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Recurring Dreams Nightmares
I know what your thinking. Your thinking @krazzytrukker you must have fallen out of your 🌲 tree 🌲. Hit your head and are halfway dead.
Now I can testify that I have fallen out of some trees over the years. I still have the nightmares from it.
We have a running joke in my family/life time where I refer to myself as...
Part Monkey Part Man
Yes I have the proof. No it is not hair in strange places like a chimpanzee. Well ok there might be some hair there.
From cutting trees to repairing and replacing roofing. I have always been the guy who gets high. No no no not that kind of high. High in altitude.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
This week I am that cat. The cat that climbs the tree ladder and dies does what others can not or are afraid to do. I have never been "Afraid" of heights. It is more of a concerned caution. Thursday the 17th was the anniversary of my birth. Some call them "Birthdays" and have surprise parties and streamers and balloons and dancing girls and gifts and prizes...
Oh how I wish I were those persons. My birthdays just quietly come and go. This 58th one was spent up on my neighbors pole barn roof.
Dreams I'll Never See
This #weekend-engagements topics have had me singing one of my Fave Bands songs in my head. I would like to share this with you. I hope it transports you to a dream like place where all your dreams come true. Sadly my glass is half empty and I am trying to make peace with the fact that there are so many... Dreams I'll Never See.
Listen to this song if you would as your looking at a few photos of the high places I have been.
From Mountain passes at 14,000 feet where it was snowing in the summertime to a New River Gorge bridge that is the highest/longest single span bridge in the eastern United States that I have crossed thousands of times in my 32 years of trucking. I have made getting high a career and a hobby. But I do think it is time to stop crawling ladders. This metal roofing job has shown me I do not have the panther like agility of my youth. And My balance is definitely not what it used to be.
I will simply have to just dream about it. Also the recurring dream I spoke of. Well I will hopefully keep waking up before I hit the ground.
Thanks for Riding climbing a ladder with Ol' KrazzyTrukker on this week's engagement. The kind of engagement we all dream about.
Keep on KrazzyTruckin'
a special shout out to that guy way down below that climbs the hive ladder and makes this all possible. @galenkp
Thanks Bro.!!
I squarely fit into the group of people who has always been afraid of heights. Even as a teenager when I was helping my dad paint the outside of a house I would only go on the first/lowest board of the scaffolding, not any higher. And ladders that are bending and moving while you climb up on them - oh ghee - hate it.
That live oak is beautiful, they are gorgeous looking trees. And it is over 700 years old?! Did you have it tested, poked, somehow?
After I made that photo I did some more research. It measured 19.8 feet around. The oldest oak here in florida is less than an hour from my house at 24+ feet. It is estimated (they go by rings of comparable trees) near 400 yrs. The Southern Live Oaks are different from the regular oaks and redwoods of the North West.
Seen here in 2003 when I trucked it on thru there. I would guess mine was 300+ years. It is only accurate like you said if the core sample or cut it down and count the rings.
Mother nature took my Swiss Family Briggs tree from us in back to back hurricanes in 2005. Fell under it's own weights.
Great pics and song! One of my favs as well. I have to admit I didn't remember it by name. I did as soon as the first three notes hit though!
I could use your climbing skills this week! Just got one of the new v3 Starlink dishy's in (not a dish anymore) for backup internet and will need to be climbing on the roof to mount it. Hope you didn't have too much damage from the storm(s).
We have the gen 2. I mounted it on the north west end rooftop peak of our house.
We are very happy with it. Thru the 4 storms in 14 months it has been flawless.
Hahaha, love the name!
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