I'll be back.

Thank you all for the support you are giving me at this time. You have no idea how much it is appreciated. I have more friends I've never met face to face than are living in the area. I suppose on the plus side of the ledger is that my wife's passing was not an unexpected event, for the has been combating heart disease and COPD starting about ten years ago. You think you have yourself prepared for the event, but I can testify that you are shining yourself on....and one thing I didn't learn from my father when mom passed was that the grief is not nearly the problem as is the guilt process when a life partner passes...but, this will pass and life will go on. Fortunately my daughter has come down from paradise (near Spirit Lake up in tip of the Idaho panhandle) to be with me until the middle of March. She is going through the house more effectively than a house fire. My wife was a hoarder, and the house is so full of her junk plus all my own good stuff that one could hardly function in it. I have promised her that I will pare the number of books to only enough to fill my three bookcases....what I didn't tell her is the paper modeling hard copies are NOT books, and are categorically excluded from that promise. She just about got a new hole in her head when she tried putting my GPM Karl kit in the "go" box. By definition, Project Cleanout will conclude on March 14. I suspect that I won't do much posting until then...but I'll be back. I apologize for not having responded to all of the PMs I've gotten, but the allowance she gave me for interned time runs out too quickly for all the "should do" emails can be completed (how the tables have turned). Again, a thousand thanks to each and every one of you.