{"id":7969,"date":"2019-08-03T12:32:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2019-08-03T12:32:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T16:32:21","slug":"still-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/03\/still-puzzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Still puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_7970\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0728191051a_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7970\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0728191051a_HDR-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"746 pieces\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0728191051a_HDR-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0728191051a_HDR-768x1017.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0728191051a_HDR-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0728191051a_HDR-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0728191051a_HDR-400x530.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">746 pieces<\/p><\/div>Since leaving Florida &#8211; and pretty much while there all winter &#8211; the only jigsaw puzzles that I have done were the computer ones.  These are 300 pieces with all the pieces correctly oriented.  They are fun, but they are a shadow of a real jigsaw puzzle of 500 pieces or more.<\/p>\n<p>So in addition to buying 16 books at the library book sale at the recent New Salem Old Town Day, I also bought a used 750-piece puzzle from a private vendor.  Used puzzles almost always are missing pieces.  But for a buck&#8230; what the heck.<\/p>\n<p>I got a 750-piece puzzle that looked like it might be a challenge (it was).  And, true to form, it was missing 4 pieces (my challenge to you: spot them in the photo).  Took me about 3 days of spare time.  I enjoyed doing it.  I may want to do another sometime before I leave Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>But the next one will be new, sealed at the factory, no missing pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since leaving Florida &#8211; and pretty much while there all winter &#8211; the only jigsaw puzzles that I have done were the computer ones. These are 300 pieces with all the pieces correctly oriented. They are fun, but they are a shadow of a real jigsaw puzzle of 500 pieces or more. 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