Love my Indian jewelry

These are the pieces that I have been wearing lately, but I do have more.  When Jimmy and I would go out West on our motorcycle travels, we would always stop in Arizona at the Navaho Indian Reservations and we would buy silver & turquoise jewelry and belt buckles from them.  Jimmy loved his belt buckles and would get so many compliments on them when he wore them, and he always wore them.

The ring is an exception, I didn't get it in Arizona and it is nickel silver  and maybe turquoise, I'm not really sure about it.  It was a gift from Kathy Agee.  It was too small for her and she had a hard time removing it from her finger on the first day she had it, so she gave it to me.  I like it and wear it everyday.  I have some real silver & turquoise rings and earrings too and a few bracelets.

Silver and gold are the only jewelry that I will wear because it doesn't break me out in an itchy rash like other metals, and besides I love the look of silver & turquoise together.  They require some upkeep tho and have to be cleaned and polished all the time or the silver tarnishes.  I don't mind tho because it is such pretty jewelry.  And gold is pretty and shiny all the time.

Apparently nickel silver doesn't break me out in a rash either.

Playing Cards

Rick and I spent the afternoon and evening with Callie, Harold and Kathy yesterday playing cards, eating too much and just having fun laughing the day away.  We always have fun there.  Sometimes our card game gets a little heated, but we all understand that it's just a card game and what happens in the game has no reflection of how we care about each other and all hard feelings are soon forgotten when the game is over or we stop for a food break.

Rick is an avid cheater and we can always count on him to hide cards away for a later round.  Sometimes we catch him and sometimes he's so slick that he gets away with it.  Harold pretends to hide cards but he really doesn't cheat much anymore, anyway not like he used to when playing with Rick in the game.  Harold now just pretends he is placing cards in his shirt pocket to get Rick's goat.

 Rick is a loud boisterous card player and if he draws a good card you know it.  He shouts, screams and makes the games very exciting, and if he's not playing our card games are very quiet and subdued.  None of us have a chance of winning a game most of the time when Rick is playing.  Granted he cheats most of the time, but even when he doesn't cheat he's a very good card player and wins most of the time anyway.  I think he just cheats to make the game more exciting to him, and to make the games more challenging.  He also doesn't like to lose, and refuses at times to play on if he loses or gets caught with too many cards in his hand when someone else goes out.

Even if Rick cheats or anyone else cheats, I still have fun playing.  To me it's not all about winning the game, but just laughing and having fun.  I win once in a while and I do enjoy winning, but it's not all that important to me.  Granted it's a challenge to win against all of these good card players, so when I do win it's a very rewarding feeling, and I ask Callie our score keeper to put a great big star next to my name.