Cards

On warm days I really miss Alaska. Nothing will make you miss Alaska like high temperatures. I am from Texas (for those that didn't know). I have lived in the heat for almost all of my life.

When I didn't live here I lived in Arizona. Also, hot, but it's a dry heat. Scott says it's hot, but it's a hot heat. He's silly.

We moved to Alaska and I was admittedly worried about the weather. For the first part of my first summer I still wore a jacket at night. Alaska has great weather. You just have to be used to it. For those who don't know....I really fell in love with Alaska. I did not want to leave. I still try to figure out how we can get back.

Part of why I loved Alaska so much was because of the people that we lived near and the activities we did. Lately, the activity I miss most is poker. Poker was something that we did almost all the time for a while. There were at one point, quite a few of us couples in the neighborhood that would meet and play in the basement or at some one's dining table. It was so much fun. We all really got into it. There were different decks of cards and one time my friend and I went to the Adult Shop to buy naked girl cards. We didn't realize how sexually explicit they really were going to be. The funny part was that the pictures were obviously from the 70's since a lot of the girls were wearing little silk scarves around their necks....and nothing else. Well, maybe they also wore heels.

We all loved poker so much that some of us would even go to poker night at the base's "Club" and into town to play at a poker tournament in a hotel.
Eventually the group broke up (for a bunch of reasons), I had a baby, and we all moved away.
I haven't found a group to play with here in Texas. The circumstances just aren't the same. I don't have neighbors that I hang out with and it's not Alaska.
What a weird thing to miss about Alaska. I guess I just needed to reminisce.

Anyways, I really miss it. I miss that time....before kids and before feuds. It was just a bunch of happy couples and their dogs all getting together to play cards.

If you were in that group, you know who you are. I miss you all in some way, shape, or form. Sorry, I am awful about keeping in contact.