It's hard to believe how long it has been since I blogged.
So long that I've forgotten how to do this. Maybe it will come back to me.
So long that I've forgotten how to do this. Maybe it will come back to me.
These are busy times. Truth is some weeks ago I fell off the wagon....
blame Buckeye Bargains on OSU campus.
blame Buckeye Bargains on OSU campus.
I spotted an old puzzle with a compelling image. I tried to resist, but I opened the box and the pieces looked fairly new - a lot of right angles.
I believe only three pieces were missing in the yellow sky.
I'm a recovering puzzleholic...
I have a wardrobe full of boxes of them, mostly older puzzles, but some acquired for the imagery that attracts me. I used to spend hours and hours working them - so much so that I would ache from straining over them. I would spend 3-4 hours at a time and it would haunt me until I finished. A few times I made little cardboard pieces for the missing ones. I think I went for several years maybe 3-4 years without working one, except with a family gathering or at St. Stephen's Bookworm, where Tom Minnick would be working one to see if it was all there. I would sit to put in a few pieces. At least the store closed at 2pm so that was a time limit.
Well I finally finished it and for a while it was my screen saver. I have put the puzzle away and now the screen saver is two violets.
However, back in June of 2006 I was on an OSU studies abroad garden tour of England. One visit we made was to Southport where I wanted to find the Lawnmower Museum - I think it was under the category of Eccentric Britain. I thought what a hoot! Besides I like old lawnmowers. What a wonderful place.An old hardware store with an upstairs packed full with about four rooms of all sorts of lawn tending equipment. Even the lawnmower given to Prince Charles and Princess Di! I think admission was a dollar or two. But it was certainly entertaining and worth it.
Another treat in Southport was the most delicious lunch I had while in the UK at a public market. I have a photo of the meal and the place somewhere if I can find it to post.
I found the public library and it was fairly quiet - serious book folks. I saw a sign on a door about a puzzle club that meets there regularly and I was amazed at the thought of there being a puzzle club. Britains are farily serious puzzlers. There's a history there you can read about from the US puzzle club website:
http://www.puzzleclub.us/
Oh, and several years at the King Avenue Church Rummage Sale there was a great old lawnmower like I used to push as a child. I could not resist $5 bucks and an antique!
I'm a recovering puzzleholic...
I have a wardrobe full of boxes of them, mostly older puzzles, but some acquired for the imagery that attracts me. I used to spend hours and hours working them - so much so that I would ache from straining over them. I would spend 3-4 hours at a time and it would haunt me until I finished. A few times I made little cardboard pieces for the missing ones. I think I went for several years maybe 3-4 years without working one, except with a family gathering or at St. Stephen's Bookworm, where Tom Minnick would be working one to see if it was all there. I would sit to put in a few pieces. At least the store closed at 2pm so that was a time limit.
Well I finally finished it and for a while it was my screen saver. I have put the puzzle away and now the screen saver is two violets.
However, back in June of 2006 I was on an OSU studies abroad garden tour of England. One visit we made was to Southport where I wanted to find the Lawnmower Museum - I think it was under the category of Eccentric Britain. I thought what a hoot! Besides I like old lawnmowers. What a wonderful place.An old hardware store with an upstairs packed full with about four rooms of all sorts of lawn tending equipment. Even the lawnmower given to Prince Charles and Princess Di! I think admission was a dollar or two. But it was certainly entertaining and worth it.
Another treat in Southport was the most delicious lunch I had while in the UK at a public market. I have a photo of the meal and the place somewhere if I can find it to post.
I found the public library and it was fairly quiet - serious book folks. I saw a sign on a door about a puzzle club that meets there regularly and I was amazed at the thought of there being a puzzle club. Britains are farily serious puzzlers. There's a history there you can read about from the US puzzle club website:
http://www.puzzleclub.us/
Oh, and several years at the King Avenue Church Rummage Sale there was a great old lawnmower like I used to push as a child. I could not resist $5 bucks and an antique!
