February 1, 2014

You know how they say that when you fall off a roof while holding a sheet of plywood, you can use it to float to the ground safely. It's not true. If it hadn't been for the plywood catching a few branches on the way down, I wouldn't have slowed down at all. Unfortunately it turned me upside down so I was unable to land on my feet. I had a choice of landing on my face or forehead, my face has to cradle my glasses so I chose my forehead. I was landing in snow so I was hoping for a soft landing, the bad news was it was packed as hard as ice, the good news was I didn't have to run for ice to keep the swelling down, I just left my head in the snow. Having grown up in the Antonini family the sight of the blood didn't bother me at all but after having lost about a pint I figured I better go inside and clean it up. I tried to sneak past Deanie, she had warned me about being on the roof, I didn't want to get an "I told you so", she didn't. She just said, "Get out of my kitchen, you're dripping blood on the floor".

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