FurBabies by Nancy Beiman for December 28, 2024

I guess Grandma Heckel can’t quite forget that Sirius borrowed her teeth.

Well, Kate can’t see the picture on the box to help, Floof. Someone’s stopping her…

I love Floof’s Chatterbox. What a great Christmas present for both of them.

Floof has an interesting perspective.

It’s hard to buy puzzles, they are always broken, and when I go to return them, the people at the store always look puzzled.

Puzzle me a puzzle that is quite a puzzle! (Groucho Marx never said this, but if he was around he would agree with me).

Only Floof could come up with this.

Love the teeth!

Grandma and I shared a love for jigsaw puzzles. Even though I was only 7 years old when she lived with us, I was very adept at putting together the 500 piece puzzles. She taught me to first find the 4 corner pieces, then complete the border. She would be scolding Kate for not doing that!

Both Grandma and I always wanted to be the one to put the last piece into the puzzle. Once, we were working a puzzle of the Black Hills of South Dakota. We came to the end of the pieces, only to find that there were two holes in the puzzle. I looked at her. She looked at me. Sheepishly, I pulled one piece out of my pocket and placed it into the puzzle. Grandma cackled and pulled another piece out of her pocket to finish the puzzle. We both had the same idea, but she got to put in the last piece.

Floof has a good point.

I remember the large wood puzzles my Mom had. Very hard to put together.

ha ha – made me laugh out loud. I’m really glad Grandma Heckle has a good sense of humor.

It’s not broken, Floof, there’s just some assembly required.

completion of this puzzle is tantamount to IN DENTURED SERVITUDE

SUMMER AT THE JERSEY JHORE BUNGALOW…NO AIR CONDITIONING…NO TV[NO CABLE IN THE 40S & 50S NOR EARLY 60S] but 8 female cousins [ I am the only male of my generation] and a floor to ceiling pile of jigsaw puzzle s .

Tee-hee! Love it!

A good laugh for today!! Thanks!

If I’m not mistaken, the French for jigsaw puzzle is casse-tête, which means headache, but literally “broken head.”

Some assembly required.

Because an unbroken puzzle would be no fun.

I love puzzles, my favorite is 1000 pc. Collage puzzles by white mountain. Unfortunately I’m currently living in a nursing home where another resident thinks there being helpful by cleaning up my mess by returning my partially assembled puzzles to the box.