October 1st is Witch Day at the Deckers. Both Drewsilla Wilma and Ruby Tuby go up to delight the children of Utah Valley for the month of October. Our witch is Ruby. She got a new outfit this year and is looking good! I stood outside and watched along with some neighbors while Drew put her up. I had my cell phone ready so I could call 911 if Drew fell off the roof. Thank goodness, no 911 this year.
Drew and Wayne put up the Williamson's witch earlier in the day. Jackie did a fabulous new costume for her. I was jealous of it's total greatness.
About 9 o'clock that night we got a phone call from Kirk Williamson. "Drew, the witch looks great..... but there's a problem.... we think it's her knees.... we think she needs some surgery. Can you come FIX IT. Of course, Drew has a freak out. He worries and frets and says it's Wayne's fault. Fixing the witch is easy when it's on the ground. Not so easy on a 20 foot pole.
So, Drew gets the great idea to borrow some scaffolding from a stucco friend and set that up under the witch to have a more stable place to stand on while working on her. So, he takes the worst helper ever, me, and off we go.
I'm here to tell you I have a new admiration for stucco guys who set up scaffolding. It's not easy. And it's a death trap. Accident waiting to happen. Drew was hanging up there like a monkey. He couldn't get the third level up there. It ran into the light post. And the helper on the ground was worthless. I did wear a hard hat.
While up a little closer, Drew noticed that one of the ribbons from the new fancy skirt had wrapped itself around the pedal, thus preventing the pedal from going around. He shouted with joy, "A wardrobe malfunction!". He was much relieved it wasn't his mechanics. Being a resourceful guy, he taped his utility knife to his very long straight edge with black tape, hung on like a monkey, and after about 57 tries, he managed to cut through the offending piece of ribbon finery.
He will be going back to do some skirt shortening another day.
Oh, and taking down scaffolding looks like a giant KERPLUNK game. I'm glad Drew didn't land in the middle of it.
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