Not Afraid of Color: I Like Thursday # 489 life is a puzzle

Thursday, January 29, 2026

I Like Thursday # 489 life is a puzzle

welcome to this week's list of likes... we had a cold snap! yea!

with snow that melted in two days. Three days later the temps are in the 60;s in the sun headed to sustained heat. We might have had random warm days in the past winters but now

too warm all the time but for one or two days of cold. We looked forward to cold winters when we decided to move here.

On my walks this week

circle the circle that doesn't belong here... no not a giant egg, a rubber ball

a child dropped a candy on the sidewalk, it was covered in a dab of snow, and must be so full of chemicals that it has a half-life of a hundred years!

they call this colorful Colorado

squirrels and bunnies still active

my fave husky siblings, out at night to greet me

the boy is needy, has to sniff me long and thoroughly, the girl waits and gives me a drive-by polite sniff, looks me in the eye, and says hi in this soft voice. I think they are about 11 months old now

I love them

what's that bright star? ask skyview on the phone,,, Jupiter! wow!

jupiter how beautiful!

I think this tree is trying to escape!

an art photo

and one more

zoom button brings the mountains closer

artistically I'm involved with two quilting art challenges... project quilting where I made a portable design wall to take blocks to the sewing machine to be sewn

flannel backing lets cut pieces stay in place to the machine

and a round robin of our own following prompts

"a small like"

I like throwing out lettuce carrot and cabbage trimmings for our bunny, saw her foot prints in recent snow so she's still here

"another like "

is chatting with friends by phone ( Cindy, Joy and Diane in texas) this week!

conversation starter this week is

Do you like puzzles? what kind? jigsaw, things like rubiks cube or slide puzzles, written ones like crossword or sudoku ?

I have loved jigsaw puzzles as long as I can remember. I even remember the big 6 piece wooden jizsaw I had as a really young girl! I quickly mastered it and did it over and over. Then there was the cardboard pieces that fit into a holder as I aged. Now I have been doing 300 piece puzzles online and love them to zone out... just see color shape and images...

I do not, repeat NOT like slide or twisting (rubiks) puzzles at all, I do love a book of math puzzles, sudoku, or logic as well as old fashioned Dell puzzle books with a variety of puzzles.

they are logical when so much of life does not seem logical at the moment

puzzles are somehow calming while being stimulating at the same time, maybe that's why I love a good mystery show too