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Eggplant Puzzle Progress: Day 1

I admit it. I am an eggplantophile.

Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, the first thing on the menu I check out is the eggplant parmesan. If I go to Panda Express, you can bet that one of my items is the garlic eggplant. The funny thing is that the awesome YoshiDad is the same way. We are always ordering the same eggplant dishes when we go out to eat.

So anyway, it gave me great joy when YoshiMom gave me a poster-sized puzzle of Elizabeth Berry's Eggplant for Christmas last year.

We finally opened it up last night & now that I have some (relative) free time, I have a goal of completing the sucker by Christmas because it barely fits on the coffee table. I hope to have it glued down & mounted & ready to be framed (along with my still unframed Jobe Benjamin prints).

Last night, while catching up with all the Ellen Degeneres Show episodes I'd TiVo'd, this is what I accomplished in one sitting:

I did have a little help from Yoshi, who helped me separate like pieces into ziploc baggies, but I can say that I pulled out all (but one) the border pieces and put them together. And I assembled all the pieces that you see so far.

Not too shabby... border, top & bottom words, and two and a half eggplants completed.

Yoshi hates eggplants and is only putting up with this because eggplants make me happy. (Or maybe it's the vicodin.)

I wonder if they have poster-sized puzzles of Roger Phillips' Eggplant or Weissman's Eggplant?

Posted by jozjozjoz at November 14, 2003 08:26 AM | TrackBack