Kristy vs. The (hard) Garden Rake
October 10, 2010
Anthony and I were outside working in the yard. When we bought our new house we decided that we wanted to pull up all the bushes and shrubs that were poorly planted in all three flower beds in the front yard. Two of them reminded me of that big brown shaggy muppet "monster" from The Muppets/Sesame Street. I can't remember his name. Anyway, I didn't like the way they looked. So, Anthony decided it was a good day to work in the yard and pull all that stuff out.
I was working on something and Anthony asked me to come over and hold open one of those paper yard bags from Home Depot. So, I walked over and what do you know? I stepped perfectly on a HARD tined/pronged (whatever it's called) yard rake. Anthony had so thoughtfully left it laying in the yard prong side up. Next thing I know I feel and hear this hard pop on my face and immediately cover my face and start crying. I'm a big baby, I know. I kept saying "why did you do that?" "who leaves a rake laying face up?" I felt stuff pouring out of my nose and Anthony ran inside to grab some paper towels. He kept trying to get me to go inside but all I wanted to do was stand there, out in the front yard, bleeding and crying. I told him to be careful because I thought my glasses had fallen off. He said my glasses were broken and not fixable. Too bad, because I loved those glasses!
I mean really, that kind of thing doesn't happen in real life! You only see that kind of thing in 3 Stooges episodes or cartoons! No one does that for real! Unless you're me!
I finally made it inside and when I looked in the mirror I saw this huge gash on my nose! Yikes! It hurt so bad! I thought I had broken my nose, but apparently the pop I heard was the sound of my glasses breaking. The bright side is that I actually had my head down a little so when I stepped on the rake, it hit me on the nose. Had I been looking straight, it would have hit me in the mouth and no doubt broken some teeth. I'd rather suffer some black eyes, a swollen nose, a nice scar and have to replace an old pair of glasses then have to pay for extensive dental work. That rake hit so hard that I know I would have had a lot of damage to my mouth! Blessings counted!!!
The picture below was taken a week later. I think the black eyes made my green eyes stand out even more :)
