In Another Edition of Things That Seemingly Only Happen to Me

For Christmas I asked for, and received, a puzzle board.  One that was supposed to rotate - but the lazy susan bit was missing.  When I emailed the company about it they told me it wasn't supposed to rotate - despite the description on the box saying it did.  We went round and round (get it?) about it and it was never resolved.  No matter, the puzzle board works fine without rotating.

All of the previous superfluous nonsense to say that I ordered a puzzle after Christmas in order to "break in" my new board since no one thought that giving me a puzzle would be a great adjacent gift to the puzzle board.

Here is the puzzle I bought.

Or so I thought...

As I begin sifting through the pieces looking for all the edges, I began to think something wasn't quite right.  And as I began piecing together those edges, I KNEW something wasn't right.  To the point, that I called The Husband in and told him to look at the puzzle pieces and then to the box - did that look right to him?  He agreed that it did not.

And so I began the painstaking process of putting together the puzzle with NO idea of what the finished product should look like.

Let me tell you, when you are flying blind while putting together a puzzle it takes much longer than it usually does - which is why you are just now hearing about this tale of woe.  And everyday was a new discovery.  Oh look, it's a baby bear!  Oh, there's a mama bear!  Oh look, there are boats, cabins and, shocker, trees.

And, in what I'm now calling my "signature move" when it comes to puzzles I, of course, lost a piece. *sigh*

At any rate, this is the "completed" puzzle; which I'm sure you will agree does not look anything like the box that proclaimed to house the puzzle inside.

After this debacle, I'm almost afraid to order another puzzle.

Have you ever come across something this ridiculous?