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Papa’s World – Falling off a step ladder!

/ Tom / Leave a comment

Alas, in my senior years, I have learned a hard lesson in life-

STAY OFF OF LADDERS – ALL TYPES!

It was November 1st. 2025 –

The eve of turning the clocks back!

I had spent the afternoon visiting with our friend Jim –

Who lives on OIB!

It was a good conversation for a couple of hours.

Sherry did not go because her back was giving her problems from overdoing it!

In the living room, above the TV, and a large stand by the wall –

It was a very large clock-

And heavy.

My thought exactly at the start of the day!

I said to Sherry-

I will get the step ladder, and you stand by it, and I will climb up –

And take that clock down!

She said good –

She wanted to clean it!

It is a big clock – black and shiny with Roman Numerals on the face.

I climbed up and could reach it to lift off the nail.

I handed it down to her and then step by step-

Climbed back down.

This was working out –

We replaced the battery and cleaned it up

We reset it for the FALLING BACK TIME ADJUSTMENT!

Time to climb back up and have Sherry hand it to,

The clock is so large that it is hard to see behind it to find the nail head.

MISTAKE – I STEPPED OFF THE LADDER ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE STAND WITH THE TV!!!!

That I should never have done.

I was holding onto it and lifting it up to the wall –

And then I felt my balance going – BACKWARDS!

Sherry tried to steady me, but thank God she got out of the way.

The ladder was in front of this stand, and I was standing on the flat surface!

THAT WAS A MAJOR ERROR!

I came down hard –

I hit my back on a soft, large hassock in front of the couch.

It all happened so fast.

I was stunned –

My back, where I hit the hassock, hurts.

I rolled over – The clock had flown out of my hands and hit the floor.

I got to my knees and then with my hands –

Up to my feet.

What the heck –

My heels on both feet started to hurt.

I have no idea why –

I do not remember hitting the floor with them.

I have learned a lesson –

I went to bed –

And had to use my tiptoes to walk.

Slowly, it is getting better as I write this.

I am lucky –

It could have been much worse.

Lesson learned –

There are younger people to hire to do such jobs!

Thanks for reading-

PAPA’S WORLD –

my site: livinglifedoingitmyway.blog

Papa’s World – Making life easier as a Senior!

/ Tom / Leave a comment

It took me a long time to get here –

But there is some truth in this caption! LOL

Now – in my senior years –

I have a knack for looking at things and seeing if I can make them easier!

This past Christmas Season –

I decided to clear some shelf space in the garage!

Then – I started bringing all those crates down from the ATTIC over the garage!

Those drop-down stairs in the garage –

They are narrow and when you get 2/3’s of the way up – your space for your feet narrows considerably!

The opening is very narrow toward the top.

Plus – I am lying on my stomach handing those large crates down to Sherry-

on the second rung from the bottom.

The crate then slides down the ladder to the tips of her fingers to lower down to the floor!

This is our fourth Christmas here in our new home –

And now is becoming more difficult to use –

that attic space for storage for boxes and crates –

Of Christmas decorations!

This was an option when we built the new house.

There is a lot of space up there –

and now after the season –

I can store all or most of it on the shelves of the garage.

EXCEPT – we have three artificial trees –

Two small ones – one a Charlie Brown tree – no needles.

And our main tree – a large Charlie Brown tree with no needles.

These two Charlie Brown trees – the naked limbs fold up and have embedded lights!

They are easier to put away altogether –

as is the one outside on the porch which has fake green limbs.

By the time you read this blog –

We will have decided what to do with the trees!

The small ones-

I can still take up and down the ladder by myself.

The taller one must be handed down –

But that hard floor up there on my knees causes me pain!

This too shall be worked out by the both of us!

Just a small part of our daily life –

My next project is coloring all the grout in our shower –

The walls are 12 x 12 –

wide grout lines!

The floor is 2″ x 4″ tiles –

This small tile-in shower –

keeps you from slipping on the wet floor!

But each one has to be colored –

( at this time of writing – all is done)

Now I have some spray grout protectant –

that I shall put on and wipe excess off!

I hope this will be the last time I have to do this as working on my knees is getting harder!

The other day we went to NMB to run some errands in Big Lot stores –

we had not eaten breakfast and it was a little past 10 AM.

We decided to stop at Chick-fil-A – I had a muffin sandwich –

Sherry had an omelet type of breakfast.

She sat there and looked at me and said –

” I LOVE OUR LIFE HERE”!

Being a Senior has its challenges –

But at this point in our life together –

I agree –

“I LOVE OUR LIFE HERE”

and we will solve each problem –

one at a time and live –

OUR LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME!

PAPA’S WORLD –

my site: livinglifedoingitmyway.blog