The World Needs More Ninjas

We ended up with about five wooden pallets on our back porch (long story involving the desire to make a compost bin). Eventually, we decided we weren’t going to use them and started looking for ways to get rid of them. Amazingly, getting rid of pallets can be a lot harder than it seems. We can’t fit them in the RAV4 anymore without removing the babyseat base, which we really don’t want to do and we haven’t been able to give them away on craigslist.

So, we thought maybe we could break them down and throw them away in our regular trash over the course of a few weeks. It also gave me the first ever opportunity to actually use the crowbar we keep under our bed for protection (incidentally, we will see this is an effective weapon). I was getting towards the end of breaking apart the first pallet when I went to pull a piece of wood off and the wood splintered causing the crowbar to spring back and whack me in the forehead.

I didn’t hurt too bad, but shortly thereafter blood started dripping uncontrollably from my head. So, basically, Leigh Ann had to get Kaelyn ready in a rush to take me over to an Urgent Care while I laid on our steps to keep from passing out. The end result of my forehead’s encounter with the crowbar was eight stitches.

It also left our back porch looking like a murder scene. I’ve put up some pictures in our gallery and more will follow once I take my band-aid off. We thought it would make a nice scene to scare trick-or-treaters. The nurse also suggested I could throw on some glasses and be Harry Potter for Halloween.

In other news:

• Pirate attacks are up worldwide. I recommend packing a crowbar if you’re going to sail the high seas.
• Here’s a funny remix of Darth Vader’s death scene where he plays a little Blues on his harmonica.
• We put up some new pics of Kaelyn in our gallery.
• We pass one of these signs on our way to Charlotte, and I’ve always wondered exactly what I’m supposed to do in response to the warning:
  
• Today in church, they were looking back at their first 10 years and seeing what it was like in 1997. It was kind of weird, they ask all these members what they were doing back in 1997 and all the ones who were graduating high school and starting college looked older than me. Also, they played the Sister Hazel song All for You and it crossed my mind that probably most of the people under about 12 years old in the audience had never heard this song I remember from high school.
• He likes turtles. Bill O’Reilly disagrees.