Admittedly, I worked obsessively on the puzzle yesterday, with a long session in the morning and then another one in the afternoon. I finally got the Tower of London in place in the late afternoon and Don said, “Enough! Go sit down. Dinner’s almost ready!” But he understands. He’s the same.
I love, love assembling jigsaw puzzles. I get in a zone, I talk out loud to myself as I fit pieces into place, I feel anxiety fade away. But I must do it all by myself – no help from others. I don’t know how I’d do with any sort of communal jigsaw puzzle. Not too well, I suspect!
I finished the Simenon/Maigret and have started Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, who wrote one of my favorite novels ever, All The Light We Cannot See. He’s brilliant.
A package arrived yesterday from Northfield Primitives (in Yorkshire, England.) Of course, I had to photograph this new member of the family. Meet Bertie:
Imogen has been walking him.
Isn’t he adorable? Isn’t she adorable?
We watched a new documentary about Kurt Vonnegut the other evening and it was excellent! If you’re at all interested, it’s on Amazon Prime. There was so much I didn’t know about him. What an amazing and brilliant man he was.
Okay. I’m off to organize and clean up my studio/office space which I said I would do yesterday.
Stay safe.
Happy Wednesday.
Shanna says
Okay, now you got me! Really? A Fox Terrier…that isn’t mine?? Oh my, he is sweeeeet!
Claudia says
He is indeed sweet!
Stay safe, Shanna.
Betsy B says
How adorable! What is Bertie’s puppy’s name? I vote for Foxie, :)
Shanna says
Just guessing, but I think Bertie is the puppy.
Betsy B says
lol I was so excited about the puppy I didn’t read the post! His name is Bertie. :)
Shanna says
Fox terriers do that to me, too! I just lose my mind when I see one!
Claudia says
xoxo
Claudia says
Bertie is his name, Betsy!
Stay safe.
April Baldwin says
Eek! Bertie is adorable!
Claudia says
He is such a sweetie!
Stay safe, April.
Linda / Ky says
Claudia — such a sweet companion for your girls! I totally understand your ‘obsession’ w/jigsaw puzzles as I suffer w/the same thing, haha! Only one grandgirl understands how I feel when we begin a puzzle and can get ‘lost’ working on it b/c she is the same way !!! so glad you/Don have each other/know each other so well, stay safe/healthy and enjoy the New Year!!
Claudia says
Thank you so much, Linda!
Stay safe.
SherryB says
Cute pup! Wish I had a live one. I am anxious to hear your review of Cloud Cuckoo Land. I agree All the Light You Cannot See may be one of my favorite books of all times, but I’m having difficulty with this one. I may need to stop and then revisit.
Claudia says
It will be a while. I just started it.
Stay safe, Sherry.
kathy in iowa says
cuties!
great puzzle (and putting it together so fast)!
i love jigsaw puzzles and enjoy working them with my family around the holidays (a family tradition).
happy sorting. i grumble about such tasks (when I’d rather be with my family, knitting, etc.), but know it’s worth doing … same with daily chores to maintain things.
lunch break is soon over.
stay safe, well!
kathy
Claudia says
I still haven’t got to it – tomorrow, instead. I did other chores around the house and finished the puzzle.
Stay safe!
kathy in iowa says
those chores count, too!
and puzzle-time is important. :)
kathy
Claudia says
It sure is!
xo
Jen says
Bertie is adorable! I’m afraid I’m selfish when doing puzzles; we have relatives in and out of the house all the time and everyone thinks it’s ok to stop and try to find pieces. I hold my tongue!!
Claudia says
I’m so glad that Don has absolutely no interest in doing a puzzle! And we don’t have people in the house – rarely, and I suppose even less now that Omicron is out there!
Stay safe, Jen.
Regula says
Puzzles are very addictive. No wonder you wouldn’t get up until Don said it was time to eat.
I had a friend over yesterday who confessed that he has been into puzzles lately just to “survive”. And it made me think of a time I had done just the same.
Happy end of the year!
Claudia says
I understand completely, Regula!
Stay safe, my friend.
jeanie says
Bertie is just the cutest thing ever! Oh, four-star adorable!
And that puzzle is a killer but well done. It must be tremendously fun to do but very demanding! I don’t mind doing puzzles with someone else working on them so long as we don’t do it together! I have a New Yorker one to start after the first of the year!
Claudia says
I finished the Shakespeare and tomorrow I’ll start on the New Yorker puzzle Don gave me for Christmas.
Thanks so much, Jeanie.
Stay safe.