Very Puzzling Puzzles

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Guess what? It's now the second of April AND we still have winter weather! How could that be? We've had wet snow - whatever that means. Isn't snow always wet?! We're lucky to enter into the forties during the day. That, indeed is a puzzle. And it's one that the perennials and grass just don't understand. They're ready to be fertilised and pampered, not frozen over!




For all you jigsaw puzzle fans, I think you might like our games room. It's just full of jigsaw puzzles. Not that I do them. Puzzles are just too, well, puzzling. And I'm already still puzzling over what to have for dinner tonight, and whether to jump up and down to get some exercise or to go for a walk in the incessant cold weather.



That one above was too big for the table in the gamesroom, so it was done on top of a rug!




There are two puzzles here lying side by side on the table. And one isn't even the right way round! I call that a puzzle. How can anyone do a puzzle when it's turned the wrong way?



I may have solved one puzzle - instead of cooking dinner tonight I think we'll just get take away!

Jigsaws and so many Puzzles

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Do you do puzzles? I don't. Can't remember the last time I ever did one. But, in our house someone here really loves jigsaw puzzles. Even the great big three thousand puzzles are no match for him!



The puzzles form beautiful pictures. That's for sure. Sometimes we've even hung them on the wall.

But, what I find very puzzling indeed is where to even begin a puzzle. Do you begin at the edges? In the middle? Maybe just do little bits at a time? What's really the purpose of a jigsaw puzzle? Most times it can take days, weeks even, to finish a large jigsaw puzzle, and then you just break it up and dump it back in its box!




I much prefer to deal with puzzles that I can understand and that don't get broken up once they have been solved.

What's for dinner tonight? Hmm. That's a puzzle. And once the puzzle is solved, we can gobble it up. How to research your family tree? Now, that is a HUGE puzzle! It's a fun one. And once you're done you'll know lots of things about your great, great grannie.



I guess jigsaw puzzles aren't any different from other puzzles. Once they're solved, then that's that. It's time to go onto the next puzzle.