Here's a peice that many of you would know and i feel is applicable here...
Eulogy for an old cruiser
"I buried and old friend last week. I thought you all, if anybody, would
appreciate her eulogy:
Goodbye Old Machine
You're tired now and gone
You've served me well for decades
and now you're moving on
to greener fields and smoother rocks
and streams not wide nor deep
You've earned a rest from towing
every well bemudded jeep
And it seems to me you lived your life
like a candle in the wind
Never knowing when to give up
when the rains set in
and I have truly loved you
since I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
your legend ever did
Life was sometimes lonely
as you waited for your call
then thru work and fun and venture
you never thought to stall
You protected both my children
as first they drove life's trail
through traffic jams and cobbled creeks
through rain sleet and hail
Goodbye old machine
I'll miss your short but steadfast stride
your grace and poise in trouble
always brought me endless pride
Goodbye old machine
from young man with envied dream
who looked right past your rusted steel
past squeaks and drips and steam
Through you he learned to steer a course
on rough and rocky roads
You taught him how to bear up
under long and heavy loads
He learned the need for caution
for whats around the bend
How how to work and sacrafice
well past the evening's end
Before you died your legend passed
to him and me from you
and along the way, almost by chance
we learned some wheelin' too
And it seems to me you lived your life
like a candle in the wind
Never knowing when to give up
when the rains set in
And now you labor by yourself
up life's longest lonely hill
Your candle burned out long before
your legend ever will"
I will never complain about the East Coast again!
wheres the humane society?? or 4H??
