Father's Day

[Flight959]

Some of you may remember I put a post a while back about my dad having lung cancer and being in hospital. We didn't think he'd pull through. But he did and he's still fighting it. He looks like he's just walked out of Belsen but he's strong inside. I'm glad he's still here. We've talked a lot and got closer. He was down the pit at 15. Was in WW2 and he's still strong. I raise my glass to all the good Dads out there. Cheers Dads!!! X

 

Best wishes to your dad!!

 

Kind Regards

Simon

[lagerfanny]

My lovely missus has booked us a table on this for Sunday!

 

http://www.countessofevesham.co.uk/

[Harpo]

My perfect fathers day is when I see that ****** in a coffin...

 

Mines there and in Potter's field in CA too, may he rest in hell F'n Run Away DEADBEAT too...

 

Now I've got 2 kids and the same gal going on 32 years. Kids are 31 and 27 and I love them dearly and they love me dearly back.

 

Well at least my Dad taught me what NOT to be when it comes to being a Dad and a Husband!

 

BTW will be doing what I love best, playing music, drinking beer, being with the Fam & BBQing:-)

[TommyK]

It's settled. What kids can come over will be over for lunch cooked up in the back-yard by me.

 

(Now where did I put that Lo-o-o-o-o-ng 220V extension cord?)

[LPguitarman]

My dad passed last September on Labor Day. I'll probably hang around the house, play some guitar with my twins, or go to the Zoo or Grant's Farm or something like that.

 

For me, it's a double wammy. The 20th is my 24th wedding anniversary, so I have to come up with something to do Monday also.

[drathbun]

My Dad passed away in 2001. Since then, my wife and I have always had strong feelings of his presence and often say "you know what Dad just said about that"? I also, hear my Dad in what I say to my kids and wrote this song after a conversation at the breakfast table one weekend.

 

What Would Dad Say?

 

If I am half the Dad to my kids as my Dad was to me, I will have had a successful life. Wonderful human being.

 

Miss you Dad.

[bonzoboy]

My daughters are always real good to me on Father's Day and any other gift giving time.Although I'm not their natural father I am their "Dad" and couldn't love them more than if they were my own flesh and blood.Their "sperm donor"is in both of their bad books and is no longer acknowledged by them as being their father-they refer to him by his first name-or worse.

I collect vintage 1/32 scale model cars and ordered 2 figuring that they'd be enough for Father's Day but they weren't satisfied and have chosen to enhance the gift further-how I won't know until the big day.

[Riverside]

My dad has been gone for 27 years now... I still think of him, regardless of when Hallmark says I should.

 

For me, my kids always ask me what I want for father's day - and I usually give them the same answer: I want to be left alone.

 

But this year, I told them that I want expensive gifts.

 

We'll see how that turns out.

[S t e v e]

Mines there and in Potter's field in CA too, may he rest in hell F'n Run Away DEADBEAT too...

 

Now I've got 2 kids and the same gal going on 32 years. Kids are 31 and 27 and I love them dearly and they love me dearly back.

 

Well at least my Dad taught me what NOT to be when it comes to being a Dad and a Husband!

 

BTW will be doing what I love best, playing music, drinking beer, being with the Fam & BBQing:-)

 

[cookieman15061]

just go to the beer store and say i wana my day some brew

 

 

Quote of the week!!!!!!!!

 

 

[MrNylon]

Probably spend the day at home. My daughter is going to make a feast at home. Sounds like a great day. Early Happy Father's Day to all the Dads.

[bonzoboy]

My traditional Father's Day feast is a feed of fresh boiled lobster as lobster season is in full swing.I usually eat three 1 1/2 to 2 lb. lobsters but my record is 6 but that was when I was much younger and could eat a lot more.Fresh lobster served with a bowl of melted butter to dip it in and a huge glass of icy cold milk to wash it down-decadent and delicious.

[davidl]

My traditional Father's Day feast is a feed of fresh boiled lobster as lobster season is in full swing.I usually eat three 1 1/2 to 2 lb. lobsters but my record is 6 but that was when I was much younger and could eat a lot more.Fresh lobster served with a bowl of melted butter to dip it in and a huge glass of icy cold milk to wash it down-decadent and delicious.

Mmmm lobster.

My wife just called me to tell me we will be having a lobster feast Sunday night as well.

Gotta love them bugs.

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We traditionally treat my hubby who is a WONDERFUL dad to our kids to a homemade Ice Cream Pie.

 

And a bag o' Tootsie Rolls. And whatever else we can think up at the last minute LOL ........

 

He typically out-does me on Mother's Day the month before and leaves me no budget

 

Hopefully soon I'll have him trained it's Guitar Center and not necessarily the new iPod4 that I'm really drooling for haaha

 

 

If there's a new tech toy out and we can buy it for him he gets it.

[Bookkeeper's Son]

I'm a proud dad, but I absolutely hate Hallmark holidays. Do people really have to be reminded to show love?

[retrosurfer1959]

I'm a proud dad, but I absolutely hate Hallmark holidays. Do people really have to be reminded to show love?

 

Mothers day started 1872 and fathers day started 1n 1910 so even if you hate the Hallmark holidays these two at least seem like there gonna stick around.

[Bookkeeper's Son]

Mothers day started 1872 and fathers day started 1n 1910 so even if you hate the Hallmark holidays these two at least seem like there gonna stick around.

I like it better that my son calls me weekly instead of annually.

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Video of me singing "All I Have to Do is Dream"

 

(couldn't get the embed player to work as it's not YouTube) :unsure:

 

 

Here is my Father's Day gift to my sweet husband. "All I Have to Do is Dream" /Everly Brothers version.

 

I was awful tired but pulled this one off OK just now. He liked it. Even my picky picky daughter liked it and she doesn't like everything I do, and told me to pull my vocal up in the mix cuz the backing guy wasn't as good as me. LOL!! (and he got paid.... sigh....)

Anyone up to creating an original (IE not karaoke) backing track for this one for me? Might be fun.

 

(Email or PM me on that, don't derail this thread!)

 

 

 

Thanks for any listens :)

 

 

 

Linda

[DAS44]

Happy father's day to those on the forum

 

Made my dad waffles, sausage, etc, then went golfing with him (behind 4 people who hit it 10 feet per swing........).

 

Pretty relaxing day

[Bender 4 Life]

Dad had a "date" tonight so we'll do the "dinner & a chat" thing later this month.

I'm really glad that he's found some joy in his life again ! (having been a widower since 1/05)

we're a bit estranged, always have been, but we're getting along better now than ever.

 

Fathers Day (and Mothers day) are always quiet days for the wife and I, our only child was killed at 17 yrs old back in 5/00, so we don't "celebrate" the days......just a day of quiet self reflection, we both try not to even mention what day it is, and make it a day of rest and relaxation.

 

Hope I didn't just bring y'all down, but thats Fathers Day for me.

[Californiaman]

I beat my dad.

In golf that is. It's about time I beat that guy.

I almost gave it away shooting a 10 on the 10th hole.

But the four pars and birdie I put on my score card sure helped out.

I hadn't played in a while and managed a 98, four strokes better than the old man.

Shot a respectable 44 on the front nine.

 

 

Then we barbecued and hung out around the house.

My family bought me a wonderful new chair for the bedroom. I sat in the darkness as comfortable as I could ever be and played guitar for an hour last night.

[This_Dying_Soul]

My father passed away in 2008 from cancer.

 

I miss him every day. While he was a good father and I can say that while I didn't realize it at the time, he taught me the skills needed to make it in life. He taught me to work for what I wanted and to appreciate the things I have. He also taught me a thing or 2 about investing which has served me pretty well in the last few years also.

 

I wish he was still here for me to go to, because there are times where I could use his help... his experience. Things like making my own repairs and renovations on my house. There's lots of things I've already had to do in my own house and lots more I expect to do later that he could have either helped or guided me through if he wasn't able to help physically. He was very handy with this type of stuff I only saw him hire contractors to do these things twice - once when I as a kid and it was discovered that the insulation in the walls of the house was a health hazard and once when he hired someone to replace the back door and storm door that he installed when he built his house 32 years before because he was undergoing treatment for his cancer and was too weak to do it himself.

 

While reading this post I notice there are some here who could care less about their fathers... For some, who's fathers weren't there for them I can't blame them. For others... if your father seems critical of your decisions or pushes you hard when it comes to getting an education or won't just hand you what you want without expecting you to work for it, it means he cares about you and your future.

 

I pushed away my father when I was in my teens because I didn't understand that the reason he was pushing me so hard was that he was trying to prepare me for life on my own, and I regret it every day, because when I chose to move out on my own in my early 20's I didn't make enough effort to spend more time with him and not so long after he was gone.

 

Unless your father is a dead beat who doesn't do anything to provide for you and doesn't make the effort to spend time with you and teach you the things you need to know before you are ready to strike out on your own; appreciate them while they are still here.

[BT Bob]

I've come into this a bit late.

 

My father passed away in 1983 - not a day goes by I don't miss him. I hear his wisdom and voice when I talke to my kids now. There were times when he frustrated the hell out of me, but he was ALWAYS a kind, gentle, generous, wise and (best of all) loving man.

 

I have 2 daughters now who I adore and do my best to emulate how he was with me - although I think I show much more affection to my girls than he did with me or my 2 brothers (but I think that's a generational thing as much as anything).

 

Looks like I'm doing a reasonable job with my girls - one of whom is a student and therefore never has money, and the other works but doesn't earn great money - as they bought me 2 DVD (Seinfeld season 8 & Curb your Enthusiasm season 7), and Springsteen book, some chocolates and 2 bottles of malt (Talisker & Penderyn). But this is all just stuff - what I also got was 2 of the biggest hugs imaginable!!

 

To be fair, they make their feelings plain every day - not just on father's day. We have our disagreements, but I know they love me and they know I love them.

 

Life is, as Larry David would say, "Pretty, pretty, pretty good!"

 

 

Re: Mother's Day (or, more correctly, Mothering Sunday - at least in the UK) dates back about 400 years, I believe, and is a Christian festival celebrated on the middle Sunday in Lent (which is why the date varies), when fasting was relaxed and people visited their nearest large church (or "mother" church) for a special service.

 

It has, of course, subsequently been overtaken by the commercialism that is endemic in these kinds of things. The so-called "Hallmark" effect!!! Ha ha..

[RUSHian]

I had a wonderful Fathers weekend with my two boys, they gave gifts, but the best thing was my time spent with them! My dad wasn't perfect when we were growing up, but he's my dad,and I love him. Being a parent means making a lot of mistakes along the way, you just move forward and do your best.