hand score in cribbage and I wondered how you could ever verify it. Let’s face it, it’s hard to imagine anybody filming themselves playing cribbage in order to catch it on tape. Just for the sake of completeness, here’s a video of how to count the…
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Grandma’s Hands Inspired Coffee and Slippery Playing Cards!
We got new stuff! We really needed new, durable playing cards and so we have a brand-new set of plastic playing cards. They’re really slippery and I dropped them on the floor right away. They float and glide on every surface. They fit in our automatic card shuffler, though. I haven’t yet tried to shuffle…
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How Do Tournament Cribbage Players Play So Fast?
I finally tracked down an American Cribbage Congress (ACC) game from 2017 in Reno, Nevada. It was an hour-long match between just two of the many competitors. They played 4 games in approximately one hour. What amazed us was that they could play each game in about 15 minutes despite socializing with others, getting interrupted,…
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Cribbage for Turtles!
We’re still turtles when it comes to how long we take to play a cribbage game. And, I think I misjudged how randomization works with shuffling cards using a machine. I checked on line and various sources say, in general, whether you’re manually shuffling or using an automatic shuffling machine, adequate randomization of 52 cards…
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The Automatic Card Shuffler for Cribbage!
Today we used the automated card shuffler Sena ordered. I couldn’t find a company name or anything else from the box about where it’s made. We know it’s loud, but it does the job. We’re not sure why it’s so noisy. It sounds like a bunch of pots and pans falling out of the cupboard…
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Cribbage Drips Under Pressure
Today we played cribbage under pressure—time pressure that is. We tried it because we wondered about why, in tournament games, you always hear you should be able to play a game in 15 minutes. The American Cribbage Congress (ACC) has over 200 local grassroots cribbage clubs across North America. If you join one of them,…
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