Good morning folks. Sorry, this post is going to be without pictures this week. It turns out that I split the back of my hand open on Thursday and cut the knuckle almost all the way off my hand. You could actually see the finger bones. I had to get nine stitches to sew the thing back on. I was thinking about putting the picture of that up but it is pretty gnarly. But the doctor seems to have gotten it sewn back on and the bleeding stopped sometime yesterday.

I cut my hand fixing a trailer to load up a UTV to go out into the back country. We had actually gotten quite a bit of rain early this week and were concerned about how passable the roads were. Nick was there to help me get the bleeding stopped and drive me into Holbrook.

But I would like to note, that even though I missed 2 hours of work getting my hand stitched up, we still managed to get the trailer fixed, and went out into the field. We found two new archaeology sites, including a six or so room pueblo, and helped with a property inspection on some lands that should be a part of the park soon.

But archaeology can be dangerous work. I hope that you are always prepared for the worst.