Some tough news

Thanks guys. A character he was! He was a man that most either loved or hated because he spoke his mind without apology. I appreciate people like that myself but the thin skinned usually don’t. I talked to him the day before he passed and he was still reeling from the trip out here to hunt. It wouldn’t mean as much probably from most people because you figure a lot of times they are just being nice, but hear compliments about my dogs from someone that’s as brutally honest as he was, made me feel good as well as the fact that I appreciated his friendship the way I did. He cracked me up with his brutal honesty. He was telling me that he thought he needed to get him another hog dog. He said he could use a catch dog but he thought he might be able to ease in and shoot some hogs. You could tell all the want to was still there but the can do wasn’t. On this last trip, my last oldest sons brought his 6 year old nephew on a hunt. I’m sure most of you have heard the song by Randy Travis “I thought that he walked on water”. A line in the song struck me while we were sitting in an open pasture watching this little guy chase these little pigs that weren’t over a week old. It was quite a show. I looked over at Edgar and he was laughing so hard. In the song it the boy would ride his make shift stick pony in circles while his grand dad laughed a lot. That’s exactly how it was. Edgar never failed to call if the weather was bad or I was sick or anything. This last ice storm he called and called and we had no phone service either. When we finally got it back he had left several voicemails and each one you could hear more worry in his voice. The last one he said bud I’m worried about you, I can’t get ahold of you and I don’t know wether to come out there or what to do! I called him and let him know we were all ok and he said well, do I need to load some generators and saws come out there? Of course I told him no but he sure meant it and it meant a lot to me knowing it. True friends aren’t something we are blessed with. A lot of us think we have them only to find the hard way that we don’t. I lost a true one here. I’m grateful to Scott Basford for bringing Edgar out. I makes me feel good that the picture on his obituary is one from when he was just here. His wife and family said they hadn’t seen him smile like that in years. RIP EDGAR, I love you and miss you already bud.

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