Who's Laughing Now?

We had Taco Tuesday last night!!!  It was so great to see Maddy and Matthew again!  I haven't seen them in person since before my quarantine about 3.5 weeks ago.

Jen baked some seasoned fish and I pureed up a can of chipotle peppers for her to add to some mayo, sour cream and other secret ingredients because I don't remember all she threw in there.  Oh my that was good for fish tacos!!  And it went fast.

I also made some spicy refried bean and had beef taco meat in the crockpot and all the fixings, thanks to the rest of my family!  The fish was the winner last night so there is plenty of beef left and that is OK!  Knowing my son, as I do, it will get eaten up fast.  He could eat tacos for every meal and 2nd meals in between.

Dylan, our renter, asked me about Wordle yesterday morning.  He'd seen everyone bragging about their word guessing smarts on FB and wondered what it was.  I explained it to him, because I just discovered it within the last week or so myself.  

There is one puzzle a day and only 6 tries to find the right word.  Example.

guess 1:  F R I E D         < lets say the R turns yellow and the E turns green.  That means the R is in the word somewhere else and the E is in the right position of the word.

guess 2: L A G E R     < E and R are both green. 

guess 3:   A F T E R          < ER is green, F is yellow

guess 4:   R E F E R       < bing bing bing!  You got it in only 4 tries!

So anyway, WORDLE is the puzzle of the day and it is super popular right now.

After dinner, we raced on the historic WORDLE puzzles from a year ago to see who could finish theirs first.  Meri's bf Ryan is very good at it!  As is she.  That must be how they spend all their dates...

Anyway, Dylan gave me a puzzle and said he'd like to see if I could figure it out.  So after I got stuck on the zeros, ones and eights, I made a new rough draft and printed out enough copies for everyone for last night.  

Robb would have loved this.  He was a math wizard!

We all sweated over it before, during and after dinner and actually came up with solutions for all of them!!  I'm so glad Matthew was a MATHLETE in high school!

Aren't we a smart bunch?!  I can't find the word S W E A R in WORDLE but I can certainly find the square root of a number!

The teachers didn't know what they were saying when they said we wouldn't always have a calculator in our hands when we're adults. HA!  Yes ma'am, we will...         

I love it!

 So I've been working on this puzzle since the day after Christmas.  It was amazing seeing his face come together.   

 I was given this puzzle by Ryan and Jen for Mother's day and saved it for the puzzle time of the year.  SO enjoyed it!!

 And here is the secret to this type of puzzle...

ERROR checking!!!

I flipped it over and found about 4-6 pieces that I must have tried to  jam into the wrong spot. Fixed it.  Was still missing the one piece so scoured the floor and looked under the hutch.

Found it finally under a dog bed under the table.  So now it's done and I still need to glue it down and find a place to hang it.   

Maddy and Matthew have finished 5 progressively larger puzzles all week that they've had off for their vacation.  Someday I'll get there too and finish 5 puzzles in a week!  I have started my 2nd one and for now, that's perfectly fine.

The first one turned out perfect.  That kid's look just slays me...

The Pieces Are Coming Together

Here is the puzzle that I started just before Christmas and my nieces and nephews completed it while they were here.  They pulled it all apart and now it's my turn.  

It's been moved onto my sewing cutting board so we could have the dining room table for Meri's birthday dinner, but yesterday I wanted my cutting board back, so now it's back at the table.

All the meticulous sorting of pieces corrupted...  sigh.

Oh well.  I did a quick sort for a while last night and then again this morning after Leon got onto the school bus, which arrived 4.5 minutes earlier than they usually do.  EGADS!  RUN!!!!

Anyway, the puzzle is coming together.

 It's as good as done.

As for my labor of love, I've got a cloth hemmed for the under pillow and the scarf thingy done for the top of the coffin.  

I've still go the curtain to complete and ribbon to make from all the satin remnants to hot glue into place and cover up all my stapling mistakes in the lid.

Meri and I will go again on Saturday and finish it all up.  

I plan to take some old photos for Mom to look at while we're there too.  Should be a memorable time. :)

Hard to believe that in exactly one week, I would have been flying to Florida for the cruise.

That can wait.