National Puzzle Day

It was National Puzzle Day, and by coincidence, we were doing a new puzzle in the living room.  You can see Maddie working on part of it above, while she and I were taking turns throughout the day getting the thing together.  It was a murder-mystery puzzle, which meant that we had to read a few pages of a mystery and then put the puzzle together in order to look for clues to solve the thing.  We had nothing to go on with the image itself, so we only knew what it would all look like when we were done with the puzzle.

And so there was much rejoicing when we finally got it done.  I think it was about 550 pieces, and the final image showed a bit of fatal mayhem and chaos, along with one small clue, which both Maddie and I spotted eventually.  We saw something out of place amongst the see of clues, and made our guesses from that.  We were on the right track, as that one item was the calling card, and Maddie guess correctly whodunnit.  Although, she also admits that part of her deduction came down to guesswork, as if you have a politician as a suspect, typically the pompous politician is the guilty one.

Anyway, that was a theme throughout the day.  So was Sulphur Springs.  We revisited this spooky hotel area, binge watching nearly the entire second series.  We may go on to see the remaining two episodes tomorrow.  In fact, I can't imagine a world that exists where we in fact don't see those last two episodes tomorrow.  The show has been great fun, and really well done, puling you along with an intriguing supernatural sci-fi storyline that makes you want to watch just one more episode, and then one more, and then one more... and so on.

This morning, Maddie and I were off to see a local guy about getting more wood, as our supply has greatly dwindled.  We loaded up the car and then unloaded the car, running the fire in the fireplace nearly all day.  The reason for this is the dreadful cold outside.  It's the coldest it's been all year, or perhaps all winter might be a more impressive way of putting it.  Regardless, it's cold out there. 

With that in mind, we stayed indoors largely today.  Tomorrow's service at church is going to be a big day, and I was focused on the skit and on the message that I'm going to deliver - I'm doing the preaching tomorrow.  It'll be a good day.

We read tonight, and we prayed.  Then we were under those blankets pretty quick.  The fast ends today - we're already at the end of the twenty-one days!