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Jigsaw puzzles boomed during the Depression. They were cheap entertainment when people mostly couldn’t afford anything else.

I am oddly lacking in patience when it comes to small amusements—which is sad because my mother LOVED them (and I adored my mother). Card games, dice games, board games, picture puzzles. Crossword puzzles, and the infamous Cryptograms. She could solve the morning paper’s cryptogram while her eggs were poaching. She and Pop played cribbage every day after lunch. I thought about having JavaMan bring the cribbage board to the hospital during my extended stay (28 days, as it turned out), but I knew he’d never find the box.

This is a great time to learn knitting or crochet! Great skills to know just in general and they’re a fantastic way to use up “down time” in a really productive way.

Uncle B and I played a lot of cribbage when we were courting. It was my mother’s favorite game. Stupid world.

In our new lives as shut-ins the family and I have been playing games and watching movies together. We played Scrabble which could even be educational. With our life savings tanking I’m trying to avoid Steam.

@Rich I love jigsaw puzzles, nowadays I do them on the ‘puter. I have a jigsaw game wherein one can import images and set the shapes, etc. I’m fond of 17-19th century seascapes, portraits and genre painting so I scour the web downloading images.

I don’t anticipate much actual downtime cuz it’s spring and living in the country means there’s always work to be done on the property and a long list of projects that will no doubt outlive us. We’re replanting 2 acres of lawn, so I spent most of yesterday driving the horse poop spreader and dragging a harrow. It’s actually kind of mindless fun.

15-2, 15-4, 15-6.

Gun? There’s this nice little piece called a Sten Gun, some guy in some foreign country invented it because it’s easy to make in something like a small repair shop. Good for when ‘Zee Germans’ show up.

Lately Mrs D and I sit down to a nice cup of tea and a piece of banana bread in the evening while we crawl through “they don’t make them like that any more” movies from when we whuz kids.

Last night was Gregory Peck night – Big Country and Horatio Hornblower.

We played backgammon for a while, and I tried to teach her to play cribbage, not so much.

Oh, and, heh – there’s always… Lanterloo 🙂

In CoronaBeer Virus news – turns out according to Daily Fail that 99% of the Italians that have shuffled off this mortal coil with a bare coronavirus also had something else wrong with them BEFORE that.

Your mileage may vary
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8130479/99-patients-killed-coronavirus-Italy-existing-illnesses-study-finds.html