[TheForge] Scaffold OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Hmmmmm. Let me see if I have this straight. You cured 
> yourself of a fear of OPEN spaces by standing on a HIGH 
> place?
Well..i sort of worked up to it. The old place at Piedras Blancas was 
real exposed in a horizontal sense...open ocean on one side and wide 
open cattle ranch on the other. I lived there for 20 years and got used 
to open expanses. Later, When i got brave, I'd climb the old shingled 
water tower ladder and sit on the platform next to the tank about 25 or 
30 feet up. While i never got comfortable when i had to move, the 
constant terror i'd felt at first , slowly faded.
To call our back slope a cliff overstates it some, except for the 
bottom 100' which is vertical. It's steeper than the angle of repose in 
many places, but with good hiking boots one can slowly work one's way 
around on much of the upper slope....especially in the winter when one 
can stomp out footholds. That's how we planted it. It looks worse than 
it is.  But if i curled up in a ball, i'd never stop rolling faster and 
faster till i hit the rocks on the beach 740 feet below.
> 
> How . . . Unique.
> 
> Suits.
> 
> Frosty
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> 
> From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" 
> <artgawk at thegrid.net>
> 
> 
>>
>> Jerry Frost wrote:
>>> Is living at the top of a 600' cliff part of your
>>> desensitizing program?
>> Yup!
>> Building the shop helped too.
>>> How's that working for you?
>> Pretty well really. I walk right to the edge on the 
>> farthest point every
>> morning and gaze down at the ocean..or fog this 
>> morning.
>> Not bad for a guy who used to work his way  all the 
>> way around any
>> clearing in a forest, rather than walk directly 
>> across. pf
> 
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