The following is a post from my website Chrissy…In Her Sixties, which I am currently working on shutting down. The website you are now looking at, That Hobbit Lady, has been with me since November 2004 (nearly 20 years) and contains over 500 posts. In Her Sixties only goes back to 2017, with less than 40 posts. So, you see…in the interest of consolidating, I could either send 500+ posts from That Hobbit Lady to In Her Sixties, or 30+ posts from In Her Sixties to That Hobbit Lady. In addition to the math of that first option not making much sense, it also happens that the term “In Her Sixties” will only to apply to me for a few more years. But I will be a Hobbit Lady forever. So: no-brainer.
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October 8, 2017
In my first post about puzzles, I featured the last puzzle we’d done. In this second post, I’m featuring the first and second puzzles we did. I know it’s a little confusing, but after this, it’s everything that happens in the middle, so it won’t really matter all that much.
As I mentioned last time, I caught the “Puzzle Bug” when I went to Florida to visit my parents and helped them do a puzzle. If I remember correctly, I came back home and told Russ we ought to do jigsaw puzzles, we might enjoy it. Since we make a trip to Wal-Mart nearly every weekend, on the next trip, we went into the toy department and found this collection of ten puzzles in one box. The price was probably something like $15, so we figured we weren getting more “bang for our buck” this way, since this huge collection left us with lots of options.
I don’t remember all the puzzles in this collection, and it has since gone to Goodwill. I can tell you we only did this one puzzle, and one other. We certainly did not complete ALL ten puzzles. At this time, we didn’t know anything about puzzles. We did not yet know the good names in puzzle production (Ravensburger, Buffalo), and just about all we knew was that 300 pieces would be way too easy and go way too fast, and 1500 pieces would be far too frustrating. So we settled on 500, or 750 or 1000 pieces.
The puzzle we eventually settled on, the one pictured above with the wagon and flowers, was one of those sizes. I don’t remember which. And I don’t remember how easy or difficult it was to complete. In fact, I don’t remember much about doing this puzzle except that at the end of this first puzzle-doing experience, we knew we were committed to doing more.
So we did one more from this collection, and here it is:
Two adorable kittens! I’m sure it was my choice, since I am somewhat of a “Cat Lady,” loving almost all images I see of adorable cats and kittens. The problem with this puzzle, though, is that there are basically only four colors: gray, white, pink and green. Later on we’ll learn that a wide variety in colors is just as important as shape and size and interlockability of pieces. But for right now, I was happy to see these two darlings come to life before my eyes.
