My Hand

I have ripped up my right hand today. In sixth period today, I had to reduce a dead tree to firewood, and it wasn't just a tree either: it was a thorn tree... At any rate, I had an axe, and I had knocked all or at least most of the trouble branches off, and I was getting into the trunk of the tree. I had hacked at it for a while, but then I got bored of hacking, (partly because I had already acquired a great granddaddy of a blister as well as several minions) and so I attacked it with leverage, trying to pull one end of the trunk up, while keeping the middle down. Fortunately, the trunk was neither very long or very wide, but it was big enough. At any rate, I pulled and pulled, and got thorns in my hands for the effort, before I gave up and my little brother walked over and ripped it apart. All that effort for naught. I was to be had. Latter that afternoon, The entire SIS (my school) track team up and went out to view the stadium that the meet is going to be held in, and to do some practice. The only problem was that I am in high jump, shot put, and discus, and we weren't supposed to throw either shot or discus today in an effort to save the grass, and The high jump pit is rather ungainly, so they didn't bring that either. So I got to soften up the long jump pit which hadn't been used for an entire year by the look of it, and the "sand" had all petrified into some sort of bullet/shovel proof mess. I was given a shovel and was told to attack the pit. I did so, and summarily, I broke the shovel on a rock. It wasn't a small shovel either. It was one of those really "strong" shovels with a five or six centimeter diameter solid wooden handle. Came right apart, after leaving another blister. This was all after I played guitar and discovered a new fascinating noise that you could make with the side of your hand. Sadly, The side of my hand, (my pinkie finger particularly) has a big scab on it now. This sounds like I am simply posting to complain, but really, I think it is hilarious, (though my hand does hurt some), and reducing the tree was fun, as was the guitar... Try to look at this as another episode of a series of unfortunate events: the main thing I am trying to have going is humor. At any rate, prayer would be appreciated...