The Walnuts

Kay Sage

There are a few Thirdlanders who don't play with a posse of others at recess time.  I grouped three outliers together this week for a walnut game I'm developing.  It has no name yet.  Basically, we have 20 seconds to pick up all the walnuts we can find.  Then we fling the walnuts through a chain link backstop.  This is how the scoring works.

SCORING

• One point for getting the walnut through the chains.  
• Two points for making NO SOUND as it goes through.  Nothing but net, so to speak.
• Three points for hitting the tree on the other side of the backstop.  

One of the Thirdlanders is obsessed with the Ice Age. Ice Ages to be precise, because we've learned there were more than one.  He wasn't in to the walnut game at all until I introduced the concept of beaning saber tooth tigers with the walnuts.  No additional points for this, but it really adds to the drama.