Feb 1, 2016

In my defense, January is one of the long months so my chances of getting through accident free were greatly diminished. I was working on a three story walk out and we were cutting outside on the third story deck. Yeah I know, very dangerous, especially when, you guessed it, no railing. You're getting ahead of me again. You have to know my saw was not close to the edge. However, every once in a while, when cutting, you hit a hard piece of wood and the saw kicks it back, it drove me back and whoop, right off the deck. I've learned through experience and was prepared. Ha, ha. I had tied a rope around my waist. Next time I'll use a bungee cord, the rope brought me to an abrupt stop and flipped me upside down. Now I was hanging a few feet above the ground and I needed both hands to unfasten the rope, so I'm looking at landing on my head.  It's ok because the yard slopes down to the creek behind and if I get myself swinging I can land on my back and slide down to the snow fence. It works too, unfortunately I whip through the snow fence like a pet through one of those doggie doors. Now I'm sliding out onto the frozen creek. When I come to a stop I'm splayed out on the ice and I intend to stay that way. This is a real good reason not to bite your nails, it is impossible to drag yourself across the ice with stubby fingertips. I have a pencil in my back pocket, I could dig the lead into the ice and pull. That didn't work. I also have a utility knife in my pocket (to sharpen the pencil). Snap away blades. Snap, snap, snap, snap. There's no utility to a utility knife when the blade is gone. Now let me tell you about some of my tools, I spend a bunch on the ones I use most often. My tape measure is one of those, it's hooked on my belt. It will do...military grade aluminum body, inch and a quarter wide titanium blade will stay rigid for 18 feet, the end hook fastened at six points for extra strength. Winch grade retraction spring. I slide it out and the hook latches the snow fence and .... bonus...I can watch my progress inch by inch or centimeter by centimeter if you prefer.

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