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.
Okay, now you got me! Really? A Fox Terrier…that isn’t mine?? Oh my, he is sweeeeet!
He is indeed sweet!
Stay safe, Shanna.
How adorable! What is Bertie’s puppy’s name? I vote for Foxie, :)
Just guessing, but I think Bertie is the puppy.
lol I was so excited about the puppy I didn’t read the post! His name is Bertie. :)
Fox terriers do that to me, too! I just lose my mind when I see one!
xoxo
Bertie is his name, Betsy!
Stay safe.
Eek! Bertie is adorable!
He is such a sweetie!
Stay safe, April.
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!!
Thank you so much, Linda!
Stay safe.
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.
It will be a while. I just started it.
Stay safe, Sherry.
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
I still haven’t got to it – tomorrow, instead. I did other chores around the house and finished the puzzle.
Stay safe!
those chores count, too!
and puzzle-time is important. :)
kathy
It sure is!
xo
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!!
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.
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!
I understand completely, Regula!
Stay safe, my friend.
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!
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.