Cornhole

There is a new game in the midst around town. Cornhole. Not the greatest name in the world, but it originates from Ohio, so what do we really expect, unh? Apparently this was all the rage when Kevin was in college at Ohio State. Expect to see this new game at the festivities in June, Amber built her own boards and has contracted me to sew the bean bags that one tosses to score points, which I expect to do this weekend. Kevin brought his boards out to the house on Sunday for Taco night and since the weather was so pleasant, (unlike today, where it rained hard for several hours and is now quite cold and windy), we were able to play outside well into the evening.
There are two boards that look like this:

You play in teams like you do in Washers, with team members on opposite ends of the playing field. Each team has four bean bags to toss towards the other board, Three points in the hole, one point on the board. If the other team lands on the board or in the hole, the points cancel out. For instance if one team hits the hole and lands on the board, that is four points. But if the other team lands two on the board, the points are deducted from the higher score and team one gets two points for that round. You play to twenty-one and if you go over twenty-one at the end, then your team reverts back to thirteen, boohooo. It can drag out a game though, but no different than washers, really. Jim and David played against Amber and Kevin in the first round. No surprise, David and Jim beat every opposing team.


Jeremy and Maryke, (whose name I have been misspelling till now, sorry Maryke!), waited to play the second game.

The rest of the peanut gallery...you can't judge the weather by Betsy, she is always colder than everyone else on the planet.