Big Leagues

A month ago, I stumbled on a couple travel poster jigsaw puzzles in the spot that community center sets aside for a puzzle exchange. I chose this one of the two because Sally of Santa Fe fame once served there on an overseas assignment with the State Department.

The note on the can didn’t scare me a bit. How hard can it be? I of course proceeded to try to do the outside first, didn’t take too long to abandon that plan. The pieces of the puzzle are all the same shape and the differences in the shapes are miniscule, so they seem like they fit together, but later you realize that the next piece will not fit in the spot you think it will go. I went back to the basics, words first, then giraffe, & then the mountains. The dark brown has a faint pattern making it doable.

When it came to the sky, really hard was an understatement. All those 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles I thought were hard were in the minor leagues, this one is in the show. After 6 unsuccessful attempts at the solid blue colored sky, I took the puzzle apart and put it back in the can.

Top Nine 2024

My Top Nine Score is 94

In 2024 I received 828 likes to my 176 posts for an average of 5 likes per post.

This apparently makes my likes/followers ratio super high, their words not mine, and that’s 3% of my 139 followers liking my posts on average.

I’m in the top 1% of accounts with up to 500 followers! Based on their data analyzing millions of accounts, those with a similar following have an average of 4 likes per post, meaning I get 12% more likes/post than the average!


The upper left photo has the most likes and the lower right photo has the fewest. That #1 post garnered nearly over 10 times as many likes as the one in the bottom right.

Photo #7 is in the lower left is like #1 in that it came from my weekly car wish list. Although it is not an actual Porsche, it is a replica of one and those two blue car’s combined total of likes are more than the likes of the other other seven posts combined.

Photo #8, the rainbow through the VA Hospital’s window, is from January, the other 8 photos are from basically the last 2 months of this year.