182 Digital Puzzles

Jason got me a new tablet for Christmas which means that the one I have been using for years is now going to go to someone else and will be brought back to factory settings. This means that the record of all the digital jigsaw puzzles I have done over the past couple of years will be lost:

There were 182 that I have finished! Most of the images were travel landscapes, with a few art and animal ones thrown in too. I used the app Puzzle Crown, which if you started a puzzle saved it in the tablet and you could work on it offline, so I did that a lot. You could pick from three different 'cut' styles and a range of difficulties, I usually worked on the highest difficulty so that meant it could take long time to finish. In fact, when I was in the hospital being induced, waiting to give birth, I was also working on puzzles - these four in fact:

I wanted screen shots of my 'puzzle history' before I lost it all. Made sense to post on Always Standing, in hopes that would mean I would start posting more. (This tablet has a keyboard that can attach to it which makes it easier to post from.)

Snow Like My Childhood

Sunday night brought a blizzard to Toronto and with it 36cm of snow by Monday afternoon. Jason spent the day shovelling, heading out multiple times to work through it all. The photo on the right is taken through our back door, the snow piling up in the backyard and back porch.

Heading out for a walk today, the neighbourhood felt like what winters were when I was growing up in Paris. I don't know what it is about nostalgia, but the memories I have from childhood include mammoth snowbanks and huge piles after shovelling. Also I remember there being so much snow that it was shovelled with this strange big metal scoop thing that my dad would push and then tip (I saw someone down the street using a similar thing today, so they are still around.)

2019/2020 BACK DATED POSTS

I am in the process of predating posts. Hoping to finish doing posts about...

- Running the cafe and then closing it in 2019
- Hungary/Romania trip in August 2019
- NYC, Palm Springs, Las Vegas/Grand Canyon Fall of 2019

- Drive out west in Fall of 2020

- Vancouver and Edmonton trips in Fall of 2021
- Pregnancy and miscarriage in early 2020

- Pregnancy with Cigi and giving birth

- Cigi in general!

- Cigi's first year
- Life in the Covid-19 pandemic
- Restarting WoW again
I will remove this post once I have finished updating the last couple of years.

Xmas List 2021

* Used items are always welcome!!

Sweeton-Woods Family

- IKEA Gift Cards (For Pax closet in porch)

- Forks

- Plastic or silicone spatula, bowl scraping kind

- Window cling winter decorations

- Large wood cutting board

- Combination lock (Locker at pool)

- Vector cereal

Me

- Sims 4 expansion packs (PC)

- Travel bags for toiletries

- Pajamas (Women's XL)

- Boardgame: Cartographers

- Soap and Glory Flake Away Body Scrub

- Masks, wire at nose

- Cheap Sunglasses

- Waterproof waist pouch for phone, swimming

- Arm pouch for phone, jogging

- Small garden snips, pruner 

- Work gloves (Tight, bit stronger than garden gloves)

- Honey roasted peanuts

- Dried Mango

Jason

- Gift Cards: MEC, Amazon for Kindle books

- UV Swim Shirts (Men's Medium)

- Long stick-style umbrella

- Coffee Beans

- Sour Candy

- Coke, in glass bottles

- Craft Beer (Anything but wheat)

Cigi

- Beach towel

- UV Swim Shirts/Suits (18m)

- Bath toys

- Baby hair brush

- Baby toothbrushes

- Nut butters (No sugar added)

- Burt's Bees Baby Shampoo

- Thinkbaby Sunscreen

- Gerber Baby Cereal

- All/Any Books (Duplicates sent to Edmonton cousins)

--- Indistructibles

--- Classic Bernstein Bears (new ones are religious)

--- Bath books

--- Audrey and Don Woods

--- Munch

--- Dr. Suess

Two

- Small pet bed

- Stick with string toy