Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 10, 2021

so much for family togetherness

Reminds me of when my dad tried to teach me how to cook on a grill. It all went over my head.

Jigsaw puzzles are really fun. Gracie should like them as they are good for cognitive thinking.

1000/1500, no problem! 5000 piece got me. That sucker was 40 × 60 inches and used a whole dining table! Still have it, only tried it once.

Guess that’s one way to get teenagers to clean their room!!!!

My wife and two daughters used to love doing big puzzles together when the daughters were young. But by Gracie’s age, maybe a little later, they did start to move away from it.

Jigsaw puzzle manufacturers are one of the industries that have done well in the pandemic. Some quality family time generated by putting them together… And the occasional fight.

They went to pieces!

Well, that worked nicely.

We do 5-6 per week, 200+ since last April. Then donate them to assisted living communities in town. They have kept us sane.

Always good to have a pair of nippers nearby when you find a piece that the factory cut wrong and you just KNOW it’s supposed to fit there.

I’d suggest my wife to assist, but she works solo on puzzles.

I have a computer puzzle maker. I load pictures into it and enjoy remembering the times the pictures were taken while putting them together.

We always did jigsaws when I was a kid (great for lockdown activities, too!), and we loved it.

He should be smiling in the last panel. Sneaky but satisfying.

He is still in shock about them cleaning their rooms.

Or maybe he is disappointed that they hate it so much they would rather clean their rooms. He may have genuinely wanted some family time.

I have one 1000 piece puzzle in January, and have a new, unopened 1000 piece puzzle waiting its turn. This second one is called “Sanitize and Sterilize Post-COVID Series”. It looks like the contents of a janitor’s closet.

Can’t say I blame them.

I’m with Gracie and Baldo on this.

I must admit that I’m surprised Gracie didn’t jump on this!

I love doing puzzles together.

File that away for future reference. To get his children to clean their rooms, ask them to put together a jigsaw puzzle.