Gremlin’s Fireside Chat

One year ago today my father died peacefully, but unexpectedly in his sleep. Its been a long, yet short year if you know what I mean. I really miss him. He was my closest male friend, advisor and mentor; and there is never a day that goes pass that I don’t think of him or hanker with the need to ask him a question.

Life can be cruel, and I know that he would loved to have seen and held his new grand-daughter – he loved children, and children loved him.

Dad I miss you. I love you.

Spring is almost here and the bushes and other-things in the garden need a little tender-loving-care; you know the kind – the kind only deliverable by using a hedge strimmer/cutter. Trouble is it almost killed me.

Like many people (I would not dare call myself a gardener) I have electrical gardening equipment. Anyway to cut a long story short I have a Black and Decker GT110 hedge trimer and in one sweep I sheered through its own power cable!!!! I saw a flash, and instantly knew what happened but I was saved by having a trip plug on my extension cord. Talk about lucky. From from this Garden Safety web-page I now realize that not only did I not have the cable over my shoulder, I wasn’t wearing goggles either. What an idiot I am.

I could not stop shaking (non-electrical) from the shock and stress of it. I have a wonderful wife and six week old baby daughter both of whom I adore – and I almost left them without husband and father. I must be more careful in the future.