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I was fixing a spot on the roof. The kids have always wanted to go up there, so since I was up there I helped them get on and off the ladder. They thought it was pretty cool. Crystal was pretty shocked when she walked out onto the deck and saw her kids sitting on the roof!
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I'll bet she was shocked--so is their Grandma! Did they like it as much as they thought they would?
I used to love hanging out on the roof in Idaho. I was always out on the roof just outside my room. It remember walking around the roof of the rest of the house. Great picture!
The kids loved it. They asked me today if they could go back up!
I had forgotten about our roof in Idaho Falls. I used to jump off the roof onto the trampoline! You got serious air that way. :)
I know, isn't that scarry! I don't know that I ever jumpped off the roof but I definitly jumped off of that block wall onto the trampoline.
SIGH!
Dan, I think there is a reason for mothers..they keep the dads from doing silly things like playing on the roof. The first roof I remember getting on is Grandpa garage in Ogden, it backed into a hill and was just a few feet of the ground. I don't remember how we got up there, but I can remember getting caught up there. I think Dad or one of his siblings broke an arm or leg falling off that one. I can also remember getting on the roof in Roy and jumping off the roof into the junipers.....some how dad could tell we had been doing it when he got home from work.
I to jumped off the roof in Idaho Falls onto the trampoline, I remember Jon's brother Chris doing it as well, but he jumped too far landed once and then went right over the fence into the garden. I think I was on the deck at the time, and was worried about him but the others on the roof could see him and were laughing rather loudly.
My favorite spot to jump off the roof was in the winter into the snow drift that would form on the north side of the house. Some times it was a little hard to get back to the top, but I must have done it every time. As I think about that now, its a little scary that my and Charley's escape routes out of the basement were covered by 6 feet of snow during the months we has a fire in stoves.
Great photo Dan. I remember going out on the roof in fruit heights. I do not remember jumping of the roof to the Tramp but I do remember Jumping off the tramp into the wind and having it blow us back on. With the wind gusts we had in IF, we were lucky no one got blown off course on the way down and totally missed the tramp and just hit the ground.
I didn't actually take the photo. The credit goes to Crystal for that. I was about 10 feet off to the right repairing shingles and putting sealant over the nails. I didn't leave them up there by themselves.
I was just re-reading these comments and had to laugh about Chris Anderson. I was out there another time when he got sent over the concrete wall and landed by (or in) one of the window wells outside of Charlie and Michael's rooms.
We all were sure he was dead until he started laughing. They don't make trampolines like they used to. It was nothing to get 25 feet up in the air on our trampoline.
When we moved to bountiful I used to jump off the deck onto the trampoline. Mom only caught me one time. It was three days before I left on my mission!
Dan I would leave the Mission part out of that story and just claim that Mom would not let you jump on the tramp for 2 years after that.
After growing up with the Trampoline did any of us get one for our kids? I know I never have.
It's hard to beleive that all of this went on and neither mom or I ever knew anything about it. Good thing! Dan, mom and I hope your kids stay off the roof in the future. By the way it was Aunt Kathy that broke her leg jumping off the 12th street roof.
Wow! I thought you all were angelic and perfect when you were growing up. HA! Do any of you realize that your children are reading these posts? :-) Just a thought--(and I did know about a few of these incidents but usually only after they happened--you little toads!0
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