Happy Father's Day!!!

Beach Fanatic

Jun 18, '06 · 6:22 AM890

Happy father's day to all the dads out there! Here are a few thoughts in your honor:

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. Anonymous

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown,

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fishlips

Jun 18, '06 · 7:46 AM#2

thanks, dad!

hey, you've been dead for 30 years! happy anniversary!

sometimes i miss you and i hope you're in heaven!

FunnChef - AlisonCooks.com

Jun 18, '06 · 8:35 AM#3

Happy Dad's Day to ALL!!!!!

SoWal Expert

Jun 18, '06 · 9:15 AM#4

Raise your hand if you don't get along with your Dad.

SoWal Expert

Jun 18, '06 · 2:52 PM#5

FunnChef - AlisonCooks.com

Jun 18, '06 · 3:17 PM#6

AWWWW...great pic!

fartblossom

Jun 18, '06 · 4:49 PM#7

i saw my pop yesterday and my father-in-law today. we are so thankful for both !

Beach Fanatic

Jun 18, '06 · 5:24 PM#8

I miss my dad. He was a really good guy.
I think being an only child made him treasure me and my brothers even more.
This morning I cooked huevos rancheros for my spouse, and later the younger son watched the World Cup with his soccer dad.
Happy Father's Day to all the SoWal (and Gulf County!) dads.

SoWal Insider

Jun 18, '06 · 6:06 PM#9

Cil, I am sure you miss your dad. I have my dad still, even though he is 85 and is suffering from they say Alzheimer's and has battled heart disease with 6 bypasses and two stints over the past 15 to 20 years. Has an inoperable brain aneurysm and survived prostate cancer. Lost his dad to a heart attack and his mom to cancer. His brother has cancer, a deep place removed from his arm, which spread to his lymph nodes and then to his lungs and liver. My dad wrote a in depth letter to Dr. Gott, Dr. Gott said his letter content was not consistent with someone who exhibits signs of Alzheimers. Another of his doctors felt he suffered a stroke during a carotid artery surgery over a year ago. Other than that, he still is pretty sharp, and ornery. Hope to have him a good while longer, as he has outlived his mom and dad and sister also. She succumbed to a stroke back in 86. Will miss him when he is gone!

Meow

Jun 18, '06 · 6:32 PM#10

That's odd....I started a FD thread way early today and it vanished! Oh well, thanks to Paula we have a place to honor our daddies and those men that fathered our children! I :wub: PawPaw! He is so cute...he finally got his new car! I :wub: Mr. Kitty...he is cooking out steaks for his children! I did do all his laundry and set the table.

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads of children and animals (sometimes the same thing!)

Beach Lover

Jun 18, '06 · 8:21 PM#11

Happy day to my dad -- he spent it on the beach in Grayton!!
Happy first father's day to my husband!
We lost my father in law to cancer last fall. I hope he knows how thankful I am to him for raising a great son.

SoWal Insider

Jun 18, '06 · 9:08 PM#12

Sueshore, I saw the thread listing but when clicking on it got nothing! It says invalid thread specified! Weird! Must be a glitch!

SoWal Expert

Jun 18, '06 · 10:18 PM#13

Sueshore, I saw the thread listing but when clicking on it got nothing! It says invalid thread specified! Weird! Must be a glitch!

I saw it too...just thought I hadn't had enough coffee this morning.:idontno:

Beach Fanatic

Jun 18, '06 · 11:00 PM#14

Happy day to my dad -- he spent it on the beach in Grayton!!
Happy first father's day to my husband!
We lost my father in law to cancer last fall. I hope he knows how thankful I am to him for raising a great son.[/QUOTE]

That's sweet Melissa, be sure to tell both of them (f-i-l and hubby) how thankful you are. :wub:

SoWal Insider

Jun 19, '06 · 6:33 AM#15

Melissa, that is sweet. And what a cutie in that avatar! Makes life complete doesn't it? 😀

Beach Lover

Jun 19, '06 · 9:11 PM#16

Melissa, that is sweet. And what a cutie in that avatar! Makes life complete doesn't it? 😀

thanks!
Yes, it does make life complete... I didn't think I could love someone so much!!

SoWal Expert

Jun 19, '06 · 9:28 PM#17

This pic made me remember Dad trying to teach me how to drive a stick shift. Then the later lesson on how to pump my own gas (why in the heck would I do that when a nice guy would come out and do it for me???:idontno: ) It was a speedy ride home after Dad spilled gasoline all over the crotch of his khakis.:shock: Man I miss him- he was such a classic.

Bdarg misses my dad too - when we first started dating, my Dad waited until the 3rd or 4th time that Bdarg came to the house before he told him that he knew a barber who could help him get rid of his ponytail problem.:floor:

Unfortunately Bdarg spent his own Father's Day stuck in traffic on I-65, where he had to sit for 3 hours, pee in roadside forest, and listen to the rest of us whine. I'm gonna try to throw him a better day later this week!