BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 07:07 PM

Well plow my potatoes its the prolific poster of the past come to party and his place of honor, Spaw.
Happy New Year

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: InOBU
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 07:00 PM

Well... there is not enough time to wish you enough happiness this new year, so there has to be a bunch more... happy new years kiddo...
lor

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Peace
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 06:48 PM

Great to hear from you, Pat. All the best to you both and have a wonderful 2006.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 06:45 PM

...ahhh, make that "lovely wife, Retha May"... God knows she ain't too lively, bless he heart...

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 06:44 PM

Great to hear from ya', Spawzer and it sounds yer on threshold of some better times...

Love, good thoughts and prayers from me and the P-Vine...

Bobert

p.s. My couzin Rufus and his lively wife, Retha May, say "Hey"...

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 06:30 PM

I would tell you & Karen to take very good care of each other, but I guess I don't need to worry about that, hmmm? Best wishes for a year that sees you both healthy and happy and doing all the stuff you've been putting off.

...if good thoughts help, you'll be fine.....

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Peter T.
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 06:11 PM

The usual phrase is that after 50 one spends more time in the shop than on the road, but you are pushing this.

Happy New Year, CP, to you and yours. I would take it one year at a time from now on, please. These days at a time are really wearing.

yours ever,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: bbc
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 06:07 PM

Best to you & yours, Pat, & hug Wayne & Connie for us. I know I said this at least one other time, but I'm sure glad you're still w/ us. Now that you're feeling some better, take good care of that sweet woman who puts up w/ you. I hope her surgery goes smooth as can be & that recup is completely uneventful!

Talk to you next year!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Alba
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 05:54 PM

HAPPY NEW YEAR SPAW, KAREN AND THE BOYS.
I am so glad to see you back here Spaw.
I hope that 2006 brings you and yours nothing but the Health, Peace and Happiness you all so deserve.
Karen all will be well and we shall be with you, you know.... like the force from Star Wars..lol
Great to see your post Spaw. Just great.
Love, Light and Brightest Blessings. Glad to have you back with us.
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Hollowfox
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 05:52 PM

Wow, this is about the best (insert holiday) present I've gotten. I'm keeping up the $#@!-reduction candle series for you and yours, but please tell Karen I'm adding her own personal gen-u-ine purebred Midwestern $#!@-reduction candle to the mix. I want to visit with the lot o' ya sometime again. Love, Mary the pyrophile hollowfox

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: artbrooks
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 05:37 PM

Glad you're feeling better. Will you be hanging around more now? We've been missing your patented brand of abuse.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 05:33 PM

So is this the thread where you're going to post that promised story, Spaw? We're all hanging around the place waiting. (And grinning ear to ear to see that you're home and feeling much better!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 05:26 PM

Sending lots of love and cheer to you and Karen and the boys. May 2006 bring new health and strength.

love,

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: mooman
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:47 PM

Dear Pat,

All the very best in health and happiness to you and Karen and the family for 2006! With any luck we might get to meet one of these days!

Peace and goodwill

Richard
(moo, mooman, ex-mcmoo, Lakewoodophile and "amateur" of all things lutherian (have to be careful as a Buddhist not to spell that Lutheran!))

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:46 PM

Here's a coupla Happy New Year "Attaboys" to you both.
Keep up the good recovery work.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:37 PM

So good to see you posting Spaw! A very happy and healthy new year for you and yours, and best of luck for Karen.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:28 PM

'Bout damned time....

Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings, and all that.

And I'm glad you're doing better, too. Now do unto Karen what Karen has done to...I mean, FOR...you.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:18 PM

A very happy new year to you too Spaw. Here in Scotland it's a kind of special night of the year for us, so consider yourself and your little family as honorary Scots, and whoop it up as much as is safe.

Here's tae us, wha's like us?
Damn few, an' they're a' deid!

Slainthe.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Morticia
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:17 PM

I'll forgive you for not posting so much given that you pulled through, otherwise you were in the sh1t, buddy.....my love to Karen and the boys, and here's wishing you and everyone a happy and peaceful new year.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:10 PM

Spaw... so great to hear from you. Welcome back... home, buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: CarolC
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:05 PM

Happy New Year to you and yours too, Spaw.

And best wishes for the best possible results for Karen and her procedure.

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Helen
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:59 PM

You two!! How can I worry so much about 2 people and their family and friends as much as I worry about you, given that I have never even met you and maybe never will?

Have a New Year that is everything you have ever hoped for,

Lot of love, health, peace & happiness,
Helen

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Amos
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:59 PM

Man, Spaw, those docs have put the fear o' Docs into ya! I've never heard you so civilized and genteel.

I am sending my best intentions that you and Karen see February better than ever and it just keeps getting better through the year.

Yo are a Major Dude and we-all loves ya, no mistake.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:55 PM

Pat, it's great to hear from you; how sweet (yeah, SWEET) that you are thinking of us, when things are so intense for you all right there in your own lives. I can strongly recommend aquatic exercise to you both. Gentle, effective, supportive, and responsive. Not swimming and not water aeroibics-- water yoga or a similar program called Ai Chi. Have tapes and book to lend. Just say the word.

I'd also like to put Karen on the Prayer Chain list for her surgery and recovery.... OK?

And how I wish I was nearby enough to lend a hand with the boys! Me and Hardi! Yeah, we'd teach them a coupla new bad words for ya.... :~)

Much love,

~Susan

PS, Our #1 son and his wife will move into Ohio next week, after 6 years as a Navy nuke and 2 years in Hawaii. I'm putting you on the itinerary this time, when we head for Oak Harbor to see him. Why, you're practially on the way-- and surely I won't get lost again!

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: CapriUni
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:54 PM

Joy, and strength and Success in 2006.

This time next year, I hope you can look back and say to yourselves: "Whoopee!! We did it! And More, besides!"

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Metchosin
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:48 PM

All the best to you and your dear family in the New Year, Spaw. I think of you often.

Susan

Subject: RE: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: Nancy King
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:47 PM

Welcome back, Spaw!

So glad to hear things are going well for you and Karen -- may 2006 be good to you both!

Nancy

Subject: BS: A Happy New Year from Spaw
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:35 PM

Sorry I haven't been around much since coming home but this last one took a lot out of me and strength-wise I am just now starting to really come back. On the other hand as I do begin to feel better, it is a stronger and better feeling than I have had in many years. I am sleeping better and longer than I have in ages and I'm doing a sleep apnea study in Feb to see if we might increase even this as well. So much for apologies.............

Once again I have to send a giant thanks to all of you for your thoughts and kind words as they surely made a difference. Some of you I am contacting over the next few weeks for a few private words of thanks for acts over, above, and beyond.

And now........

HAPPY NEW YEAR

to one and all. We're doing very little for the eve but will be having a great day tomorrow with Connie and Wayne. We look forward to a good year and one of challenge for both Karen and myself. I want to start some new exercise and walking rehabs and Karen will join in after she recovers from her own surgery coming up on January 9.   Yep......It has taken a year of dancing through hoops and testing but Karen will be having Bariactric by-pass surgery. She is having the complete surgical procedure as opposed to the laproscopic because although the initial operation takes a bit more rehab time, the success rate and lack of problems later makes this a better option. We really believe that this will give Karen her life back in many ways and assure our kids will have an "active" mother, or indeed, a mother at all........yeah, it's that serious.

So 2006 holds some great things for us and I can only hope it does for you as well. The best of all things to you and yours from Karen and I for the best of all New Years.

Spaw