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Sorry that this is the second post about losing a friend or family member in as many weeks but the heading of my blog does have the word "Life" in it. And, both of these posts deal with losing people that played a significant role in my life. In this case it is someone I have known nearly my entire Professional career as a sign painter. Thursday night, Karen Coffman called to tell me…

…the sad news that her brother and my longtime friend and fellow sign painter, Wilbert G. Coffman had passed away.

From the time I first met Wilbert, somewhere around 1980-82 he was nothing but generous and kind to me both as a friend and as an aspiring sign painter of which I was at that time.

While it was my wife’s Uncle, who had initially encouraged me to consider the sign painting trade by introducing me to a lifelong sign painter from Uniontown, George Schlifitt, it was Wilbert that helped shaped my brush fundamentals and layouts for lettering signs and more that I still use today.

The only thing better than owning a"Like-New" muscle car from back in the day…is to own a "Brand-New" muscle car from today! You not only get the awesome presence that those cars commanded in their day but with all the technological advances that come with a car of today.

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No one is as car-crazy as americans are and the 70’s generation needs not take a back-seat to any other as it sure saw it’s share of classic, hall-of-fame collector’s models throughout it’s run.

One of the biggest players of this era, known to most as the "Muscle-Car" era was…

This birthday thing must be going around ’cause I’ve now been to two in as many days. Well, this one was the much-anticipated surprise party for my old high school buddy I made the funny poster for (see previous post) and the "quickie" paper signs you’ll see here. It was a grand time seeing all my old friend’s family members after so many years.

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Most of who kinda seemed to have aged a lot better than I did! Oh well, the food was good and Chris really was surprised …. and he took the poster in good spirits as well.

I was so occupied seeing everyone that I completely forgot to take any photos, besides the three I’ve posted here (click on thumbnail). I will try and add some later if I can get a few more from someone else who may have more.