Happy Wednesday!

Have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle without having a picture of what it’s supposed to look like? It’s a bit tough! While traveling in May to Colorado to see the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, we stopped at a small touristy gift shop. The sales lady was good! She talked me into trying this NEW (to me) way of jigsaw-puzzling; so I bought a Bepuzzled Mystery Puzzle. The idea is, you read a short mystery story, then put the puzzle together to discover the cryptic clues hidden within the puzzle. I read Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band. After finishing the puzzle, I had to finish reading the story with a mirror because the ending is printed backward. If I would have thought to Google it, there are photos that pop up that I could have referenced, but I didn’t, haha!

This year I started snapping pics with my phone when I finish a puzzle. Here are all the puzzles I’ve finished since January:

All of them are 1000-piece puzzles except the succulent puzzle. That one we borrowed from the game room at an RV park where we were staying because it was raining all of that weekend and our outdoor plans were postponed.

Did you know that jigsaw puzzles help improve short-term memory, problem-solving skills and combat cognitive decline? That’s my reasoning for spending my precious time on this somewhat puzzling obsession haha! Plus, I’m usually listening to an audiobook at the same time. That’s gotta be good brain-health exercise, right?!?

Have a great day! I hope you do or learn something NEW!