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we call this celebration Novy god (means new year)

#1: Meg Tayler (rebelcat) on Sep 1, 2008 [SPOILER]

Ah, you must be Russian! :-) Christmas and New Years all in one, with Grandfather Frost bringing the presents. Sounds like fun!

Yes, Meg!
his name is Dedushka Moroz )) and he lives in Velikii Ustug Welcome!

So "god" means "year???

Beautiful tree - not sure I'm ready to see summer end yet though.

good job. I'm ready for fall, but not Christmas and winter yet...not really winter ever.

They why live in UTAH, where it is cold and snows a lot???

And here I thought *I* was on meds... Kinda looks like Adam's been dipping in the dispensary with that sentence. :D

I guess I didn't get your joke, Deana. Sorry.

Beautiful image, Inna... This would make a great Christmas card for p-b-n fans! Good Job! >^..^<

You said "They why live in UTAH..."

I think you meant THEN why live in Utah, but the way it came out looks... funny... perhaps its just BECAUSE I'm heavily medicated. :]

yes Adam the same sound God and rusian "god" (yesr). But we call God as Bog so for russians they are different words.

Thank you each (#10 and #11) for clarifying.

I live in Utah because I do like snow...but it sometimes seems to last forever. And...well, I was raise in Utah but born in North Dakota (air force brat) and this snow was better than it was up there. I like having four seasons. I just wish fall lasted longer and winter was shorter. That's all.

Thanks for spilling your guts, LOL.

I've been doing that a lot the last few days anyway...I've been sick. lol

LOL Sorry to laugh at your sickness, but that was funny! Are you pregnant or something? I mean, you are 30-something, right? LOL Forgive me if that came across as rude.

Adam..tit for tat

HUH?

LOL...if you ask for info then you must give info (didn't you see Silence of the Lambs? that's what Hannibal said to Clarisse)

Ok. I am NOT pregnant. Is that good?

lol...too bad you could make millions

Well, you said I had to tell her what I asked her, right?
LOL

I'm ready for summer to end, myself; it's pretty hot here right now (Oakland, California). I'll be happy when the weather cools off a little.

Beautiful puzzle, thankyou! :)

I have liked both of your puzzles- the nested dolls and this one. You are a very good artist. Thank you!

:-)

Very attractive puzzle. Puts me in the mood for a white Christmas, which is actually kind of an unfortunate mood to be in in September.

Speaking of white Christmas's, the bottom section of the puzzle was significantly more fun to work on than the top section, because none of the top section rows have enough white to give them any slack. So the puzzle would be more fun if it was a bit whiter.

Hmmm...possibly a way of doing this would have been to have a bit of snow accumulating on top of the tree's branches. This would be better than snow flakes because a dot of white with the same color on both sides doesn't create any slack, but a dot of white with different colors on each side does. Since the snow on top of the branches would have been between the green tree and the blue sky it help make the puzzle challenging much more than snow flakes would.

Not that I want you to change the puzzle or anything. I'm just trying to figure out how one could better reconcile the demands of beauty and playability.

By the way, "slack" is a measure of the uncertainty in a row or column. If you pack all the blocks in a row as far to the left as possible, the number of white spaces left over on the right is the slack. A row with zero slack can be filled in completely. If you have more than a few of those, the puzzle tends to be too easy.

Lovely puzzle Inna. Your images are so beautiful!
Thanks for the challenge too. :-)

Laura Frasca (laurabelle): cross the bay and come to Pacifica. I guarantee you that it's cooler here! :-)

I enjoyed the puzzle but agree with Jan on both # 27 and 28.
Any way Inna would you compete in this week's WC ? (Forum #112)

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