My Tony

I wrote this wonderful tribute to Tony......The power went off and I lost the lot....so here goes again and here's hoping that the power stays on..... it's gone off three times today so far !!!! grrr
Anyway it is Tony's Birthday today....... he is......well he is younger then me...but a whole lot wiser....and thinner!!!!!
He is the love of my life and I'm proud to call him mine.
I must admit though that me calling him My Tony rather then Tony comes from Gayle and Reg our friends they call each other My.......
and I really like it ....it becomes more personal.
He is a person who is calm and wise most of the time...although he becomes unstuck if he has to fix up a car...he hates the Auto Car mechanical side of things......and then he aint so purfick !!!
He is really intelligent, remembers things that he has read 40 odd years ago to the very detail..... he remembers numbers and dates and can tell you the population of almost all countries...I tell you he is smart.
He runs his own business with the utmost integrity...actually he can claim integrity because he has it, he is trustworthy, faithful and has an abundance of Charity......he does many a good deed but doesn't like anyone knowing about.
I'm going to come back to this as I fear the power might go off again and I will lose all this again.
I'm back and have done some shopping for a special tea tomorrow night for him, as he is coming home tomorrow from Port Hedland.
He would give up his life for his Family....I have no doubt of that. He is a born Leader in many aspects....one I thought of as his strength is that he was able to be compassionate and would do what he could...for those he needed to counsel but he left the responsability with whomever......when he was a Bishop I never saw him stressed nor did he ever bring problems home.....The only thing I ever saw, was when he was concerned, that he always seemed to stay on his knees longer and I would think ahhh he is praying about some soul.
He is one of the hardest workers I know, he loathes, absolutely detests laziness in any form.....He is a bit older now and it is my hope that he would slow down some...which I have to say he does at times...but not when he is away on a job, then a thirty year old would be hard pressed to keep up with him
He is not a romantic in the sense most women would want...but he does things like the old grey chair blog.
I Love him with all my heart..... and I know he loves me.....he is much better in telling me this now, although it took 5 years of married life for him to say it!!!!!!
He is a Man's Man...and comes from a household that that might not be perceived as Manly ....but I am training him well !!! and we have come a long way. Particularly when he has all our beautiful girls to soften his heart.xxx
As our Jack would say Tony is a no bull**** Man.
I sometimes tell him that he is sweet or beautiful and he would say " You don't say those things to blokes"
Who made those rules I would say!!!!!! and I pay no attention.
I wrote an email to one of his co workers up North and asked him to give Tony a kiss from me today...I am pleased to say he did ....in front of all the blokes as Tony put it in a email......and then they sang Happy Birthday to him....Marvelous I thought....at the bottom of his email he said " thanks Pal"
You see Pal is what he calls me.... or The One...or My Best Mate..... see what I mean about different.
GREAT isn't it....I'm a lucky girl.
I appreciate that even though we have gone through some hard times financially ...he has always provided for us.....we have never known want of any sort.......AND HE is totally optimistic ....... I throw in a curve ball every now and then......just to test him ..... not intentionally of course......but he remains placid.... and waits for me to catch up or he at times needs to catch up to me...... either way.....
Gosh I could go on.... as in writing this I can think of so much more but I think for now that will suffice.