Crochet Me Crazy

Saturday I took Alison to her last Saturday dance class for the year. Her ballet exam is next Saturday. This is a big deal and something they really prepare for. I took Alison and her friend from dance to McDonald's after class to eat, play and visit for about an hour after class before we drove home. The dance studio is a 45 minute drive from our house.

Alison had another friend, Hannah, over to our house on Saturday. The kids went into the woods behind our fence and found some blackberries growing. I told them if they could get 4 cups we could make a pie! They worked on finding enough berries to make a pie. By Sunday, they had enough berries so I helped Alison and a neighbor girl make the pie. We even made the crust from scratch -- LOL! I've gotten lazy and haven't made a crust from scratch in a few years but they had fun doing it. Our pie turned out great and I wish I would have taken a picture but I forgot...it's about gone now! LOL!

Then a BAD thing happened. We were working on trimming 4 HUGE Crepe Myrtle trees in our front yard. We had huge piles of branches and wood stacks piled up all over our front yard when Jeff says..."Man, I got myself good!" He was so calm, I almost didn't stop what I was doing. Well, he cut his hand with the pole chain saw on his knuckle! He really didn't want to go to the emergency room and thought about it for awhile before he made up his mind...took a shower, etc. Then we took of for the emergency room where they stitched it up. Thank goodness the emergency room was not busy so we were in and out in a little more than an hour or so. They gave Jeff a tetanus shot because he hasn't had one since he was about 12! Thank God, it wasn't serious. The saw is a very, very light pole chain saw or it could have been very bad. I tried to get as much of the tree mess cleaned up myself as I could last night when we got home because we were right in the middle of this project. I could only stack and move the branches he had gotten cut so far but there is still a HUGE pile of branches that need to be sawed into firewood out there. Hope the neighbors don't mind too much! He's going to need to heal a bit before he gets back out there again!

This is Jeff's last week at his job at GE as far as we know of at this point.