Saturday, March 26, 2005
70 Years Makes Darwin Award Material!
Started out a good day. I managed last night to convert my calorie list to include carbs in preparation for receiving two new books on counting carbs. It was after 2 AM when I finally went to bed. Which of course meant a later start this morning.
I finally got the morning routine finished and went outside to work a while. I raked the flower beds in between the extentions on the dome and smile to myself as I saw the shoots heralding the arrival soon of the spring flowers. Also to reaffirm the season my first robin appeared in the side yard.
I was busy picking up the debris and I put it in the little trailer that I hooked behind the garden tractor. I made a couple of trips down behind the shed to unload and decided to get my grab-it and police the yard for small branches and limbs.
Everything was going fine so I thought it was time to drag a large limb back to the pile that had been laying down front for a couple of months.
I stopped the tractor on a slight incline and got off to tie onto the the limb. About the time I went to climb back on to start the tractor back up it started to roll down the incline. Now I had one foot over the machine but the left foot was still on the ground. I couldn’t reach the brake and the back wheel rolled up over the back of my shoe and I couldn’t get my foot free.
I remembered I had my car keys in my pocket and grabbed the door opener and pressed the emergency horn button. All this time I am half off the tractor my left foot trapped in front of the back tractor wheel. Luckily Jay heard the horn and came to the door to see what was wrong. I called to him to come and help me. He still can’t see very much but he managed to find me, put the brake on the machine, and help me free my foot.
I then got on the tractor and hauled that damn limb to the pile out back. I’m sure the back of my heel and leg will probably be sore in the morning but I didn’t break any thing so I feel fortunate. Man I got to remember that 70 years makes Darwin Award material!
