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I never played board games much. My step sister and step brother were 6 & 7 years older than me and there were no other kids close. My family played Canasta and Pinochle. I know the basics in Pinochle but never could get interested enough to get any good at it... When my sister was expecting, she and her husband lived with us for a while.. She wanted to play Canasta all the time. A lot of times I was the only one there and not busy. Good grief, I got so tired of playing it, I couldn't stand the thought of playing cards for a long time. Oh well she did have a fine baby boy and he did not come out with hearts, spades, diamonds, or clubs all over him, so I guess it all turned out OK.

Unfortunately there is not much to photograph, at least not outside because, just like Corrie in the Netherlands, we still have gray and rainy weather in Belgium. Not nice to go outside at all.

I always have played a lot of different games. For cardgames: Canasta, Patience (Solitaire) and the Dutch games of Jokeren (the translation to English gives the names, rummy and pinochle), Hartenjagen (Hearts), Klaverjassen (translation says: play Jass) and Pesten (Crazy Eights). I suspect that the rules for each game are a bit different in other countries. When our kids were young we played a lot of Pesten, it takes not much time and is so easy to learn. My husband played Bridge for a while but I never did. Board games were another favorite like Scrabble, Monopoly, Stratego, Mens erger je niet (Ludo), Ganzenbord (Game of Goose). My husband and son played Chess . I have no idea which one of all these can be played online; the only one I have on my pc/phone is Solitaire. For many years my sister in law came over for a couple of days and when the kids were still living at home they knew she always wanted to play cards with them. Later we played Klaverjassen with her until she was not able to travel any longer and she died 4 years ago. Now we hardly play games anymore.

I went to camp most summers and all we played was Canasta. It did get a bit boring after a while. My more recent card game of German Pinochle is lightning fast and exciting. Wish I could find some players now. Most of the ones we played with are now gone.