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Zickefoose Jigsaw Puzzle--Part Two

Thursday, October 22, 2015 0:27

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At the outset, everybody wanted to help. Even little Chet Baker.

Daddy came in and started helpfully putting together a few of the birds.

This offended a sense of order and even, I daresay, morality in our fiery daughter. She did not see this as helping. She perceived it as poaching. For his part, Chet Baker perceived the puzzle pieces as perhaps small, tasteless bikkits, and he persisted in begging for them long after he knew they were just pasteboard.

Back to the central tension in our living rooom: Phoebe got madder and madder. Then madder. Daddy didn’t get why she should be mad. I would dip in and listen to the conversation, then sneak out. I didn’t want to get caught in the crossfire.

I empathized with both parties. Putting together the birds is fun. And it’s helpful, to a point, until you try putting together the sky, which is not nearly as much fun.

So here’s Phoebe dutifully working on sorting all the blues in the sky wash, which is a large percentage of the puzzle’s area. And here comes Daddy of a fine Saturday afternoon, whipping out the ruddy turnstone in a matter of minutes. I could see smoke coming out of Phoebe’s ears. Like when they pick a new Pope.

For Phoebe, it was like having him sit down at the table, eat her dessert, and say, “I helped you finish your dinner!”

Needless to say, Phoebe and the more pliant Liam were soon left alone to their work.

Phoebe has found a key piece, some bird’s beak. I can’t remember which one, and I can’t see well enough to tell.

Progress photos, some taken very late at night (incandescent light).

The birds are the least of it.

To say this puzzle is challenging is, um, an understatement.

Morning light. They’re still working on it. We’re talking days. But hey. A good 1,000 piece jigsaw should take days.

It’s really coming under control now. I think this was the last day.

They all run together.

In the end, Phoebe settled on a systematic way of locating the correct blue pieces. She made separate piles of each shape, and tried every one in the pile of the shape and hue she needed until she got the right one.

I can only marvel at the system she arrived at. I painted it, but I definitely don’t have the patience to do that.

Basically, you go from easiest (birds and clouds)

to hardest (those durn blues of mine!)

But eventually you finish it! They let me put in the final piece!

The puzzle proved amazingly durable, unflappable!

That’s a mighty proud pair o’ kids there. I am incredibly proud of them for completing it!

Not least because I know it can be done!

Sweet memories of last summer, when our girl came home. She walked right into a sky like the one her mama painted.

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Julie Zickefoose is a painter and writer who lives on a nature sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio. She is the author of Letters from Eden and The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds With Common Birds, due in spring 2012. http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com

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