Furniture Set

Greetings everyone – I hope you got to observe Remembrance/Veterans Day earlier this week. I went to the Veterans Day parade, saw the wreath laying at City Hall, and enjoyed the day off. We finally got a little rain here, breaking a 37-day dry spell. Not sure it...

Stand up for Yourself

Welp. I know I need the distraction so let’s just focus on the puzzle for a few minutes. Name: Stand up for Yourself Grid size: 15×15 Entries: 72 Difficulty: Easy (my solve time: 5:15) A speedy solve this week, so I had little time to ponder the theme until...

Don’t Take it the Wrong Way

Note – this post was started shortly after the puzzle was published on 23 October, but as mentioned in the post for the 30 October 2024 puzzle, I got distracted and never finished it. The below is a partial post at the request of several kind solvers/readers....

Talk Like a Ghost Day

Happy Halloween everyone 👻 I hope you get more treats than tricks. It is shaping up to be an unseasonably warm Halloween here – near 80℉/27℃. It’s quite nice right now as I compose this sitting on my deck watching the leaves fall from the trees in...

Split Four Ways

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving last weekend, and for those of us with Thanksgiving in the future, that you had a nice weekend. We had beautiful weather, so I got some yard work done and was able to fire up the grill a couple of times. The air is starting...

Swap Meet

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We have had a run of beautiful weather for the past week, after nearly two weeks of (badly needed) rain. Thoughts go out to those in the southeastern US who are bearing the brunt of a record hurricane season, which I fear...