Counting Staples!

Today is the first time that Nathan, Kathy and family have seen Goosey (Woody) since his surgery. They have been on a cruise to the Bahamas and just got home late this morning. Woody took the BIG bandaid off this evening and let everyone see his "big boo boo." Joy decided that they needed to count the staples. She's not sure if there are 24 or 25 staples. Graham came over and counted too. He says that there are 25. Whichever...24 or 25...that's a LOT of staples. The younger children were rather subdued looking at the wound. Joseph (2) still hasn't seen it. I took a picture of his leg last night and it looks ever so much better than the first picture that I took of it. The skin around the wound looks almost a "normal" color once again...the red/purply color of the first picture that I posted is pretty much gone. It looks like things are healing quite nicely. I don't look at it or study it too closely! I will post last night's photo at the end of tonight's blog. This has been a busy Saturday for me. I did all the Saturday errands that Woody usually does...Credit Union, WalMart, library...even made a stop at Kroger and our pharmacy. This afternoon Kathy has made several trips through doing their washing from the trip over here as their washer is on the bum. The children have been in and out telling us things about their cruise. Graham's favorite part was riding in the various elevators with his 9 year-old cousin and eating pizza! The girls had fun with several of their cousins doing each other's hair...Graham said that they took a long time doing that! This was a family reunion cruise with Kathy's parents...there were a total of 23 family members on this cruise...quite a group! All but four of Kathy's parents' 17 grandchildren went. What a time they seem to have had...LOTS of fun by all...or so it seems. Graham and I looked up things on my iPad to check out things about their cruise and the Bahamas. I had a more usual night's sleep last night. I haven't taken any naps...but have been pretty sleepy several times during the day. Woody has stayed quiet for another day doing crossword puzzles and watching TV and library DVD's. Kathy just finished her last load of laundry and has locked us in for the night...so guess we are settling in for another typical, very quiet Saturday evening. Here's the pic that I took of Woody's leg last night...can you count the staples?