Puzzle Pain

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All right now, this is getting ridiculous. I have had this “Starry Night” puzzle on my dining table for more than a month and here’s where I am. It’s not like I don’t try. I spend time with it almost every day. I calculate I’m getting about two or three pieces per hour of trying in. So I’ve decided that I’m giving it another week--and not just an hour a day. I’m going to devote lots and lots of time to the boring thing this week. No quilt making, no reading except when I go to bed at night. Only the very most necessary housework. If it isn’t finished by Sunday, I’m telling my sister she has to get it off my dining table. As Popeye would say, “Enough is too much."

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In the past few weeks, I’ve discovered (and bought) these two puzzles that caught my eye. I’m very anxious to get going on them. Plus I have five or six more waiting in the wings that I’ve found at the thrift store.

By the way, Mr/Miss/Mrs Turtle was returned to the wilds of my back yard. When Jesse went out a little while later to check on her/him, the critter had absconded. It was nowhere to be see. Probably hiding somewhere from the two-footed monster who caught him and imprisoned him in a big white tub and let some cats stare at him. Live long and prosper, Turtle.

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On 07/29/2019, Barbara Anne said ...

Sorry Starry Night remains more of an annoyance that fun. Feel free to remove this puzzle from your dining room table and our life as it's become a pain in the neck or southwards. The tow new puzzles look wonderful and hopefully the makers didn't make the pieces the same shale.

May your turtle have a pappy life elsewhere.

Hugs!
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