Nelson's Balcony

[Mossy]

Nelson’s Balcony

Welcome to Nelson’s Balcony, a tribute to our friend Nelson from the original days of AFN (pre-2013.)

Nelson’s Balcony was his pride and joy; filled with medical crosses and sunshine, even on a cloudy day.

We think that he would approve of us putting a bench up there so people who are grieving the loss of a loved one can come and share in the peace and tranquility.

So you are Invited to share this special place. Bring flowers, talk to your loved ones or about them.

Share them, share their memories, or just let them know you miss them at the special times in your life.

And don’t forget if you are passing through; bring a smoke in for Nelson (it is his balcony after all!)

An old AFN member once said if we smoke enough, Nelson will be able to SMELL it.

We believe if we smoke up enough he will be able to SEE it!

Smoking up a karma cloud for all our loved ones!

[krug]

Evening admin,

Has the previous Nelsons Balcony contributions gone now(is it archived or just gone…)?

Sharing one

…krug

[Hobbes]

The other site is still up; and honestly still figuring out the final destination for it. As long as we can afford to keep it up and running in the mean time, we won’t tank it, I just can’t afford to pay the bills for everything.

[Mossy]

I’ve just been over to have a look @krug …to see if we cut and copy some of the important stuff over…but I think it would be copying text…without the original posters identity..

Go have a look from page 1....straight cut and copy would probably lose context..

[EyesOnFire-1]

Ole Nelson..and many others. I have made the transition hope everyone is well​

[Mossy]

Staff Roll of Honour. Gone but not forgotten…

Muddy

Eekman

Stepside

Renaissance Redneck

Friends

Nelson

RSV1

Dabber

Kyote

Absent Friends Bless them all

[Mossy]

@krug ..who am I missing…?…

[krug]

Maybe Eek(maybe eP… not sure though)?

But tbf, Nelson and rsv1 were very special imho(I miss the others too… Very much btw!)

I should point out that you may have covered them(under og names but, I can’t recall all the the name changes, over the years tbh!) “sharing one”.

[Hobbes]

Eek needs to be added to the list…

[Hobbes]

And Kyote. He was a more recent one

[Hobbes]

We’d become friends on Facebook. He just quit posting one day after being sick a long time.

[EyesOnFire-1]

Oh damn,Ole Eek passed..daaamn. RIP

[EyesOnFire-1]

Dang,I remember him too..we never talked much,but.. and eP ya said maybe? Damn been gone and sick a long time. Was wondering where Ole Nam vet was.

[Hobbes]

@EyesOnFire-1

Oh damn,Ole Eek passed..daaamn. RIP

A few years ago. He and Root asked me if it would be weird if they could take a trip out to the little town I moved to in Colorado and look at houses, since I had just fallen in love with it so much and had talked it up so much. And I said “well, you’re a grown man, I don’t think I could stop you?”

They ended buying the house LITERALLY RIGHT across the street from mine, like I open my door and could throw a rock nearly straight forward across the street to his door

[Hobbes]

I’m worried namvet is gone. He used to do those live Skype calls with us years ago, and he wasn’t sounding great lung-wise even back then.

[EyesOnFire-1]

Oh wow,Ole root. Ai t seen or heard of these cats in a minute

.thays fkn spectacular actually..glad ya got to know em better..thays great..they were great amazing ppl​

[EyesOnFire-1]

Damn,that’s terrible. I thought about him here n there,and others here tbt over the yrs.. i miss those earlier days. So amazing

[Hobbes]

I don’t have any family in Colorado and honestly I don’t make friends very easy (I’m a lone wolf. A pack of one.) And when I went through my divorce, I had temporary full guardianship of my kids for about 6 months while things got figured out. I didn’t have anyone to watch them and I was living on this pot farm outside of Pueblo.

Eekman offered to drive there, about a 40 minute drive each way, every single day, and he’d watch my kids for me at the house I had on the farm. He would bring educational kid books, helped both my kids with their reading, how to write, how to do math, etc.) I kept trying to give him money for his gas and time, and he refused me every time. He loved them so much. He told me his daughter was a lesbian and his son would probably never bare children, so his shot at grandkids was pretty slim. So he and root asked if they could be grandparents to my kids. They bought them thousands of dollars worth of toys and spoiled the shit out of them. One day I show up to his yard with an above ground pool for the kids (like one of those bigger ones that you actually need a ladder to get in and out of.)

Just a wonderful human being. Both him and Root. I think she’s still there in that town, I haven’t been back there in a few years since I moved.

[EyesOnFire-1]

Wow,thats spectacular..i truly hope she’s well.. i knew they were beautiful souls..thats amazing