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RIP squirrel-bait

armedoldhippy

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found out last week that a long-time friend & grower had passed on. I had lost contact with him after his divorce when he went on the road as a traveling welder. most folks hide their plants, Joe set his out on the side of the roads & tied the branches down with fishing line so the state would mow right over them & keep the weeds at bay. the statute of limitations is no longer a problem, so I am safe to tell the world that I was both proud and lucky to be a friend of Joe, out of the mountains of east Tennessee. may your Triumph never blow a fuse, your bottle run dry, or your bag empty. Ride on...:ying:
 
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Grass Lands

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He sounds like one of those guys who was just a blast to be around...good friends like that are hard to find...RIP squirrel-bait
 

armedoldhippy

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He sounds like one of those guys who was just a blast to be around...good friends like that are hard to find...RIP squirrel-bait

he was every bit of that, and more. he married a crazy woman, & they 'bout killed each other before they split up. we used to get ripped & go riding. he had an old Triumph & me on my old kick-start Sportster. we had been passing the bottle heading toward Buladean NC one day. he had pulled ahead whilst it was my turn to hold the bottle when I saw him hit his brakes. well, he never slowed for shit so I jammed my helmet back on my head real quick. I no sooner got it on than i passed a THP that pulled out, passed me & pulled him over. he cussed me for months because I didn't get a ticket too, LOL! I really miss that little fucker. he had pneumonia once & was in the hospital, could NOT breath. nurse came in to check on him about 3 in the morning, & the little bastard had pulled his IV stand over to the window & was hiding in the bushes outside the window burning one!:biggrin:
 

justpassnthru

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he was every bit of that, and more. he married a crazy woman, & they 'bout killed each other before they split up. we used to get ripped & go riding. he had an old Triumph & me on my old kick-start Sportster. we had been passing the bottle heading toward Buladean NC one day. he had pulled ahead whilst it was my turn to hold the bottle when I saw him hit his brakes. well, he never slowed for shit so I jammed my helmet back on my head real quick. I no sooner got it on than i passed a THP that pulled out, passed me & pulled him over. he cussed me for months because I didn't get a ticket too, LOL! I really miss that little fucker. he had pneumonia once & was in the hospital, could NOT breath. nurse came in to check on him about 3 in the morning, & the little bastard had pulled his IV stand over to the window & was hiding in the bushes outside the window burning one!:biggrin:

What a guy! Reminds me of the time I had a patient with cirrhosis of the liver; I would have been :laughing: much happier if he had done that..go figure, he took his IV stand, with his ass hanging out the back of a patient gown to Wednesday evening church, across the street! I didn't even miss him until another nurse took a patient to a different wing of the hospital a block away and recognized the little shit and brought him back, at the END of my shift!

armedoldhippy; you must have had a ton of fun and that is what life is all about! :ying: jpt
 

Grass Lands

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he was every bit of that, and more. he married a crazy woman, & they 'bout killed each other before they split up. we used to get ripped & go riding. he had an old Triumph & me on my old kick-start Sportster. we had been passing the bottle heading toward Buladean NC one day. he had pulled ahead whilst it was my turn to hold the bottle when I saw him hit his brakes. well, he never slowed for shit so I jammed my helmet back on my head real quick. I no sooner got it on than i passed a THP that pulled out, passed me & pulled him over. he cussed me for months because I didn't get a ticket too, LOL! I really miss that little fucker. he had pneumonia once & was in the hospital, could NOT breath. nurse came in to check on him about 3 in the morning, & the little bastard had pulled his IV stand over to the window & was hiding in the bushes outside the window burning one!:biggrin:

Love the story bro...one day y'all will be riding again. :dance013:
 
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