Posted on 05/05/2008 4:06:33 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
Now, cut that out! ;)
I just tripped and sprained my left wrist. I now have it in a wrist brace. How did I have a wrist brace so handy, you ask? I had sprained the same wrist earlier and still have the brace available. Clumsy, clumsy, clumsy.
What’s up with THAT? How did you trip? Outside on the trails? Getting off or on your BIKE? Rushing around somewhere?
Are you a serial tripper? :)
Hope it doesn’t hurt to post. We would miss your friendly fingers around here.
I am a serial tripper. If there is any hint of moisture, I slip and fall no matter what my footwear is and today, while I was barefoot!
The previous trip and resultant wrist sprain was caused by me tripping UP a step. I was distracted and missed it because I was watching a plane land.
Today I was on the web and the youngest called to me. As I was getting up, my toes (it is the custom here for everyone to leave shoes at the door and be barefoot inside) became caught in the headphone cord and I tripped.
About the shoeless custom, sometimes in the states I forget that it isn’t the custom there. More than one family has been surprised as I stop upon entering a home, brace against a wall and remove my shoes. Hahahaha!
Sure it wasn’t an acid trip??? See ya next fall!!! ;-))
but I can't think of any.
i need some yellow roses.
Hey!!! No riposte necessary! But I have always been meaning to ask (and have been too lazy to look it up): Where does Auburn’s ‘War Eagle’ come from??? American Indian??? Weird mascot name?? Lousy car model that never sold? And don’t you hate it when people mistake Auburn for Clemson??? (hehehe) ;-))
I’m sure that NO ONE gets Auburn and clemson confused.
The War Eagle mascot dates back to the War of Northern Aggression (the War Between the States). After the cessation of shooting hostilities a former soldier brought the golden eagle he had befriended during the war with him to campus. The student had found the wounded eagle, nursed him back to health and the eagle would soar above the battlefield and return to the man’s shoulder. After the war, the student would bring his “pet” to the football games and the eagle would soar above the field. It became known as Auburn’s “war” eagle. The student body, when seeing it, would begin the cry, “War Eagle!” The legend began.
Auburn down through the ages has had an eagle representing the school (off-and-on). The eagles have come to us as “not being able” (for one reason and another)to survive in the wild. They have all, and perhaps this has changed in recent years, been named “Tiger”. They are golden eagles and not bald eagles. However, we have recently been the home for bald eagles, too.
The expansion into other breeds is because Auburn’s Vet school (btw, the youngest daughter has been admitted to the Pre-Vet program) has a raptor reclaimation program and often works with many large birds to heal and rehabilitate.
Thank you for asking.
I love the no-shoe custom. I adhere to it myself.
So, you’re just a bit of a clutz I guess. My best friend is the same. We laugh and laugh at her pratfalls.
Lookee what I just found....on another thread
re Barack Obama -
From Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
I’ve always gone without shoes if I could. And yes, I am a klutz. But now it is getting painful.
Nobama is really bad for America.
Good morning, darling. How be you today?
Gosh! Please take care.
Yum!
I will see you all later I must run...
Have a good day.
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