Update on Tinner

Still kicking. Just haven't been posting much. Don't go back in until the 23rd. of this month. Getting a pacemaker then. Whoopeee...

Welcome to the Springtime. Glad to hear you are still kicking.

Made it through. Got a pacemaker yesterday and home within 20 hours. Sore as all get out since I refused pain meds. All seems well, but they verified my upper chamber is basically dead. I guess if I dislodge the wire, I'll slow, get tired, fall asleep and go whereever I'm supposed to go in the hereafter. :)

Be carful guys, we can't fix everything with a hammer.

Was thinking of you yesterday morning . . . good to see you are on the mend.

This is going to be such a difficult chapter to write in my memoirs. All I can really think of is a way to try and tie into the common problem we all have. LABOR!

I think I would have titled this chapter: "The Franklin Mint" for Frank certainly has been a unique part of the flavor here.

The story was all going real good, ya know. There was the set-up to the story, Frank himself, Mr. Hot sauce, and hotter stories, hard livin' catchin' up on the old salty soul... There was tragedy...Gonna die any day. There was heroism... Two guys drop life and run to his side. There was irony... Coming from hundreds of miles apart, they arrive 30 seconds of each other. There were stories from a Great visit. There was action... All nearly killed in downtown Richmond traffic. There was drama... Long tearful goodbyes. ..... and then in a catastrophic collapse of the drama, at the end chapter, the guy has the freekin' nerve not to die.

Good help is so hard to find. ;)

:laugh: Thanks Mike, I needed the uplifting you offer. Who knows, I could pop off tomorrow and make you feel like it was worth it. :laugh: We did have some fun and I wish we could spend some time together on a slate or copper roof, or just preplanning a roof by laying out a pattern on the floor of the shop and pre-making everything needed. I hope to be doing that exact thing soon for a guy who needs a consultant. I can teach even if I only have the use of one arm for the next couple of months. (Left is out of commission now.) :( Hmm, maybe I should get Lefty to do my heavy work now. :)

:laugh: I'm glad I could help brighten a dreary day. You get that roof lined up to build in shop, and I'll be there if there's any way possible. I would LOVE to do that.

To borrow a Morgan Freeman line from the end of one of my all-time favorites, "The Shawshank Redemption"..... Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.

Let's just scratch the last half of that line, eh?

:)

I'll call you Mike. :)