January 1, 2026
The first thing that happened, actually on New Year’s Eve at 4:05 PM Mountain Standard Time was the Martin finally solved Griddlers 3122 Rabbit. He’d been fiddling with it for months! It’s on the New Years page because griddlers.com is in England, so it was marked solved on New Years day. Since Mountain Standard Time is Greenwich Mean Time -7 hours, we don’t really know why the server did that. It’s clock must be off.
Then an amazing sunrise with the temperature at 56 degrees! Yep, New Years Day is shorts and tee shirt weather. So, it’s Ice Tea for lunch today!
Here is the Rabbit! This beast is fuzzy, which made it super hard!
Here is a list of all the 20 x 20 black and white puzzles on the Griddlers web site, sorted by points. Martin has solved all of them on this page, with that pesky rabbit checking in at only 15,551 points. The point ratings are generated by how long their solver takes to solve them. That’s a lot different from how long it takes Martin to solve them.
As you can see, the most difficult one, 36358 Boat at 82,754 points, took Martin only 20 minutes to solve. The pesky Rabbit took 2 hours 39 minutes this time. Martin restarted it dozens of times!
The Boat gave their solver fits because unlike us, it has a terrible time with stair steps.
Here’s Sunrise on New Year’s Day!
The ice tea. Upton’s tea scale has various units, grams, ounces and cups, etc. That’s 14.5 cups, which, at 2.25 grams each, is 32.6 grams of tea.
Now to make it iced tea. Since we make 1.2 liters of double strength tea, we need that much ice to cut it. That’s just too much to ask the ice maker to push out it’s dispenser. Its much faster to just pull the whole ice maker out and scoop!
Livingstone starts off every day with some sugar!
There it is! Ready for the reefer and Martin’s 1st cup is ready as well.