Normally at Halloween I post photos of the pumpkins Kim and I have carved, and this year I had intended to do the same.  We got a couple great pumpkins (not to be confused with The Great Pumpkin) at Howell's Tree Farm the weekend before last, and upon our return from Orlando yesterday afternoon (about which there will be another post), I had an Autobot symbol sketched into my pumpkin ready for carving.

Unfortunately I ended up carving my thumb instead.

I was using our Cutco meat carver, when I did a crossways cut that slipped.  The Cutcos are REALLY sharp, so when it slipped it sliced across the pumpkin and right into the side of my thumb, right up to the base of the thumbnail.  I immediately dropped the pumpkin and dashed for the sink, holding it under water.  Kim called my mom's boyfriend Tom - a former police officer - who came over and drove me to the clinic.  A few stitches later and I was feeling better.

So no pumpkins this year, which is too bad.  I was really looking forward to my Autobot pumpkin, but at least I still have my thumb.