Nephew's dog nearly took off my thumb

:::shakes head::: Early last night, just about dusk, one of my nephews dogs snapped it's chain and was running loose dragging a length of chain. Like a good aunt I went out to tie her back up. The cats seemed to decide that since I was there it was a good time to sneak in to eat the dog's food. A plan that the dog, of course, thought was not a good idea.

Cats went flying as the dog jumped into a fast lunge to go after them just as I was trying to fasten the chain in place. Chain jerked free of my hand and tried to take my right thumb with it. Thumb is now all skinned on the inner edge of the first knuckle, which leaves me typing one handed with my left hand.

What is truly bad is that I still have several hours of typing work to do and tomorrow I have to make some strawberry beds. When I was in town earlier I got some cement to use in making stone retaining walls around an electric pole set up on a hill in the yard. The stone walls will reinforce the slope so it don't erode away and the strawberries... well, they're for eating.