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Posted 5/26/2009 12:04 PM (GMT 0)
Thursday I bought a boat. It is a 1979 Glasply 17 footer with a 120 hp volvo-penta engine and outdrive and it is a beauty. Yesterday I took my wife up to the lake I grew up on. It is the first lake in a string of dams on the cowlitz river in Wa. state. We took the boat clear up the lake where the lake turns to river again and kept going until we reached the base of the dam. When  we got there I explained to my wife that the last time I was thar far up river I was with my High-school best friend the summer before I got married for the first time. We drank good beer and smoked good pot. We were young and filled with dreams and hopes for the future. The early morning fog was so dense on the water that at times you could not see the bow of the boat. It was my friends first boat and it was a low profile go fast boat. At times it was like we were flying in the clouds, the fog was so low and thick. We could not see the water, just the canyon walls. That was our last hoorah before our lives changed forever. It was the last summer that I was still a kid.It was the end of my innocents. That was 26 years ago and it has been 26 real tough years. Yesterday as we rounded that last bend and the black wall of concrete and steel blocked out the view of the canyon ahead I turned to my wife and told her all I have just told you. Just then I got teary eyed as I realized that all of my dreams that I had back then had come true. The dreams dreamed with my best buddy, I was sharing with my best friend and true love.. It was a great moment shared withhh my wife. People we have to live everyday. That is what it is all about. I am so thankful for the blessings in my life. My friends and my family are the best. Life can be so wonderful I just needed to share with ya'll. Todd
Posted 5/26/2009 1:28 PM (GMT 0)
Great story Todd...sharing our dreams and thoughts with our loved ones, is truly the most gratifying moments in our life. It brings about a deep closeness with our loved ones like nothing else does. Cheers for you and yours....
Posted 5/26/2009 3:22 PM (GMT 0)
Beautiful Todd.
Posted 5/26/2009 10:11 PM (GMT 0)
Great story Todd.  Always good to share good memories with the one with love the most.  David

Posted 5/26/2009 10:51 PM (GMT 0)
I hear ya loud and clear. Reflection is a great way to know that blessings are plentiful. Peace to you, Todd.

Tony
Posted 5/26/2009 11:47 PM (GMT 0)
Todd I love your humanity my friend. May God's peace and grace be with you forever.

Love you my brother

Dale
Posted 5/27/2009 12:11 AM (GMT 0)
Todd,
That is a great story. When you think of how some peoples lives go it makes you realize how fortunate we can sometimes be and not even be aware of it. Back in the mid 70's I built a 30 ft mobile home on the back of a truck and my wife and set off on a 2 year working holiday...........great times. After that it was always my ambition to build a yacht as well and now you've gone and rekindled that........she will not be pleased.
Bill
Posted 5/27/2009 12:44 AM (GMT 0)
Dear Todd.....What a beautiful heartfelt story......You and your darling wife are lucky to understand.....
'How we spend our days is how we spend our life."

I am trying to get Pete to just look at today, and not
worry about what the upcoming tests will say...Who knows? Who cares at this point. Go fishing, make a great martini, read a good book,
Go to a funny movie....(are there any?) Call your sons and go fishing....walk the dog, make an omelet, listen to Rachmaninoff concertos,
get drunk, take a nap, have the neighbor over for a drink, weed the flowers, go to church, get the mail, watch the news, (no , don't do that!), call your cousin, go to Costco's, wash the car, plan a car trip, get gas, get out the maps, take the dog to the vet.....so many things that life is made up of....It is
easy to start to focus just on the illness....It is Imperative to get out of yourself and just do things.....Your attitude will change by doing....It wont change by itself..... Do I sound like a wife?? well I am......Best wishes to you all...especially, you, Todd. Diane
Posted 5/27/2009 12:46 AM (GMT 0)
Billy Mac you go for it. That is a ship I would love to see sail. You build it and I will come to the Christening.

Posted 5/27/2009 12:52 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you diane. Give pete my best. I wish I could make him laugh or cry or something. I know how hard it is but I just decided one day that if this was it that everyday was a bonus day. God has been merciful to me. My blessings are too many to count. I pray that he give some of mine to Pete and yourself. Todd
Posted 5/27/2009 9:54 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you very much, Todd.....Diane
Posted 5/28/2009 3:27 PM (GMT 0)

Just updated my signature to show latest psa. wanted it to be on the thread. Todd. P.S. you are welcome Diane

Posted 5/31/2009 2:29 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the post, it reminds me of so much.
I hope it brought you the comfort and joy it brought the rest of us.
Posted 6/2/2009 12:04 AM (GMT 0)
Hey David,
I have come back to this post and reread what I wrote a half dozen times. It is still true. It gave me a great deal of comfort and joy to write it and even more to read it. I am a very happy man. If Pca took me tomorrow I would die very content. I would feel for those left to mourn but I have had a wonderful life. I have been making peace with my regrets and amends to those I have hurt. I hate to quote a country song but it is good to live like you were dying. Just dont count me out yet. I have a lot of life left in me. Todd
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