Hobo Jungle

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, how can you drink that swill? Take it out and stain your deck with it.

If you can see through it, it isn't beer, laddie!

Anyway, had one of these instead:

[Water Man]

Nascar race sucks! Guess I'll watch Patton on AMC

Kurt

[GP]

Nascar race sucks! Guess I'll watch ...

Kurt

GP

[JIM2223]

Love the power chair races.

JIM

Can hear the Beach Boys in the back ground........"go granny go!"

[The Dirt]

GP, LOL!!

Hey, guys, I have a question. I'll get to it later.

First, I was at work on an evening-shift a few days ago. I got the details of the 'incident' that happened at home, later on.
Here's how it transpired:

A storm, alternating sleet and snow, begins late afternoon. Slippery roads, couple of local fender-benders over the evening, not a huge accumulation.

The redhead, at home with the kids, notices that the satellite reception is deteriorating, and after talking to her mom, hatches a plan.

Probably just wasn't sufficiently long in it's incubation, is all.

Anyway, her mom tells her that when snow accumulates on their satellite dish, she goes out with a broom and brushes it off, and all is back to normal. The problem is that mom's satellite dish, (they of greater altitude than us), happens to sit on the railing of their deck. We, whose signal must clear a line of trees, have our satellite dish on the peak of our highest roof of our split-level.



Mind you, it is pitch-black out, 8:30 PM, and all the snow and sleet and wind and stuff.
And the redhead is phobic of heights.
If she looks at a picture in a magazine of a riveter on an I-beam, her palms start to sweat.

No matter. Home-entertainment is my baby's wish. So she enlists the daughter to hold a flashlight, and with broom in hand, she uses a stepladder to climb up on the roof.

THIS stepladder, still in situ...



No mean feat right there! As she climbs, without gloves, toward the peak of the right-hand roof, she begins to realize how slippery it is, and that she cannot head back down the slope for fear of losing traction, pitching off the roof, and landing on the deck.

Gone, now, is any consideration of reaching the 3-story-high satellite dish, with her fear of height, in the black of night, to reach around it with the broom to clean it off.



So she sends the daughter in to mobilize the boys. Meanwhile, as it is easier and seems less risky to climb rather than to descend, she abandons the broom, and proceeds to the peak of the high roof. But at least, she has an 'out', for at the bottom of the downslope on the other side... a chimney.



So she slides down and grabs the chimney, lowers herself to the lower roof, uses the rain gutter to descend that roof to the window where the boys have raised the sash and removed the screen from the inside, and makes good her escape.

The broom, however, continues to lay where it was abandoned.



This was so wrong, on so many levels, that 5 days later, I still can't get my head around it.

Which leads me to my question...

Any of you hobos ever hear, in your travels, of a Husbands-of-Redheads Anonymous?
I need a couple of meetings.

BTW, her nickname of 15 years?

"Runamuck".

God, I love that woman!!

[GP]

Pete,

As for the "redhead thing" ... I am married to a redhead also ... for 41 years this June !

All I can say to you is that ... it just keeps gettin' better every year !

GP

[rogruth]

55 years with a now turned gray-blonde redhead.

I know your pain.

[dougdagrump]

UhOh, I'm in trouble here !
I am, rather was, the "redhead" in this union of 43+ yrs.

[eZAK]

One option might be to look into getting cable TV, if available.

[rogruth]

Dirt,

I have cable TV.Keep the redhead.She's alot more fun.But cable TV might be cheaper.

[2railjon]

Pete, Now that's a determined Redhead!!!!! I'd almost say it's kinda scary except the same thing happened to me a few years back building houses. The foreman in the middle of January decided we needed to put the shingles on a two story house we were framing. To make a long story short my feet slipped out from under me and down the roof I went. I managed to grab the edge of the roof on the way down and flip myself on to the garage roof, as I continued to slid off it I managed to drive the claw of my framing hammer through the plywood roof just as my feet dangled out over the edge.

[The Dirt]

LOL, you guys! There ain't cable within miles of us.

Jon, YIPES!!!

I was only able to post those pics because she DIDN'T hurt herself. I was a bit aghast when she first told me the details, but I understood what made her do it. No shrinking violet, she. She's a take-charge and if you don't like it she'll kick yer *** two ways to the middle from here to Sunday kind of attitude, and I wouldn't have her any other way. Buddy, she's a live wire, and ain't no household wiring, it's a high-tension line with no insulation. She pops and buzzes and fizzes, and she doesn't beat around no bushes. What's on her mind comes out her mouth, and you know exactly where you stand in the grand scheme of things, and I wouldn't have THAT any different either. And she's the funniest woman I ever met, and there's hardly a day goes by that we ain't laughing til the tears roll down. And she's farm-bred to boot. She'll pick up hairy-ass spiders with her bare hands and carry them outside rather than stomp on them, and she feeds every stray animal that wanders up, and she probably feeds the damn groundhogs when I ain't drawing a bead on them, but if a Texas longhorn ever threatened her kids, he'd be the sorriest-ass bull that ever thought to snort.

It's just that, every so often, ya gotta expect and get used to the idea that she's gonna run a litle amok. And hope that nothing gets too broke in the process!

Wouldn't expect that from somebody so petite, would ya?



You guys with redheads... you know. I know you know. You KNOW that I know you know!

[rogruth]

Yes,we know.

[GP]

Yes,we know.

Pete ... We do indeed ... know exactly what you're talking about

But as my "redhead" will say to me from time to time ... "that's why you love me and that's
what makes our life together so exciting".

And I say to her ... "Sometimes I could just use a little less excitement in my life".

GP

[AG]

Pete!
I don't know too much about red head, or maybe enough when I was younger than today.
the picture looks awesome!! 70's??
anyway if you are living in an open area is not mandatory to install so high the dish.
Andre.