i hate to think or brian's adventure as a misadventure but as with every adventure you can have good not so good bad and not so bad and indifference stuff that does not matter. let me try to evaluate that last adventure for brian jeffery boland. a yoke that comes to mind just now. did brian's parents select brian's middle name from the mascot jeffery the giraffe for toys are us kids. i can only guess but can not confirm. because brian reminded me one time that we are toys are us kids. i don't want to grow up. there is something fascination with a lighter than air ship down here on earth. brian and my paths crossed many times. in the late 1980s i enjoyed watching all kinds of air craft lift off from post mills from the home base of camp waterschoot on reed road vershire vermont some maybe ten miles a part. i think i saw ultra lights from post mills airport fly by. the engines of the various ultra. buzzed like mosquitoes on ground but it always amazed me is that if god wanted humans to fly we all would spout wings very similar to the logic with face masks. if god wanted us to have one we would have one. but man created face masks for god. out of it we had cloth masks that the last government statement rates them better than nothing but not good for anything. then there is the paper masks and the verdict is still confused. again better than nothing maybe minimal but better if it were doubled in a foam sandwich. then there are the best choice n95 and k95 is just a close second. who knows i no longer trust the government findings they keep changing the rules and guidelines. depending on who is talking or barking. yes brian will be missed on earth but the only person to leave the confines from earth forever is brian the family who joined brian were safe with the exception if the family with a husband wife daughter who were alive with minor bruises. better than brian who mortal body proves the notion that the fall does not kill it is the sudden stop at the bottom of the fall that really hurts. the passenger stay in the basket and crash landed in the trees and took a bumpy ride in the basket to the ground. had brian made it back into the basket he could still be alive today. but on the flip side brian prayed long and hard to join his only son jeffery in heaven. brian lived life to the fullest. he celebrated 50 years flying safely by walking away from a couple misadventures 100% of all the adventures. in frank sinatra song fashion brian did it his way. regrets he had a few but to few to mention. so i will step up as a brother from other parents. he told me that he was not certain that he was good marriage material. he thought not he had been in 4 marriages that ended in divorce. he was going to ask his last life partner miss tina forster (sp ?) that he first meet by flying into tina's backyard in thetford some 16 years ago. was it love at first sight tina knows i hope. the life long partnership medical in hanover new hampshire. tina might know why brian lost a kidney and if his shaking is the parkinsons granted longevity or not. but brian was afraid of covid it might him miss the mile marker 50 years of hot air ballooning. his last wish was to create his smoke balloon which is a hot air balloon that was heated by a wood fire. it wood(would) be a historical rendition of the flying coopers (?) smoke balloon base jumpers. i do not know if he made it. good night brian maybe i will see you in a dream.