Yes, it's another puzzle. Other people are performing random acts of kindness. While they're delivering groceries to housebound neighbors, donating blood, and running up cloth masks on their sewing machines, I'm joining together the pieces of yet another jigsaw puzzle.
This one will be much easier than the last, which had all those teensy-weensy villas on an Italian hill side. This one is called "Cat Nap". It shows eight sleeping felines in a bedroom decorated by a Crazy Cat Woman. It is full of cat stuff--cat lamp, cat clock, cat figurines, cat bedroom slippers, cat portraits, cat bookends, books about cats, stuffed-animal cats, paw-print wallpaper and a potted plant labeled "catnip." This puzzle also seems to have one missing piece and another from a different puzzle. How did the piece with the angry rooster get into the box?
Reading is another hobby that I'm doing more intensively these days. We've collected too many books over the years. I can't go to the library, which is closed anyway, so I'm methodically reading through our collection. I'm going to donate a bunch of them when this is over. Why hang onto them? Right now, I'm reading Ron Chernow's Titan: the Life of John D. Rockefeller. I bought it at a church book sale five years ago for 75 cents. The book is in near mint condition because the original owner bailed out on page 49. So far, it's held my interest. Chernow is a lively writer. If it turns boring, I will just put it in the donations box and choose another.
Ice puzzle, enjoy
ReplyDeleteOh, I have a feeling the cat puzzle will be as tricky as the villas. Just a feeling...
ReplyDeleteHow do you know they gave up on the book at page 49? That's rather specific.
While it is satisfying to complete a large puzzle, sometimes they can just be too much to take on. Smaller can be a better experience. A good stock of books is useful.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a cute puzzle. I spent some time reading today. All my books are on my kindle.
ReplyDeleteI'm still in the Dark Ages. No Kindle. At least I read books, not scrolls, so I guess that's progress.
DeleteMy mom and dad love puzzles
ReplyDeleteall of us are finding things to do. I stood looking in the linen closet this morning, looking for something I could not find. I thought, today could be the day you take everything out of the closet and toss and return.. will I? who knows. right now I am reading blogs which is one of my go to things for fighting covid-19 boredom
ReplyDeleteStaying home is an important way to help. I am slowly working on a puzzle and reading a combination of books I have and books on my e-reader. I just happened to figure out how to download library books, so that is exciting.
ReplyDeleteTo answer the question you left on my blog: to get the "reply" you have to use the "Embedded" comments rather than this pop up page. Go into Settings-->Posts, comments and sharing. Under "Comments" it gives you "Comment location". You want "Embedded".
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It did!!! Thanks. Your directions were so clear. Blogger's or Blogspot's? Not so much.
DeleteI do not have the patience for jigsaw puzzles.... after one time I bought 1000 piece puzzle because I wanted to glue it on the back to hang it because it was a great image... and I worked meticulously for a long time on it..... and there was ONE PIECE MISSING!!!!! I was very aggravated. :)
ReplyDeleteSearched around the house for a few days “just in case” and then gave up in frustration.
I put it away (got rid of it actually). I *think* I might have found the piece a year or so later in a heat duct... and suspect our cat may have used it as a toy until it fell in the duct. :)
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We once threw away a thousand-piece puzzle. It just got too frustrating. It was a picture of a large ship passing through a fjord, with greenery and outcrops of rock. Too many pieces with identical or similar colors!!! BTW: I agree that the cat was the likely culprit in your case of the missing piece. Cats just wanna have fun.
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