Treasure Your Friends and Days in the Field

[Dakotazeb]

As the title says "Treasure Your Friends and Days in the Field". Last September I was invited to come hunting in Montana with a good friend I've know for about 8 years through my participation in NSTRA field trials. Great guy from the Sidney area and always a joy to be around. We hiked hard for a few days and shot a few Sharpies and Huns. I found out in April after I got back from Arizona that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer over the winter. Mike passed away this past Saturday at age 56. Still hard to believe.

 

[Toad]

That's always good advice, and I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[NewWingshooter]

That's the only reason I go deer hunting: to spend time with my dad. Good reminder and my condolences.

 

[Kismet]

I'm sorry for your loss, Zeb.

Hunting buddies like stars in the skies of our memories.

 

[poninskib]

Sorry for the loss of your friend, cancer is a ruthless disease and seems to be impossible to predict. It seems more and more common these days both in humans and in our dogs. Growing up in a family of Rough Collie breeders, we never heard of a dog with cancer, now I hear about it all the time. My father almost lost a battle to colo-rectal cancer in 2012, luckily he pulled through it and is still showing me up in the fields. I like to think that your friend is somewhere in a grass field full of roosters and an endless supply of shells.

 

[haymaker]

Yes Zeb treasure your friends. Conservation lost a very good man, John Knebel from Eden South Dakota was killed in a baler accident on Wednesday. I am sorry for friend to go so young, we both have bad news.