New Quasebarth Family Scrabble Champion Crowned

Tonight was a night of Scrabble history. It was the traditional David v Goliath matchup. The heavily favored Scrabble professional saw her 2009 undefeated dreams dashed when the young up-and coming word pro, inked out an upset for the ages. Coming into the match-up, Matt Q. had not had a championship caliber performance in weeks. In fact, his last match-up, resulted in a 337-271 drubbing to the hands of the former champ.

But, as all good stories go, Matt's luck was about to change. Leading off the game, he struck first with a 66 pt bingo, by playing the word 'Actions'. This knocked the champ of her rocker. Stacy struggled back with several multi point plays, including a season high 76 point bingo play with the double word play of Steamers and Jogs, but even this effort was unable to gain any ground. Matt steadily gained on each play, building an incredible 40 point lead. 

In the end, even after the former-champs herculean effort, Matt prevailed 340 to 297. The new champion averaged nearly 20 points per play with an average wordsize of nearly 4 tiles per play. Weeks ago, Matt Q was known only as a restaurant manager from Middle of Nowwhere, Indiana, but today, he holds the crowning achievement of a lifetime. 

Woohoo!!! Just hit 5000.

Thank you to all my friends and readers. Just hit the 5000 mark on my blog.

Ten Days of Christmas at the Quasebarths - Dec 14

We decorated our first Christmas tree in 2003, and we used these cute little Southwestern style ornaments to decorate the tree. Now the chili pepper lights have been replaces, and we've gone with a lot more 'traditional' ornaments, but we still hang the southwestern Santa every year.

Here's a picture of our Chili Pepper Santa Claus.

Eleven Days of Christmas at the Quasebarths - Dec 13

Okay, so the wife didn't want me to post anymore about broken things around the house, which lead me to the decision to feature our Willow Tree Nativity Set. We received the set as a wedding present four years ago, and proudly display it every winter. This year we purchased the wisemen and will hopefully get the rest next year. It's one of my favorite Christmas displays at the house.

Twelve Days of Christmas at the Quasebarths - Dec 12

Okay, here's the idea. For the next 12 days, I'm going to spread a little Christmas cheer by letting all my readers know what a Quasebarth Christmas is like. Here's the first picture, it's of our little tear drop vase with some fake (and some real) winterbery.

Also, in a cruel twist of fate, Stacy's cute little tear drop vase was knocked over this morning. It shattered into a gajillion pieces, but the winterbery was okay and has been transferred.

Happy Holidays!!!!

For more information on real winterberries visit http://landscaping.about.com/cs/winterlandscaping1/a/winterberry.htm

or check out the original post at Squirrel Chatter.