Fare Well, Whitey

My apologies for so belatedly posting.  The gentleman in the picture, Pat Schlabes' husband Whitey, went down swinging...long after anyone would have predicted.  Crusty? sure, nothing less would have got him through the circumstances of his life.  Tough?  He was so tough the only people who could endure more or scold more accurately in my experience were women.  He mellowed with age. He was the man that came to my mind whenever anyone tossed out the phrase "tough love".  He invented it all on his own.  His lessons were simple, and like most good teaching,  hard to live up to...I hope I never forget them.