Frank and Ernest by Thaves for January 08, 2025

The agony of ….. da “feets!!!”

o-O

My life is a series of ski slopes.

Too little thought too late. Someone [or something] else is driving his train.

With luck, the royalties from the video will offset the medical bills.

I like cross country skiing better. (I did injure myself doing that, though.)

…and things went down hill fast!

You’re supposed to bring walnuts and hard boiled eggs when you visit someone in the hospital.

Thank you, Sonny Bono.

Gravity: it’s the law!

Some ski slops have a guard safety fence between the slop and the trees.

What… Ernie has feet, shoes…?

That phrase has a different meaning in a Seinfeld episode

At least he went for the gusto

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

W.E. Henley had had one leg amputated, not just broken, when he wrote that. Quit whining.

I could have told him that, but I’m sure he wanted to prove it himself anyways. :J

Well, now that you’re all wrapped up, you will be “master of your own domain”… ☺

Been there, luckily my injury wasn’t as severe

Coming home late years ago – 3 am or so with no other cars on the road until I approached a left hand curve and a car came out of the turn towards me out of control in my lane. I raced cars but I was always in control in those situations, I told myself: Today I will meet my Maker. I was at a full stop and the car whizzed by a foot away from mine probably going 50 mph and the smell of brakes and burnt rubber went on for the next hundred yards or so. That was as close to an NDE as I very got.

When I was a freshman in high school (back in the very early 70’s) the family moved from the Chicago suburbs to western Colorado. That first winter there the folks took us up to Powderhorn to learn how to ski.

That’s where I learned that if I don’t get on snow skis, trees won’t jump in my way.

You didn’t try snowboarding down the ski slope, did you?

The last lines of “Invictus”, by William Ernest Henley, come to mind: “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul”, only in reverse. ; )

While the bill on that monitor keeps growing every day.