What a tragedy. I'm glad they survived without injury. Sally "M. G. Devour" <mdev...@eskimo.com> wrote: Dear friends,
As most of you know, long time list treasure Brooks Bradley and his wife lost their home to fire some weeks ago. Here's an update on their circumstances... Mike D. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Wed, 25 Aug 2004 Hello Mike, Sylvia and I are doing fine. We have enjoyed magnificent support from all family members, friends, local community..... and many folks who were complete strangers. We are quite comfortable, physically, in the mobile home at the front of our farm....and we have moved our cats (by the way----we were over-joyed that both Bootie and Lucille....who resided in our converted garage section, survived) to the new residence with us----they just love being in the house with us. My work with the Foundation has been, somewhat, adversely affected ... but I expect to be accelerating my productive activities very soon. I am far behind schedule on our effort to assist an African-based, charitable, medical organization (we were constructing a large, solar- powered CS generation system for them (almost completed) when the fire consumed everything related to the project). I had made it my personal effort and had everything thing in my personal workshop area connected to our residence. I have purchased a complete PC replacement system, but just have not had sufficient time to install it yet. One additional loss of considerable impact was the loss of all of our pictures of ALL of our field applications for a majority of our projects executed since 1998. Most had no back up ANYWHERE. My fire- proof safe proved not to be fire-proof. That mistake will not occur again....but sadness reigns among the staff.....especially those involved in our Surface Aeration System Project....as only a very few action pictures displaying the performance of the prototypes, survive anywhere. However, everyone is quite enthusiastic about the coming year's projects....especially me. Evidently, my present journey is not over.....just yet. The fire, itself, was a big local event involving 5 different municipal fire companies and 45+ actual fighters and about 20 auxiliary support cast. Their effort was of a heroic stature, involving pronounced danger.... nine of the firemen had their face shields literally melted onto their chests. It was a big house....with an enormous amount of combustible material (not the least of which was my personal library of over 5000 volumes collected during the last 45 years). Strangely, however, only the loss of the family memorabilia and our pets have caused us undue grief, The monetary loss, while quite significant, is not a factor of pronounced concern......although we did have a powerful attachment to our home. I will close this epistle now, and I thank you, personally, and all the other fine people on the Silver List for the sympathy and interest in our well-being. Granted the permission of the active powers of the Universe..... I will soon be back on the Silver List as an enthusiastic participant. My very best to you all, Brooks > Dearest Brooks, > > I hope you and your bride are beginning to recover from the loss and > upheaval in your lives. > > How are you doing? Are there things either of you need or that others > can do to help? > > People on the silver list have been enquiring as to your well-being. > May I send them a report? > > Peace, > > Mike D. > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out!
