In Memory Of My Good Old Friend Dean Rippon Who Passed This Morning

Forget Rednecks ... here is what Jeff Foxworthy has
to say about Vermonters...

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you
assistance and they don't work there, you live in
Vermont .

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same
time, you live in Vermont .

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation
with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Vermont .


If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of
Burlington for the weekend, you live in Vermont .

If you measure distance in hours, you live in
Vermont .

If you know several people who have hit a deer more
than once, you live in Vermont .

If you have switched from "heat" to
"A/C" in the same day and back again, you live in
Vermont

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during
a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Vermont .

If you install security lights on your house and
garage, but leave both unlocked, you live in Vermont .

If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife
knows how to use them, you live in Vermont .

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit
over a snowsuit, you live in Vermont .

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph,
you're going 80, and everybody is passing you, you live
in Vermont .

If driving is better in the winter because the
potholes are filled with snow, you live in Vermont .

If you know all four seasons: almost winter, winter,
still winter, and road construction, you live in Vermont .

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your
car, you live in Vermont .

If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly,"
you live in Vermont .

If you actually understand these jokes, and forward
them to all your Vermont friends, you live in Vermont .

Dean loved his Dog Shego, his chipmunks.loving in the moment, love to him was trust. honesty and respect. He was a navy seal who wrestled Alligators in fla.His wife swam the English channnel. They were divorced. He spoke VERY LOUD and had a prosphate problem so he stunk of urine. He chopped his own wood and built his own home. He had a waterfall in his bedroom window and a hot tub inside and outside he built. He was a gemologist.

He lived without booze and recently yold me he could not eat. I did not listen. He was trying to tell me he was getting the cancer back. The cancer that took him. I miss him already. He loved my best friend Carol.