My Rare One LOVES to play cards, especially canasta. She taught me how to play shortly after we first met. I like canasta too but MY GAWD it's a long game -- two hours to play a full four hands. So when My Rare One and I indulge in a little canasta after supper, we simply play one hand per evening so we only spend half an hour at a time doing it. We can wait four evenings to see who the winner is. We're not in any rush.
I'm hopeless at card games,but Mr SK loves them. The only thing missing from that table is a bottle of Gin - that would make it more fun for me.
ReplyDeletesome things are best savoured slow,
ReplyDeleteThat picture is adorable. My future will probably not look like that however, unless I go to Patience School between now and then.
ReplyDeleteI've never played canansta but we do sometimes play hand and Foot which I believe is like a half-assed version.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to play canasta, but I do love "Go Fish".
ReplyDeleteMary
Canasta is probably my fave :)
ReplyDeleteThis brings back memories. My folks played Canasta ... the evenings went on and on. I like the way ya'll play much better!
ReplyDeleteI do love a tipsy evening of Euchre once and awhile... Never played Canasta!
ReplyDeleteI tried learning Canasta but I got irritated with it. Can you believe that?
ReplyDeleteNot real good at card games.I get real bored when it's not my turn. Thinkin I'm just not a good sport. :<
ReplyDeleteI have no idea how to play canasta, and unfortunately, no one in my immediate circle has the patience for long card games. Except Brandon. But he's more of a poker guy.
ReplyDeleteMy mother has been a part of a canasta club since before I was born.....I have never played
ReplyDeleteI love cards! And Scrabble! Both!
ReplyDeleteI really love card games, but have yet to try my hand at Canasta.
ReplyDeleteMy parents are DEFINITELY having more fun than me down in sunny Florida with their card playing friends:-)
ReplyDeleteOur new game is virtual bowling on xbox kinect, when i'm having a strong day. Drives the dog crazy, she cannot figure out why we keep throwing "nothing" when she would be very happy to chase "something."
We also like dominos:-)
Squeee! I love Canasta, and Shanghai Rummy!! No one to play cards with here since we moved from California. It is a long game, but with a group of semi-looped people, who cares?!! lol!!
ReplyDeleteCard games have always been difficult for me to learn. Except for solitaire! LOL :0)
ReplyDeleteBut I can remember many of the women that my Mom (while I was growing up) knew would dedicate a whole day to a Canasta game. Their Husbands and families were left "to fend for themselves" until the game was concluded!
Sadly, when it came to card games, unless I had the video game, I never learned to play the card game. Kind of defeats the point, doesn't it.
ReplyDeleteI so didn't know that was a hot game now. nice.
ReplyDeletecanasta brings back some of the rare few memories of happy times with my parents..who when sober were smart and funny and rocked..when they drank, they just hit each other with rocks..
ReplyDeletesober we'd play canasta..Oh man I loved it..we all 3 cheated like pros..by the end of the game we were falling on the floor laughing. I must have been 5-6..and remember talking about the Dodgers and the Yankees, and sports in general..and cheating at cards...thanks for bringing that memory back.
There ya go! sounds like a grand idea. I used to play canasta but have forgotten how. I remember how much fun my cousins and I had playing it when I was in high school.
ReplyDeleteOne of my sisters plays canasta. Next time she is town I will get her to teach me.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear you are not in any rush.....so Zen!
Never even heard of it. I will just stick with poker.
ReplyDeleteCan't say that I've played Canasta. I am a very aggresive euchre player though. Have fun!
ReplyDeleteRon played canasta as a teen and loved it and hasn't played since...come to think of it he can't remember how to play...he needs a refresher he says!
ReplyDeleteI love card games. Whenever my father-in-law visits (he's 85!), hubby and I play cards with him (his favourite game is rummy 500). I wonder if he knows this game. I've never heard of it, but it sounds like it would be fun.
ReplyDeleteI’m not a card person. I came from card lovin kin but not me...too ADD.
ReplyDeleteThis picture is so funny! I played Canasta once upon a time, and yes it was with my grandma. (I am pretty sure she used to cheat.)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite is Rumoli. We play until our hands are black from handling pennies.
I've never played canasta - in fact the only card games I can really play are "Fish" and "Snap" :)
ReplyDeletesomewhere back in the mists of time i learned canasta play, all i recall is two decks were involved...
ReplyDeleteat uni, the big thing was bridge, and a bit of euchre....