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What did you do or doing for father's day?

Tonya and I got up early and went to breakfast at Bob Evans. Even though we got there early, (before 8) we had to wait a few minutes. Then, we came home and watched Legends Of The Fall, what a great movie. I plan on torturing my teenage kids later when I make them put their smart phones down long enough to watch Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Good times.

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 16, 2019 11:43AM

    Picking away a bit at a raw 1978 Topps set and Texas Roadhouse for dinner. BTW we love BE!

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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭

    @softparade said:
    Picking away a bit at a raw 1978 Topps set and Texas Roadhouse for dinner. BTW we love BE!

    Awesome Dan! We still haven't been to Roadhouse yet. How good is it? It sounds great haha

  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Matt TR has it figured out! Go!

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  • krisd3279krisd3279 Posts: 808 ✭✭✭✭

    Slept in. Received several text messages, a few phone calls and some cards(non-trading variety). Eating way too much food later at the yearly Father's Day family gathering. I was told I will be receiving some cards of the trading card variety at a later date, but the LCS was apparently closed Friday and Saturday :) What a wife!!

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 22,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Since I don't have any kids, father's day is a little depressing for me. I lost my father to lung cancer 2 years ago. I miss him. Dad thank you for everything you did for us. We love you and miss you.

  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭

    @krisd3279 said:
    I was told I will be receiving some cards of the trading card variety at a later date, but the LCS was apparently closed Friday and Saturday :) What a wife!!

    Awesome! It's great having a wife that gets it.

  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    Since I don't have any kids, father's day is a little depressing for me. I lost my father to lung cancer 2 years ago. I miss him. Dad thank you for everything you did for us. We love you and miss you.

    Sorry to hear about your dad. That sucks.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 22,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lawnmowerman said:

    @doubledragon said:
    Since I don't have any kids, father's day is a little depressing for me. I lost my father to lung cancer 2 years ago. I miss him. Dad thank you for everything you did for us. We love you and miss you.

    Sorry to hear about your dad. That sucks.

    Thank you. He's in a better place. At least he's not suffering anymore.

  • VoteDizzyVoteDizzy Posts: 124 ✭✭✭

    It's my first father's day! My daughter and I celebrated with matching outfits and my wife made some fabulous eggs benedict!

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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 16, 2019 12:45PM

    @VoteDizzy said:
    It's my first father's day! My daughter and I celebrated with matching outfits and my wife made some fabulous eggs benedict!

    Congrats! Never thought of jalapenos on eggs benedict. Gotta try that

  • VoteDizzyVoteDizzy Posts: 124 ✭✭✭

    @lawnmowerman it was a southwestern inspired dish. Smoky chipotle hollandaise, gaucamole and topped with jalapenos! 👌

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  • GreenSneakersGreenSneakers Posts: 908 ✭✭✭✭

    No better thing on Fathers Day than watching your own son play ball. 15U American Legion (wood bat). Great game, came out on top and he played well.

  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,531 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VoteDizzy said:
    It's my first father's day! My daughter and I celebrated with matching outfits..........

    Happy 1st Fathers Day to you. Love the shirts, and love the Yukon Cornelius inspired beard.

  • VoteDizzyVoteDizzy Posts: 124 ✭✭✭

    @nam812 said:
    and love the Yukon Cornelius inspired beard.

    Thanks! I dressed up as Corny for Halloween a few years ago!

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  • NGS428NGS428 Posts: 2,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 16, 2019 1:32PM

    Hanging out with the kiddos today. Just got back from a bike ride with them (ooff those were some big hills! :smiley: ).. Played some catch. Wife is making some rhubarb dessert (my favorite)!

    No Griffey cards this holiday (I don’t do well with getting any cards other than ones I hand select). :smile: I am sure others here have that same feeling.

    Happy Father’s Day to all! Time to check the forums a little less than usual and spend some quality time with the family!

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Me and Mary stuff.

    Ordered supplies from BCW.

    Now I'm here with you.

    Mike
  • balco758balco758 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Watching US Open with my 3 sons, ages 23, 21 and 19. They are my pride and joy.

    Also cracked a 79 Rack and came up empty.....but it took the rip edge away for a while, which is a good thing.

  • LOTSOSLOTSOS Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VoteDizzy Those eggs look delicious. Going to have to try and whip up something like that one of these days.

    I’m refereeing a very intense game of corn hole while keeping an eye on the US Open.

    Kevin

  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 16, 2019 4:04PM

    @LOTSOS said
    I’m refereeing a very intense game of corn hole while keeping an eye on the US Open.

    That looks fantastically relaxing

  • LOTSOSLOTSOS Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dave,

    Very sorry to hear about your Fathers health. Glad to hear that your girls brought a spark to his eyes and and they got to spend time with him too. Don't be shy to share that with them. It's important that they know how important they are to him too. We never know how much time any of us have left but being able to spend any of it with those we love is important.

    Kevin

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dave,

    God Speed my friend ...

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  • Kid4hof03Kid4hof03 Posts: 1,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dave, my brother and I had a very similar experience with my Dad. It was amazing to watch him rally, to see the gleam in his eyes, it's something I'll never stop carrying with me. I'm sorry for what you are going through, but am thankful for you that you are there.

    My Father's Day has been great. Been with my wife and boys all day, church this morning, our favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch, my wife made my favorite dessert.

    Happy Father's Day to all you guys!

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 22,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @70ToppsFanatic said:
    Today is a special Father’s Day for me.

    Last Friday my dad, the last team doctor for the Brooklyn Dodgers and first team doctor for the LA Dodgers and now 87 years old, went to the hospital with double pneumonia. Saturday the problem was compounded by a major heart attack. By Saturday night he chose to be put on a ventilator

    I got to nyc Sunday morning and have been here every day since starting around 7am and staying all day.

    Yesterday he actually perked up a bit and started rebounding. With the help of my mother I was able to quickly schedule a Father’s Day surprise for him; flying in my two daughters (23 and 21) for the day to see him this morning.

    When he saw them today his eyes lit up and it was clear that this was a great surprise. A happy, comforting time. They updated him on all of the happenings in their lives and then started recounting several family anecdotes that involved time with him. I had found a few old Father’s Day cards from the last 35 years and read them aloud so we could all enjoy years of love.

    As the morning continued he started having some slippage. My girls left early into the slide to get back for the return flight. They will always remember him smiling this morning, comfortable and knowing that this visit meant so much to him.

    It’s now about 6 hours since they left. The slippage has continued and things are not looking great. I’m sitting with him by myself now, watching/listening to the US Open and he is thankfully still comfortable and trying to recover enough to get off the ventilator.

    I don’t know how things are going to turn out. I do have a pretty good indication of what might happen soon. The only thing I know for sure is that seeing the spark in his eyes this morning when my girls walked in will, for me, make this the best father’s day ever no matter what happens or when it happens.

    To all I can only tell you that cherished memories with loved ones are precious and the opportunities to make more of them can be suddenly taken away without much warning. Don’t waste them.

    I’m glad that we didn’t.

    I hope your Dad makes it through this. I'm so sorry to hear about his health problems. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

  • DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GreenSneakers said:
    No better thing on Fathers Day than watching your own son play ball. 15U American Legion (wood bat). Great game, came out on top and he played well.

    Agree. My son had a soccer tourney game today and lost a tight one.

    @doubledragon I’m sorry about your dad. I feel the same pain every Mother’s Day, since cancer took my mom in early 2016.

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 22,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DBesse27 said:

    @GreenSneakers said:
    No better thing on Fathers Day than watching your own son play ball. 15U American Legion (wood bat). Great game, came out on top and he played well.

    Agree. My son had a soccer tourney game today and lost a tight one.

    @doubledragon I’m sorry about your dad. I feel the same pain every Mother’s Day, since cancer took my mom in early 2016.

    Thank you DBesse. I'm sorry to hear about your mother. It never gets any easier. It hurts. We just have to keep them in our hearts and thoughts every day, and hope we will see them again someday.

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Spent the day reminiscing about what was with Dad and what should of been. He died way too soon.

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  • lilmulelilmule Posts: 995 ✭✭✭✭

    The movie Field of Dreams was playing at the movie theater today and tomorrow. So took the whole family to watch it on the big screen, it was great.

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  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 16, 2019 9:13PM

    I had my usual playing Rummy 500/800 with my grandma every Sunday (she lives just a short walk from me so why not? Also, my grandma's daughter (my aunt) often is there with us when I visit, she has four dogs of her own; she's the true animal person in the family)...but I remembered to wear my "BEST CAT DAD EVER" shirt my wife got me. She even got me a coffee mug that reads:

    Thank you for being my Dad.
    If some other man was my Dad...
    I'd pee in his shoes...
    Claw up his face...
    And go find you.
    (silhouette picture of a cat)
    Love, Jamiee the Cat! ;)

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 29,357 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Brought my father a Clam plate with Onion Rings. His favorite plate and I do that every year. To Matt and everyone else I hope you guys had a nice day yesterday, and Legends of the Fall is an awesome movie!!

  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,450 ✭✭✭

    once again spent mine at a dance recital, 15 years and counting. love to witness them see all their hard work pay off. always amazed at what these young girls can pull off on a stage.

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  • DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @baseballfan said:
    once again spent mine at a dance recital, 15 years and counting. love to witness them see all their hard work pay off. always amazed at what these young girls can pull off on a stage.

    My girlfriend’s daughter dances and I sat through a 3+ hour recital a few weeks ago. I wish I left with the same sense of amazement and respect that you seem to have.

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  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Went fishing with my wife. First time for her Walleye fishing. We were on the lake (Devils Lake N.D.) both Saturday and Sunday.

    My dad has been gone for 27 years. My fondest memories of him are our fishing trips together. It was a great day, but a little sad too.

    Here's a photo of him on one of out trips. Miss you Dad!

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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭

    @JoeBanzai said:
    Went fishing with my wife. First time for her Walleye fishing. We were on the lake (Devils Lake N.D.) both Saturday and Sunday.

    My dad has been gone for 27 years. My fondest memories of him are our fishing trips together. It was a great day, but a little sad too.

    Here's a photo of him on one of out trips. Miss you Dad!

    Joe
    I appreciate you taking the time to share and for posting the pic of your dad. While I understand the feeling of sadness, just know one thing. The feelings of happiness and fond memories of your dad on your trips outweigh the bad. If they didn't, you wouldn't have been back there making more memories with your wife. Thanks again for posting.

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lawnmowerman said:

    @JoeBanzai said:
    Went fishing with my wife. First time for her Walleye fishing. We were on the lake (Devils Lake N.D.) both Saturday and Sunday.

    My dad has been gone for 27 years. My fondest memories of him are our fishing trips together. It was a great day, but a little sad too.

    Here's a photo of him on one of out trips. Miss you Dad!

    Joe
    I appreciate you taking the time to share and for posting the pic of your dad. While I understand the feeling of sadness, just know one thing. The feelings of happiness and fond memories of your dad on your trips outweigh the bad. If they didn't, you wouldn't have been back there making more memories with your wife. Thanks again for posting.

    My Dad was a funny guy, like a lot of men his age he wasn't a hugger/"I love you" kind of guy, but with fishing it was a little different. He really spent time and gave me fishing advice in the boat that he didn't/couldn't elsewhere about other things.

    I have my fondest thoughts of him thinking about our fishing trips. Yes Sunday was a special happy/sad day.

    His name was Joe and the grandson he never met is a Joe as well.

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  • addicted2ebayaddicted2ebay Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭✭

    Golf, golf and more golf lol

  • mikelowell25mikelowell25 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    Brought my father a Clam plate with Onion Rings. His favorite plate and I do that every year. To Matt and everyone else I hope you guys had a nice day yesterday, and Legends of the Fall is an awesome movie!!

    Paul, since you live in MA like me I am guessing it was from Kelly's--am i correct?!?!

  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭

    We went out for breakfast and then we headed to an Holocaust museum that I have been wanting to visit for years. It is very informative museum. It was raining in that part of Michigan, so it was better to be inside.

  • pab1969pab1969 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Went to estate sale in the morning. Oldest son came over in the afternoon. We watched the movie Venom and ate Chinese for dinner. Youngest son called to wish me happy fathers day from overseas. Wife left me alone all day. I couldn't have planned my day better.

  • momo1234momo1234 Posts: 349 ✭✭✭

    kids took me to see field of dreams in the theater! BEAT THAT!!!

  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭

    @linuxabuser said:
    I was traveling to a job interview on Father's Day. Waiting to hear if I get an offer or not.

    Good luck! Hope it works out for you.

  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭

    @momo1234 said:
    kids took me to see field of dreams in the theater! BEAT THAT!!!

    Next year they take you to see the Field of Dreams in person, for real. :)

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  • momo1234momo1234 Posts: 349 ✭✭✭

    @Estil said:

    @momo1234 said:
    kids took me to see field of dreams in the theater! BEAT THAT!!!

    Next year they take you to see the Field of Dreams in person, for real. :)

    DID THAT ALREADY....last year ;-)

  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 24, 2019 3:49PM

    Oh geez, how are they gonna top that? Have Kevin Costner himself be your tour guide?

    Oh wait, they did that already too I bet.

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  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭✭

    I realize I'm a little late to the party, but for Father's Day me and my two sons took in an Orioles game at Camden Yards (I'm wearing the SGA Fedora):

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