January is jigsaw puzzle season at the Jones household. I don’t know if it’s the cold outside or just that we need a change of pace from the business of Christmas. But each year when January rolls around, we dig out our stored boxes and pick some of our favorites. Sometimes we have dueling puzzle tables. I spread out a puzzle challenge on the old wooden table in the family room and JoAnne puts a puzzle out on the end of the dining room table. JoAnne always begins with a puzzle that she has had since she was a girl for old time sake, even though it has a missing piece.
I usually begin the season with a Christmas puzzle with children in it as I think of the grandchildren and their Christmas activities.
But soon we move to more challenging ones. We keep track of the number of puzzles we complete and the total number of pieces involved each year. This year we each had a new puzzle to work on that presented bigger challenges. Mine was the one pictured above. It was titled, “The challenge“ for more than one reason. The cut was such that the edge pieces were not always obvious. What do these three pieces have in common?
JoAnne worked on a puzzle featuring stamps from all the 50 states. As you can see it required a rather unique type of organization in order for it to be completed. She loves comparing pieces to the box picture and her new puzzle was ideal for that type of puzzle work.
