shovel and started digging a hole for a coy pond in the backyard. they said, what are you doing? i said i m building a pond. were they fine with it? they were fine. they were like, this is going to be a nightmare. when aaron and zach flew the nest, the griffiths lives only grew busier. they were a foursome with their friends. everybody that knew keith loved him. great guy. did he become your best friend? definitely. one of my very best friends. temple felt that way about julie, too. she had a heart of gold. she would do anything for you. but she also wasn t afraid to tell you exactly how it was either. did she get people s feathers ruffled? oh, yeah. yeah. but everybody loved her. after early retirement from the water company, keith found a second career as a traveling lawn mother salesman, which left julie to spend a lot of nights alone in the house.
i don t have anything to live for. except maybe forgiveness. from who? from my boys. that s why you re talking to me today? exactly. yes. well, it s between you and them. i ll tell you, my take on it is you ve got some distance to make up. i know i do. i ve got a lot to make up. of the countless things keith stole from his family, resilience was not among them. aaron and zach are closer than they ve been in years. and now that they know what happened to their mother, they say they can finally mourn her passing. and focus on keeping her spirit alive for those two little granddaughters who were the center of her universe. my oldest daughter will remember. like i said, she talks about her almost every day. we have pictures of her up in her room. as my youngest gets older, we ll tell her the nascar nana story about when she was born. just never let her memory die.
temple s husband immediately tracked down keith as he was making the three-hour drive home from indiana. he said, i m on my way. i m probably, you know, two hours away. i said, are you all right? he said, yeah, yeah. i could tell he was in shock. the news hit zach griffith particularly hard. since coming out to his mother, his relationship with her had been strained. and now this. i guess you re just beating yourself up something terrible that you had been sideways with her. yeah. and i know if we were just given more time, that we would have been close again. that we would have been, you know, that mom and son duo that we were. but we just we didn t have the time. it was ripped away from us. and never get it back. aaron, the elder son, had more of a take-charge reaction. got to take care of my brother, take care of my dad. you ve got logistics. kind of the way my brain is wired, i guess.
there was the time for instance in the sixth grade, zach grabbed a shovel and started digging a hole for a koi pond in the backyard. they said, what are you doing? i said i m building a pond. were they okay with it? they were fine. they were like, this is going to be a nightmare. when aaron and zach flew the nest, the griffiths lives only grew busier. they joined a motorcycle class through their church, frequently were a golf foursome with friends craig and temple bradley. everybody that knew keith loved him. great guy. did he become your best friend? yeah, definitely. one of my very best friends. temple felt that way about julie, too. she had a heart of gold. she would do anything for you. but she also wasn t afraid to tell you exactly how it was either. did she get people s feathers ruffled? oh, yeah. yeah. but everybody loved her. after early retirement from the water company, keith found a second career as a traveling lawn mower salesman, which left
temple s husband immediately tracked down keith as he was making the three-hour drive home from indiana. he said, i m on my way. i m probably, you know, two hours away. i said, are you all right? he said, yeah, yeah. i could tell he was in shock. the news hit zach griffith particularly hard. since coming out to his mother, his relationship with her had been strained. and now this. i guess you re just beating yourself up something terrible that you had been sideways with her. yeah. and i know if we were just given more time, that we would have been close again. that we would have been, you know, that mom and son duo that we were. but we just we didn t have the time. it was ripped away from us. and never get it back. aaron, the elder son, had more of a take-charge reaction. got to take care of my brother, take care of my dad. you ve got logistics.