In Minnesota, we sing that line, "Silence like a hotdish."

[mrissa]

Today the delivery people brought ten pounds of Hungarian sausage and four volumes of Chinese epic. This is well worth the annoyance they cause the small dogbeast.

I bought some Christmas presents today, and I was compelled to buy something for myself as well. I was lured. Sweden playing cards. (Not Swedish: these are marked with K, Q, J, not K, D, Kn. Sweden-themed.) Two decks. When I saw that Gustav Vasa was the King of Diamonds, I had to buy them (if only to find out who they had for the Knaves). Kings: Gustav Vasa (Diamonds), Gustav III (Hearts), Gustav II Adolf (Spades), Karl XIV Johan (Clubs). Queens: Hedvig Eleonora (Diamonds), Lovisa Ulrika (Hearts), Kristina (Spades), Desideria (Clubs). Knaves: Bellman (Hearts), Linnaeus (Diamonds), De La Gardie (Spades), Nobel (Clubs). The Spades in particular amuse me. I had expected politicians rather than Famous Swedes for the Knaves, but Famous Swedes is good, too. Now I want to play 500 when my grands are in town so I can inkle botany. Or explosives.

It's a better day than some other days I could mention. I do wish I could shake this cold, though.

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I bid blind double Finland.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on, 'Prov, you can't bid Finland every hand!

[aedifica]

That brings back memories. My former inlaws taught me to play 500, and for the longest time I always won against them. We joked that it was either beginner's luck or them being polite to me, but it was just how the cards kept coming out.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We played it constantly for my junior year of college and the first half of my senior year. Constantly.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

"Silence like a hotdish grows"? ...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Almost. The mangling of the original is, "Silence like a casserole."

[skzbrust.livejournal.com]

"ten pounds of Hungarian sausage"

*drools*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It freezes well, so we will be freezing it in smaller units and eating it in things for months to come. There's a gorgonzola walnut ravioli, for example, which is particularly fine with tiny bits of csabai sausage in.