Lilianna23
All that glitters ✨️
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What a beautiful eulogy for your friend, W! I'm so sorry!today was whacky. Not in a good way.
Visited a friend of mine who’s in the hospital. That was sad enough. He is ravaged by MS.
But when we got back home and ready to work at the farm, we got word that a friend of our died.
He died doing what he loved.
He was an ace mechanic and machinist. He could do anything, build anything, get any motor started, figure out a way to do just about anything mechanical. He was 80 years old and didn’t let anything get in his way.
He took one of my neighbors kids under his wing and taught him how to fly. (He was also a pilot)
He was old school AND new school. He was gruff and also friendly. A mentor to many people. He didn’t suffer fools and he also had a heart as big as a house. He programmed his entire house, loved old technology and new technology. He was a doer and did his best thinking on his feet.
He designed and was building a solar kiln for drying wood. This weekend, i was literally gonna get some cherry slabbed at the local sawmill and then bring it to him to get kiln dried.
He was a helluva guy. And I will miss the hell out of him.
Then someone “bought” $30 of pumpkins and left $5. It happens sometimes and 3/4 of the time someone will leave an iou or come back and put the extra money in the box a few days later. Fingers are crossed. It’s not a lot of bread but it ain’t nothing either.
I guess it pales in comparison to losing a loved one.
My one buddy am a barely move and is my age. My other buddy died at 80 and was as sory as a cat.
Life is weird sometimes.


