My weekend advice: take time to play a game. How about Scrabble? It was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed and hilariously named former architect from Poughkeepsie, New York. Butts decided to invent a board game, and based his concept on the notion that games fall into three categories: number games, move games, and word games. The game he created, first called “Lexiko” and “Cross Cross Words” before the famous Scrabble name was coined in 1948, was his attempt to combine all three categories. 60 years later the game is mostly unchanged, but Butts’ fun idea was a good one: close to two million sets are sold each year in the United States alone. How do you use the Q? Word up.
MY SUMMER POSTCARD: SUMMER ’09. The summer 
My most exciting adventure was to L.A. with 
Not to be outdone by the First Lady, I planted a kitchen garden at Edgewater Farm this year. At left, some of the bounty I just picked this week. (I hope the great 
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S’MORES The summer is not complete until you’ve built a campfire and made s’mores! August 30th is “National Toasted Marshmallow Day” so why not step up to the campfire and make the treat so delicious, you have to have “some more”! Here’s how to craft the perfect s’more. THINGS YOU’LL NEED: Campfire. Sticks or Hangers. Graham Crackers. Chocolate Bars. Marshmallows. Step 1. Gather around a campfire with friends, family or your dog. Step 2. Break a graham cracker into two halves, and place a chunk of chocolate on one half of the graham cracker. Step 3. Pierce a marshmallow onto the end of a clean stick or straightened wire clothes hangar. Step 4. Hold the marshmallow a few inches over the hot embers, and rotate it rotisserie like. Step 5. When marshmallow is nicely browned*, place it on top of graham cracker and chocolate. Step 6. Create a sandwich by placing the other half of the graham cracker on top. Step 7. Firmly hold the sandwich together and pull the stick out of the marshmallow. Step 8. Count slowly to ten while the marshmallow slightly melts the chocolate. Step 9. Eat your s’more! Step 10. Return to Step 2, you’ll definitely want “some more.” (“Flamers”-marshmallows on fire! Carefully extinguish by blowing, waving, or dousing. But DO NOT try to eat or touch, unless you are a trained circus performer.)
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