I like doing jigsaw puzzles, so several years ago Roland got me a puzzle table for Christmas. This year I received three puzzles—one from Caroline and Pete, and two from Roland.
Caroline
and Pete had seen the Ghent Altarpiece while in Brussels on vacation this past summer,
so they gave me a jigsaw puzzle of the interior panels. At 8 X 10 inches with
110 pieces, it was smaller than most of the ones I do but still challenging
enough to keep my interest. It also fit on my puzzle table and left plenty of
room to lay out pieces around it.
When
Roland bought the puzzle table, he figured that would make for easy gifts in
subsequent years, when he could buy me the puzzles to go on it. But this year
he discovered that he still needs to pay attention to the puzzles he buys. In
particular, he bought me two 1000 piece puzzles that are 24 X 30 inches.
Unfortunately, the puzzle surface on the table is more like 22 X 31. Wide
enough, but not deep enough.
We
considered laying a board or some other rigid surface over the puzzle table,
but we didn’t have anything that would work. Buying a piece of plywood from
Home Depot or Lowes was an option, but we would rather work with what we
already have.
The
only other choice was to use the dining room table, but that wouldn’t leave us
enough room to spread out comfortably during meals. Then I remembered the leaf.
Adding it to the table gave us just enough room. Problem solved.
1 comment:
Tom added the leaf in to his dining room table for the same reason and since we always work 1000 pieces and from time to time your problem crops up he decided to leave the leaf in place year round.
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