Puzzle decks Hiser's door

Beulah Hiser likes to build puzzles to keep busy in the winter.
One of them, a nature scene cut into the shape of a leaf adorns her door at CrownPointe Communities in Portland.
Hiser, 92, first saw the puzzle at an Amish community in southern Indiana and her niece bought it for her as a Christmas present.
The puzzle includes, “A little bit of everything,” Hiser said, birds, butterflies, flowers, cats, a squirrel, deer, a log cabin, a schoolhouse, mountains, a tractor and a boat adorn the nature scene within a nature shape.
“I put it together, took it out to my great-nephew, he put it on a board, and cut it out by hand,” Hiser said of Michael Landers of Portland.
She built the puzzle in her home on Manuels Drive before coming to CrownPointe in March after falling in her home and having to go to the hospital.
Born southeast of Portland, she married Clayton Hiser and they lived and farmed together in Blackford County for 42 years until his death on May 31, 1990.
“You better believe it, I done everything,” Beulah said of their time together on the farm raising cattle, hogs and chickens.
She enjoys playing euchre at Jay and Bryant community centers and bingo at CrownPointe.
Hiser has received compliments on her door decoration.
“They just say it’s beautiful,” she said. “Never seen anything like it.
“Everybody else put wreaths, I decided I’d put that.”