The first day on the island

Friday May 25, 2007

Tony took on the task to paint the bottom of the Lyman, every year it gets painted with an oil base metallic paint, copper in color. Tony was just about finished when SPLAT a drop of paint fell in his eye!! He finished up, about 10 minutes worth of work, instead of coming straight up to the house and looked at me and said I think I have a problem, can you fix this? His eyelid looked as if someone put copper eye shadow on it. Also the under rim was totally covered, I was a bit worried that the tear duct was going to be clogged. The contact lens had a bit of the paint on it as well. We all stood around looking at him for a few minutes discussing what to do. No way we could use paint thinner to take it off, we’d burn his eye out. Hmmmm, yup first trip to the hospital – can you believe it. Tony wailed, I don’t want to go to the hospital! Well do you blame him? So we decided a shower and a wash cloth to gently rub off the paint. And you know it worked! It took a good scrubbing in the shower and again the next morning and it was pretty much washed off. Really glad we didn’t have to go to the hospital