This was not an easy puzzle to do. It took more than a week to separate the pieces and all four orange cats looked alike as did the two Maltese ones. Friend Sharon brought this down as a Christmas gift and didn't get back to find a piece or two. My new rule, here at the house, is whomever comes in cannot leave until they find a piece of the puzzle. There is nothing stingy about me, I am always ready to share hard work. I had another one given to me which has to do with quilt squares and I have a feeling I am not going to do this one. Garish colors all mixed up within squares and nothing makes sense. I guess I am not in the mood to tackle it now.
I woke up at four a.m. freezing and shaking. I have never had that happen before unless I had a bad case of flu. I am not sure if it was the awful food we had for lunch yesterday, which made Pat sick, although I had no reaction . We had soup and salad. the soup was okay but a bit salty, which most restaurant soups are, . . . and the salad was down to the tale end of the bowls and the beets were tangy and sour. The casino has a three dollar lunch for seniors. . . that should tell us something!
A friend sent an e-mail yesterday telling me he was going to send me two of the puzzles he had finished. A nice thought, but I have ten puzzles in my front closet. I told him I thought they were multiplying as they waited for attention. I sent a quick reply and a big hug and told him to give them to the senior centers where the folks do puzzles all the time and in some places they glue them together and hang them along the corridors. A fitting picture to admire after all that work.
Now, with the weather rainy or snowing in most of the country, it seems to me this would be fun for the family and friends to get together and put a jig saw puzzle together. It is like eating peanuts and you can't stop. Years ago when we couldn't afford pictures for our walls we did puzzles and glued them and hung them up for all to see. Some were truly beautiful. The paintings of Beverly Doolittle are now puzzles are a real challenge but the big one we did or the balloon festival in Reno was the piece de-resistance as it took months to finish it. It was a double poster size and every balloon was fired up and in the sky, colors the like I had never seen before. It took my friend and I a good three months to get the last piece in and owner of the small casino framed it and hung it out for everyone to enjoy. So sort the pieces, take your time and enjoy the hunt. And Thank YOU . . . NO . . . I don't need another puzzle.
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