This is the first puzzle I did after my concussion, while still on vacation. My mother had brought it along. We did the first sitting together, then she went to do other activities and I kept puzzling. All day. It was one of the few things I could do (besides nap, or sit in the bath- sans book!- or take a short walk). So with many breaks, I completed the whole thing. Kind of surprising it didn’t give me a headache, what with all the text in the picture, but really I was focused on the piece shapes and colors to match, didn’t have to make my brain interpret the words. And most of these I knew at a glance- in fact, over twenty of the titles we still have in my own house from when my kids were small! That made it so much fun.
This is a newer Springbok puzzle, made in China. It has the same quirky random cut I know from older Springboks, but disappointingly, it did cause me a lot of finger pain (new out of the box). I had no disposable gloves so washed my hands between sittings.
The only two titles on this puzzle I don’t know were Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type and Eloise. Well, I recognize Eloise but I can’t recall if we ever actually read it. So I might have to remedy that, as my brain can handle pictures and short sections of text better than pages of just words, right now (I’ve been reading a graphic novel to get back into things).
Final pic. Finished size 30 x 24″. Completed 12/29/23.
I may come back and add a slide show of assembly pics later- I did take them on all these puzzle builds, just can’t do that much computer time yet. This one, like Autumn Hillside, I took with my little flip phone. The lighting and angle to stand for a shot were much better in this situation, but the table was an awful backdrop (patched together different tones/grains of wood) as you’ll see if I ever put up those progress shots.
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Glad to see you back again! You must have been so bored without books. No computers or TV too, I bet? Hope you’re 100% better now!
Thanks! Not quite. I still can’t watch tv without getting queasy- I think it’s the combination of screens with motion. (Blinking or moving ads on the computer bother me too). I still have to keep my reading or screen use to thirty minutes or less, and can’t do more than two or three bouts of that per day, or I get very tired. But it is a gradual improvement and I hope to be back to normal by the end of the month.
So much to catch up on.