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Puzzles: A Great Way to Pass Time in the Winter
When it’s too cold outside to do much, we turn to puzzles.
Here in the upper Midwest, the winter can seem endless. Gray skies, wind, snow, and sometimes sub-zero temperatures are common. Even for someone with a lot of hobbies like me, one needs something to pass the time. We’ve found that jigsaw puzzles are a great way to do just that! Luckily, we have a large kitchen table that seats eight; we only use that space when we have company. With just my husband and I, we can leave the puzzle at one end of the table and work on it at our leisure!
This has been the case for several years. All the puzzles we’ve done have been at least 1,000 pieces. Some we framed and put on our walls as works of art.
Puzzles make great gifts too if you know the person you are giving the jigsaw to likes them. Two of our son’s girlfriends like puzzles and we’ve given them as gifts to both. This year, it was our turn to receive a puzzle as a gift. And, it’s a doozy! There are 1,000 pieces but the clincher is that the picture on the box does not exactly represent the puzzle in its finished form! It makes the process harder — believe…
