The color of infinity inside an empty glass

1. We finished up another puzzle.



This is the cat side of the two-sided Disney dogs and cats puzzle we got recently. I was anticipating the double-sidedness being a higher difficulty setting but since the "back" side of the puzzle has a matte finish and the "front" is glossy, it was actually very easy to tell which was which. What did add to the difficulty was the fact that the outer edges are just one color. What I ended up doing with some of them was actually checking the back side to see if there was any color on there other than the background green, and fitting those pieces in first, then finally working on the ones that were just single color on both sides and going by shape alone. The actual illustration itself was pretty easy to work on and went quickly (especially since both of us were working on it). I'm looking forward to doing the dog side at some point, but not going directly into that one next.

2. I used up the last of the croquettes we had in the freezer when I made the curry on Sunday, and Carla was wishing we had some more to have with the leftovers, but rather than buy another package (which would have resulted in leftover croquettes), we hit on the idea of using the last few frozen aloo tiki, and they worked very nicely! Now that's yet another thing gone from the freezer (and both they and the croquettes were suuuuuuuper icy, so they really needed to get used up).

3. Jasper!