1960s songbird Joan Baez had a tree house built -- without walls -- 20 feet high in an oak tree behind her Woodside home because she wanted to sleep with birds. The folksinging legend, who once performed the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" before a half-million people at Woodstock, fell from that tree house Wednesday as she climbed down from the platform. Paramedics drove the singer to Stanford Hospital, where she was treated and released after it was determined she had suffered only minor injuries. Baez, 69, was "resting comfortably" Thursday, according to Nancy Lutzow, who runs Baez's Menlo Park production company."I sleep in a tree all summer long," Baez told an English blogger in 2008. "I climb up on a ladder, with ropes and things. The birds are right there in the morning. Sometimes they're flying so close to my head I can feel the wind.
A few good lessons to be learned here.
One big lesson, don't sleep in wall-less tree houses when you are 69, maybe after 65.
Sleeping in tree houses is "for the birds."
I remember many years ago, we built a tree house for my daughter and my son. We got it all done, packed in some food, had sleeping bags up there, everything they needed. I said, "Brad do you want to spend the night and sleep up there?"
"Are you nuts?" came the reply, and he was only nine at the time.
