PASTIME ACTIVITIES

 

Across the Fence

 

By Arvord Abernethy

 

 

Mary and I found a good way to pass the time away while shut in by bad weather. She worked on putting pictures in albums and clippings in a scrap book and I worked on a jig-saw puzzle.

 

Mary had boxes and boxes of snapshots from back about year one, so she decided to divide them up and make an album for each of her two sons. It has been a very tedious task, but it will give the boys a very interesting and valuable keepsake.

 

The scrap book is full of clippings of births, weddings, anniversaries and deaths. Among them you will find clippings of her children and grandchildren’s activities in school. You will find a few hand drawn Valentines expressing love from about a second grader. There is Mary’s third grade report card, napkins from weddings and receptions, you just name it.

 

Some of the children gave us a 2,000 piece jig-saw puzzle, so I tackled it during the bad weather. Made it pretty well on the easy parts, but much of it is very much alike. Since the parts are shaped nearly alike and so many have the same color you have to use the trial and error method. It takes a long time to try a thousand pieces.

 

The boxes probably should be labeled, “Caution, can be hazardous to your health.”