(03-30-2020, 10:27 AM)Rico Wrote:

(03-30-2020, 10:21 AM)Mikey Wrote: I am an avid puzzle assembler, and unfortunately my youngest is too young to do more than help pick out border pieces and my oldest gives up the second they become challenging.

I've still knocked out a few over the past couple of weekends.

My biggest problem with puzzles is that my Lab likes to sneak his face up on the table and eat the pieces.  We thought maybe he had gotten over it since he's now two.  Nope, the puzzle we finished on Saturday had 15 pieces missing (and two chewed ones that weren't missing).  He must be sneaking out there at night because we haven't actually seen him doing it.  We started covering the one that we started on Saturday night.

Two cats, so I share your pain. The last one I built I forgot to cover, woke in the morning to find that someone(I know which one, stupidcat) was on the dining table and clawing at the pieces, and they were scattered. No pieces missing, but especially when the puzzle is incomplete, I have to lay a blanket over everything, or we are bound to lose a piece or two to the vacuum.

stupidcat's claim to fame, though, involves a puzzle we got from goodwill type second hand purchase. I built the puzzle, and found about 15 or so pieces out of 500 were missing. Bleh. So at feeding time, stupidcat eats her food (she gets her name by being too dumb to understand that chewing aids digestion), jumps up on the dining table, onto the detached leaf upon which I built the puzzle, and yaks her food all over it. Guess she wasn't impressed with my work.

We cleaned up the mess, and the puzzle went into the box, and straight to the trash

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(03-31-2020, 09:19 AM)WingerDinger Wrote: Working.. As part of the DoD, we got deemed essential..  Bittersweet..

gubmint here as well, still in office.

for now, at least. It's still so hard to focus on work. I could be building puzzles!

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