Picture Puzzle

Hello, We were gifted with a picture puzzle of the photo of the family gathered at Miriam’s church. Our downstairs friends thought it was such a good picture that it would make a good puzzle. It was indeed a good choice. Leroy and I managed to put it together in three days. It was fun to see the faces emerge after wondering what was what. It would have been easier if there had been more different colors to deal with. Miriam’s blouse was a stand out and got finished first. Fingers were not so easy to attach to a body so they did not get done very early. Even my older hands were a bit hard to isolate.

From another source we had the gift of tea at a local shop which sells tea and coffee. They did a lot of grinding of coffee beans. I know many people like the smell of coffee, but I do not. I was happy to leave the place with tea in hand. We are also working on a crossword puzzle book. It is a bit of challenge because of the layout of the grids. Many of the letters are not part of another word so there are not so many clues that would normally appear as the puzzle is solved. Don’t know if we should admit it or not, but I am becoming quite adept at looking at the answers without seeing the entire puzzle. Perhaps that is cheating, but it seems some of the them would not be finished otherwise. Paula