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Pat Gal
@patgal.bsky.social
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📚Book lover ❤️🧩Puzzler🧩(she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🦉🦩
My hubs says HE’s the nice one.❤️ 🇺🇸Vote Blue! 💙BLM 🌻I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦❤️Ben’s MiMi🌸Flower lover❤️🐈🐕❤️ No DMs please!🙏
#Puzzles #Flowers #Cats #Books #Birds
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OMG! Read this book‼️‼️‼️
Autocracy Inc. by Anne Appplebaum
April 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Rereading this amazingly powerful novel about bad shit in 1970’s Jamaica and the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.
Sooooooo freaking good‼️
#booksofbluesky
The book is A Brief History of Seven Killings by the amazing Marlon James.
February 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Happy Caterday!
Kind of a miserable day here, with snow and rain. A good day to chill out at home. Hope you have a relaxing weekend!
#catsofbluesky, #caterday
Picture of cats sleeping in various locations, window ledge, box, bureau drawer, on a big green rocking chair. Alongside is the poem Cats Sleep Anywhere, by Eleanor Farjeon.
January 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hope your day is off to a good start! When do you take down your holiday decorations? We will put things away after the Feast of the 3 Kings on Monday.
Here is a close-up of the sweet puzzle I just finished.

Title: Enchanted Nutcracker
Artist: Joy Laforme
Galison, 500 pieces
A couple of ballet dancers. He is in a grey unitard with a pink belt. She is wearing a pink tutu with a white crown. He holds her at the waist as she stands in Arabesque. Over their heads leaps another dancer in a blue leotard with red and white stripes. Below is the mouse king with a twisted sword. Peppermint candies, gumdrops and snowflakes, swirl around.
January 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This lovely flapper is ready to do the town!🎉
We’ll welcome the New Year in at home, probably snoring on the couch.😅
How about you??

Puzzle Title: Evening in Paris
Milton Bradley, 1000 pieces
#HappyNewYear, #Puzzles
1920’s style dress on a young woman in a cloche hat. The outfit is all gold colors in the background is a lit street lamp and a car from that period. Art deco style shapes decorate the edge of the picture.
December 31, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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White cat looking at us upside down. Captions say: Good morning Have a wonderful day
December 29, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Hope you have a chance to relax and recharge today!😊

Puzzle title: Quarantine Cats
Artist: Brigid Ashwood
Buffalo, 750 pieces
#catsofbluesky, #puzzles, #cats
7 cats hanging out on and around a blue couch. An open bag of potato chips is spilled out onto the couch. There is a teapot and tea cup on the coffee table in front of the couch. Plants and a chandelier hang in the background. One of the cats is chewing on the back of the couch. A second cat is sprawled out on his back. A third is scratching at the side of the couch.
December 29, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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One of my earliest memories is holding onto my grandfather’s hand and walking out to the chicken coop to hold the baby chicks.❤️😊

Puzzle title: Barn Babies
Artist: Tricia Reilly-Matthews
SunsOut, 300 pieces
A cute little girl with pig-tails is holding an egg in one hand and a chick in the other. She is wearing cowboy boots and a blue jumper. There is a baby pig by her side and 5 other chicks. They are all in front of a red henhouse. A brown hen is watching the from the doorway. There is a basket of eggs nearby and two sunflowers.
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Sorry you and Bri were ill for Christmas. Hope Hanukkah will be better!
Colorful menorah. All 9 candles are lit. Words beneath say Happy Hanukkah.
December 26, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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I love the little details in this puzzle.
Bonus that it’s cats and a dog.
❤️😊❤️
Title: Hanukah Living Room
Artist: Andrea Strongwater
Bits and Pieces, 500 pieces
#Puzzle, #catsofbluesky
A mainly blue picture. Large windows glow yellow. They are covered with differently designed Star of David.There is a menorah in front of one window. A blue wreath is hung over the mantle. A fire in the fireplace. Two blue chairs with a cat in each. The tabby is curled up, asleep. The white Persian is sitting up. A table with dreidel and coins sits in the middle of the room. A fluffy dog sits on the floor. Gifts and decorations are everywhere. Sign in the corner says, Happy Hanukah.
December 25, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Good morning! 🎅✡️🎄🕎🤶😊❤️
Collage of Christmas and Hanukkah images. Santa hat, Christmas tree, candy cane, Elf on a Shelf, fireplace with stockings hung, dreidels, Star of David, gifts wrapped in blue paper, small pile of Hanukkah coins (gelt). Also the words Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah.
December 25, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Hope you’ve all finished your shopping and wrapping and can finally relax!
I made lasagna today to have an easy Christmas dinner tomorrow.
What’s on your Christmas menu?

Puzzle title: Christmas Eve
Pickforu, 1,000 pieces
#Puzzles, #catsofbluesky, #Cats
Puzzle shows stockings hanging by the fire. Holly boughs dappled with snow on the fireplace mantle, a pile of colorful gifts in front of the fireplace. Next to it is a white cat wearing a Santa hat. A smiling Santa is seated at a table holding a tabby cat with a red bow around its neck. On the red tablecloth are a pile of cookies and sitting on the table is a striped tabby cat wearing a Santa hat. There is a pretty Christmas tree in the background.
December 24, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Happy holidays to you and Bri as well!
December 24, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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What’s left of our cookies!
December 22, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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These look nothing like our Christmas cookies, which (with a 7 yr old in charge) tend to have a lot of cyclops-type features.😅
Did you make cookies this year?
This puzzle was a lot of fun!🧩❤️

Title: Christmas Cookies
Springbok, 500 pieces
#Puzzles, #Christmas
Various colorful Christmas cookies. Star, snowman, Santa, Grinch, stocking, Christmas tree.
December 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Here’s an image from my
“Puzzle Wish List”.

Title: The Cat Countess
Artist: Janet Hill
New York Puzzle Company, 1000
#catsofbluesky, #puzzles, #cats
Beautiful woman with dark hair, carries a huge red umbrella. On her shoulders, under the umbrella, are 30+ cats of all colors, and patterns. Some are wearing hats or bow ties. The woman is wearing a pinkish coat with red trim. She is looks up at the rain, concerned with keeping her kitties dry.
December 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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“Mom, you are never going to fit in that parking space.”
#dogs, #dogsofbluesky
German shorthaired pointer sitting in the front seat, looking concernedly out the car window at sidewalk and city building.
December 17, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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Close enough, Sinclair Lewis.
December 15, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Everyone should be gifting puzzles this year!
Yes, this is a hint‼️😄

Title: Jeweled Cat
White Mountain, 1000
#catsofbluesky, #puzzles, #cats
Puzzle painting is the full body of a cat, sitting on its haunches. It is completely covered by a beautiful pattern of jewels. The border around the cat is a tapestry of jewels.
December 15, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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We really enjoyed this dark comedy series,
No Good Deed‼️
December 15, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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Hello everyone!
Happy Caterday!
Any jigsaw puzzlers out there?
Title: Jeweled Cat
White Mountain, 1000 pieces
December 14, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Let’s go, bitches!!😊‼️
Puzzle with city scene. Bakery, music shop, colorfully dressed carolers around a huge Christmas tree, dog with pup looking on.
December 13, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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I love this owl puzzle with the snow softly falling.
(Too challenging for me though, I think.)
Title: Great Horned Owl
Castorland, 500 pieces
#birdsofbluesky, #puzzle
Close up of Great Horned owl sitting on a branch. Snow falling in the background.
December 10, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Thought for the day.
(Hope yours goes well!)
Photo of Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, holding a sign reading, “There has never been a time when the people who banned books were the good guys.”
December 9, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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5 stars for this little #book (118 pgs). A lovely one to read at Christmas time,
even though it’s disturbing as hell.
Totally green and white book cover. Snow is falling on snow-covered rooftops in a town. Title: Small Things Like These Author: Claire Keegan
December 8, 2024 at 4:52 PM