Howdy All,


When I was a kid my best friend and I would always call eachother on Christmas morning - he only lived across the street - and ask, "What did you get for Christmas?" We would then somehow sneak out of the house on Christmas day and play with our new toys.

So to carry on the tradition as far as game collecting... I got a 70th Anniversary Monopoly Set:



and one of my Dungeons & Dragons posters framed:



I cooked a goose on Christmas Day using a traditional 18th Century recipe with onion sauce and stuffing made from turnips, potatoes, onions, goose liver, fresh chopped sage and parsely. My wife made brandied cranberries, cottage bread, and my mother-in-law brought some homemade applesauce and made some brussel sprouts too. Quite the feast!

Hope all had a Merry Christmas.


Futures Bright,

Paul

Wow, nice poster, Paul!  And that Monopoly is a beaut.

My kids gave me the Star Wars chess set and a box of retro football cards.  Many hours of enjoyment in those, I tell you.

Merry (post-) Christmas to all!

Lordy that's a big Monopoly board!

I had a pretty good Xmas haul this year.   My girlfriend got me exactly what I wanted.  I got a monster bean-bag lounge chair: http://www.beanbags.com/bean-bags/extra ... &key=MR038
And a Complete Calvin & Hobbes collection: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074074 ... e&n=283155

Some other interesting stuff I got:
Salt Pig http://www.kitchen-classics.com/salt_pig.htm
Monty Python's Holy Ale http://www.beerlabels.com/labels/labels ... l-ale.html
And a case of Iron City Beer in aluminum bottles http://pittsburgh.about.com/b/a/107762.htm

Go figure....I hardly ever drink.  :D  Guess I'll have to have a party.

Howdy,

afoolandhis$ wrote:Wow, nice poster, Paul! And that Monopoly is a beaut.

My kids gave me the Star Wars chess set and a box of retro football cards. Many hours of enjoyment in those, I tell you.

The poster was great, I plan to hang it in my collection room with my other posters and paintings.

The Monopoly set just blew me away. Wood case, metal board, 12 individually cast unique hotel styles, 4 unique house styles, oversized metal figures, antiqued cards, and two velvet tray lined drawers to hold the components. Just beautiful.

My kids saw it at the store and told their mom, "Dad would love that!" I love to play, although my only strategy is to get Boardwalk and Park Place and crush the other players without mercy.

We leave games out for days as we play through them. The last game, I collected $1,400 rent for my youngest daughter landing on Boardwalk. I ruined her and I got all of her property. She just smiled and said, "O.K. I'm going to eat a candy cane now!" Off she went.

When my eldest daughter landed on Park Place for $2,000 it was curtains for her too. She threw a fit because she didn't get to build a single house. So I just took part of her properties and cash, gave her a monopoly and enough money to buy houses for it. My wife shouted to her from the kitchen, "Honey, you are making a deal with the devil!" She didn't care. So the game went on.

My wife ended the evening of play saying, "Honey, I know you are enjoying trouncing us all, but don't you think it is time for bed?" I said, "What fun is this game if after you have been humiliated by your womenfolk for having all of your properties in mortgage just to pay rent to them if you can't come back and grind them to dust?" She actually kicked me in the butt for that.


Futures Bright,

Paul

Howdy,

KingOfPain wrote:Lordy that's a big Monopoly board!

It is solid wood and metal and weighs about 25 pounds! When I picked up the package I knew it was something special. My wife gave me that look she gives when she knows a little secret that I don't. Oh and my kids were jumping up and down chanting, "Open this one Daddy!" "Open this one!"


Futures Bright,

Paul

The Collector's Trove wrote:Here is a link to a number of good recipes, ours was the Michaelmas Goose:

http://www.recipezaar.com/r/q=goose

I thought the onion sauce would be awful but it turned out to be wonderful. My Mother in law couldn't decide whether to accompany her bites of goose with the brandied cranberries, homemade applesauce, or onion sauce, they were all so delicious!

Excellent link! Sounds good.

You had a rockin' christmas from the sounds of it.

I got a rock.

For Christmas I got from my old AD&D pal some pix of us as kids with our hockey armor,  bokens and broom-handle staffs. Many broken fingers and bruised arms were the results of these battles. Also some pix of us fighting with boffa weapons. These pix were 5 years later. Yes, it took us that long to figure out non-padded weapons were a bad idea.

Anyway, the present is great!