Seriously, JWAP, I thought your and Jeff's recent experience with his dad was such a blessing, being able to be there for the last lucid moments and the chance to say good bye. Jeff's words telling us all here of the experience brought me to tears (like now, again). I truly felt both the sorrow and joy he did when reading about it.
Although this comment was directly at my better-half I just wanted to thank you personally for your kinds words. I miss my Dad every single day. I just choose to focus on 50 years of wonder filled timed shared with my Dad rather than 10 tragedy filled days.
The compassion shown me by this forum meant a great deal to me, beyond what I am able to express.
(BTW welcome to the forum---is it now JeffHADapond?)
Actually to be 100% accurate my screen name should be Jeffhasajointownershipinterestinapond. Problem is JHAJOIIAP is too long to write and way, way too difficult to pronounce.
Ricki dives right in with pond projects. When we were chemically treating for Elodea she handled all the chemicals while I drove the boat. We kinda figured if I handled the chemicals I'd probably some how spill some or ingest some, and, given the relatively delicate balance between sanity and full tilt bozo that I try hard to maintain, a little chemical interaction may just be enough to permanently force me into the dark side.
