Another morning phone call .... ala Bob Newhart

Hi, is Miss Baez there.

No, ah, I am Harry Goskowicz, and I am an independent news correspondent and I wanted to, you know, just get a statement from Miss Baez about her recent accident. Is she well enough to come to the phone, it will only take a moment, Thanks.

Oh, hi Miss Baez, Harry Goskowicz here, just wanted to get some comments about your recent accident. I was certainly sorry to hear about it.

About the fall, were you climbing up the tree or coming down?

Oh, and on a rope ladder, I bet that is tough.

Have you been sleeping up in your tree house with the birds very long? That's quite a while.

And, you say you didn't want any walls put up when you had it built because the birds might not visit you, oh, sure, I can understand that, oh, and no roof either.

What was your first thought when you hit the ground. Oh yea, I understand that, any publicity is good for your career. How long have you been singing, Miss Baez, ................... that long. Did you ever think that maybe at that age it might be better to not sleep in a tree house.

Sure, I understand, I think we all feel younger than we really are.

What, yea, that's interesting, right on the medical report, Fall from a tree house, you're right, you can work that right into your act, it will be good for a laugh.

Many lessons to be learned .........

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.