This is part of our 100 Things in 2014 challenge. Here’s the full list.

So, um, puzzles. Yeah. We’ve never done them ourselves, really, but we both have fond memories of our parents doing them, and maybe contributing a piece or two along the way. This time it was completely up to us. For our initial foray, we chose a 500-piece box from the shelves at our beach house.

Becky, it turns out, is really good at this. I’m not bad at the edges, but she has an eye for patterns. Which I guess isn’t surprising, given her profession.

Here I am dropping the last piece into position.

Those of you with better than 20/5 vision will notice the missing piece. I guess that’s what happens when you get puzzles from Goodwill for 99¢.

This was a good way to spend a quiet afternoon. Next time, we’ll do more pieces.