question of the Week (6/19 - 6/25) -- Memories with Dad

[JazzyCat]

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Here is this week's question:

What is your best/ some of your best memories with your dad?

When I was growing up, Dad and I played chess, cribbage, and backgammon quite a bit. Anytime I asked him to play a game, he was up for it.

I also loved when I was in junior high and we would hang out in the backyard and shoot our BB guns at the targets.

My dad was visiting us when David was born. I loved that he was able to come to the hospital to meet David. This time around, he was not able to visit in the hospital since Oliver decided to come over a week early. However, dad was able to be here the day after we brought Oliver home from the hospital.

AND I love that my dad is here for Father's Day this year!

[sallyfox]

You nailed that Trout..........

It really struck a cord.................. I wish I could still talk to him

He didnt judge, he paid his way........ and died with a cool hand Luke smile on his lips.

I will always want his quiet dignified strenght............

[sodafett]

I never knew my biological father, but my dad, he is a quiet man, stern, but old school, he taught me a great many things, the main thing is that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. My fondest memory is going to a job with him when I was 5 years old, my dad is a carpenter, he would pay me to clean up little blocks of wood and he even made me a wooden car during a break, taking the wooden cutouts for door knobs and then a few blocks of angle cut wood, glue them together and there ya go I wish I still had that car....

[jupider]

I probably have more memories with my dad than I could type, and it would be so long, you all would just skip it over (tl;dnr) So instead, I'll just throw out a couple of quickies:

- Getting a stern lecture from burning down a small grass field (playing with matches.)
- Having a snowball fight and thinking it would be sneaky to put a chunk of ice in one. My dad was not pleased.
- He taught me how to ride a bike!
- Probably my best memories were from building plastic models together. I still have one of them. I would go so far as to say that it's one of my most valued possessions.

Nowadays, even though he lives 700 miles away, we still talk on the phone a lot and get together at family events whenever we can.

[commandermack]

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