Father’s Day weekend

[rwsaunders]

Here’s to the upcoming weekend and all of you Dads and of course, your Dads. May you ride, grille and chill until the cows come home.

[Clyde]

Our son is in the desert for the next 4 months so this one will be w/o him, wishing him the best, and thanks RW for your fine suggestion! Pisgah ride tomorrow for us!

[gregl]

Bike race Sunday AM with a friend, then dinner and homemade Sacher Torte with my daughter in the PM. Monday off work with no alarm clock. Life is good!

Best wishes to all the dads out there!

Greg

[j44ke]

Sent my dad a really excellent hat for sun protection. He's lost several good sized chunks off an ear lately, so this hat will definitely make that less apparent and protect him from sun. Because he just isn't going to stop going outside, and his regular hat choice is a St. Louis Cardinals baseball hat.

He sent me a photo wearing it, and I told him that he needed a Land Rover and a sheep ranch to go with it. His wife said don't give him any ideas.

Read this piece this morning that seemed familiar to me. My mom was always exceptionally kind (unlike the mother in the essay,) but she died in her 50's from breast cancer, and shortly thereafter both of my father's parents died. He didn't make it out of those experiences in one piece, and my sister despised him as a result but I helped him get it back together. Now he's a pretty great granddad to her kids. His oldest niece, with whom he shares a love of science that started as soon as she could walk and talk, became a veterinarian 2-3 years ago and lives minutes away from him. She's getting married in September, and she and her husband-to-be asked if they could have it at my dad's house. So he's pretty proud of it all. That'll be a good (grand)Father's Day in Sept.

[Mabouya]

his regular hat choice is a St. Louis Cardinals baseball hat.

He's a true fan if he continues to wear it this year, given their record (cellar of the NL Central).

[j44ke]

He's a true fan if he continues to wear it this year, given their record (cellar of the NL Central).

Listened to Stan Musial play on a crystal radio set he made himself.

[mnoble485]

A special shout out to step dads, it can be both a thankless job and the greatest experience ever. Ask me how I know!

John, that hat is exactly what I’ve been looking for, thanks.

Mike

[Tom]

If your dad's alive, take some time to sit with him and get him talking about his life. I really only have one regret in my life.

[bigbill]

This day presented by Hallmark. This would have been the year I retired from the Navy as a Captain. Instead, I retired eleven years ago to focus on my son. His mom had decided that parenting was too hard and had pretty much stopped doing anything. I retired, and we relocated to Paris, Texas (nothing like the movie) for an engineering job and a good school for my son's final six years of school. I went from a department head on a carrier to a project engineer in a crowd of project engineers. I knew I made the right decision, but the transition was tough for me.

A year ago when I pinned on his gold bars after his Naval Academy graduation, I was thankful for the rain so no one would see my tears of pride.

[72gmc]

Nastassja Kinski was a bit of an over-promise …

Always glad to read your posts, bigbill. Hope it’s a great day for you.