Puzzles

I love puzzles!  That's good, since life presents itself in a kaleidoscope of puzzles it seems.  But the puzzles I like to escape to for relaxation or taxation are fun kind of puzzles to solve, like crosswords and sudokus...and maybe once a year a jigsaw puzzle.

This year I thought I should get a 1000 piece puzzle and leave it out for all who passed by to put in a piece or two.

I never anticipated doing almost all of it by myself.  I've never done this large a puzzle before.  Two of my sisters are avid jigsaw puzzlers and wouldn't even begin with anything less than 1000 pieces.  So after opening up the sealed plastic bag in the evening of Christmas Day after things had quieted down, I began the conquest.  Yesterday, I placed the final piece into place and was quite proud about it.  To be fair there were a few others involved briefly and I must say even Big Al humored me by sitting with me to painstakingly get that sky done.
Al thought it would be fun to take a picture of me so that I could post our accomplishment!  So he did...