A Happy 40th Birthday to Farmer John

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to you

[Ms Harmless]

Happy Birthday Farmer John, I hope the animals are fine and healthy!

[Jorge]

Happy birthday Farmer John

[dad]

haha

also, Happy Birthday, Farmer John!

[Farmer John]

Hey, thanks!

I'm honoured to share a birthday with both Bono and John Wilkes Booth.

[Farmer John]

Happy Birthday Farmer John, I hope the animals are fine and healthy!

Now back to work. These baby lambs aren't going to slaughter themselves!

[Ms Harmless]

Happy Birthday Farmer John, I hope the animals are fine and healthy!

Now back to work. These baby lambs aren't going to slaughter themselves!

[epilogue]

Happy Birthday to one of my all time favorite RMers!

Farmer John, I hope you have a fantastic birthday.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Farmer John]

Happy Birthday to one of my all time favorite RMers!

Farmer John, I hope you have a fantastic birthday.

[Farmer John]

HBD FJ. How are you celebrating (other than the slaughter)?

I already did the partying/drinking on the weekend, so I'm just taking it easy today.

We're ordering some Greek food for dinner with the fam tonight, then I'll probably just kick back and watch the Jays/Yankees.

[wease]

Happy Birthday FJ

[VinylGuy]

[Rangi Guy]

Happy Birthday Farmer, and welcome to your 40's!

Heads-up - that pain in your back and knees - it ain't going anywhere anymore

[Farmer John]

Happy Birthday Farmer, and welcome to your 40's!

Heads-up - that pain in your back and knees - it ain't going anywhere anymore

I can already tell the knees are going to be an issue.

[Rangi Guy]

Happy Birthday Farmer, and welcome to your 40's!

Heads-up - that pain in your back and knees - it ain't going anywhere anymore

I can already tell the knees are going to be an issue.

Pretty sure I had all three knee surgeries in my 40s. Tweeked my right knee last night as jiu-jitsu and I'm hobbling around today trying to convince myself that I'm not about to begin that cycle again

[Jorge]

Happy birthday Farmer John

Did you see this video Farmer John

[Farmer John]

That asshole bear-trapped me!