Bob Wells died today.

@boomerang,

He lived a while in Portland, don't know about Idaho. I'll ask Diane when we get together, re his ever carving bowls. I remember about Portland because he liked the Japanese Garden. Did not like the weather, made that perfectly clear.

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

That's a great "small world" story, Frank! I love those serendipitous connections.

I remember that Bob had some connection with the Pacific Northwest -- a sister? -- because he talked to me about having spent some time here but I think it was years and years ago, not as recently as 99.

And I don't recall him ever mentioning woodworking. This bowl appears to have been made by someone with fairly serious experience with a lathe.

I'll get some photos of it to post.

I really doubt it was him but it still makes me feel happy and makes me miss him terribly all over again.

Exactly. Whether anything connects or not...the find was a beauty.

I can't tell you how much I would love to have been monitoring your heart beat when you turned that bowl over! Wink

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Just to make this a little more fun --

I put the bowl on a table just inside our front door, mixed in among some other things.

Mr. B, who rarely notices any kind of change in the house, comes in and carries the bowl into the room I'm in, saying "Wow. This is a beautiful bowl."

So I tell him the story of why I bought it (he's not an A2ker) and he's flat out delighted with the thing.

I think this bowl is magic.

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Photos!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/boomerangagain/bobwells2_zps722f4cb8.jpg

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@boomerang,

I would have to dig for a sample, but the handwriting looks like Bob's...

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@Rockhead,

Really!?

Wouldn't that be wild.

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@boomerang,

have you asked Diane about it?

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@Rockhead,

I was hoping she was still following this thread.

Osso said she'd ask her the next time she saw her.

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@boomerang,

I just called her. She's thinking no, he wasn't there then. She'll look at the thread when she can.

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It's nine years ago that I've met Bob (and Diane) for the first time.
In London (and they stayed later here).

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Tomorrow I'm having lunch with two very dear old friends who both have advanced stage 4 cancer. This thread about Bob is helping me get emotionally in tune with the reality of that get-together. The loss of people of Bob's calibre both hurts and deepens us .

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@JLNobody,

He was the best. I think that I can figure the time that I started to back away from A2K was at the time of Bob's death. He really added a great deal to the site.

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@Phoenix32890,

Phoenix32890 wrote:

He was the best. I think that I can figure the time that I started to back away from A2K was at the time of Bob's death. He really added a great deal to the site.

He WAS a great guy...with a sense of humor the size of One World Trade Center.

Glad you are stopping in from time to time, Phoenix. You add a great deal to the site also.

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@Frank Apisa,

If Bob hadn't been, I hadn't met Phoenix. (And didn't know that story about Frank Wink

)

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@Walter Hinteler,

Walter Hinteler wrote:

If Bob hadn't been, I hadn't met Phoenix. (And didn't know that story about Frank )

Ohh...that story. What a night that was. You'd have enjoyed it, Walter.

Nice knowing that I have met all three of you in the Big Apple.

Bet Dys had a big cowboy hat on when you met him, right, Walter?

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@Frank Apisa,

Frank Apisa wrote:

Bet Dys had a big cowboy hat on when you met him, right, Walter?

I've met him a couple of times, stayed a couple of weeks at his home. Thus, I've seen him quite often without cowboy hat (actually most of the time).

Bob Wells died today.

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