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Posted on 12/19/18 at 1:20 pm to CAD703X
My brothers and I paid for a 3 day pheasant hunt for my dad and all of us attended as well on our own dime. We hadn't hunted together in probably 2 decades and while expensive, it was absolutely worth it.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 1:51 pm to CAD703X
Mickey Mantle autographed basball
Posted on 12/19/18 at 2:32 pm to CAD703X
My brother gets all the credit for this but he and I bought Dad a ride in a T-6 Texan airplane for his birthday one year. I think it was about a 30 minute ride and Dad got to fly the plane part of the time. The pilot even showed him how to do some aerobatic maneuvers. He had the time of his life.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 2:33 pm to CAD703X
Benelli Upland 12 ga. It was kind of a selfish gift as I just assumed that it would come back to me one day. When he died there was no trace of the shotgun. I'm sure he left it somewhere but nobody ever spoke up to return it. Oh well.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 3:24 pm to CAD703X
Dude, We had that same Grand Marquis. It was a '76 2 door. I hated that bastard!
Posted on 12/19/18 at 3:31 pm to CAD703X
Making me feel shitty about just getting my dad a giftcard this year.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 3:35 pm to CAD703X
Flew my dad to my place for over a month and we fished 30 days.
Did it 2 years in a row.
Did it 2 years in a row.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 3:40 pm to CAD703X
My dads last Valentines Day here I bought him a coin to keep in his pocket telling him how much I loved him and how much I appreciated he the sacrifices he made for his family. It was small and wasn't expensive at all but it obviously meant something to him...He told my mom that be wanted it in his coffin with him when he passed. It was in the palm of his hand when we buried him.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 3:41 pm to LSUintheNW
My dad has everything material he could ever want, thus he prefers sentimental stuff.
He cries when we write him heartfelt cards and notes.
Often he'll open a present just to get to the note, then leave the present in some random corner of the house, but takes the note with him every where for a couple days
He cries when we write him heartfelt cards and notes.
Often he'll open a present just to get to the note, then leave the present in some random corner of the house, but takes the note with him every where for a couple days
Posted on 12/19/18 at 3:42 pm to TheCaterpillar
However, there is one "material" thing he would love.
I really want to become rich before he dies, because I want to give him a Red 442 with black racing stripes. It was his car in college and law school and he always talks about it.
I can't imagine the look on his face if he walked outside and that was in the driveway. He'd probably lose it crying.
I really want to become rich before he dies, because I want to give him a Red 442 with black racing stripes. It was his car in college and law school and he always talks about it.
I can't imagine the look on his face if he walked outside and that was in the driveway. He'd probably lose it crying.
This post was edited on 12/19/18 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 12/19/18 at 3:54 pm to chinese58
I guess it's been almost 20 years; I'd bought my dad a custom drop point skinning knife that one of my customers (a machinist) made in his spare time. It was beautiful.
After Dad retired, he started cooking a little and had taken up trying to bake bread. You could pound nails with the loaves he made, and I knew he was about to give it up and go back to woodwork.
So I go see him on his birthday, and I had the knife boxed in the box of a hand mixer my wife had just bought for making cakes. I launch into this spiel about how his bread wasn't coming out because he had the wrong mixer, and that this small mixer was just the ticket to get it right.
He gets this forced smile on his face, like "thanks a lot", but really "damn, screwed again".
Then he opens it up and the beautiful handmade knife is inside. He had a huge smile on his face, and he gives me this look, like "you got me".
He had a tough life and this is probably my best memory of him during the last 20 years of his life. We lost him in 2007. He was a good man...
After Dad retired, he started cooking a little and had taken up trying to bake bread. You could pound nails with the loaves he made, and I knew he was about to give it up and go back to woodwork.
So I go see him on his birthday, and I had the knife boxed in the box of a hand mixer my wife had just bought for making cakes. I launch into this spiel about how his bread wasn't coming out because he had the wrong mixer, and that this small mixer was just the ticket to get it right.
He gets this forced smile on his face, like "thanks a lot", but really "damn, screwed again".
Then he opens it up and the beautiful handmade knife is inside. He had a huge smile on his face, and he gives me this look, like "you got me".
He had a tough life and this is probably my best memory of him during the last 20 years of his life. We lost him in 2007. He was a good man...
Posted on 12/19/18 at 4:02 pm to TheCaterpillar
just put it on a credit card, there's one for 60k in Conroe, TX waiting for you
Posted on 12/19/18 at 4:06 pm to CAD703X
I don't remember buying anything good for my dad since he died before I was out of school and working. When we cleaned out his house, in his night stand I found a little red box made out of construction paper, inside of the box was a note from about 8 year old me saying, "I couldn't afford anything good enough for you, so I made this box for you to keep anything you want in it". 12 years ago I found that, and it is in my night stand today.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 4:10 pm to Paige
Thanks for posting that. Your dad was a really great man.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 4:11 pm to CAD703X
Gonna go have a drink with my dad tonight
Posted on 12/19/18 at 4:17 pm to Chief Hinge
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Gonna go have a drink with my dad tonight
if i've accomplished nothing else with this thread other than that, its worth it.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 4:52 pm to CAD703X
My dad is a little over a year past an illness that damn near killed him. He’s walking with a cane, and wanting to work on coordination. So for Christmas I got him a tomahawk set and built him a target.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 4:56 pm to TigerNutts
quote:Did you know my dad? Or just in general?
Thanks for posting that. Your dad was a really great man.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 5:00 pm to CAD703X
Getting a Playbar and Sub this year
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