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As we walked back to the house from the beach, we became aware of a little black-and-white figure watching us from a window sill.
In the city, Dot's window perch is more than ten stories above the neighborhood. I think that makes the outdoors an abstraction for a cat. Here, however, the great outdoors is quite immediate. When it gets warmer, we'll open the window and the metal screen will be the only thing between Dot and the forest.
We're here visiting dot dot dot!
Never tried to write anything down in Morse code before so today was a first.
Not sure I left the correct amount of space between the symbols but this is supposed to say We're Here :-)
Some call it "Boxes", "Squares" "Dots" or even "Paddocks" but in my family we always called it "The Dot Game". A simple game that could be played with just a piece of paper and a pen.
Make a grid of dots, any dimension. Players take turns drawing horizontal and vertical lines connecting the dots. When you add the 4th side to a "box" you win ownership of that box and have to move again. We wrote down the first letter of our name to denote ownership. The game ends when all the dots have been connected and then you tally the totals to determine a winner. This game is great for kids and we even teach it in my kindergarten classroom. There is a great deal of strategy that can go into the play, but it is very simple and easy to learn.
Elliot (5 years old) and I played a few games with pen and paper the other day in the backyard. The next day he asked to play again. We made a "sketch" version out of Lego using a 32x32 baseplate, 1x1 round bricks for the dots. 1x4 bricks for the lines, and 2x2 round bricks for the markers. It was great fun! But we noticed some areas that could be improved - mainly that the dot kept falling off or being jostled when the "lines" were placed.
I went to bed that night thinking how the board could be improved. The key element in the build is the Support 1 x 1 x 6 Solid Pillar. The 6 brick depth of the element makes it possible for the "lines" to be easily placed and removed while the dots stay still.
Elliot and I worked together to build this. I designed modules for him to build and he replicated them in mass. He particularly liked making the 4x4 squares for the top surface and the drawers. We have lots of fun playing the game and he loves showing it off to his friends. Maybe this will be the first in a series of Lego board games for us? Let us know what game we might tackle next!
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A young man gives me the eye while digging into a box of DOTS candy and cradling a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey
Dotted loosestrife (Lyasimachia punctata) in bloom.
Kwitnąca tojeść kropkowana (Lysimachia punctata).
Dot and I were heading down the drive when we came to a fork in the road.
To the left, the tracks ran towards the street. On the right, the open garage door beckoned not far away. Dot looked towards the right, then left, then back towards the unexplored reaches of the open garage. There was no question but that we'd find ourselves in the garage.
I got off easy. For reasons only she knows, Dot avoided the myriad low and narrow places in favor of exploring the less inaccessible parts of the garage.
Here, Dot is making a connection between the rusty axe and the horrid stains on the quilt.