Every so often, when I’m bored, I get online and start looking for the puzzles I remember my family having when I was a kid. These are the ones that I’ve been told about us having or the ones I vaguely remember. This is one of those puzzles. My brother was helping me the day that I found this one online. He kept sending me hints and possible images of what he remembered. He’s a few years older than me, so his memory is better.
As a family we were much more into puzzles when my brother and I were young, like grade school and younger. My parents often had a card table set up in the den with a puzzle out on it. It was my dad that got us into puzzling. He’s said that he got into it because there wasn’t much to do in the barracks, so he’d do a puzzle. I think by the time he retired from the military, we had a nice collection. Unfortunately, the basement of one of the houses we were renting flooded and we lost all of the puzzles. Hence, the current search based on sketchy memories. My parents help some in the image search but this was more than 20 years ago, so memories are sketchy.
This is one of the puzzles that we had. The photo of it completed is an old one I found in our photos when searching for something else. I can remember learning how to do puzzles by taking out completed section. It was never more than a 3 by 3 or 4 by 4 square. But then I worked on putting it back together. Working on the puzzle as a whole was just too intimidating, but I liked having that little section. Perhaps this is what my parents showed me to keep me busy but it’s how I entertained myself with the family puzzle.
No Pieces Missing 