Several days ago my spouse and I agreed that it was time to start putting together another jigsaw puzzle. This was a few days after we had agreed to wait to puzzle again until after our trip to Egypt which is coming up in 12 days.
We do enjoy working together on puzzles. It's a very companiable activity. However, we should have chosen our puzzle more carefully. We had a choice of two, one was very colorful but had 2000 pieces. The other was only 1000 pieces but is a picture of an M. C. Escher painting called Belvedere painted in 1958. I will show you a picture of it when we finish but if you can't wait, you can Google the artist and find the picture. You will see that the whole painting is done in shades of gray, not at all helpful for puzzling. The puzzle is as fiendish as the pictures with many many pieces that almost but don't quite fit.
In hind sight we should have said no to both of these, re-gifted them to someone at Christmas, and bought one we both liked at Hallmark. But it's too late now. We are approximately two fifths of the way through the puzzle, just too far along to quit. So we will continue working on this puzzle and we feel confident that we will finish it (before or after the trip).
Now that I think about it, a couple of 'fifths' of another kind might not speed things along, but could make the process more enjoyable.
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