Replying to a message of Carol Shenkenberger to Bj”rn Forsstr”m:

 CS> *** Quoting Bj”rn Forsstr”m from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 BF>>> If it's gray it's the salt in the saltwater and that is easily
 BF>>> removed

 CS>> The grey in my hair or on the mast?  .  Anyways, it was mostly
 CS>> change out the preservative and check the connections.

 BF>> I wouldn't do that for all money in the world. Don't have any use of
 BF>> i grave. I'm terrible afraid of heights.

 CS> Not a good thing to have in my job!  Thats ok though, some of the guys
 CS> are as  well so we give them the other jobs to make up for it.  Lots
 CS> of the antennas  are at no more than 20 feet up and quite a few you
 CS> can reach just standing on a  chair.

 CS> When we have alot of work, the guys who have no head for heights
 CS> (oddly in my  experience, it's always been guys with that problem,
 CS> never women) take the  antennas after we dismount them and refurbish
 CS> them.

I get very nervous on a ladder when I'm more than about ten feet up.  Oddly
enough, when I was flying in EC-47s (www.ec47.com) I could stand just
inside the open paratroop door and watch the scenery go by 5,000 or more
feet straight down and it didn't bother me (and not wearing a chute, either).

I'm going to have a major problem next summer because I have to repaint
(scrape/wire brush, prime, paint) my  22x40 foot 2 story house.  The top of
the walls outside is about 25 feet above ground - and 30 feet to the peak on
one end.  It's not going to be fun, but it *has* to be done.

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