My poor stone wall!!

Yesterday, a large delivery truck accidentally backed into the corner of my beautifully constructed stone wall. There wasn't much damage done to the truck, but the wall came tumbling down. We now wait for repairs to be made and hopefully this won't happen again! Please let me know if this kind of thing has happened to you, I always enjoy your comments.

Comments

[John Turner]

This is classic,
This stuff seems to happen to me all of the time, very frustrating! Thank you for sharing..

John

[Andrew Ritchie]

Thankfully no one (or pet) was hurt!

-Andrew

[gardenlady]

I can sympathise with you,Martha.
The guys on the forklifts just can't seem to miss my plant tables at my Home Depot.

[Melissa at MasterPiece Weddings]

This happened to me as well, except it was in the center of the wall. I guess the blind spots are just 'that' bad.
It's since been fixed, but the color of the stone is just slightly off. I notice it, but my husband tell me that no one else does. (I think this is just to pacify me)
Good Luck!

[Debbie]

This happened to us when a garbage truck took off part of our roof!

I love your fence---it reminds me of those I see in Ireland.

I know you will find a wonderful craftsperson who can fix it!

Thank you for your blog Martha!

[Kristin]

The Internet is such a confessional, and since you asked... A few years ago I was trying to back a big truck into a narrow driveway with about 5 inches clearance on either side. I heard a little scraping sound and thinking that I just dinged the side of the truck a little, I ran in, threw the keys down in front of my husband and said, "You do it!". Well, he came back asking for help in reassembling the wall first. Luckily the stones were some sort of lightweight volcanic rock and went back together pretty easily.

[fossilswatchguy]

Martha, I have a friend who rebuilds walls like this. It's a talent to build walls like this, and there are always extra pieces. Good luck with the rebuild.

[Barbara FIght]

Your stone wall is beautiful. Did an artisan do it and will he (or she?) be the one to repair it? If I ever move from my apartment to a house, I would love to have a stone wall just like it.
WERE YOU THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED?

[Margie]

Yes, Martha, these things have happened to me. I would give you a list but sometimes it works better to think postive thoughts....... I also know the trucks it takes to deliver things and sometimes we create very difficult obstacle/optical courses.
Looks like a power of ten that hit the rock corner. Hmmmm. Was the road slick?

[Kerry Gavin]

Martha, We are sitting here now waiting for Masonary companies to call us back for estimates. A sixteen year old boy backed into our block fence and not too much damage to his truck, but a huge whole on the side of our yard!!! We received a call from the police to watch for wandering coyotes that have been sighted in our neighborhood, so we are a little nervous we may have some company soon!!! Good Luck with your wall!!! Kerry,from AZ.

[Charlie]

Hi Martha,
You would not believe this but last year I found the corner of my stone wall in pieces in my driveway. It had snowed and I just know it was my plow guy who knocked it down. Upon questioning, he denied it and said he saw a yellow truck on the road at the same time. I had to pay for the repair but it's crumbling apart again. Hope you have better luck!

[Alcea Alba]

Yes Martha, since you asked, things like this do happen. In fact, just last week, I took delivery of my six burner range and to my disbelieve, as the delivery truck driver was pulling away from the corner of my house, he took down half the tree with him. Unbelievable!! Oh, he didn't stop either. Good luck with the repair of your wall. Alas, my tree will live, but it will take years to grow and repair itself.

[Remi]

The propane delivery truck driver backed right into my rock wall destroying a good part of it. People don't have respect for those rock walls.I feel sorry for them!!

[Ann]

My grandparents had a long narrow driveway, just big enough for a single row of cars with a pair of big brick columns at the entrance. Family gatherings always required the jockeying of cars, rearranged to the comings and goings of their guests. One Christmas, when I was about 10, I spied my father coming in the side door with the most sheepish look upon his face. I asked him what was up and he reluctantly admitted that he had backed into and knocked over one of the stately brick posts. Oops!! It was our secret - at least for a few moments.

[Janie]

Oh dear, well just think how nice it will be when the repairs are finished! I am sorry for you and the anquish you must feel. You are such a tidy person and to have it in such a state I am sure is not a great feeling for you. Hopefully, the next folks in the next delivery truck will be more aware. Best wishes, to you. Make sure they do it right!

[Dawn from Mt. St. Helens]

Yes this happens to me also!
Last year my husband and I made our resort just beautiful with tons of flowers in baskets and galvanized tubs. The one big tub is in a corner spot and got smashed by someone. I was really upset that nobody said anything. Most of our guests are frequent flyers (repeat). I was convinced they would let us know. I went on and on about it, then my husband finally confessed he had done it backing up with the horse trailer.
You just gotta laugh!

[Crissy Stone]

What a beautiful wall! I hope you can get it fixed up just perfectly. This sort of thing did happen to my husband and me. During an ice storm, an emergency response truck tried to use our driveway as a turn-around. He pulled over and just started sliding. We watched helplessly as he slowly slid down our steep driveway into all three parked cars, two of which pushed forward into the house. In the repair process we put up our own stone wall, I just hope it doesn't happen again! Best of luck getting your wall back to good.

[Trish]

Lucky for me I don't have a stone wall for some errant driver to "play" Jenga with! Someone did run over my mailbox not too long ago though and broke it in about 10 pieces. It was a Victoria looking one that we are all required to have in our neighborhood, which I don't like but it got voted in. The plastic replacement one we ended up with cost more than the original; same design though. I think your wall is going to take a miracle to get it back together again. Please post a picture of that miracle when it's done! Trish

[Paula]

Martha Iam a truck driver who picks up milk from the farms, one of my farmers in Kent Ct., has a wall just like that and another hauler did the same thing to their wall. Lucky for them they build stonewalls (dry ones like yours)

[Bioplar Christy]

I'm so sorry that awful thing happend to you, Martha. Home repairs seem so constant in my house that I can absolutely sympathize... I certainly hope the delivery man/company owner offered to pay for the repairs. Anything less would be unfair... Good luck!

[kathleen]

I feel for you. We all, at some time experience this type of situation. I have viewed your segment on your expert who creates stone walls. I am sure that this will have a positive outcome and all will be satisfied with the outcome. I have learned that owning a home, or anything for that matter becomes a work in progress. In remodeling our home, my husband and I expected things would not always go "as planned". I appreciated the comment of another who stated, "you just need to laugh". Looking forward to seeing the finished product!!

[lucy]

Oh my goodness--what a terrible thing to happen!! I would have been soooooo upset! Hopefully it can be repaired back to its originally glory.

The only backing up crisis I've encountered was when someone borrowed my car and somehow missed the telephone pole behind him!!! You wonder what people are thinking sometimes!

[Carol in NC]

Oh Martha! What a mess. I know it can be repaired but just having to see it in disarray is aggrevating enough. Luck Stone in NC could probably do a great job. I hope it's fixed soon. Maybe you should paint the corners orange! Just kidding.

[Rob]

What a shame. I just drove by your beautiful home last weekend and thought to myself, "I love that wall!"

[Nori]

Two things: By synchronicity, I read your post before I went to the Orion Magazine website, and there, from the Jan/Feb 2008 issue, is an article called "The Nature of Walls: Why we build them, how they fail us" by John Piasecki. He makes a good point. Also, if you've never seen the magazine or the website, check it out: excellent writing, important and pertinent subject matter. www.orionmagazine.org

Secondly, in looking at the visually lovely design of your wall, I notice two things that I think relate to the wall being less sturdy than if it was built another way. The small stones are used as a design element, and are located together, creating a vein along the top section of the wall, and again in a lower section, again creating a rhythmic element of the design, but you can see how those sections of small stones don't tie in to the rest of the wall. This translates to less stability in the wall. Then, the inside of the wall is rubble-stone, a filling, rather than a continuation of fit-together, front-to-back, locked-in-place bond throughout the wall. This also reduces the strength of the wall. With normal wear-and-tear of weather, these kinds of walls will tumble long before the older style, complete-built ones, especially if a truck backs into it! However, even with a well-built wall with the different-sized stones distributed evenly throughout, and a tied-in center, a wall will eventually relax its shoulders after withstanding the freeze-and-thaw cycles for decades, or even a hundred years or more. As Robert Frost said, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."

The builder should be able to rebuild it, although it won't really be any fun.

A wall is an expensive thing, unless you're removing stone from your field, and need to put it somewhere, and there's no TV, so you spend what might be "free time" fitting stone one over two, one over two, one over two. I guess it's how we used to learn patience and perserverence.

[CreoleInDC]

Oh my goodness! It is such a beautiful fence too! So sorry that happened but yes...unfortunately I have backed into a wall before. I'm still embarrassed about it. Sheesh!

[Christy Nail]

Your post brought back "fond" memories! When I was a teenager, one of my friends backed into my parent's brick wall bordering our driveway. Needless, to say, my father was not happy about the pile of bricks that lay awaiting his return from work. He decided this would never happen again, so he filled the center of the wall with cement with the bricks on the outside. Guess who backed into the wall next? I was the unlucky child to back into the wall...not to worry, though! The wall remained solidly intack..my rear fender did not!

[Jan Erickson]

Hi Martha, OMG, how devastated you must be! Don't the delivery drivers usually have another person on board so they can direct the driver as he backs up? It just seems logical. I had some one drive into my garage door and it has never been the same. That was years ago. Also, some "jerk" knocked over my mail box and a neighbor found it a couple of blocks away and brought it back. I was able to reset it and it worked for years. Oh, the lessons of life. It will be nice to see your stone wall when it's back to normal. Thanks for sharing and I hope it never happens again. Jan

[Sandy, Sydney, Australia]

Hi Martha,
My husband is a builder and he and his guys have done their fair share of damage over the years. I know it won't make you feel any better but it doesn't make their day either. Mishaps happen when people rush, or are rushed. It usually results in major inconvenience for the owner and loss of $$$ and hours for the tradepeople.

[Michelle]

We once had some gym equipment delivered to a new house we had just moved into. As a housewarming gift my father had given my new husband a very expensive basketball that took my husband 4 very long days of digging and cementing to put in.

Of course the delivery truck backed in to the hoop and smashed the glass back of the hoop. As if that wasn't bad enough (that could have been replaced easy enough), they actually bent and twisted the entire adjustable post it was on. The entire thing had to be replaced by the trucking company, but my husband was right back out there digging up the 4 foot hole and mixing the cement again. It took 2 months to get the new one and reinstall it.

The worst part, I was really upset because I knew my husband was going to be heartbroken and I rushed outside when I heard the crash. The driver opened the door of his truck and hung his head and said "This is not how I wanted to celebrate my 1st week of sobriety." I felt AWFUL.

[cindy]

After a graduation party I hosted the Porta potty truck showed up to pick up the potty I rented for the party. Since this was placed discreetly in my backyard the driver had to manuver around trees, landscaping, etc. to make the pick up. Well, as he was backing his way out he drove over a young maple tree (about 8-10ft tall). The poor tree became the victim of a hit and almost run. Fortunately, my daughter saw the whole thing and the driver did decide to stop and own up to the whole thing. The company did reimburse us for the tree and, more importantly, the party was a huge success!

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[Michael]

To protect the rebuilt stone wall, bollards could be set a few feet away from the wall to prevent this damage from happening again. Bollards are strong vertical protective posts. You could probably consider using antique iron hitching posts installed on deep concrete foundations. The bollards should be strong enough to resist damage and stop an errant vehicle from touching the stone wall.

[Kate]

Once I hit a wall in the fog on a very strangely angled T intersection (I didn't turn enough!). The owner of the house was very very nice and said it happens at least twice a year and they have stopped fully fixing it because they were afraid of someone getting very hurt one day. I was devastated but it is funny in retrospect.

[Shannyn Snyder]

When I saw this, I had to laugh - a little. I work for an au pair company and am in charge of about 50 au pairs. Many of them are learning how to drive for the first time or how to drive on the right side of the road. The morning after a cultural event at my home, we noticed a portion of our fence opposite our driveway down. We repaired it without much hooplah but when it happened again after the next event, there was a new rule for au pairs - if you haven't mastered backing a car out of a driveway, park in the circle!!

[Hardboiledegg]

Having just attended an art reception your crumbled wall looks like sculpture or something at this point I would not be surprised to see in an art gallery -- perhaps a cement block corner faced with stone may be a solution -- also, just down the street from my subdivision someone plowed into the brick neighborhood entrance feature , it looks like a sentry building but it displays the subdivision's name Garrison Way, the driver took off the faux columns that were corner accents
if the driver Backed into the wall perhaps it is too low for a backing up vehicle driver to see it I would also suggest a black iron fence to be installed on top of the stone fence to discourage people from walking on the stone fence climbing over the stone or perhaps you could increase the height of the fence to increase the visibility now the damage down the road looks as if someone lost control of their vehicle

[JO]

I havent had a wall taken down but two of the homes I have lived in have trees at the bottom of the driveway that have been run over and almost completely demolished... the previous owner planted them so I can't claim fame to putting them there

JO

[Laurie]

Oh how I know this dilemma. Our retaining wall has been knocked several times next to our driveway. The last time, twice in a week.

We finally moved the wall.

[Bramble]

It appears that the turning radius of this exit might be a bit narrow for any commercial size vehicles that may use it. A curve, rather than 90 degree angle might facilitate an easier turn and less future damage. As a landscape designer I have seen this problem often and encountered it in our last home which was bound by historic district regulations. It's always frustrating to see beautiful work damaged but I know you will quickly resolve the problem.
Also large vehicles have alot of blind spots in them that make it very difficult to navigate at times, not an excuse just an observation! Good luck with the repairs and if you are like me Spring can't arrive too soon! Be well!

[Stencil Helen]

I live in a 17th century English house with a listed garden wall of historical importance. For some unknown reason an entire length of it collapsed last week. The noise and vibration was huge. By law it has to be rebuilt in the historically correct manner... and worse the sheep are now invading and devastating our garden! Thank God there are no coyotes in northern England!

[Abby]

Ohhhhh Martha thats terrible. I adore those hand crafted stone walls. I have a very talented stone mason friend who may be of use to you.
Abby

[David Robert Darrah]

Hi Martha, 25 years ago I use to brake up concrete drives and sidewalks, replace them. Then I built two 100 ft walls out of them. I am now in my 69th year and I just hit 20,000 golf balls since 6/07 check me out.Thank you Brother David http://www.saviorleadme.com http://www.moneymaking.homestead.com

[Dayami]

oMG!!! what a gorgeous wall! It'll get better soon ;)
This sort of thing happened to us around 7 years ago. A neighbor ran over our mailbox. He was kind enough to come to the house the very next day and offered to pay for a new one and he even put it up himself.

[Jon Mondrik]

Okay Martha,
Just between you and me, did you swear a little bit? I know I would have. However, if you're anything like me, I would feel guilty, and then really sorry for the driver.
Life keeps you on your toes, and it would be boring if things like this never happened.
Take care,
Jon

[donna]

Hi Martha, Sorry about your wall, that's a scary thing to happen! I'm glad that no one was hurt. I watch your show this morning about the The Big Ideas,and I love Barbara's, (Television Producer)Freestanding Martha Stewart store for merchandising and workshops!!! And the other Ideas can all fit into the Freestanding Martha Stewart Store...just pick a floor!

[jeri]

Martha: if you need any replacement rocks i've
plenty on my land in Dexter Me. willing to share.Of course you have to wait till the snow melts
and mud season is over.

[Lolly H Lindemann]

I sympathize with you,I have a 60' covered bridge everyone must cross to get to my house.Unfortunately not every deliivery person knows the size of their trucks.I aleays ask but some know and others guess.Well as you can imagine the top of my bridge has been damaged a few times.The big problem is the writting up there that states "Cross This Bridge At A Walk" It is costly to have it re-painted.Hope your wall is easily repaired!

[Judy]

We have a large oak in the middle of a circular driveway. The poor tree had scars when we moved there and we have had trucks back into it several times. One icy winter, I backed into it and my car slid into it and swiveled around it on the ice!!!

[Katherine Meade]

Dear Dear Martha,

I hope you weren't too hard on the driver. I was showing real estate (in a Mercedes) a few years ago, and backed into the clien't mailbox, supported by concrete! The owners were nice to me, and I had it completely reconstructed, of course! But I felt terrible. Material objects can be fixed. Sometimes people can't. Thank God no one was hurt!

[Sheila Lister]

I hope you video the reapir process.

S.

[Robert Anderson]

My neighbor lives on a very busy corner with many car accidents. He put up a stone wall for the cars TO hit... It keeps them out of his yard, and can be put back together in a Saturday afternoon.. It works better than a regular fence, and is easier to repair than the hedges that had the misfortune to try live there before…

[Delores Howell]

Hi Martha,
My husband and I are building a house on 2 1/2 acres of land in Iron Station, NC (outside of Charlotte). The land was the site of a historic plantation and had two stone walls still standing that were originally built by slaves. Our attempts to preserve these walls during construction has been a challenge. Just last weekend a workman who was doing some grading backed into part of the wall and sent it tumbling.

My husband vows to repair the wall even if he has to do so by hand. It is a beautiful stone wall and with its history, it certainly deserves to be preserved.

Good luck with your wall repairs as well!

Sincerly,
Delores Howell

[Kim Wylie]

Look on the bright side...Humpty Dumpty didn't fall. ;)

My mother actually had a truck driver delivering house-building materials cause an un-fixable problem: he ran over her collie, Scottie. It was pure accident, partly Scottie's fault for his excitement over the big vehicle. The poor thing had too many crushed bones to save him and he had to be put down. Look on the bright side with this one, Martha. It wasn't one of your beloved pets being backed over.

[carlanunn]

Dear Martha,
My daughter and her husband have a long driveway up to their rural home. They had to have a repairman come to repair an appliance and the repairman hit their dog and they had to have it immediately put down! Worst part is he denied it, but called my son-in-law home as their dog seemed hurt and laying down in driveway and he never said he was sorry or offered to pay for the vet bill or anything! I hate people coming onto my place for fear of what they may do! Wouldn't it be nice if people would own up to things that they did and try to make it right? Keep up your good work, we love you.
Carla

[sandi]

i can't imagine backing into Martha Stewarts stone wall, could it be worse.

[Heidi - Botanical PaperWorks]

Reminds me of the time that I backed into a BBQ of cornish game hen that my parents were cooking for dinner guests. Then again, I was a 16-year-old newbie driver! :)

[Grace Uccello]

If this can happen to you, we don't feel so alone! A year ago a garbage truck broke the side of our road (we live in the country). We thought that their insurance would help with repairs, and they would have, but at the expense of us ever getting trash picked up again. They said they would not come down our 1/2 mile long road! Our neighbors were not happy with us for this. So we all signed a waiver absolving them of any future responsibility for damages. And no $ for the road, which is still broken. Grace Uccello

[Mike]

I did manage to back an ambulance into a stone wall - but since I was taking the owner to the hospital he didn't complain too much! What really amazed me was that the ambulance was barely scratched, but the wall was beat!

[Laurel]

I was sorry to hear you speak of the accident to your wall. You seemed to have taken it with a bit of humor which, from my experience is a "good thing". There was a police chase in my neighborhood a few years back and the chasee made the grave decision to come down our dead end street,and proceeded to plow thru my yard, missing the mailbox,a hemlock tree, my SUV, the stairs to the deck, a fence, a maple tree, but did manage to just take out part of my hew hedge and the railroad tie retaining wall holding the backyard from becoming part of the beach, as we live on a pond. The only thing saving the "gentleman" from a swim, was the brush pile at the edge of the water, assembled for burning. It seemed like every emergency service vehicle from our town was in my yard. Surreal and not funny at the time, but I've grown to it find it fairly amusing now, since no one was hurt. Best wishes for good weather and a timely repair.

[patty]

Over Christmas my feeding trough which was filled with beautiful blue pansies was hit by either a UPS or DHL delivery truck. (both delivered that day so I wasn't sure) They made a lame attempt at fixing the destruction by putting it back in the upright position and attempting to put the plants and potting soil back in the trough. I was so angry that they didn't fess up! The plants survived but half didn't bloom like the other half. The trough has a big dent in it, but at least you can't see it from the street.

[Janet Benavidez]

What were they delivering? I wanna know...I want to have one of everything Martha--hoping that your Free Standing Store wins the Big Idea. Of course, all of the other stores would suffer--oh well.

Janet, San Antonio

[Janet Benavidez]

What were they delivering? I wanna know...I want to have one of everything Martha--hoping that your Free Standing Store wins the Big Idea. Of course, all of the other stores would suffer--oh well.

Janet, San Antonio

[Kimberly]

Poor delivery people. I bet they were mortified. Can you imagine? "Um, sorry boss, I wrecked Martha Stewart's stone wall." I'm sure you and your staff were understanding, kind and compassionate about it, and I'm sure it will be fixed soon and be lovely again.
Best, Kimberly

[Kathy]

Oh, Martha,
Your poor wall. To see it come tumbling down must have been awful. I hope it can be repaired soon.
My sister experienced something similar---with her house, not a stone wall. A large delivery truck caught on the spouting at the front of her house. The neighbor saw the truck just keep on going down the street, along with the spouting and the siding of my sister's house. The driver did not stop. Debris was strewn all along the street for several blocks. As the siding was pulled off, it pulled the cable tv equipment off the side of the house, too.
Good luck on the repairs!
Kathy

[Melissa]

Several years ago my parent's neighbor hired a company to clear her lot. Needless to say they got a little carried away, crossed the property line and chopped down one of my mom's trees.

It wasn't just any tree though, my grandfather transplanted it from his yard to hers as a gift before he moved quite a far distance from us.

My poor mother stood there over her pulverized tree. She received an apology-but I always thought they could have offered to plant her a new one.

I sympathize with the destruction of your property. Atleast it can be rebuilt, whereas my mom's tree w/ sentimental value cannot. Poor mom. Poor tree. Poor stone wall.

[Bethie]

I'm so sorry! How awful. What a BEAUTIFUL wall. : (

[Cheryl Russell-Miller]

I had a washer delivered to my home and the delivery drivers did not look UP and took the power cord with them. They actually pulled the wire off of the pole across the street. I had only time to YELL and call the police to block the road. Luckily noone was hurt and only my DVD player was killed by the power surge caused.

[Winger59]

This hasn't happened to me personnally but my neighbor down the road ran into his own stone pillar with a lantern on top of it while he was backing out of his own driveway. The weather was snowy & icy and apparently his Ford Dually truck couldn't handle the icy driveway as he slid knocking the whole thing over! It was the talk of the neighborhood.

[Elsa Laura Garza Ostos]

Dear Martha,
I am a passionate all craft fan and you and your shows have inspired me to continue on these hobbies with even more passion. You are incredible and your hands must turn to gold everything they touch. I know you do your best and it should be quite an effort, but the most important of it all is that you enjoy it so much. I love your craft room and you have ideas for everything, even for the tiniest detail. Your life must be a real dream come true and you top it all up by sharing it with the world.
Thank you for your shows, your videos and now I found your blog, which is spectacular and I will visit frequently.
I am from Mexico and send you my best regards for this 2008 and always.
A big hug to you and thank you for being an inspiration to many of us.

Elsa Laura G. Ostos

[Elsa Laura Garza Ostos]

Dear Martha,
I am a passionate all craft fan and you and your shows have inspired me to continue on these hobbies with even more passion. You are incredible and your hands must turn to gold everything they touch. I know you do your best and it should be quite an effort, but the most important of it all is that you enjoy it so much. I love your craft room and you have ideas for everything, even for the tiniest detail. Your life must be a real dream come true and you top it all up by sharing it with the world.
Thank you for your shows, your videos and now I found your blog, which is spectacular and I will visit frequently.
I am from Mexico and send you my best regards for this 2008 and always.
A big hug to you and thank you for being an inspiration to many of us.

Elsa Laura G. Ostos

[Kris]

I can't say anything like this has happened to me, but I did back into a friend's mail-box before. Oops! Oh well it was fine, it wasn't dented and we filled in a little dirt and everything was ok. I hope your wall gets fixed soon, it looks beautiful. :)

[Jason]

Hi Martha,

I built a stone wall with rock I gathered from around my family farm before it was sold for taxes.

The wall separates my yard from my neighbor's who just moved in a few years ago.( I have been here in Dutchess County for over 60 years and my family for 30 years before that)

The wall is over three hundred feet long so you can imagine the work moving all that rock by hand and building it alone.

I think I did a pretty good job however it wasn't perfect to look at. It looked more like the old walls you would see around the country side.

My new neighbors (truly wonderful people) asked if they could have a crew come in and rebuild it. They thought it would look much nicer and more uniform.

Well, it did......for one year. After the first winter it began collapsing and sadly after twenty six years of standing crooked but upright it is now falling down. It makes me very sad that I am now too old to rebuild it. I Wish you better luck with your repairs.

Also, I am very sorry about the loss of your Mom and your dog. I recently lost my Mother of 90 who I too was very close to. She passed on March 15th and my dog Nunzio (15 years old) died not long before that.Still we must go on.

God bless and never change. You are very much loved.....and an inspiration to many.

Jason Di Palma