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@sallypup (65998)
Centralia, Washington
July 17, 2025 5:44pm CST
Are you a person who climbs ladders without fearing for your safety? Can you climb a ladder to save a cat if the occasion came up?
Two people showed up last night for the poetry reading. One of the people read from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath book. Beautiful and sad reading. It was a gathering of like minded people. My hubby and the guy attendee had fun teasing each other, kind of like brothers at the Thanksgiving table. Fun for me to watch them interact.
The upper window on this side of my house is buttermilk in color now. The Dad painter said they have a 28 foot ladder for when they paint the highest point of the house. Wowwheee.
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@Deepizzaguy (113999)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
17 Jul
I am scared of climbing a ladder due to the fear of falling down and getting hurt landing on either the ground or grass.
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
@Deepizzaguy I'm with you totally. I can't step on a stepstool these days.
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@Vikingswest1 (7453)
• United States
17 Jul
Most of my life, I was very comfortable on a ladder. Even the 40' extension ladders.
Now that my body and health is slipping, I find myself a little timid to climb tall ladders.
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@Vikingswest1 (7453)
• United States
18 Jul
@sallypup
Life definitely looks different from forty feet in the air. No nets underneath to save you.
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
@Vikingswest1 40 foot ladder!! That sounds like a circus performance.
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@GardenGerty (165736)
• United States
18 Jul
I was fearful you would tell us you climbed that ladder for a cat. I dearly love the color on your house. He is doing a wonderful job.
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
@GardenGerty I kind of want to laugh at your answer but if I were capable of climbing to help a cat I would. Thank you for your compliments.
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@AmbiePam (102834)
• United States
18 Jul
I remember my dad letting 7 year old me climb on top of the church roof with a ladder to peer into the new church steeple after the old one was hit by lightning. I wasn’t afraid then, but you better believe I would be now! (My mother was horrified by that excursion when she got home from work that night.)
I am just loving the pictures you are posting more and more.
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I think she did!
@DaddyEvil (159506)
• United States
18 Jul
Nope... and the cat can climb back down if it climbed up there.
I wouldn't even climb trees that high when I was a kid! I used to use a lift truck when I was pulling down stock from high shelves in a couple of jobs... I swear the machines I used still have my fingerprints embedded in the metal railings from when I was too high off the floor. ("Too high" for me meant more than my head height off the ground! My bosses used to tease me about paying to fix their machines when they saw how tightly I was gripping the railing!)
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@DaddyEvil (159506)
• United States
18 Jul
@sallypup I didn't start having balance issues until after I started showing signs of Graves' Disease and then stopped going up ladders unless specifically told to do so by a boss... If they told me to climb and I fell, money, money, money!
My older brother would climb to the top of a 50 foot oak tree in our front yard and hang by one hand unless mom could see him 
... Mom beat Steve silly several times for doing stunts like that! (Steve is also the same brother that told me mom made rice by boiling maggots and that chocolate cake was made with pigs' blood. 
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... Mom beat Steve silly several times for doing stunts like that! (Steve is also the same brother that told me mom made rice by boiling maggots and that chocolate cake was made with pigs' blood. )1 person likes this
@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
@DaddyEvil I am curious to know what Steve grew up to do for work as an adult. He sounds meanly creative.
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
@DaddyEvil I wonder if you had an inner ear issue or a good sense of preservation?
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@wolfgirl569 (122249)
• Marion, Ohio
18 Jul
I have never liked ladders. The house is looking good
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@wolfgirl569 (122249)
• Marion, Ohio
18 Jul
@sallypup I fell out of our loft when I was little but landed in the hay I had just thrown down. I remember mom told me I scared the crap out of my grandfather who was feeding the animals. My dad was in the hospital at the time.
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
@wolfgirl569 That sounds terrifying. Farms can be so dangerous. One of my brothers and me got into sulfur, I think, when we were young.
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
Thanks @wolfgirl569 I remember when I was a kid climbing into a barn loft. The other kids grabbed a rope and swung into the air, letting themselves go and dropping onto the hay. No way!!!! from me.
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@snowy22315 (195926)
• United States
18 Jul
I don't have the balance at this point in time to be climbing a tall ladder. Even if I tied myself to it, and had a spotter, I would worry about it.
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@snowy22315 (195926)
• United States
18 Jul
@sallypup No, I had good balance then. I think we only sorted each other on the tramooline.
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
18 Jul
@snowy22315 Did you have a spotter when you were in gym class in school? I remember gynastics and walking on a high beam. If I had fallen off I would have squished my spotter flat!!
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@JudyEv (362757)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jul
Even with only two people attending, I'm sure you had a good time.
@LindaOHio (200514)
• United States
18 Jul
I never did like ladders. I'm afraid of heights. 28 feet is too high! I'm glad you had someone come to the poetry reading.
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@Ineeddentures (13311)
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29 Jul
Don't laugh
I can climb up a ladder quite easily and reasonably quickly
Just don't ask me to climb down
That's where the problems begin
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@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
29 Jul
@Ineeddentures You need to do both well if you don't want anybody to call the fire department on you.
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