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!