Showing posts with label Father's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Father's Day. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2012

June 16, 1991


It's a Happy Father's Day.  JoAnna and the boys present me with a gift and cards while I'm still lounging in bed.  We go out to Perkins for breakfast.  Andy gets to be a handful for awhile.  JoAnna and I do some gardening but not until Andy and I some basketball at the park -- "our park", as he refers to it.  We buy some more perennials at Bruce to fill in along the south side of the house.  I take out about a foot-wide length of turf and replace it with cedar bark mulch.  After a shower, I lounge on the hammock, Eddie right next to me in his playpen.  JoAnna cooks steaks with lotsa fixin's for a picnic supper.  After a call to Dad, we all walk to the park.  We tune in the Pirates-Giants game once we get home.  My back is pink and a bit sore by the time I'm ready to fall asleep.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Grandpa Nelson and his Milk Wagon, Rockford, Illinois (1910)

And coincidentally, the history of Father's Day in the U.S. goes back 100 years.

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