[RunningWolf]

Reminds me of the day that my career as a 12-13 year old tree climber came to an end. Sometimes when you push the envelope to find the edges, well.

I was way up into the the skinniest boughs of the tree, say about 50' or a little more.., when 'pu KIICK!. Came straight down on my back and went thru the rotten tin roof of a old storage shed.

That was yet one more venture that the parents never heard about!!

[dead]

I was about the same age when I tried to walk on a limb from one pine tree to another. Heard the crack and remember hitting the first few branches on the way down.

Fell about forty or fifty feet and was knocked out briefly. I came to with my younger brother standing over me, poking me with his foot, singing "When the bough breaks the baby will fall!"

I got up and kicked his ass.

[Erasmus]

I hope it wasn't an ugly tree!