Puzzle fun
What do you do in winter when the snow is flying and the temperature is dropping? Well, among my wife’s and my favorite pastimes for winter evenings after Christmas are jigsaw puzzles. We have a collection of them and we put several together every year. Once one is together we look at it for a short time—the harder it was—the longer we look at it—then we tear it apart again and box it up again, storing all the pieces carefully in a plastic bag tied securely with a twisty so no pieces are lost. The season must always begin with JoAnne’s old favorites from childhood. They are thick Tuco ones with a piece or two missing, but what they don’t have in looks, they have in memories. Then we progress to the harder and bigger ones. We just boxed back up this one; it was 1000 pieces. The black sections were fairly tough. Now we are starting one that focuses on America’s National Parks.
