Summer ‘seas’ puzzle

I buy my puzzles at thrift stores and thought this one had a good summer theme, "Seas the Day." It's over-sized so I had to put my puzzle table away as it was going to be too small for it. I've seen this a few times - people put all of the edge pieces in a bag separate from the other pieces. That feels like cheating to me, but I'll take it as a head start. Wouldn't you know though? The bag didn't have all of the edge pieces in it. I thought it looked a little skimpy considering how large this puzzle is going to be.

While I was working on this puzzle, Andy handed me a puzzle piece that he found on the floor. It doesn't belong to this puzzle and I'm pretty sure it's from this bird puzzle I did back in June. That could be a sign I need to vacuum the dining room caroet more often. Anyway, I'm sure the bird puzzle has long been recycled since I don't pass along puzzles with missing pieces.

Such a pretty summer puzzle ... and all of the pieces are there! So far, Piper and Ruby have no interest in the puzzle area, which is a good thing.