Northeast Gardening: Help Pixie name this daylily!, 1 by pixie62560

pixie62560 wrote:
I'm going to give you a few more facts about my brother.......

1) He was extremely bow-legged, he was 5' 6" but we used to tease him and tell him if he straightened those bowed-puppies out he'd be 6' tall like the rest of my brothers!! LOL

2) He has 1 child, her name is Brandi -Jo

3) His 3 favorite past times were gardening, cooking and fishing. There wasn't anything he couldn't grow, used to make me nuts. Who grows and harvest a pineapple in Jan. in the State of Maine?? My brother Brian, that's who.

4) He was true blue, honest and loyal as the day is long.

5) When he was young he had a bit of a wild side to him. One example...he broke his wrist in a freak accident when he was 22 - 24 in June....they said no swimming. The Doc put 12 new cast on my brother that summer....one a week and reset the wrist once. (Victor's BRIAN'S ARE WILD is correct. :)

6) He was a tough little man @ 145lbs. He could lift half an engine block by himself when he was a mechanic. One day the car he was working on slipped out of gear and rolled off the ramp pinning him by his legs to a cement wall. He pushed with his arms so his legs wouldn't crush until help could arrive and remove the car. He only had severe bruising...no broken bones.

7) He called me a shorter version of "Chéri" which means sweety, darling or beloved in French. His name for me ( im going to write it how you would say it in English) is "SHY".

8) He also called me his favorite sister.....the jerk, i'm his ONLY sister!!

9.) He was full of ....mischief. At the 4th of July party's a water balloon fight would break out and he was usually the one who started it with one of the kids.

10) He also had a good heart and a kind soul. On either Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning he would pick up a homeless person and take them to a local diner he knew would be open. He would give the waitress $50 and tell her to give the man what ever he wanted (no alcohol) and keep the rest of the change for herself.

11. ) He was a great brother, BIL, Father, husband, son, friend, and my best friend. It has been 5 months tomorrow since he left and I still cry at least once a week, sometimes more. I don't think I have ever experienced a loss like this. I expected my parents to die, it was written so from the day I was born. I lost one other brother and the grief didn't destroy me like this. I loved him but we didn't have the best friend bond along with the sibling bond. I talked to Brian 2 - 3 times a week on the phone, we got together every other week and we just had so much in common that he was the male counter-part of me I guess. I feel a great void in my life that I can not fill no matter how hard I try so instead I am directing my energy towards doing good in his name.
Here is one of my most treasured gifts he bought for Brian & My Anniversary last May.