WHY WE ARE HERE

There was once a bird dog, but not just any ordinary bird dog.  A bird dog that became my best friend, as I spent mornings and nights teaching him to be a gun dog.  A bird dog that heeled beside me through college, and then traveled the world with me. This bird dog taught me more than I taught him.  He taught me the meaning of true loyalty and showed me the power of simplicity. Lessons came to me in moments when I watched him transform from a cozy, quiet dog curled up in the front seat of my truck, to a machine on a mission quartering fields, focused, and without regard to anything else in the world. Further lessons came to me in times of frustration, when I learned our limits.  Skeet, the legendary bird dog, showed me what bird dogs have shown their masters for generations: that instinct, loyalty, and genuine hard work can combine to create moments that last forever.