If I Only Had Courage

Blog Prompt: Feats I'd attempt if I had the courage.

I am usually a scaredy cat about a lot of things but lately I’ve been looking at these rock climbing walls. You know, the ones where they put the harness around your and let you climb up this fake wall. It is usually set up at fairs or in front of malls or fundraising events. I have been thinking that I might like to try it. As of right now it is still in the thinking stage and may never get to the actual doing stage.

Another thing I really want to try is to roller blade. I have the helmet, the knee pads, elbow pads, and the roller blades. I tried it one time on the side walk with my hiking sticks and made it down the sidewalk in front of my house and thought I wouldn’t make it back home. I think this fall that I might actually try it again. Surely I can do this. At least I think that when I see other people roller blading past me.

Rock wall picture: Original image: 'david in motion' by: Benjamin Chia

Note: I had a terrible day today. We planned to go hiking with our hiking group and I was so excited! The lunches were made and the car was packed but my hubby decided to use the bathroom before we left (like a good boy should!) when he noticed we had very little water pressure. I didn't know why we had little pressure but I checked in the house and decided to walk around the flower beds to check outside faucets. Sure enough, the one in the back yard, as far from the house as you can get, had a busted water pipe and that corner of the yard was ankle deep in water. Since we are supposed to have storms arriving soon (possibly Hannah), we called the plumber right away and didn't go hiking. Part of me wanted to just cut the water off and deal with this tomorrow but we had to cut the water off at the road and I know we couldn't go without water comfortably for a few days. Then what if the plumber couldn't come out and it took many days to fix, so I bit my lip and didn't even whine. We went outside to dig up the mud away from the busted pipe so the plumber didn't have to spend so much time doing that which would save us money. In between digging and letting the water recede, we decided to trim dead branches out of the tree and cut back others which were shading my rose garden. My wonderful hubby grabs a branch and pulls it back hoping it will break off at the dead spot and come down. Not only did it break off but it broke off close to the trunk and the limb was about 12 inches thick, knocked my husband over, threw him in the bushes and landed on top of him. At first I thought he broke his leg but his ankle has some abrasions and he is a little bruised but luckily in one piece. We will need to go out with the chain saw to cut this limb in pieces in order for the city to pick it up, but we will save that for another day's adventure. Needless to say, I didn't get anything done today because I just didn't feel like it.