This is a gallery of photos from another season of gaming – July 2024 through March 2025 – including a playthrough of the Gilligan’s Island scenario of the co-op game of Robinson Crusoe (“oh, those poor people…”):

Some of the other games we played were Inventions: Evolution of Ideas, Cascadero, Thunder Road: Vendetta, Hegemony, The Search for Lost Species, Dominant Species, Daybreak, Dune Imperium: Uprising, The Night Cage, Coffee Traders, Barrage, Versailles 1919, Glass Road, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Pampero, Legacies, Deckchairs on the Titanic, Boon Lake, The Game of 49, Boon Lake, On the Underground: London / Berlin, Andromeda’s Edge, Primordial Soup, Small World, Revive, Bunny Kingdom, 7 Wonders, Duck & Cover, Decrypto, Last Light, Age of Rail: South Africa, Lords of Vegas, Tungaru, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, MagnetX, Heat, SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Gentes, Cloud Age, Arcs, and Hollywood 1947.

Wicked Movie Night

February 24, 2025March 31, 2025Leave a comment

We hosted a movie night with friends to watch Wicked (Part 1) and Darlene and I dressed for the occasion:

Thirsty Neighbors

November 25, 2024February 13, 2025Leave a comment

Lots of thirsty neighbors…

Bear in the Garage

November 20, 2024November 27, 2024Leave a comment

A bear wandered into the open garage while I was outside working on some wiring on the front porch. I would not have known he was there except that a woman stopped her car in front of the house a minute or so later to take pictures.

He found a little paper bag of trash that I was collecting while I was working – it had a food wrapper in it along with some wiring scrap. I had to shoo him off twice before he finally gave up and left for good.

Halloween Gaming Party

November 1, 2024December 4, 2024Leave a comment

Steve, Anne, Jennifer, Geof, Nacho, Adriana and Luno joined us in costume for a bit of gaming on Halloween, culminating in another twisted game of deception of Blood on the Clocktower moderated by Luno. I was fingered immediately as the demon after the first night by my first victim, Nacho, and hardly had a chance to try to talk my way out of being revealed and executed by the slayer (Anne) – but by pure luck I was saved by my minion, the poisoner (Jennifer), who just happened to choose Anne to poison the previous night. Anne’s slay ability thus failed, helping me appear innocent. For the rest of the game Jennifer and I managed to avoid detection, just barely, and ultimately win the game for evil. Darlene is still upset. 😋

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Pink Pigtails for Safety

October 29, 2024November 27, 2024Leave a comment

We replaced the old ice melt / heat trace cable on the back of the house this week – and extended it out over the three story drop:

Darlene’s Family Visit

July 24, 2024October 28, 2024Leave a comment

Darlene’s family (Alice, Kathy, Shel and Dan) came for a visit again this month and among other things, Rachel joined us for lunch at BeniHana’s, we visited the Santa Cruz boardwalk and we met up with Maryanne for some sightseeing down Monterey and Big Sur way.