On 4/17/2021 10:03 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-04-17 1:27 a.m., Leo wrote:
>> About ten years ago, we had an ex-governor do a half gainer with a
>> full twist
>> off his roof and onto the yard by accident. He didn´t make it.
>> He was a year less old than I am now. You couldn´t get me on a roof
>> with a
>> cattle prod.
>> I hope Sheldon is OK, and I doubt he was on the roof.
>>
>>
>
> It was more than 15 years ago that I had a fall off a ladder. I was
> cleaning the eaves trough. I was at the front corner where there is an
> overhang. I used to climb up the ladder and get in the overhang and
> could reach the eaves on the second story from there.Â* I had the ladder
> at what I thought was an appropriate angle. I was just about to get into
> the overhang when the ladder kicked out. I went down. One leg slipped
> between two rungs, and when I hit the ground my other leg landed on the
> ladder shoving it back into the shin of the one that was between the rungs.
>
> I was in some serious pain. I thought I had broken my shin bone. I went
> to the ER and had to wait about 4 hours. As it turned out, nothing was
> broken. I got some pain meds.Â* Shortly after than I bought some good
> quality gutter guards so I won't ever again have to climb up there to
> clean gutters.

I pay someone to clean the gutters. You won't find me climbing a ladder
for anything. Vertigo.

Jill