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Margaret Jacob
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Posted: 12/20/2016 at 12:10pm
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I FEEL LED THIS DAY TO POST MY ODE TO SAM. HE WAS A BLACK CROW THAT HAD FALLEN OUT OF A NEST. MY DAUGHTER BROUGHT HIM HOME AND WITH THE HELP OF HER SISTER AND TWO BROTHERS SAM THRIVED. THEY FED HIM FARINA CEREAL ON A POPSICKLE STICK SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. WE HAD A GERMAN SHEPHERD NAMED ADAM WHO WAS EXTREMELY JEALOUS OF THE ATTENTION WHICH SAM USUALLY RECEIVED. SAM WOULD FLY DOWN AND LAND ON ADAM'S REAR QUARTERS AND HOLD ON WITH HIS CLAWS. ADAM KNEW THAT HE WAS IN BIG TROUBLE IF HE HURT SAM BUT HE SURE GAVE HIM SOME DIRTY LOOKS!
SAM WOULD HANG UPSIDE DOWN ON THE EAVES BY OUR BEDROOM AND SQUACK AT US AT AROUND 6 A.M. UNTIL WE GOT UP AND FED HIM. ONE MORNING I WAS GOING TO GIVE ADAM A WORM PILL WHICH THE VET HAD PRESCRIBED. THE VET HAD SAID TO WRAP IT IN CANNED DOG FOOD AND SIT IT ON TOP OF HIS DRY FOOD IN HIS DISH. SAM WITNESSED THIS AND FLEW DOWN AND GRABBED THE PILL WITH HIS BEAK. I WAS IN MY PAJAMAS ON THE FRONT PORCH YELLING AT SAM TO GET DOWN AND GIVE ME THAT WORM PILL NOW!!! I LOOKED UP JUST IN TIME TO SEE A LADY WHOM I DIDN'T KNOW JOGGING BY ON THE NEARBY ROAD.
SHE STOPPED DEAD IN HER TRACKS TO SEE THE CRAZY LADY WHO WAS YELLING AT A CROW!!! I REALLY THOUGHT I WOULD BE HAULED AWAY BEFORE THE DAY WAS OVER.
A NEIGHBOR CALLED ME ONE MORNING AND YELLED AT ME TO COME AND GET THAT SILLY CROW IMMEDIATELY. SHE SAID HE HAD GONE AROUND HER INGROUND SWIMMING POOL AND POPPED ALL THE BUBBLES NEAR THE EDGE ON HER NEW POOL COVER!
SHE HAD YELLED AT HIM ENOUGH THAT HE DIDN'T PULL THAT AGAIN.
WHEN MY HUSBAND WOULD DRIVE HIS TRACTOR AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO TILL PEOPLE'S GARDENS SAM WOULD RIDE ON HIS SHOULDER. WHEN HE REACHED HIS DESTINATION HE WOULD TELL SAM TO FLY UP INTO A TREE AND WAIT FOR HIM. SAM OBEYED BECAUSE HE HATED THE SOUND OF THE TILLER. THE MINUTE MY HUSBAND FINISHED SAM WAS BACK ON HIS SHOULDER.
IF WE WENT TO TOWN IN OUR VAN SAM WOULD FLY ALONGSIDE UNTIL HE COULD NO LONGER KEEP UP. THEN HE WOULD RELUCTANTLY RETURN HOME.
OUR KIDS USED TO PLAY WITH MATCHBOX CARS IN THE DRIVEWAY UNDER AN OAK TREE. SAM WOULD SIT ON A BRANCH ABOVE THEM AND STEAL ANY CARS THAT WERE RED. THEN HE WOULD SEARCH THE DRIVEWAY FOR ANY CIGARETTE BUTS THAT VISITORS HAD DROPPED. HE WOULD PILE THEM UP NEAR THE CORNER OF THE GARAGE IN A NEAT PILE!
WE LEARNED SO MANY LESSONS WHILE SAM WAS ALIVE. SOME NEIGHBOR BOYS MUST HAVE SHOT SAM IN HIS LEG AND AT 4 a.m.
WE FOUND A VET THAT SAID TO BRING HIM IN AND HE WOULD SEE IF HE OCULD AMPUTATE THE LEG. HE SAID HE HAD NEVER OPERATED ON A BIRD BEFORE BUT WHEN HE HAD HEARD THE KIDS CRYING IN THE BACKGROUND OVER THE PHONE HE COULDN'T RESIST GIVING IT A TRY. HE WAS AMAZED AT SAM'S PERSONALITY AND BOLDNESS.
SAM WAS EVENTUALLY DONE IN BY A PERSON WHO DIDN'T APPRECIATE HIM STEALING CORN AS SHE WAS PLANTING. WE HAVE WORKED THROUGH FORGIVENESS BUT WE NEVER CEASE TO MISS THAT PRECIOUS BIRD. GOD IS GOOD!!!! HEAVEN IS A LITTLE LIVELIER WITH SAM AROUND AND ONE DAY WE WILL SEE HIM AGAIN.
THESE MEMORIES HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR ME TODAY. THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME ON MY WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE!
BECAUSE HE LIVES:
MAGGIE
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Liv Helmore
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Posted: 12/22/2016 at 2:38am
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dear Margaret
this was great to share
Romans 15:7
Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God
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