MISTA GRABA!!

Happy Birthday to my friend-a-years.  Hard to beleive that you are 40 man - crazy!  So wish we could be there for this event buddy but just couldn't pull it off.  So many memories come to mind when I think of you.  Most of them involve drinking and belly laughing.  As our favorite blue eyed Mexican buddy Ernest Ramos would say, I'm just happy to have been in the foxhole with you Graber!  I will go ahead and say that our meetings at Mother Michelin were some of the best times of my young life and kept me at MX for a while. Whether it was wearing out Kevin Anthony until his feelings got hurt or doing our very best and drunken impressions of our dear friend Mr. Terry Arthur at 2 AM, we always seemed to have a blast.  Thanks for being a dear friend through the ups and downs of corporate America and always being there on the other end of the telephone or the bar seat next to me to share my troubles, a good laugh, or just to BS.  My favorite thing about Graber is his ability to just walk into any part of the country and blend in no problem.  From the Yankee upbringing in Buffalo, to a redneck in Alabama, a little while as a Cajun in NOLA, to freezing cold Minesoooota, to where I believe you will call home...BASTAN!(I think I may have had something to do with that:))   Appreciate you tagging along with the family unit several times for mountain vacations.  We miss you guys and we hope that you get down South soon.  I will leave you with this sir...Mista Graba, you need to be more like Chad Milla.  He knows how to sell the X-Lisse...See Ya!

Chad Miller & Family in Tennessee