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by **crisipicada** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:29 am

Rappelling

by **Edwin** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:59 pm

Crisi, from your pictures it looked like you were excited, having a lot of fun, and learning a lot as well. We have a saying, have you in stiches, meaning that you are so tickled that you can hardly breath you are laughing so hard! Well it looked like you were all tied up! That is a saying we use also, meaning that we are occupied, obligated, tied up doing something important so that we can't do anything else.

Those are really some neat pictures, and that was a nice order that you got to learn the things you did. My Dad was never a boy scout, but he knew lots of knots of all kinds. He taught me a few that I needed, but the need is no longer there, and I don't whether I could remember those knots or not! He taught me one knot to use when tying a truck load of baled hay down, and I probably could remember that one, also the square knot, and the half hitches.

My Dad also taught me to tie a neck tie, but it was a funny knot that a lot of the old timers used, like wrap around 3 times and pull through, something like that. When I taught school I used to tell the kids at school that a dead man taught me to tie my neck tie. They would tell me, "No, that is not true; a dead man could not teach you to tie your neck tie." And I would tell them for a fact a dead man taught me to tie my neck tie. What the real story was is that when I wanted my neck tie to look nice, and that was before I ever taught school, I would have him tie my neck tie for me, because he could make it look perfect, like art work, everything in place, square and beautiful. Well, after he died I started teaching school, and I thought man if he were just still alive so he could tie my neck ties for me! I had a couple of neck ties that he tied for me before he died, and I got a brilliant idea. I would carefully untie them, figuring out how he tied them, and that is what I did, and that way he taught me to tie a neck tie after he was dead, in his casket, and buried! :roll:

by **Edwin** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:10 pm

You are brave, Crisi, to do that repelling, and you aren't at all afraid of it, huh? Some of the pictures that I saw of you tied to that stetcher board, so would be for sure attached to that board, and that has great value if you need to be let down from a tall building, huh? My Dad was not afraid of doing anything from any height, or standing on anything. He was the bravest man I have ever known or heard of. My older brother can do heights, but he admitted that it made him nervous. He got one job that my brother-in-law could not do, because he had night mares of falling, but my brother did the job. It was cutting a bridge down, letting the steel beams fall in the river, and throwing his torch after making the cut. Then the beam he as attached to would swing back and forth after the other was cut lose. He didn't get hurt doing that, but he fell into a pile of metal right on the ground and almost cut his nose off! They sewed it back and you would hardly know it, in fact you wouldn't unless he told you, then you would see his scars. I can't handle high jobs on or off the ladder myself, unless I am flying an airplane, and I have no problem with piloting an airplane, but I have not done that for many years, and maybe I will never again, unless I become rich, and I doubt that! I will just ride in them and let someone else pilot, especially flying to the Philippines, which I am dreaming about! In God's time I am sure I will again fly to the Philippines and enjoy being there as I did the last time in October of 2010!

by **crisipicada** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:44 am

Wow that is good to hear, sir that you are planning to visit Philippines again.

Actually, I still have 2 trainings soon still do not know when in continuation of that we have.

WE will be doing rappelling in an 11 storey building as what they said. Oh no that is very high. Well, I need to survive hehe.

by **Smiley** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:48 pm

I used to be able to work at great heights,didn`t bother me much at all.I have done electrical repairs on high towers and bridges. I used to make a weeks pay in a short day! Now I think the ground is a great elevation to be on. I`m going over to help a buddy re-shingle his roof and that is just about as high as I am comfortable with.Funny how things can change.
I`m 'cookin the books' and it still looks like I will be able to head back to the Philippines this coming January,I hope I can stay a long time.It has been a long time since I have been there.

by **Edwin** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:13 pm

Yes, Smiley I think that might change also as we get older and not a agile and sure footed anymore. My Dad was an exception in that he was agile and sure footed right to the last day of his life! My Dad died when he was 65 years old, and one of the last few years he was alive we had too much snow weight on the barn for the good of the roof. It was a huge barn, I think about 150 feet long, and maybe 50 feet wide. The bottom of the roof was a long ways off the ground as we could put huge amounts of hay in that barn. Well, the dare devil that he was he got up there with a shovel, and started shoveling off the roof. He slid off the roof, shot out over the eves, and when he landed he was coming down so hard that he was driven into the snow pretty deep, but he still had the shovel in his hand, so he just dug himself out of the snow, got back up on the roof, and finished shoveling it. He was amazing how he was not afraid of anything, and definately I did not take after him that way! :roll:

by **Edwin** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:53 pm

"I`m 'cookin the books' and it still looks like I will be able to head back to the Philippines this coming January,I hope I can stay a long time.It has been a long time since I have been there." Quote by Smiley

I never thought seriously about going to the Philippines, but it just kind of happened. I have always had a love for filipino people and their culture, but I never thought I would end up going there. Carol, my wife, begged me to go with her to the Philippines in 2006, when she went, but I had obligations to my employer, and then I was in the process of moving out of our house, and I just could not cut and run! Well, she went and had a wonderful time, took lots of pictures of her brother, his filipina wife, and their beautiful place. I enjoyed looking at her pictures immensely, but I will say I still had no desire or thought of going to the Philippines. Then I was talking with our friend, and he told me that they were going to the Philippines to see their families there, and their new house, and would I like to come along? Carol told me, go with them, so I said, yes, I will go, and the rest is history, and I love the Philippines now more than I ever thought I would, and I really want to return, when it is right in God's time! I was visiting with this same friend on the telephone about a week or so ago, and he told me that he is not returning to the Philippines until he is retired which is about a year and a half away. How could he stay away from that place, their families, and his new house over there for that long? I don't know. He told me that when he went last fall, and I was invited then to go with them, but I had things that I had to attend to, and I was also nearly broke!!!! Anyway he told me that last fall when he went he was tired all the time he was in the Philippines from the time change, then just as it was time to return he was finally adjusted to Philippine's time! Then he spent a week or two back home tired and sleeping all the time! So, he told me that it was not worth it for him. I sit here, thinking, boy, it would be worth it for me! And if I just had a good reason to go, I would be on my way!!!! When they retire they will go over there and be there for several months, and he invited me to go along with them. I told him that I couldn't stay for several month, and he told me, "well, you don't have to stay for several months, you can come when you want and go when you want, so I told him to let me know the next time they were going, and I would go with them. Now we will see if that will work out! What I woul dlike to do is take my time and get the chapest flight I could get, go when I want, stay as long as I want, and then return home! So we will see!!!! :roll: