I was looking around the blog for some posts, and wound up staying up a bit too late last night reading some old posts from the Life category. I don’t seem to write about myself nearly as much as I used to in ages past, and that’s too bad, because this blog is like a snapshot into my life via those posts. Don’t get me wrong, I tend not to write anything truly intimate or revealing because, well, that’s none of your damned business. But I did like writing about the kids (and especially about teaching, but I don’t do that anymore), and reading posts about what I was doing years ago makes me smile and go, “Oh, yeah! I’d forgotten that.”
This weekend was a quiet one for me. I spent Friday doing mostly nothing, just because I could, and because it was so utterly enjoyable. I discovered that I can’t put together my new indoor remote-control helicopter until I find my jeweler screwdrivers set, so there went that experiment. (My Great Room has a 20-foot ceiling and a loft landing, and I can’t wait to launch that helicopter when Tig is up on the loft looking at me through the railing.) Big Bang Theory Season One arrived, but by that time, I’d already finished reading Patricia McKillip’s latest novel, “The Bards of Bone Plain” (great, as usual, but still not as good as her best-ever, “Alphabet of Thorn”). And I started on my new puzzle, “A hundred mice and a piece of cheese,” having already finished “A hundred elephants and a mouse” and given it to Sarah for the kids to put together.
I like jigsaw puzzles that have a lot going on, and are cartoonish. There was one I had growing up that I wish I still had, called “Verticalville.” That was fun. I don’t care for things like all-white jigsaw puzzles, because I don’t put them together to see how the pieces match, or to challenge my brain. I put them together because it’s fun to make a picture out of funny-shaped cardboard pieces. Last night, I caught Tig on the table. He was on it the night before, but not while I was around. I walked into the dining room and there he was, splayed across the pieces, eyes huge, ears back, ready to play. So I picked up the cookie tin with metal things in it and shook it at him as he ran away. Apparently, I need to remind him to stay off my BRAND-NEW dining room table.
Today looks like it’s going to be a repeat of do-nothing mode, because there’s not a lot to do when it snows. I’m not one of those people who goes shopping for deals the day after Christmas. I have plenty of leftovers, and even if the power were to go out, I’d be fine, because I have a gas grill and two and a half tanks of propane. I think I’ll work on the puzzle a bit, catch up on the season finale of Burn Notice, and go out and play in the snow with Tig at some point. A nice, quiet, peaceful day.
That sounds like a real blessing, Meryl. Enjoy.
Uh oh, the triangle head cat made an appearance!
If you ever want to do some surreal artwork puzzles check out Illusions series I & II from Holden puzzles. The artist is J. Harris Stephens, they are very busy puzzles with extreme depth to them. Sounds like a very nice way to spend your days off. Relaxing. You just know your jewelers set of tools will be found in the last work drawer in the back, under the manuals for last thing you used them.