Photo of the Week: Rare Moon Puzzle

Colorful blue, white, green, and red finished puzzle showing two orca whales swimming across water with mountains and blue clouds in the background.

It might be a new tradition for our Thanksgiving holiday weekend: putting together a jigsaw puzzle.

But not a typical 300-500 piece cardboard puzzle.

Rather, a wooden puzzle from Puzzle Lab, a Victoria, British Columbia, Canada based company focusing on high-quality puzzles promoting artwork from talented Canadian artists.

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11 Years Later and I’m Once Again Picking Lettuce on Thanksgiving Day

Reddish plastic pot filled with bronze-tinged crinkly green lettuce leaves.

In 2013, as part of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), I chronicled my goal of picking lettuce from my garden on Thanksgiving Day in southeast Michigan.

Not an easy goal, given our nighttime November temperatures were often in the mid-teens (Fahrenheit).

And a trip to Florida in mid-November that year meant I had to rely on a heavy mulch of leaves to protect the lettuce while I was away.

It worked! Eleven years ago today, I picked lettuce for our Thanksgiving holiday meal!

This year, I did the same thing. But not intentionally.

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