Re: [Paddlewise] Risk Homeowhatsis

I not only agree, but _kind_ of identify with this thinking, if in a much 
smaller way.

We live on a small 25 acre patch of heaven. One of the things we are 
blessed with seeing out here is snakes. Several kinds and most are 
harmless. We do have rattlesnakes tho. Few days go by with out seeing a 
snake of some kind. Today we had 2 rattlers and yesterday one was moved 
off of our back porch. It has been our policy to not kill any rattlers. 
Number one, it won't keep us from getting bit by the next one. 
Number two, I don't kill anything with out good cause.
Number three, they eat things I don't like in the house.
Number four, they were here before us.
Number five, most important, they cause us to PAY ATTENTION to what is 
out here. The wife was slow to this at first, but she agrees with me now.

Sure beats a cup of coffee to open your eyes in the morning on that early 
walk around the land!(I wear sandels and shorts too)

I might also add that not dressing for emersion in the winter also keeps 
me screamingly in tune to the conditions.

James



Richard Culpeper wrote:
> 
>      "When he returned, I asked him why, over the years, the family had
> so stubbornly refused to use any safety device, up to and including a
> net."
>      "You can't count on them," he shrugged.  "You can get hurt just as
> badly with them as without them."
> .... I asked if a net wouldn't have saved lives in Detroit, and he said,
> "All seven of them might have gone down and been killed if they'd
> believed they'd be saved by a net."  A net, he claimed, creates a false
> sense of security and would almost certainly have become a tacit cause
> for slippage in the family's meticulous performance standards.  "If the
> net's not there, " he said, " you have the best reason of all for
> staying on the wire."
> 
> >From interview of Rick Wallenda by Charles Wilkins in "The Circus at the
> Edge of the Earth" ISBN 0-7710-8847-7.
>

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