1000 pieces.....PHEW!!

It has become a "tradition" that at Christmas a little project, to drive some crazy, unfolds or spills onto the dining room table. A sharp knife is used to cut the seal around the bottom of the box that holds a challenge for some. Once the seal is cut and the top of the box is removed, the 1000 inter-locking pieces are dumped including the fine cardboard dust onto the dining room table. Then the sorting begins....the outside pieces are slid to one area while the rest get flipped to the colored side. Of course, the outside edge is the easiest part of the 1000 piece challenge and before long....VIOLA....the border is ready for its many other pieces to join it (the remaining 900 pieces that is.) Your eyes start crossing and the colors start blurring. The glare from the chandelier starts giving you a headache and before long you are thinking I have done enough for right now. But you can't stop.....just 5 more minutes then 5 minutes turn into 15 minutes until 1 1/2 hours and two glasses of wine later you are checking the floor to make sure no pieces have fallen and hoping if one or two did, Ruger hasn't chewed them. You stretch like a cat and definitely decide to call it a night but not until another glass of wine is gone....the one that will get rid of that headache!!!