Farkle

For those of you not from Texas, I doubt you know what a Farkle is. Even if you are from Texas it might be something exclusive to Watermark. I'm not sure, but what I know is that I lost. Let me start from the beginning...

...August 25th was our staff lake day. Which by the way, was at the sweetest lake house I've ever seen in my life. It was amazing. Anyway, part of lake day is the Farkle challenge. Farkling is a dice game that has "terms." The terms for this particular Farkle were, the male and female losers had to lay in the church's baptism pond for an hour. Apparently these are cake terms, but whatever.

I've never Farkled before, so someone is kind of taking me through my dice rolling - it was all quite random if you ask me. There was no consistency to the rules. As soon as I felt like I had a grip on things, bam...they changed something. So lots of rolling and thousands of points later, I lose. Fortunately, it had nothing to do with not knowing how to play, because the male loser was a seasoned pro.

Since August 25th we've been putting off the inevitable. Not just us, they keep draining the 18 inch deep pond, and obviously we can't lay in an empty pond. So finally we decide Wednesday, Oct. 17th is going to be the day. We wait until the first cold front to sit in water for an hour! Whose idea was that!!!

It was FREEZING!

Does this look fair?

On your mark...Get set...

GO!

I didn't win the race, but Kyle has a whole foot on me! Plus his raft just sort of glided right over the water, while my body created quite the friction with the bottom of the pond!

Hopefully I will never lose a Farkle again.

P.S. Mucho thanks to Bobby Crotty for atoning for me after 40 minutes. I don't think my fingers or toes could have survived the last 20!