Bacon

Mama brought home the bacon tonight.  There was a square dance at the hall in honour of Harold Goobie who is retiring as our superintendent.  Lots of folks attended and there was the usual singing, live music, dancing, and games.  I think I described this game before - but it is the one where there are prizes in the middle of the floor and the people playing make a circle and then roll a die to try and get the given number.  Tonight the number was six.  If you rolled a six you got to grab a prize from the pile and place it in front of you.  Once all the prizes were gone from the middle you then got to "steal" from someone else.  There was a HUGE box of chocolates that was very popular.  So was a rice cooker and surprisingly a bottle of dish soap and a box of dryer sheets.  I had my eye on some light bulbs and an electric heating pad.  There were 5 dice going around and for the life of me I could not throw a six.  However, it only counts at the end -- or if you pick an unpopular prize at the start you just might get to keep it.  I finally got lucky about 10 minutes in and someone had just taken the heating pad.  I could have taken it out of her hands on the fly, but I went for the light bulbs.  Two more throws and then I hit a six in the last minute.  I went for the pad and was able to hold onto it.  From zero to hero; I ended the game with ot one, but two prizes.  Like I said, mama brought home the bacon tonight, kids.

PS I also danced