So sorry to hear the news. Condolences to family and friends, including
those whose chairs were closest to him on this porch.

Special thanks (and condolences) to Mr. Grandstaff for the history and
eloquent eulogy. Well said.

Darren Addy
Alda, Nebraska

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:04 AM, scott grandstaff 
wrote:

> I remember when Jim Thompson stumbled up the porch steps for the first
> time.
>  Kind of tentative, just looking around. But some of the things he said
> sounded so familiar to my ears.
> We hit it off right away. When I started to find out who he really was, I
> gave him the name Millrat.  I was a millrat too, but Jim was even more of
> one.
>  He added the Old himself. You can't blame me for that. :)
>
>  If often felt like we were two horses pulling together, in the same
> harness.
> I'd get an idea and start something. Jim would jump in, and pretty soon
> he'd come up with a twist or a different way.
>   So I'd do that too, until I'd hit on another idea.
>  Then he'd jump on that.
>     And on and on we went. Through whole classes of projects.
> Project after project. Down through the years. Leaning on each other,
> making it happen.
>
>  I have his work of his all over my shop. They are going to find my DNA
> all over his. I've got a 1/2 full box in my shop right now, that I was
> planning to send when I filled it the rest of the way.   There will be one
> just like it in his.
>
>   My friend. My brother. Pillar of the porch. Charmer of the old ladies
> running the estate sales.
> Arrogant sarcastic old bastard with a heart the size of the whole damn
> world.
>
>    "Hell you got to die sometime", he would always say.
>
>   Rest friend. You made a long haul. Came up a long road.
> You did what you wanted.
>  You made the world different from the way it would have been if you were
> never here.
>    cheers to you
>     yours Scott
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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