So DellMarie and I are just about ready to head out to the big INK (our friend's tattoo shop) 3rd Anniversary party - when this happens....

We have a big old - and I mean OLD - thermometer hanging in the house and the bottom is sharp and jagged and Bella (one of our dogs) got in DellMarie's way and she bumped into the thermometer, sending if off the wall like a freakin' guillotine for her toe. There was lots of BLOOD... so much so, DellMarie thought she was going to faint.... she hates blood though.... but like a trooper, she wrapped the thing up and we hit the party in Superior.

Here is DellMarie and Carrie talking about the prospect of having half a toe and Carrie's puffy finger. What?

Why all the crazy "fantasy" art on the walls? I'll get to that in a second.

A unicorn Skull

So in addition to the Anniversary Party for INK - there was also a "Fantasy Art Throwdown Competition" - hence all the stuff on the wall - there were sasquatch pictures, a song someone wrote called "the Gnome" if I remember right, a couple other prints, etc. The most intruiging piece was titled "Fantasy" which was mostly a sexual fantasy thing with the guy in it buck-ass naked and some lady stroking carrots with lube of some sort and eventually they end up going doggy-style with her having a HUGE, what looked like, Buffalo head - which in talking about it, I found out it was an old masscot head of some sort.... anyway, it ends with the "moneyshot" put right on a picture of one of INK's tattoo artists that was taken while he was wearing these big, thick glasses that "made him look like he had Down's Syndrome"! It sounds insane but it actually was quite entertaining.
DellMarie and Carrie watched it 3 times - me? Only twice.
Anyway, the above picture is our friend, Gezus, announcing the winner of the contest. I was even selected to be one of the three judges for the big event... wow. Did we go with the "Fantasy" video? No... that got second place.... the Unicorn sculpture (not the skull - the one hanging on the wall) took home the big prize... you can see it in the pics above... and in third was the two wizards - which I also found out was supposed to contain a rendition of a vagina but the artist ran out of time, so alas, no vagina.
The third place was picked out of a hat due to a 4-way tie.... all nice stuff.
A picture of the gang... Gezus and Jill are the two on the right - owners and tattoo artist respectively of INK - need a tattoo - check them out!

And finally, my beautiful wife and a sweaty me... it was hotter than hell in there.... 80+ outside last night at 8:00... and I'm guessing 90+ inside the shop.

Her sock was all bloody when we got home.... just thought you'd like to know that. Do you think we could sell the chunk of her toe on Ebay when it falls off? Oh, they have that darn "no body parts" policy...
~Cheers~