I'm trying to nudge February on. Normally, I love the calm after the storm of January - holidays are over, things settle down, no baking, wrapping or cooking for anyone. I like the lull of January. February can get old, though. The weather can be nasty or nice and sometimes both in the same day. So we find ways to be busy.
PH has become a puzzler. He started during the lock down years. It's been good for him and he's good at it. This one, I thought when I bought it, would be a challenge but didn't realize how much of a challenge till after it arrived and I saw it up close. I immediately told him, "ok, this one is all yours." Usually we share working a puzzle. I can spot mistake fittings better than he can because he spends much longer at it and after awhile those close-but-not-right pieces just look right but aren't. So I'm The Fixer. I also am The Finisher. When it gets down to the last 50 pieces or so he will turn it over to me.
This table we dragged back from his brother's cottage a couple of summers ago turned out to be the perfect puzzle table. It's big enough for the 1,000 piecers, it fits perfectly in this place in the room so he can work the puzzle and watch a movie on TV. But it's like potato chips. He can't just walk by without trying to fit a piece and one turns to another to another to another.
So before you know it he's sitting down and spending real time. I am really surprised at how organized he is. Believe me, a close up look at this one sends shivers down my spine. But puzzlers have a technique that works for them. When he and my cousin get together and compare puzzle techniques you'd think they were discussing something serious.
I have been helping at the museum with the third grade immersion program. All of the third graders in the city come and spend two full school days at the museum immersed in our local history. They learn how to design their own museum, they learn mapping skills, they learn about the people, the Native Americans, the fur traders, settlers, the immigrants, the way a museum works and why, they learn about archives, they choose an object in the building they want to know more about and write their own artifact labels for them. It's an intense full, full two days but is so much fun. In January we had an 8 day group, this week and next there is a 10 day group, in March a six day group (each group is a school, each school has certain number of third grade classrooms, each classroom is there for two days.)
Thus not a single needle has been picked up so no stitching has been done. Not on museum days.
I love puzzles! But, this one is a real doozey. I admire your husband for sticking with it. My husband's way of doing puzzles is dividing the pieces up by shape. I think that's cheating, so when he gets to the point where things are going slowly on the puzzle and he wants to start sorting - I just walk away and let him finish it. Hope you can get some sewing in soon.
ReplyDeleteThe museum days sound wonderful, I would have loved to do something like that as a school kid. That is an amazing puzzle!! I can see your hubby has been creating the individual blocks.
ReplyDeleteI think that puzzle would boggle my mind for sure. The museum days sound great . I don't think enough kids learn about their own local history.
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