{"id":3728,"date":"2016-04-05T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2018-12-25T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T14:21:16","slug":"a-season-of-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/a-season-of-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"A season of puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3729\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3729\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0222161134-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Tootsie Roll toughie\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0222161134-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0222161134-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0222161134-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0222161134-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0222161134-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tootsie Roll toughie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can&#8217;t say that I wasn&#8217;t productive this winter. Softball, golf, dog walking&#8230; and jigsaw puzzles. My good buddy Dale and I completed a bunch of them. There were a few 300- and 500-piece puzzles, but most were big, difficult 1000-piecers. The toughest one was the one headlining this post &#8211; a jumble of Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Pops, Dots and Junior Mints. Not only was it difficult but it also made me very hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Another toughie was the one just completed &#8211; a painting of what seems to be a Venice canal. This one was tough because it was, when broken into 1,000 pieces, just splotches of color. Dale said he would burn it.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t say that I wasn&#8217;t productive this winter. Softball, golf, dog walking&#8230; and jigsaw puzzles. My good buddy Dale and I completed a bunch of them. There were a few 300- and 500-piece puzzles, but most were big, difficult 1000-piecers. The toughest one was the one headlining this post &#8211; a jumble of Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Pops, Dots and Junior Mints. Not only was it difficult but it also made me very hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Another toughie was the one just completed &#8211; a painting of what seems to be a Venice canal. This one was tough because it was, when broken into 1,000 pieces, just splotches of color. Dale said he would burn it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3730\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0404161253.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3730\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0404161253-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Venice menace\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0404161253-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0404161253-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0404161253-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0404161253-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0404161253-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venice menace<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 300- and 500-piece puzzles:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3731\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0316161712.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3731\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0316161712-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Winter scene\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0316161712-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0316161712-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0316161712-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0316161712-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0316161712-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winter scene<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3732\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161554.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161554-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Village\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161554-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161554-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161554-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161554-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161554-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Village<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3733\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161727.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161727-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Dogs\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161727-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161727-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161727-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161727-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0227161727-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dogs<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3734\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0304161127.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0304161127-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cottage\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0304161127-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0304161127-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0304161127-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0304161127-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0304161127-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cottage<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3735\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0309161552.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0309161552-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bears\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0309161552-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0309161552-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0309161552-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0309161552-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0309161552-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bears<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t say that I wasn&#8217;t productive this winter. Softball, golf, dog walking&#8230; and jigsaw puzzles. My good buddy Dale and I completed a bunch of them. There were a few 300- and 500-piece puzzles, but most were big, difficult 1000-piecers. The toughest one was the one headlining this post &#8211; a jumble of Tootsie &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/a-season-of-puzzles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-Y8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}