Thanks Mike and John.
Mike - I went to see my regular doctor today. Saturday was just a walk-in clinic visit to get the x-ray done. Unfortunately, It's almost an hour drive across town, but I got behind the wheel. It went well, but after about half an hour, the knee started barking a bit. He poked at it, and really pinpointed what I had done to it. He explained how things in the lower leg are connected, and why the pain radiates down my shin to my ankle. It's been a week already, and it's way better than when I first did it. Patrick and I were going work on the layout Saturday, but I told him I wasn't going to be up to it, so we'll try again next week. When it comes to jigsaw puzzles, I have always liked them, and been pretty good at them. They may help exercise parts of the brain that we use in model railroading. If you want to build that skill, two suggestions. First, start with a small number of pieces, probably under 500. Second, find a picture that you like! A lot of my puzzles are train related, but not all.
Here are a couple I did recently:
This one was 2000 pieces of the Las Vegas Strip. I loved the bright colors, and we stayed at the Luxor in the lower left corner when we visited a few years ago.
I got this Larry Fisher print, from Larry himself, back at the 1999 NMRA National Convention when it was in St Paul. He did this and a second Minneapolis piece for the convention.
Some local train guys recently pointed out that it was available as a puzzle, so I had to have it. It was fun until I got to the sky. Then it became a real pain.
