My late father-in-law's favorite joke...

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Nope, never forgotten, not by a long shot. A lot of his characteristics still are alive in his two sons, good friends of mine. He was one of those old-school sort of guys who would NEVER let you pay for a meal. I tried many times and he just would not let me do it. On his personal farm he had the biggest quail and roosters (pheasants) I'd ever seen. He fed them every night with cracked corn along with his herd of black angus. The skunks would be right there along with everything else for the feed. All three of our kids rode on the back of his bull around the pasture. He'd always look at me whenever a rooster would jump up along his row of combines and say, "No, you still can't hunt them, boy. They're protected." He's gone now, and we miss him deeply. I wanted my grandkids to meet and get to know him. Cancer took his life in the end.