Contributions to the tribute of Larry L. Briggs

I remember my dad as a hard working guy. He was a great carpenter, having built his own house from the ground up. He of course had help from his brothers. Tom, Doug and Tim. My dad was a home body, he liked being at home and spending time in his barn working on projects from building cupboards to working on snowmobiles. I always thought he was a “hard man”, never showing emotion in any form but that being said my dad always had dogs that he cared for very much. I learned a lot bout dogs from my dad. I use to pheasant hunt with my dad and my uncles when I was very young. I started out just walking with them and then my dad use to let me carry a BB gun and taught me gun safety as we hunted. He would ask me a million times when we were walking along “where’s your safety” so I would check it very time he said that to make sure it was on “safety” and I would answer him every time with it’s on or no red. In fact i use to get annoyed with him asking me that over and over again but when i got older i found myself doing same with my kids. Yup it was a learning lesson that my dad hammered home and I appreciate more now than I did then. I shot my very first pheasant when I was 14 it was a very proud moment for me and for him I think. Later in life we hunted together often, in fact October 20 was like a holiday. We would make plans just as if it was Christmas. We enjoyed watching our dogs work the grass fields and ditches waiting for a rooster to explode out in front of us. To us it wasn’t so much about shooting a bird as it was enjoying watching our dogs work. I have so many great memories with him in North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. My dad and my Uncle Tom were definitely hunting buddies never going to the field with each other and our dogs.. After I had kids, my dad changed, he went from this hardcore man never showing any emotion to this guy who was kind, caring and loving to Brooke, Jordyn and Larry. They would love to hang out with him out in his barn no matter what he was doing he always included them in the activity. That’s when I knew that he had always been a caring person he was just teaching me how to be a man. I love you dad and I miss you every single day. I can’t wait to me up with you in that pheasant field again and watch Star and Lady and of course Charlie work them birds.

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