just wanted to share tonight's dinner with you guys..

**nessmuck** · 12-09-2018, 02:13 AM

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Hirlau would be good for things like emojis .........Miss that guy

Where did Hirlau go ?

**Dieseld** · 12-11-2018, 11:29 AM

He took some time away to be with his son more one on one.

And here ya go with the smiley

And that's exactly what I did looking through this thread this morning

**nessmuck** · 12-12-2018, 11:56 PM

Looks like a lot a people are not on here anymore. I checked my friends list...holy crap...

**outback** · 12-13-2018, 12:07 AM

Were still here, were busy with leftovers at the moment.

**32t** · 12-13-2018, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by nessmuck

Looks like a lot a people are not on here anymore. I checked my friends list...holy crap...

Now you have an idea of what it is like to live past 100.

**cudarunner** · 12-13-2018, 04:22 AM

Originally Posted by 32t

Now you have an idea of what it is like to live past 100.

I know this is Off Topic

You don't need to live to be 100 years old---I started losing my friends when I was 14 years old (My Freshman Year in High School). I stood on a football field and watched my childhood friend Jay Mashek die at my feet. I watched Dr. Pittman put that Adrenalin Needle into my friends heart to no avail. I think the worst part was seeing and hearing his parents.

The next year I attended the funeral of my classmate Ryan Parsons (the entire High School was around 400 kids).

My Junior Year nobody died but my friend Shelly Brown was permanently crippled in a car wreck.

The Christmas after I graduated Three Friends; Kim Bond, Jim Cunningham and Craig Heinz were killed in a car wreck at 2 AM Christmas morning. I was stationed on the East Coast and couldn't attend the services.

Five years-Three Hours Later Craig's only brother would die from Leukemia at the age of 14 years young. I was a pall bearer for him.

I've buried my parents, every Grandparent, every brother and sister of my parents and grandparents and most all of their kin. There's no uncles or aunts left and the older cousins are dying far too quickly.

Way back in the early 80's a very beautiful, gracious and kind hearted young woman died in a car wreck. She was a friend and so was her older brother. When the brother spoke at her services he talked about how she would remember little things about him and especially his birthday which he would himself space off.

He ended with something like this:

"If there is someone you love, reach out and hug them because you never know when they'll be gone".