Scott’s Blog Experience

As some of you may know, or may not know, my backyard sits next to a drainage ravine. I really don’t have much of a backyard at all. In fact, my backyard excluding my deck, is the ravine itself. This time of year the ravine/woods are breathtakingly beautiful with Fall colors abundant everywhere. Along with my small deck, is a small patio. My Hot Tub sits on this small patio which when walking around the broken sucker, if not careful you can plunge into the ravine and possibly be never found again.

So in the dark of night with a cresent moon above and the leaves bussling in the wind. It was quite the suprise when I took what I thought was a step forward and it ended up being a step down. Lets see if I can put this into poetic words what I witnessed tumbling down the ravine. Dark sky, ground, dark sky, ground, dark sky, ground, bush, tree stump…rolling back over looking at dark sky, ground. “Funny, didn’t think the ravine was so deep”. “Ouch! that may leave a mark”.

Yea, I fell like 30 feet down into my own backyard hell. What do you think my first thought was?

A) I have fallen and I can’t get up?
B) I’m not even drunk
C) Should I just lay here and die?
D) I hope I didn’t break my iPhone?

It was D.

Ofcourse the first thing I did was a “full systems check” of all my moving body parts. Arms, check, legs, check. Anyway, it was pretty funny. Well, it was funny after I stopped balling from shear panic, and the fear I had just committing catastrophic failure to myself, I laughed. HA HA! Got up and headed back up the hill.

Mental note to thyself: Do NOT go mountain climing anytime soon, must rebuild confidence to negociate edge of backyard patio.