Gonna give this new DIS software a try .....
So yes we got in last night about 6pm as the sun was getting lower in the sky. Tiggerdad called me out of the blue when I was out on the beach highway by the new Gulf Lodge hotel so you can guess that by the time I checked in and went to my site, there was a crowd gathered to watch me back in. (It's one of the things we like to do - I've been on that side too).
It only took me one back-and-forth to get into my spot (during which the assembled crowd let out a disappointed "aw"). I blame spectator interference and for the safety of the fans I had to adjust.
Lisa and I did minimal set up then we assembled at Randy's camper for Nic's pork chops. Most of the gang was there except Teamubr who was out running around (as he told us this morning) with DW. Met Judy and her gang and Bishop Arc and his DW so there are some new faces here this year (although we do miss Gloria/Arnold and Mike).
Yeah, the sunrise pics in my post above were beautiful. Note the last picture has the start of the puzzle set up for this year. I did some more set-up in the early morning while is was cool(-er) but there was a nice breeze. So here is my set-up outside so far. Pretty much done from this angle.
Tiggerdad was the first puzzler to show up this morning (as is his habit). You can see him seated in the bottom left corner of this picture at the table. It's a new puzzle this year, 1000 pieces and NOT a Thomas Kincade.
The Kincade puzzles/paintings have fine detail even along the edges which helps get pieces in the right places. This one is a little tougher because of the lack of detail along the edges and subtle color changes along a good portion of the border.
But tiggerdad, Bishoparc, Teamubr, PaHunter, and Southalabama5er, and Judyfun all stopped by this morning to help get it started along with some spouses and pets. Bishoparc brought some peanut butter pretzel bits and Fort music and PaHunter's DW brought some chilled banana chocolate chip bread so they both paired nicely with my morning diet Coke.
It's getting warm quickly here so we called it a morning and here is our progress.
It is a portrait style picture and it came with a nice fold out copy for reference so we no longer have to pass the box back and forth.
Gonna do shop shopping this morning to pick up things we need/forgot and then
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Ed
PS - so the sunrise pics that I uploaded directly loaded quickly but the linked pics in this post more slowly. Hmmm.
