Hey Ma,
Please clean out your in box as PM’s to you will no longer go through. It says your box is too full!
Mean while here is a message for you:
The rod is yours as a gift from me. I want nothing more for it orther than you to be happy with it and fish it. Please no money for it as that would be insult to me. Seriously Merry Christmas early!
Yo! Took a bulldozer and a few hours of massive manual labor … but it’s clean!! Sorry about that …
Eric … words fail me right now …
Darm! You really know how to make an old woman cry …
Old? Who’s old here?:razz: We’re Toys-R-Us kids and refuse to grow up!
I told Ed you were getting a new magic wand. He better behave now or you can turn him into a prehistoric petrified toad!:lol:
Try to get the odds-makers in Vegas to give you odds on ME behaving…
Ed
HRH Betty AT A LOSE FOR WORDS???
THIS IS TWO GOOD FOR WORDS, Way to go Nighthawk
Well I will leave to up to Ma if she wants to post photos or elaborate. I know she does lots of great things for folks without ever asking for a thing in return. I also know she is having a tough go of it with some health issues as am I myself and could use a bit of cheering up. Mission accomplished.
What Eric is talking about, and I am bowled over by, is that he sent me a sweet little Banty/boo rod, just because. Just because!! Words cannot express how much this beautiful gift has effected me. I’m really beyond words! I know how important this rod is to Eric. I know how difficult it would have been for him to send it, yet he did it with truly an open heart, knowing it would bring real joy to me. And it has, many, many times over. Thank you, Eric. Thank you, with much love and joy, from the bottom of my heart.
It needs to be fished and I am no longer able to do that. It also needs a little TLC. See the thing that made it easier for me to part with it is the person I decided to send it to. I know it will be fished. I know it will be loved and maintained the way it should be. Here are a some of pics of the rod but I will leave any further pic postings up to Ma:
Giving it to the greatest lady on earth sure beat the daylights out of selling to some stranger on eBay!
Heart warming thread indeed, but not surprising knowing both of you.
God Bless & as always, you remain in my Prayers.
Mikey
Awesome 
My preacher tells me that it doesn’t work that way, but in my mind the bookkeeper in Heaven tore out a page full of mean stuff Eric did when he was a youngster.