Warm December

I have and will continue to recommend Grateful Air to everyone.
Our new air conditioner is awesome!!
You can tell by the outstanding job that you love what you do and care about the customer.
Thank You!
Kim Grubbs

Word Of Mouth

"Most contractors, of any trade, do not deliver.  We were given all we were promised!  Nice job!"

John and Anne Dorow

Good times in Stuart,
Tim

Charlotte

Ted my youngest (14) is on a traveling lacrosse team. He LOVES it. First off he is a huge kid, he is over 6 feet and around 225 pounds. When he played football he always had to play with kids his own size and they were usually 2 to 4 years older. Physically they matched up but mentally at that age their is a big difference, don't get me wrong he played very well and kept pace were needed. We never feared for his safety or any other issues, it was what it was and we all had a good time.
Lacrosse is different, there is no size or weight limits, it's all about the age. He towers over a lot of players and lacrosse IS a physical game. I never had it as a Florida boy growing up so I am unfamiliar with a lot of it, but we all like it.



Secondly, it is a travel team. Last weekend took us to Charlotte, North Carolina. We got in town just as a strong cold front was making it's way into town and we enjoyed some cold and frosty mornings. I think it made our boy's play even better. When we go on these trips we have dubbed it "It's all about Teddy weekends".
What this mean is Sam is at left behind covering the home front and the zoo of pets and Ted chooses everything (well almost).
He picks what we will eat, where we stay, times for arrivals and departures, and what extra activities we do. We all get a kick out of this and it all has worked out rather well.





The tournament went very well for us considering the first one was last April in Parkland and I believe the team went 1 and 4.
The team has improved immensely over the last 6 months. They won 4 games and was the #1 seed going into the playoffs but they got beat by a very good team from Atlanta.
They took the loss kinda hard.





Our next and last tournament for this team will be in 2 weeks outside of Tampa and we will look forward to another Teddy weekend. Good luck Blue Devils it's been a fun and very educational year. I know you will all do fine.

Driving a van,
Tim

A Very Sad Day

Jim Karpinski was the best at what he did and he did it like no other.
He taught me that if you are to do a job, you do it once and you do it right or you might as well stay home, sit on your ass and get out of his way.



He would get up every morning at God knows what time and get breakfast at Jupiter's IHOP, go to the shop, cut all the duct we needed for the day, load up all the equipment, make a material list for the next job, drink 15 coffees and be pacing back and forth waiting for me to show up at 6:50am.

You would get in the work truck and he would drive like a bat out of hell to grab another 24oz coffee and get to our job. Most people at this time would stretch their legs and get warmed up for the day, not Jimmy he was out and going and would not stop till the job was done or when it was time to go home.

Jimmy never cut a corner or try to "rig" something. It was done strong, right and up to code. ALWAYS.



Jim was a one of a kind, his beard was 2 foot long and his hair just as long. I never saw him without a bandanna.
He used to take his dog into Denny's for breakfast on Sundays and when they would not let him bring the dog in he would buy a breakfast for the dog and bring it out to her to eat and bring the plate back in.
He was one of the best cursers I have ever met, he could put a string of profanity together that was like a symphony orchestra, even people who did not swear would get a chuckle out of the variety and way it would come from his mouth, it was music to my ears.
Never ever cared what people thought of him. He was a true free spirit and a true hippy. That was his nickname and that is what most people knew him as. "The Hippy"




Hippy passed away last night in his sleep, I have not seen him in 7 or 8 years now and I will miss him dearly. He was a very, very special man. Rest in peace brother, rest in peace.

With a tear on my cheek,
Tim

Catfish John

One of my Favorite Jerry Garcia songs he ever played.

Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John"
Come in the morning I'd always be there,
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.

Take me back to another morning, to a time so long ago,
When the sweet magnolia blossomed, cotton fields as white as snow.

Catfish John was a river hobo who lived and died by the rivers bed,
Looking back I still remember I was proud to be his friend.

Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John."
Come in the morning I'd always be there,
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.

Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg, traded for a chestnut mare,
Lord he never spoke in anger though his load was hard to bear.

Mama said "Don't go near that river,
Come in the morning I'd always be there,
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.

West IS the best
Tim

Hot...Hot...Hot

That's right It turned summertime hot this weekend.
Been waiting for this for a while.
15 phone calls before 8am.

Well be out of town Friday to Monday this weekend, get away before it gets too hot.
We have a concert and Ana is getting a kidney stone destroyed.
The show will be fun but the operation won't be.
It will be a ying/yang weekend.

Drinkin water like a fish,
Tim

Retrofit

Here is a quick before shot, and no this is NOT my garage with all the stealie stickers.



Here is the after, but I did have a spare sticker to get the new one rollin.



Next one is in St Augustine July 30th.

Thinkin
Tim