Thanks guys...Spoke to my father this A.M. needless to say they are on their way home. Looks like they will be staying with me for a good while. The hard part will be convincing my father, who is 71, that he cannot take care of that mess all by himself...he has trouble admitting that he isn't 30 years old any longer..lol. Sometimes that's good, cause it keeps him going, but sometimes that's bad...cause it keeps him GOING AND GOING AND GOING.