At the Top

In my friend Mustang's blog, she told what she did in her free time. Well, I don't have horses to play with or a creek to play in, but I have trees. Outside, facing the road that runs past our house, I have a tree that I love to climb. Some of my friends say it is hard, but once I give them the only instruction I can, they can usually scurry up as fast as me.

Weird as it may sound, my cat taught me how to climb this tree. One day while I looked longingly around for something to do, I saw him fairly jump onto the tree and spread his legs out and climb up. I tried using two foot holds I saw, and, spreading my arms around the tree and getting to my feet, I almost fell and had to jump down. I wondered if this tree was unconquerable.

Every time I was outside alone, the cat would climb up. Finally, I found his secret. I felt I had to try climbing up it again. I tried, and this time succeeded with ease. It is now a place I love to be in.

My one instruction to friends who struggle to climb the tree is... Use your fingers like claws, gripping the bark on the side of it.

The day I conquered that tree, I knew it would be a tree I climbed almost every time I could.

A lot of times I come in from outside alone, I can say "I climbed to new heights in my tree."  I have so many spots to play in, or sit in. I even have one branch where, when positioned perfectly, I am hidden from view from the ground but I can see them.

The view from one particular spot in my tree is so worth any pain it takes to get there. I have one place in my tree where I don't have to hold on, yet I worry not about falling. The trunk of the tree makes a perfect holding place where I can dangle my arms and legs straight down.

Once in my tree, waiting for Mustang to get to my house when they had car troubles in the cold, freezing weather, I bundled myself up and got in my tree with a book. I read in the most comfortable position in my entire tree, not one bit cold.

Another time, the first time Mustang ever climbed my tree, we ate lunch in my tree.

Yet another time, I, with Mustang AGAIN, was feeling daring, and climbed into the spot with an awesome view, and promptly got stuck. I almost killed myself ( not seriously) getting down, but finally did so.

I even had planned an entire Spring Break around my tree. I had a great Spring Break.

So I love this tree, and have lots of things to do in my tree. I even have plans for... But that is a different post.

My teacher

The view from the spot in my tree

My tree, as seen from my back porch