I stopped at my sister's place today, so my brother-in-law and I could go down to his shop, and I can pick up my long ladder so I could put up some lights on the 2nd story roof trim. We were in the backyard, kicking rotten grapefruit into the river. Then, I take a good kick, and whew - went the grapefruit into the river - along with my shoe! DOOF! Ugh. At least it floated. We tried to retrieve it with the pool net - too far. It drifted to the middle of the canal. Great. He was about to go in. I didn't want him to, it was my shoe. When his toe touched the water, he said okay, no way. So, he started to cast a fishing line out to it for a bit. While he was doing that, I put on a bathing suit, and was going to go retrieve my shoe. Thankfully, by the time I got back out there, he had nabbed it! Yay!

And all that nervousness of holding tightly to my keys and wallet when walking over a drawbridge or something like that, and I kick my shoe into the canal. Nice. At least I was able to get my ladder home safe and sound. I think I'll wait to go climbing up it 'till later...