Thanks to those who offered thoughts and condolences for the family. Always a shock when someone goes unexpectedly. I wasn't real close to this cousin, used to see a good bit of him but different lives took us in different directions. Last saw him about two years ago.
Larry, you didn't meet Vince although you probably would have with a little more time to visit. He still lived a few miles from where the antebellum home once was that I lived in a year or two as a child. Probably a hundred of my kinfolks within fifty miles of there.
Pet safety is a major issue, the pup likes to grab at my feet. I fuss about shoe laces but haven't been fussing about toes. Guess it is time. A near disaster, he knows when I sit in a chair he gets some attention. He jumped into a chair as I was sitting down yesterday, directly under me. Fortunately I was using my arms to lower myself into the chair as I don't quite trust the netting seat. Wouldn't be much left of the little fellow but a fur seat cover if I sat on him! Pets and small children are unpredictable, we have to expect the unexpected. I haven't had small children or pets around in decades, hard to adapt.
Taking a quick glance, slips and falls are second only to car accidents as the cause of accidental deaths. OSHA mentions floors and work areas but I assume that number is a bit skewed by including falls from heights. Another cousin placed a scaffold board across two five gallon buckets to paint a garage ceiling years ago. A quickie job, silly to break out the scaffold to gain sixteen inches or so. He fell from there and badly broke a leg.
We will never eliminate all hazards no matter how hard we try. All we can do is try to be alert, America needs more Lerts!
Hu
An off topic PS, Vince had been at odds with his brother for decades. Never in the same place if it could be avoided and as far as I know never a kind word between them. Pretty sure the feud had been about little things, they had an intense rivalry from childhood. Two good people, too late to be brothers again. They lived less than ten miles apart. Makes me think it is time to bury the hatchet with one or two people but every time I try to they duck.