Incomplete

Last weekend Addison and I were looking for something to do and so we pulled out a puzzle to work on. When we went to the closet to find a puzzle I saw the normal puzzles that we do, the 24-piece puzzles and decided that this was the day that we finally pull out the big one, the 1000-piece puzzle.


It took us a few minutes to turn over all the pieces and develop some sort of organization, and in a short time we had begun. It didn't take much persuasion to get Kim in on the puzzle action. Before long we had completed the frame of the puzzle and began to work on small portions at a time.

Four days later we were approaching completion on the puzzle when we realized that out of the 1,000 pieces needed to complete the puzzle, we had 999. One piece short! If you have ever felt like you were missing something, like you are 99.9 percent there but just can seem to achieve that last .1 percent, you must know how we felt. 

I wish there was a happy end to this story, there isn't. We looked all over the dining room for that last piece, we look in, under and around chairs, we looked under and around tables, we walked around portions of the house, looked in the game closet, and several drawers. The puzzle was disassembled on a Thursday having achieved a 99.9 percent completion.