Safety on the Homestead

Pony · #1 07/25/07, 11:00 AM

Well, I sure had a heckuva scare this morning!

I was out trying to tame the tomatoes. Seemed like a fairly innocuous activity... Got a big ol' bamboo pole to stake up a wayward plant, started pushing it into the ground, pushed a little harder, got on top of it and pushed harder still...

And the pole snapped about 2 feet out of the ground, forming a rather wicked point.

I, of course, was knocked off balance, and started to fall forward while calling on the Lord for help.

Two tomato plants smashed, a gouge out of my knee and finger, and a very scary, deep indentation (and now a bruise) where I rolled over/off the bamboo sword instead of being impaled through my pancreas.

Resolved:

Be more aware of what I am doing.

Get alongside instead of on top of my work.

ALWAYS have the Star Trek Communicator (aka Cell Phone) with me even when I am out in the garden.

There is NO ONE home or around the neighborhood these days. If I had impaled myself, I do not know if I could have made it back to the house.

But praise God I have been spared, so I will head back out there and see to cloning the branches off those tomato plants.

Pony!

Oggie · #2 07/25/07, 11:11 AM

I'm glad you weren't badly hurt!

That gave me a quick reminder to practice my PPS (pancreas protection stance) this afternoon. How often we forget about our little friend the pancreas. But, what would we do without it?

bill not in oh · #3 07/25/07, 11:25 AM

Pancreatic enzyme therapy and insulin injections... Not a happy alternative to an intact pancreas...

Pony! you got lucky, lady... I'm glad to see the words about learning a lesson (and a relatively cheap one...)

Star Trek Communicator...

MullersLaneFarm · #4 07/25/07, 11:53 AM

Don't you EVER scare me like that again, young lady!!!!

Praise the Lord He was by your side

Jan Doling · #5 07/25/07, 11:53 AM

Just remember when you are impaled, do not remove the object until just before surgery or you could bleed out

So now you need to figure out a way to get to surgery with the object sticking out X inches or feet. You might have to flag down a flat bed because I don't think you will fit into the front seat to drive. Let me think on this one awhile (try not to get impaled until I arrive at a solution).

Cloverbud · #6 07/25/07, 12:43 PM

Pony, I'm sure that was a thinly-veiled and luckily thwarted attack of the killer tomatos. Glad you're (mostly) okay. I'm sure Buster would have gone and gotten Timmy's mother to help you even without the communicator.

MullersLaneFarm · #7 07/25/07, 12:50 PM

Good ol' Buster the magnificent!

HomesteadBaker · #8 07/25/07, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pony

ALWAYS have the Star Trek Communicator (aka Cell Phone) with me even when I am out in the garden.

Pony!

I always do that... as we are in the middle of nowhere. Better safe than sorry.

Glad you were not hurt too badly.

Kitty

Pony · #9 07/25/07, 05:18 PM

Thanks, Everyone, for the concern and the suggestions.

Clover, it never did occur to me that it was an Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, but I should have known it! Nick actually has a stuffed Killer Tomato in the garage. I'm sure it was channelling the other killer tomatoes for the Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes Part 2 (yes, there is a Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes movie -- I did youth group for years, so I know this stuff).

Buster has been spending most of his days sleeping (doesn't even want to come out much anymore) so I can't take a chance that he'll even wake up to lick my face, let alone tell Timmy's mom I'm trapped in the well -- er, tomato patch!

Cyndi, I'll still be out this weekend, but will avoid going near your tomato plants. I think they may have some telepathy thing going with all the other tomatoes in the world.

I am just a bit stiff and sore from the fall, and I'm really kinda tender at the spot where the spear did not go in. When I'm feeling more sprightly, I will practice my PPS daily!!

And Jan, do you know that I was thinking about the stuff you mentioned after I got up and thanked God... Things like, "Okay, if it had gone in, how would I have kept it in place until I got to the hospital?"

I've learned my lesson now, boy, I can tell you! No more solo tomato staking! LOL!

Pony! (grateful to have an intact no-impact pancreas!)

Wolf mom · #10 07/25/07, 05:20 PM

After getting stuck on the roof Sunday - with all neighbors away - just reinforces the fact that woman's best friend is her cell phone!!!

Glad to hear your escapade ended with you not too badly hurt.

Pony · #11 07/25/07, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wolf mom

After getting stuck on the roof Sunday - with all neighbors away - just reinforces the fact that woman's best friend is her cell phone!!!

Glad to hear your escapade ended with you not too badly hurt.

Now how in the world did you get stuck on the roof? Did Scotty beam you up as a bad joke?

Pony!

Wolf mom · #12 07/25/07, 06:36 PM

It sure wouldn't have been as embarassing!

After deciding to re-tar around the chimney, I could only find an extention ladder with a bent leg. To shorten the story from the hours I was on the roof to minutes, proping the ladder with the bent leg on a piece of wood, I climbed to the roof, did my tarring then - went to get down.

Looking down, I decided the ladder needed to be extended & moved out further at more of an angle to let me safely decend. Did you know that when you lift one part of an extention ladder, the extention slides??? And moves away from the wood that is proping the bent leg??

After calling friends, (they must have all been at church) then 911. Being the creative, proactive woman that I am, I finally hauled the whole ladder on the roof & tied the two parts together with a piece of clothing. Slid the ladder down & onto another piece of junk wood (good excuse not to have an imaculate property) & climbed down.

Called 911 just in time for them to recall the fire dept.

MullersLaneFarm · #13 07/25/07, 07:18 PM

Wolf Mom ...
Praise the Lord for giving you 'creativity and proactiveness"!

Pony - never fear from my tomaters ... they're properly guarded & penned in by water grass and other weeds! (just enough rain and not enough weed pulling time -- yes I was out there an hour tonight already - my back is sore - time to recoup)

Clover - just when are you folks coming down?? You're closer than Pony & Nick!! I just love your sense of humor!!! When I first met you at the weekend, I thought you were the quiet type ... boy was I wrong!!!