I don't do lots of puzzles - but when I do, I enjoy them. It's a challenge to find the pieces that match and watch the design come together. This one I got at Big Lots - it is a 1000 piece called Twelve Days of Christmas. It is made in the USA. The colors are pretty. And who doesn't like the twelve days of Christmas? Only - get this - it is wrong!
The first eight frames in the puzzle design are right - the partridge, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling birds, five golden rings, six geese a-laying, seven swans a-swimming, eight maids a milking - but then the last four are mixed up! The puzzle has nine drummers drumming - and it should be nine ladies dancing. Then it has ten pipers piping - it should be ten lords a-leaping. Int the puzzle it is 11 ladies waiting - what's up with that? That's where it should be about pipers. And last, the puzzle has the 12 leaping lords where it should be the drummers.
It's no big deal. I still like the puzzle. But there is something wrong somehow about putting in so much effort on a result that is off. I don't like that. There's a life lesson there somewhere.
