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RIP Swoop! Don, you have a cool job buddy!
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Sorry Huntsman, but you made me feel a little better.
Neighbor came over last month, his 'almost family member' favorite mule died in his barn and he wanted me to come over with the backhoe and bury the poor mule. Without further thought I asked him if he had cut up the mule yet? Well the poor guy just blew up. I tried to explain that a fully intact mule is just not practical...even a 680 Case with a big bucket...too much mule, not enough bucket...and with the legs stiff and poking out, it takes a huge hole in our rocky boulder strewn ground to get the one piece mule covered up.
He glared at me and said, 'what the hell's the matter with you?' jumped in his pickup and drove off.
That ax in the loader bucket made me feel a little better.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Family dying sucks ass.
I'm so sorry.
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Tough to lose an old friend.
It's also a reminder we are all on borrowed time.
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Sad to see any animal we care for go...
I lost a bull a couple years ago that broke my heart.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Swoop sported a great pair of "Clown Stickers" as I've heard them called.
Sorry for your loss. We do get attached to them critters.
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Sorry for your loss Don. It's a sad day when one of your pets finally give it up.
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Yes you can get attached…..sorry to see, but the European will help keep his memory alive! memtb
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Thanks for the story, Don - good that you wrote about Swoop. Sorry your buddy left - but it must have been a very good run with you.
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Sorry for your loss. He was probably a good listener.
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Bummer to hear Don. Sounds like he had a good run
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Nothing says I miss my buddy quite like riding around with his head in a front end loader bucket!
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Looks like he got his head down hill.
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I remember him from our visit a few years back. A fine animal.
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Sorry to hear this, I am still missing your pack pony. TR
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Jim, he was on level ground on the creek bottom
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Nothing says I miss my buddy quite like riding around with his head in a front end loader bucket! How else do you get the skull to hang and do that animal justice? Gonna be a fine set of horns to remember him by. How old was that steer Don?
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