Looks Like We're Not The Only Ones Itching For A Puzzle...

My wife came across a story in our local news media yesterday. The headline says it all:

Utah puzzle company experiences an explosion of sales

It's one of the many consequences of a world-wide event where people are urged (or forced...) to stay home and not go anywhere. In hindsight, we probably should have seen a run on puzzles with everyone stuck inside. Then again, who could have even imagined anything like this happening in the first place. 

There's a lot we didn't see coming.

Last week we did a little grocery shopping and spotted one of Eric Dowdle's artistic works all chopped up to interlocking pieces. We picked it up. This is not the first Dowdle puzzle we've bought. In fact, one year we chose Dowdle puzzles as Christmas gifts for my wife's siblings. There's so many puzzles to chose from, we were able to find puzzles of the cities where my in-laws live.

One of my favorite Dowdle Folk Art puzzles is a scene of the Holy War university football game between the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Great puzzle.

The local news article goes on to say how everyone is clamoring for more puzzles. You can access the story: HERE. We can definitely understand the draw. It's a great activity when you've run out of things you want to binge watch or read. And, the entire family can help out and enjoy the challenge. You can access the company website: HERE.

We bought the "Best of Utah" puzzle. The only downside for us is it was a 500-piece puzzle--it took us less than two hours to complete. We had hoped for at least a 1000-piece one. Looks like we'll need to do some digging in our storage boxes for the Christmas puzzles we have--that's the only other time we've had the time to do a puzzle, when we didn't want to go anywhere else. Now, even though the reason we're all home is different, the fact we're all home remains the same.