Goodbye to our friend - Nailhead.

[asy]

I've just got off the phone with Karen (Mrs Nailhead),

Pat, great friend and buddy of all on the FF, aka: Nailhead passed away this morning, from a massive heart attack. Aged 54.

Understandably Karen is distraught, and I wish there was something I could do for her, even just give her a hug.

Goodbye Pat. I'm SO sorry we never got to meet. I know we were planning your trip here and looking forward to it. 

asy.

I hope this post makes sense, it's real hard to type through tears.

[Paschale]

This is tragic!   :'(

[blaze83]

I'm sorry to hear of the loss, I'll be praying



Steve

[thecfarm]

That is so sad to hear.Our thoughts and prayers go out to Karen.

[Fla._Deadheader]

Condolences from Costa Rica.  :( :(

[zopi]

Thoughts and prayers from here...

[isawlogs]

Mrs Nailhead, please accept my deepest condolences , I am so , so sorry to hear of this .  :( :( :'(

[Wildflower]

I spoke with Karen earlier and got the visitation and funeral information.

Visitation is Monday 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm and Tuesday 10:00 am - 11:00 am
The Funeral is at the Zion Lutheran Church in Skanee, Mi following visitation on Tuesday.

If we get anymore information we will pass it on.

Karen and family will be in our prayers. Pat will be forever remembered as a Dear friend and Forum member.

[Reddog]

Well first, that plain and simply sucks.

I truly enjoyed the time spent with him on the ATV ride. And had planned to stop and see him when ever I was in that area.
We wish his family the best in recovering and coping from this loss.

:(

[Warbird]

So sorry to hear this. :( I'll be praying for the family and friends.

[Furby]

Well first, that plain and simply sucks.

Can't describe it better myself! :'(

My condolences as well. :(

[Kevin_H.]

thoughts and Prayers from Kevin & Lynette

[Corley5]

We lost a very good friend today  :( :'( :( :'(

[Mooseherder]

This is just terrible news.  Pat was a great guy and this is really unbelieveable.
Our condolences to Karen and your family, we are so sorry for your loss.  I truly enjoyed our time spent together last fall and learned alot from Pat also when he shared the beautiful U.P. with us.

[Burlkraft]

I am crushed by this news   :'(  :'(  :'(

Have a safe journey, Pat, my friend  :-\  :-\  :-\

It was a pleasure to know you and you there will be an empty spot in my life forever more.

My deepest sympathy's to Karen and the rest of the family.

The forum has lost a true friend today  :'( :'( :'(

[woodbowl]

This is tough. Condolences to all of Pat's family. It was a pleasure to have known him. May God help you all through this time.

[DanG]

I was shocked and deeply saddened when Tom called to tell me this terrible news, this afternoon.  It brought back the memory of that first few moments of the first Piggy Roast I attended.  Ol' Tom was anchoring a rocking chair on the front porch of Jeff and Tammy's little cabin.  The piggy was doing his thing in the roaster, and there before my eyes stood Nailhead, Chet, Pasbuild, Furby, and Marcel.  What a magical moment that was!  I have relived that little experience a thousand times in my mind, but now the memory has a hole in it.  Like a piece of "character wood" with a strategically place knothole, that memory has become even more special today.  I will miss Pat, even though I only met him twice, but I don't think I've seen the last of him.  Some day, either tomorrow or forty years from now, or somewhere in between, I'll cross that river too.  I figger Pat will be there with a Bleue for me and a big grin on his face, and all will be right again.

[chet]

I'm at a total loss for words.  :'(

Judy and I offer our deepest sympathy's to Pat's family.

[Norm]

Please accept our heartfelt sympathies. 

[Jeff]

Pat, I miss you.  Ive been sitting here in the cabin most of the night thinking. Thinking for the first time that I wish I wasn't here.  Wishing I was somewhere where I could do something, but knowing there is nothing that will help. There is nothing I can say to convey my sense of loss. The day before I left for here I got a package from Pat. The last IM I had before leaving was from Pat. As I sit here the half pint of Maple syrup on the table, Pat's U.P. gold,, looks like a 55 drum. Its the biggest and most important thing in the cabin to me.  I'm Glad to have seen Pat just last month and it hurts unbareably to know  I wont be seeing him again soon.  I wish like  Asy I was just able somehow to be there and give Karen a hug.  Pat, I miss you

[asy]

Ya know Jeff, somehow the world just seems a smaller place tonight. I never got to meet Pat, but I'm real good friends with Karen. I just finished my jar of Pat's Maple Syrop last week. I just wish I'd kept that tablespoon in the jar so it'd always be there.

I'm still in tears. I just can't breathe for Karen's loss. I know how much she adored him and it kills me to think some day I may have to walk in her shoes, but for today I watch her from afar and knowing there's not a DanG thing I can do to comfort her is breaking my heart.

I know Andrew had to ask me four or five times whether I was kidding. We were planning their trip here, as I said before, and Andrew's catch cry when he couldn't work out how to do something on the farm was "Don't worry, Pat'll show me how to do that when he gets here"...

I'd really like to ask any forum member who is able to go to the funeral or visit with Karen to please PLEASE give her a hug and tell her it's from me.

asy.  _{(sorry, no smiley face today)}

Addition:
Just got this in an email from Karen, in that email she also asked me to thank everyone for their kind thoughts:
We are having visitation at Reids Funeral Home. L'Anse, MI Mon. from 6-8 pm. The funeral will be at the Zion Lutheran Church, Skanee at 11 am Tues. with visitation at 10 am. A luncheon is to follow. - Just in case anyone wants to go...

[SwampDonkey]

Sorry for the loss of a great forum member. I still remember the maple syrup he sent way out here in my corner of the continent.

Just yesterday I heard of the passing of a local woodlot owner and dairy farmer who died as he was climbing into his pickup with his wife.  :(

I had thinned 40 acres of his woods 2 years ago.

[Greg Cook]

DanG!  :(

[beav39]

our deepest thoughts and prayers go out to the family safe passage pat   he will be missed

[stumpy]

I never had the pleasure of meeting Nailhead, but, after reading all of your kind words, I feel as if I knew him well.  I will say a prayer for him and his family.