[fwdude]

Rule of thumb: If you are over 50, never get up on a ladder to trim trees.

Oh, man, I know this for a fact.

It's almost as if the tree expresses a will and slaps your ladder out from under you.

Now I know why the pros used slings and tethers from up in the tree.

[robroys woman]

I’m 64. I feel great, but I understand that all my bones have morphed into fine and delicate porcelain.

And all that that implies.