Aahhh...........

..........what a feeling.

To wake on a beautiful winter morning. Get dressed, and step outside onto the back deck.

The leaves have all fallen and create a brown blanket on the ground. The sun is just coming up in the east. The sky is that beutiful tourquise blue you only get on a crisp winter day, without a cloud in the sky.
The air is clean and invigorating........you breath deeply.......satisfied all is right in the world.

You step out confidently, head up, shoulders back, ready to meet what ever life throws at you. Nothing can mar this feeling........

until..........

.......your foot reaches the ramp and the frost formed during the night, and.....

...you wind up with both feet and both arms up in the air as you lay there on your back like a whore at a gangbang, wondering how in the hell did I get down here?

In slow motion you feel your head bounce off the plywood.....once.... twice. Your heels thud to the floor and you say to yourself.....am I OK? and the answer comes at once, unbidden........No! Then thankfully as your body does a quick systems check, quicker than thought, the second answer..........but, I will be.

Thankfully, my head is harder than my ass, which by tomorrow will sport, I'm sure, the beginnings of a nice bruise.

Black ice. It'll get you quick as kudzu, or quicker.