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Prayers for you and family.
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Eighteen years my Dad has been gone. It leaves a big hole that never gets filled. You just learn to step around it.
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Condolences and prayers for you and yours.
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Prayer to you and yours for your loss.
Figures don't lie, But Liars figure Assumption is the mother of mistakes
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I’m very sorry to hear of the passing of your Dad. I have no doubt that he was a fine man. Prayers for you and your family, from us in N.C.
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RIP. Sorry for your loss.
When its time to fight, you fight like you are the third monkey on the ramp to get on Noah's Arc... and brother, it is starting to rain!
The chair is against the wall.
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Good long run.
RIP.
Good luck to the rest of you.
I am MAGA.
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And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board"
-- so God made a Farmer.
"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back, put in another seventy-two hours"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark."
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does"
-- so God made a Farmer.
Rest in peace good man. What would one say after that? My Pop has some months left. Godspeed to your Pop.
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Condolences for your loss, may he rest in peace.
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Oh no. I’m so sorry to read this. Prayers to your family from ours.
May he RIP
Camp is where you make it.
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Bet he had some stories...
Condolences on your loss.
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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Condolences to you and your family RO.
May he RIP.
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At a loss for the proper words.RIP Old-Timer.
Its all right to be white!! Stupidity left unattended will run rampant Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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Very sorry to hear this! It looks like your father had a good life. There is peace in that.
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
Immersing oneself in progressive lieberalism is no different than bathing in the sewage of Hell.
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Bummer roundoak.
Condolences.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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I'm sorry for your loss, Roundoak. I'm afraid that I'll be in your shoes before too long.
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sorry Roundoak. Looks like he gave you a lot of good memories.
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of . Confucius
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At 88 yrs. old, Dad passed away yesterday. Going to miss him. Wayne, sorry to hear the bad news, Scott informed me this morning. Awesome picture and very fitting!
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