first Christmas

Dreno, buddy, a former co-worker and I have had this discussion. I've known pain with the death of my daughter, but not the grief of the death of a parent. I sit and watch my folks get older and it's not easy. Pop is still as sharp as a tack and more than willing to get his hands dirty, being a man who's worked with his hands all his life. He's my go to guy if I can't figure something out, car related. But I'm also a realist and know that it can't last forever and take the moments I have with him and put them away in the old scrapbook of a photographic memory.
Experiences like yours just reinforce the ideas that I have of my parents being with me here and now and know that I need to cherish them.
Thanks for sharing the clock with us. It's a work of dedication and a work of art and says a lot about your father.