Hubby Tale

I love my husband but he does inspire some fun blogs out of misery.

On Monday I returned from a wonderful retreat, exhausted but refreshed. On Tuesday I went to my studio and to a Guild meeting and got back into the groove of work and activities. On Wednesday morning, Joe showed up at the studio telling me he had gone into AFib and needed to go to the emergency room. He learned that his heart was beating out of rhythm about 9:30 am when he took his pulse after exercise class at the Wellness Center. Told to call his doctor, he went out to his car, drove home (about 20 minute drive) and called his doctor who told him to go to the hospital. Not able to get me on his phone, he drove to the shop (12 minute drive), and told me the situation so I drove him to the local emergency room, another 15 minute drive. The point of this is that he started out 3 blocks from that emergency room when he was at the Wellness Center.

Transferred to the OSU Ross Heart Hospital because his cardiologist is there, he spent the next four days getting back to normal and I spent it driving back and forth, 400 miles worth. He's all better but had to add a new medicine, at least for a while, and I'm once again trying to get back in the groove of work.

Let out on a Saturday night about 6 pm, he came home starved and promptly dumped a bowl of tomato soup all over the couch. Ah, life with Joe.

Puzzles on Sunday Afternoon

Three weekends ago, Kai and Quinn found some old puzzles in the toy cupboard and wanted to work them. One was so old I had bought it at Drug Emporium which went out of business at least 20 years ago. It was a lovely rural scene and 500 pieces. We started working and soon Laura pitched in as well when she arrived for dinner on Sunday afternoon. We finished it in 3 weeks and discovered it was missing 2 pieces but for its age that's not too bad. That puzzle was the beginning of the mania.

Puzzles have taken over the living room. Most 500 piece puzzles fit exactly on a tv tray, but I do mean exactly so that you have to be careful not to nudge them over the edge and have pieces flying everywhere. Yes, we know that by personal experience. Thinking I was clever, I bought a piece of poster foam board to lay across the table and give more room to the puzzler and puzzle pieces. I had also purchased 4 puzzles of 500 pieces each with cats, kittens, quilts, flowers, and all sorts of backgrounds. We started the first one two weekends ago and were getting close to finishing it, especially as I had been working on it in the evenings that Joe was in the hospital (another story). So as well as the rural scene on a tv table, Quinn's Fancy Nancy puzzle on a tv table, I now have a third, one of the cat puzzles on the foam board on a tv table. My living area isn't all that big and you know what happened. I knocked the cat puzzle off and shattered it to pieces, haha. For a brief minute, I considered trying to keep parts of it together while picking it up but as they fell apart immediately, I gave up and just shoved the whole thing in a plastic bag and back in the box.

I've been forgiven and this weekend with the finish of the 498 piece rural scene, there was definitely some comfort. Currently on the board, put to the side on a safer table, is a Diary of a Wimpy Kid puzzle that Kai is working on and that I promise not to touch. I do want to start another cat puzzle but we also need to get rid of some that are together. But they take so long to do, it's almost heartbreaking to just put them back in the box. So I've purchased some puzzle saver and that will be the next adventure, next weekend.