"Tom Nakashima" wrote

Lefty Kreh would stand on his line and gently pull with both hands as he
worked out the coils of memory line.
-tom


I stand on my line and work with both hands .... I call it a totally failed
double haul

Flashback

When my wife and I were serious but still un-married ( been married 30+years
now, so that was a while ago ) we went on a backpack into Yosemite.

Not wanting the bears to get our food and definitely wanting to impress my
cute traveling companion, I set out to hang our food and show her how a real
he-man does that important task.

I found a suitable tree limb and a suitable rock. Then I tied some 1/8
inch nylon cord to the rock and wound up and let 'er fly, aiming to clear
the limb and then pull our food pack up out of harms way.

Well, I was standing on that 1/8 line and the rock wizzed up towards the
branch, jerked when it came up tight onto the section under my foot, and
then flew back at great speed. It hit me square in the forehead, nearly
knocking me out and opening an impressive and bloody wound G

So much for my macho outdoors hunk efforts :-)


My wife still has and still chuckles over a photo of me sitting, bandaged
and brooding, on a boulder after she patched me up.

End Flashback