It was bound to happen, I guess. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, my spouse and I frequently play Scrabble, and, while I did win by 80 points a few nights ago, our end scores are usually much closer. We do not play by the traditional rules where when one person uses all their tiles the game ends and the other players must deduct the value of the tiles left in their trays from their scores.
That rule would have worked to my advantage this evening, because when I used my last tile I was 25 points ahead. Sadly for me, my wonder spouse was able to use his last five tiles in ways that added 25 points to his score. He really tried for 26 but just couldn't do it, and so we tied. For the first time ever we tied.
Obviously we will be playing a tie-breaker game sometime soon.
On a very loosely related note, my west coast brother informed me that today is "World Flower Day" and "Flour Day." Both good Scrabble words. We celebrated by having some excellent carrot cake for dessert this evening, obviously made with flour, and we enjoyed the flowers on our Catawba rosebay rhododendron. Humm, rosebay would be a good Scrabble word.
This is how it looked yesterday. After all the wind and rain today I'm not sure how it will look tomorrow.
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