Comments on Pointsman: Tumped Over

Gah! Glad all was well, but that's scary! (My wi...

2006-02-23T14:21:00.000-05:00

Gah! Glad all was well, but that's scary! (My wife just had a scare yesterday, when her slippers decided to live up to their name and nearly dumped her down the high, narrow, steep back stairs of our house. She can sympathize with you on the sore muscles, as she wrenched something in her shoulder by stopping herself 3 or 3 steps down.) ER trips are rarely so uneventful.

Something Melissa said on her blog gave me a vivid memory of many of my online dog friends talking about trying to get their dogs to "go" on command, so I was left with an impression of you being carted off in the ambulance while Melissa walked the dog, chanting, "Squat, [dog's name], squat!"

Thanks for the helmet offer! Booklet offered me on...

2006-02-23T09:52:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the helmet offer! Booklet offered me one of her riding helmets. But I have both a biking helmet AND a riding helmet. Both downstairs when I really needed them, how typical is that!!

Are we kin?

2006-02-23T06:54:00.000-05:00

Are we kin?

Lisa,Ok you need to work on the vacation thing!!! ...

2006-02-23T06:07:00.000-05:00

Lisa,

Ok you need to work on the vacation thing!!! I am so glad you kept your humor about it and managed not to blemish that naked noggin. I have an extra bike helmet if you would like it. Until then do what every over 40 woman does...sit on the edge of the bed and put both legs safely in your pants!!! No more tumping...but keep trying at taking a vacation.

Dale

Lisa,You need to be more careful girl!I should tal...

2006-02-22T14:27:00.001-05:00

Lisa,

You need to be more careful girl!

I should talk...I was so clumsy as a child my Mom sent me to ballet classes (at $1 a week, which was a sacrifice). She hope to help me learn a little "grace" and "poise". It didn't work. I still fall down all the time...equilibrium problems associated with something with my ears.

Funny story: Last summer we got to meet with Jeff. Afterward he wrote to me and said it was nice to see two people married as long as us still holding hands. I laughed out loud. I responded to him: "Jeff, what you saw was this..Ed said, "Patrish, do you want to hold my hand or do you want to fall on your ass." I only fell once while we were in Saratoga and that time I let go of Ed because I was afraid I was going to pull him down with me. No harm done. I'm getting falling down to a science now.

You need to be more careful or we'll have to send you to ballet classes.

:)

Only a Barnett could take such a scary, terrible e...

2006-02-22T14:27:00.000-05:00

Only a Barnett could take such a scary, terrible experience and so ably turn it into such an amusing anecdote. I am sorry to hear that you went through this, but thrilled that everything has turned out okay. And even more thrilled to see that you are able to laugh about it.

And I LOVE "tumped over."

-Don

OH MY GOSH! That sounds terrible, and NO way to sp...

2006-02-22T13:33:00.000-05:00

OH MY GOSH! That sounds terrible, and NO way to spend a vacation day. :( I'm glad you're OK.

And for what it is worth, I had never heard the phrase "tumped over" before, so atleast from your terrible ordeal I was able to add something to my vocabulary. ;)