Hello friends of the @silverbloggers community, it's Friday and the weekend is here! It's a pleasure to greet you and wish you an excellent day. This is my entry for The Silverbloggers Chronicles - Prompt #21 - Pastimes / Passions, Reading the topic brought back many childhood games. As I've mentioned before, I grew up in a small town and we played for many hours outdoors, in the rain, in trees, and running around. But there were always some games or pastimes that were our favorites. One of them is a game called Stop. This game consists of writing names, surnames, cities, fruits, colors, and objects, all starting with the same letter. For example, if one of the players says the letter P, everyone writes down those items starting with that letter. The first one to finish says "stop," and the others can't write anymore. The points are added up. If there's a match for any item, it's worth 50 points for each player. Each item is worth 100 points, and the one who accumulates the most obviously wins.
This was a very popular game during my childhood. We even invented colors and fruits using the letters in the game. It was fun because everyone's creativity showed how clever we were. The goal of the game was to win. I remember once one of the players mixed two colors to match the letter that another player had given out. We could spend several hours playing. Besides being a game, it was an exercise in mental skill because we all wanted to win. I even got into the habit of looking up countries, fruits, and animals with less common letters like W, Z, X, and V in the dictionary. The idea was to learn more about animal names to play the famous game Stop.
Another pastime was board games, like Ludo and Bingo. Ludo was one of my favorites and the one we had the most fun with because when the opponent was nearing the finish line, you could knock them off the path and they had to start from scratch. This was really fun, and the game would continue until one of the players managed to get out of their starting area and navigate the entire maze of the board to reach the center. Like the game mentioned earlier, it was a pastime with great benefits, including: developing eye-hand coordination, teamwork, following instructions, and paying attention to the count so as not to get too close to the opponent and thus avoid being knocked off the path. Although this doesn't depend so much on skill, but rather on the numbers rolled on the die.
On Sundays, our favorite pastime was reading the comic strips that came with some national newspapers. My dad was a regular reader of these newspapers. At home, there are five of us sisters, and we would all wait for Dad to finish reading the newspaper so we could run to read the comic strips. Among them were Olive Oyl and Popeye, which was one of my favorites, Don Pancho, and other very funny characters who presented everyday situations every Sunday so that readers could enjoy the reading with a bit of humor. We still play Ludo and Bingo; it's still just as fun.
A new habit or hobby I've acquired in adulthood is sewing. It's my great passion. I started with motherhood; I wanted to make many things for my son, and I think that was the perfect moment that gave me the impetus to begin in this wonderful world of threads, needles, and scissors. It's incredible how you can create beautiful things from a scrap of fabric, from dolls and sheets to clothes, among other things, for children and adults.
Currently, it's the hobby I enjoy most and the one that relaxes me the most. To make the process easier, I cut all the pieces a few days in advance, then I sit down to sew. It's very relaxing to sew without having to stop because a piece is missing. This practice has worked very well for me because I only have to fill the bobbins, join the pieces with the seams, check that everything is in place, until I have a finished garment: a t-shirt, pants, athletic wear, a backpack, a flannel shirt, among other things.
I invite @annafenix and @evelin74 to join this initiative.
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