Good day turned bad at Mt Pleasant Farmers Market

Today started out as any other Saturday, Kate came early to keep the kids and Jim and I headed down to D.C. to the farmers market. The market masters tend to not like me very much and always seem to like to cause added friction to my day by finding something wrong with how we set-up our market table, to telling us that we can't sell certain products that we DO PRODUCE and very much CAN sell, but anyway that was pretty normal too.

What happened was at around 11:00 while Jim was going on and off the truck getting milk for the customers he must have had some ice stuck to the bottom of his shoe and when he stepped out of the back of the truck he slipped, dropped the milk, and then fell hitting the top of his head on the edge of the concrete sidewalk! I did not realize anything was wrong until I turned around to go and get more milk for another customer and found a whole crowd of people around the back of our milk truck and then seeing Jim sitting on the bumper with blood running down his face...I was really scared! I am not a doctor in any since of the word but I was able to pull his hair aside and look at the wound and not get sick or be grossed out, I was quite impressed with myself. Alot of the customers and market managers thought that he should go to the ER, but he kept insisting he was fine and that he would just sit down and be OK. Finally someone convinced him otherwise and they took him in their car, so now I am all alone in D.C. (hoping and praying) that he will be OK and be back soon. Luckily, we have made friends with many of the vendors and a guy from the booth next to us offered me a hand whenever his booth was slow.

Jim was back in about 20 minutes he cleaned himself up at this person's house and a doctor happened to live next door who looked at the wound and told him he would be OK...I was still very worried about him, but I knew enough to watch his eyes and to keep talking to him the whole way home in the truck.

Here's hoping that we have a better farmers market next Saturday!