This puzzle took about 10 days. The weather is getting nicer, so the kids are spending more time outdoors.
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Seafood Deliveries
Due to covid-19, we switched to curbside pickup or delivery services where possible for groceries. Fortunately many commercial companies in Toronto have changed to service residential customers without additional delivery costs. One of these is Daily Seafood. Our first delivery was simply the minimum amount required ($120). The clams and salmon in that first delivery […]
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1000 piece puzzle: Gapstow Bridge, Central Park
Next up was chosen by Nolan, completed in a week on Apr 15.
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Month 1 of physical distancing
On Mar 13, since Lara was sick anyway, we kept all three kids at home. It turned out to be our first day of social distancing given how things unfolded. Since we cancelled the trip to Costa Rica during March Break, and then schools did not reopen due to covid-19, we’ve been at home a […]
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1000 piece puzzle: Cinque-Terre, Italy
This was chosen as soon as the previous Ocean Colours was completed. Even with the lending, we still have over 30 puzzles under the basement stairs (thanks to one kijiji purchase, a few garage sales and Grandpa!). Still taking about a week to complete the puzzles – this was done on Apr 8.
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750-piece Witches Kitchen Escape Puzzle
We borrowed this puzzle from a lady down the street who bought one of our puzzles off kijiji.
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1000 piece puzzle: Ocean Colours
Felix chose the next puzzle from our stash is one that Grandpa brought. This was completed a week after the Political World Map, on Apr 2. By this time, I’d shared out about 10 puzzle to friends from our stash under the basement stairs. The process is to choose ones we hadn’t worked on in […]
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Scattegories
Scattegories is a game the we started playing during our time at home. The goal of the game is to name objects in a series of categories starting with a specific letter. The letter is determined by rolling a die, and you only get a point if your answer is unique. Here are some of […]
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1000 piece puzzle: Political World Map
We haven’t done puzzles in a very long time. Without the benefit of activities involving others, we checked out our collection of 1000-piece puzzles. This took about a week, completed on Mar 26.