Puzzle, Movie, Sports

1) Puzzle

This past Friday Demoree and I completed our second puzzle...this one being much more difficult. The nice thing about this puzzle though is that it actually got easier instead of harder as we approached the end. In fact we from the right picture below it took us about 15 minutes to get from there to the finish.

A few pictures taken during the final stages of the Simpson puzzle.

The completed puzzle!!!

2) Movie - Prince Caspian

Great movie...its very rare that I sit through a movie that is over 2 hours long and then say I could see that again. Demoree and both said that when it got to the end. Its quite obvious that C.S. Lewis' stepson (Douglas Gresham) is a co-producer of the movie because its (A) holds to the original story very well and (B) clearly conveys the Christian message (at least if you are a Christian).

3) Sports - Red Wings

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images

I'm glad to be able to say that there won't be a game 7 of the Western Conference NHL Finals...the Wings are Conference Champions!!! Now its on to the Stanley Cup Finals!!! When the Wings lost game 4 I wasn't too worried, but when they lost game 5 (looking quite bad mind you) I was a little concerned. Basically watching the Red Wings regularly for over a decade (I think I've watched the vast majority of playoff games since 1993) I have seen them go cold and suddenly they go from scoring 4 goals a game to 1. It made me nervous seeing them not score on a 6 on 3 to end game 4 and scoring only 1 goal in game 5. However, they surprised me by coming out of the funk with a 4 goal performance to finish out the series. Now that it is past us I think this will help the Wings a lot...had we entered the Stanley Cup Finals with a 10 game win streak I would feel that we would have to either sweep the Penguins or would probably loss the Cup (that two game funk would have happened and perhaps we couldn't have afforded that). Now I think the Wings will be ready for a challenging series that should be very exciting. It sure would be nice if we could get Henrik Zetterberg his first cup, Pavel Datsyuk his second (first as the go-to-guy), and Nicklas Lidstrom his first cup as team captain (we've never won it without Steve Yzerman or Scotty Bowman...in recent years).

Puzzle #2

Sherry noted how much Demoree and I enjoyed doing the puzzle we got from her parents at Christmas and decided to get me another puzzle for my birthday. Not only is it a puzzle but it is a Simpsons puzzle…bonus.

Poster of Puzzle #2

So Demoree and I got to work this past week on it. The first thing we did was setup our work area and began sorting the pieces.

Demoree at our “work” desk getting started on the puzzle.

We quickly realized that this wasn’t going to be an easy puzzle because there are large areas of basically the same color, really weird shaped pieces, and (most significantly) the entire picture is made of thousands of small pictures from the Simpsons.

Showing that the picture is made of thousands of small pictures.

To make things even worse they repeat the same picture quite frequently in a given area…ugh. However even with these challenges we are still making good progress and will eventually get it completed.

Current status of the puzzle.

Simpsons Wisdom

*During an episode of the Simpsons Bart was about to fail the 4th grade. He had one test that he had to pass to not be left behind. The night before he prays to God to give him one more day so that he could study more. His prayer is answered and he studies hard and ends up getting a D-, which was the bare minimum to pass. Then at the end Homer puts Bart's exam on the frig and says.

Homer: We're proud of you boy.

Bart: Thanks dad but part of this D- belongs to God.