Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 20, 2013

“5 player Scrabble?”

Actually, we can play with 8, using a poker table and two complete games, one of which has the swivel-type board.(Try coming up with a word with two Qs and two Xs.)

How about QXXQ? You didn’t say it had to be a valid English word!

just take a short trip by the thermostat and kick it up a few degrees, I know if I do that my husband doesn’t even notice.

Are those icicles on the lamp shade?

What’s Holly doing playing? She is supposed to be writing a paper that is due tomorrow!!!!

Save roomfor Lou!,Violine,Les Sisters and Solange.

Calm down Joan!

Wally you can afford heat. Wish we get that rain here, not the freezing kind but rain. Too dry here.

I’d guess that there’s one 2-person team. That’s how we always did it when there was someone who wouldn’t have an adult’s vocabulary and spelling skills. The youngest played with someone else. Or either the winner or lowest score is out the next game.

Yeah, right, some “oops,” Gramma!

And here I thought Andy on Foxtrot was picky about turning up the heat during the winter.

Pls don’t let the tourists see this “typical American family at play.”