A few weeks ago I wrote a little post about Uncle Jack (you can read that here). After that post he gave me a call on the phone and told me how much all I had said meant to him, and if he had known how much I liked giving his brother (my father-in-law) a hard time he would have put me in training much sooner. So he wanted me to do something for him. He wanted me to tell his brother how young he was looking lately. He did not give me the details as to why he wanted me to say this, he just wanted me to randomly tell Jackie’s dad that he was looking young today, and to do this every time I could remember to do so. So over the next few weeks I would just out of the blue say “you know Bob, you are looking young today” or “there must be something in the water at this new house, because you are looking mighty young today”. I do not know if this was an inside joke between them, or what, but Jackie’s dad would just chuckle.

Saturday evening Uncle Jack passed away peacefully. We already miss him, but take a huge amount of comforting in knowing he is no longer suffering, and is now home.

Sunday morning when I went outside, Jackie’s dad was working on the breaks of the car, and I said “you know Bob you are looking mighty young today” I almost didn’t get the words out of my mouth, because I started to tear up. I bent down and I hugged him and told him that his brother told me to tell him that, and that was why I had been telling him that for the last few weeks. He laughed, and smiled and we both agreed that that Uncle Jack was something else, and from now on, this was how we would remember him.