On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:42:35 -0600, Snag > wrote:

> Right now (10:40 PM 2/15/2020won) it's 3°F and headed for below zero
>. There's over 10" of snow on the ground and more coming on Wednesday .
>And we had the lousiest beans and ham I've ever made for dinner tonight
>. As soon as the pain meds I just took kick in , I'm going to bed
>(slipped on ice yesterday and landed on my back on the steps) .

I hope that taught you to install a hand rail... easy to do with 3/4"
galvanized plumbing pipe and the fittings to lag bolt it to a wall.
When we moved here there was no handrail for the basement stairs. I
told my wife we should install one but she said she has no problem
without a handrail. A few days later she was carrying some things and
slippped, cracked her head on the steel post at the bottom of the
stairs. She was lying in a pool of blood and was knocked out cold,
when she didn't answer me I thought she was dead... took her a full
ten minutes to come to. I told her we need to get you to the ER but
she didn't want to go. Finally I drove her and they said she had a
concussion and was very lucky... she had to lie in bed for a week and
go to her doctor to be checked. The next day I went to Lowes and
got the pipe and hardware for a railing and installed it in about two
hours. She agreed it was a good idea. The plumbing pipe handrail is
a whole lot stronger than any wooden rail I looked at... we have it
about 15 years now and no more falls. Not fancy but functional and
very strong, especially when attached with those flanges and heavy Lag
Bolts:
https://i.postimg.cc/MpMGcXwY/036.jpg