Transporting Our Lockdown Puzzle Project...

I must confess that Veronica and I developed a major addiction over lockdown—we became complete puzzle fiends. Early days, Brett helped out, but once our addiction was fully recognized, he backed off and let us get our fixes. The very first puzzle was of Disney Princesses. We then switched to Dutch comic puzzles called WASGIJ, which stands for Jigsaw spelled backwards and features a cover that just hints at what the puzzle will look like. 

After doing three of those, we decided to concentrate on doing comic 1,000-piece puzzles by Dutch artist Jan van Haasteren. We opted to not look at the covers to make our task more challenging. It wasn’t until we’d finished seven of them that Jimmy suggested that we try to put all of the puzzles together for a special photography project. Next thing we knew, we were stocking up on more puzzles with the goal of having 16 for our project. All-in-all, we redid 7 puzzles in addition to the original 4, for a total of 27,000 pieces of puzzle in 4 months!

Carlin volunteered to transport the puzzles in her car to the cul-de-sac for our photo shoot. We stacked the puzzles on the tray that came with the dog crate...

…which provided the perfect way to carry the puzzles. 

We put boxes on top of the puzzles to ensure they didn’t get jostled around...

…and stacked the rest of the boxes on the backseat. I rode with Carlin while Jimmy, Veronica, Brett and Kent cycled over to the industrial park near the train station.