Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Georgetown, Exuma, Bahamas
23.31.160N
75.45.475W

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Happy New Year Everyone!  Believe it or not, I was all prepared to tell you that we had a rather boring day but then it ended with a bang.  Quite literally!

It started off rather inconspicuously.  The only news in the harbor was that the water fix in town had failed, so once again boaters were either without water or had to pay for it elsewhere. 

Dale cleaned the port side hull of the grass growing along the waterline.  I read another book before making another large meal to eat now and freeze a portion later--which in a round about manner, led to the big bang. 

We watched Star Trek Into the Darkness and then I got up to put the left overs into containers and put into the freezer.  In doing so, I had to rearrange a few things and Dale and I started discussing why the freezer was icing up again.  I was in the process of doing the paper check (where you put a piece of paper in the seams and try to pull it through) when the freezer (which is incredibly heavy) slammed down and caught my left hand index finger.  I jumped back and grabbed my finger thinking I had smashed it but when I saw the blood I knew I had done a lot more.  Dale was mid “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done that” when I showed him my partially amputated finger tip and said “not like this.”

We don’t advertise the fact that Dale is a doctor; people might get the wrong idea.  Thankfully, he had a small suture kit on board (not sure how we're going to replace that puppy) and sewed it back on.  Unfortunately, the finger is also broken and he says that it will take six weeks to heal.  Guess that means he’ll be doing dishes for a while. 

So here I sit with one hand in an ice pack and the other doing the hunt and peck method of typing.  As I said, a rather inauspicious beginning to the new year.  Hope yours was better.