Recovering Idiot follower gets $50. Congrats Mark! Secondly, Which pink tutu covers my granddaughter?
May 20, 2017
Just for fun and to show appreciation, once in a while if I’m in the mood I’m going to throw cash to followers and commentators of this blog. The winner and other details are at the bottom of this post.
Back to the tutus…
Nine visible ballerinas. One of them carries my genes. Any idea which one?
The poor thing is known as Charlotte. (#5 from the left)
Like Charlotte, I don’t follow the crowd. I do a lot of looking up too. Case in point…
Last fall I was drying corn at midnight and noticed falling corn kernels attacking my bald head. The night was dark and the wind was howling.
After climbing the elevator stairs, I found the tube that was leaking. I could see that to fix this problem I was going to need some very specialized tools. I went back down.
I grabbed a ladder, a flashlight, some duct tape and a strand of baling twine. Me and my equipment then ascended back up the stairway to heaven.
Out of breath, I arrived at the leak site. I positioned my ladder against the leaky tube and noticed one ladder leg was suspended by nothing but air. I tied some baling twine on the ladder leg, took a deep breath and climbed the ladder to fix the leak.
Notice the twine supported leg. The picture below shows the height of the work area.
Visualize the dark night and the wind whipping past as I attempted to tape the tube that was a good 60 or 70 feet high. Did I mention a rung on the ladder was missing and the ladder teetered back and forth on the leaking grain tube at the top?
Finally, the leaking corn got taped shut and I was able to descend to a healthier elevation. Who needs Disneyland when you have a job like mine?
Thanks to everyone who has signed up to follow this blog! I like blogging and they must like following. Because I’m still a partial idiot and enjoy making someone’s day, once in a while I’m going to throw out a little appreciation cash. (This applies to this blog only. Facebook comments won’t be in the mix.)
Recovering Idiot followers and commentators will be eligible each time I notice some cash burning a hole in my pocket. I’m going to use an online random number generator which will pick out a winner. This way, I won’t be sending cash to just the few friends I have but my large assortment of enemies will also be eligible.
Mark Maxfield of Pasco WA was the Recovering Idiot follower on this first go-around. Congrats Mark!
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