Tuesday, December 23, 2008

All I Want For Christmas is to Not Get Stitches! Oops, too late.

Hey everyone. So today for work I drove to Albany to pick up some more steel for a hammock that we're working on, and I get back to work and think to myself, "Should I get the steel out of the back of the truck first, or should I go eat lunch?" I decided I was hungry enough to eat lunch first, so I parked the truck by the studio and walked down to the house to eat. After lunch, I'm walking back up to the studio to get the steel out of the truck, looking down as I walked in case there was some ice or something I could slip on, when out of nowhere the steel decides it's going to hit me in the mouth. It hurt like hell, so I put my hand to mouth and ran my tongue along my teeth to make sure none of my teeth fell out, thankful that they were all still there. I pulled my hand away and quickly realized that almost my entire hand was covered in blood. I ran inside the studio and into Colleen, who heard the war cry the steel let out before it decided to gash my mouth open. I grabbed a towel and we headed to the family practice in Stamford where Colleen's Aunt works. Unfortunately, she wasn't in, but the other doctor was, so I got 3 stitches in my lower lip and a tetanus shot, and an order to eat soft foods for the next few days. Only soft foods?!?! Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but with Christmas in two days that's going to be really difficult. At least I get the stitches out on Friday, unless Aunt Sue looks at them before then and takes them out earlier. I was going to post a picture of the stitches, but they're pretty gross looking so I decided not to. Our friends Grace and Chris came and visited a couple weekends ago. It was pretty cool. We saw a coyote one morning when we were out for a walk and it scared Grace. It was kinda funny. Here are a couple pictures from that:




Hope everyone has a good Christmas!

Monday, December 1, 2008

New House

Hey everyone, here are some pictures of our "new" house that we're living in. Part of the house was built in the 1850's, then the rest of it was built around the 1870's. It's 3 floors, 8 rooms, two bathrooms, a living room, dining room, and a kitchen. It's pretty sweet. Colleen and I have two rooms that connect on the first floor, so we have a bedroom and our own private living room area. Our friend and "landlady" that we're living with teaches in Brooklyn for most of the week, so we pretty much have the run of the place. We're going to help her do some work on the house, our first project is helping her get one of the bathrooms ready to get the rest of the stuff installed in it. We'll be knocking a wall down to make room for a washer and dryer, and we're going to sand the floor to get that ready for some new tile to be laid. We're really excited. There's 26 acres for us to play on, plus a pond that will hopefully provide some swimming fun once it gets warm again. That's about it for now.


This is the front of the house from across the road. Some of the windows were being replaced today so didn't want to take too many photos of the front of the house just in case you all thought I was living in a house with no windows in part of it. So, as soon as the windows are done, I'll take a couple more pictures of the front.
Here's the back of the house from in front of the pond.
This is from a little ways up the hill behind the house. You can see part of the pond through the trees in the photo.
This one is looking from one edge of the pond towards the back of the house.