Puzzle Season

Stuey and friend Elias after finishing the 1000 piece puzzle

The days are getting shorter and the time spent inside the house in the evenings longer.  It's puzzle season.  The last couple of winters we have always had a puzzle going on a coffee table in the living room.  And a couple of weeks ago at Stuey's suggestion we started up the first puzzle of the season.  We finished it just this past weekend (top photo).

With the end of daylight savings time it is shocking how quickly it gets dark.  As an aside I often wonder why we don't do a radical daylight savings in winter!  That's when we need the light.  We should have moved the clocks forward 2 hours and not 1 hour backwards.

Anyway, since we moved them back, and not forward, we do need more indoor evening activities.  And that's where puzzles come in.  Once absorbed in a puzzle I enter a time warp.  Suddenly the time just flies by.  Puzzles are horribly addicting.  There is nothing quite like the feeling of finding and fitting the missing piece.   Patrick