ANDY

Well, Hito:

I’m sitting in the chair I used to find you in and Paul’s gray kitty is looking for a rub and I know its not from me, but you ain’t here. She sits here every day waiting, I guess for you.  I’ve seen the calico, too.  Too bad I can’t think about all the good times right now.  I remember giving you a welding test at the shop.  You did just fine.  What I didn’t know was …….you’d been welding ½ inch thick rust.  You could weld all right, but it’s different welding corroded metal. You must have figured it out cuz Boo seemed to take a liking to you.  When you worked, you worked!  You got things done.  Who doesn’t like that?  I’m watering the sunflowers, you wouldn’t believe it – one of them is damn near 40 inches tall (or 3.333333333 feet), and 3 out of 4 confederate roses lived – to my surprise!!!!  I’m watering the garden now.  Thanks for putting up the fence for the cucumbers, but as it turns out, most of those sprouts were cantaloupes!  So what, we’ll eat cantaloupes.  I remember the year you gave tomatoes to everybody you could.  That was a good year!  I ain’t much into spirits walk the earth bit, but the snook bait is being taken care of, case you’re listening. The winds today have a scent of unrest, back and forth shit, you know.  You would have liked to see a cane (hurricane) but I think most of the yanks have figured out it’s not so pretty afterwards.  Hell!  Your Mom hung clothes from the damned power line.  I took a video but she probably deleted it.  We had to take showers in the back yard with the hose and power from the generator.  Knowing you, you probably would have been buck ass naked and the neighbors would’ve complained.  Hell you probably would’ve wanted me to let you out in it.  Then again, if you were here, you probably wouldn’t have been that stupid, but you would have asked anyway.  I appreciate you helping me put a roof on the cabana, but that doesn’t pay for all the sacrifices I went through for you, by not throwing your ass under the bus. So tell Heaven they can wait till?  Never mind!  You must’ve been surprised as hell when you woke up in Heaven!!!  You probably thought different.  The one thing you didn’t count on, no man can secure his place in Heaven by any deed or sacrifice, it is only through the grace of God that anyone is.  So, now that you’re so damned busy enjoying Heaven, don’t think about any of us cause we don’t get it.  I’m sure we’ll be seeing you before you can miss us.  In the meantime, we’ll be trying to stay alive, and with a little mercy we’ll be trying to help each other stay alive.  I know you won’t see this cause it’d make you sad, but we’ll miss you Asshole!!   Love Andy