FrankS
Registered User
... to all of us fathers.
Also, if you still have a father, give him a hug if you can, or a call!
Also, if you still have a father, give him a hug if you can, or a call!
Heading down to see my dad this afternoon.
Happy Fathers Day Frank, and to all other fathers here at RFF.
Happy Fathers Day Frank, and to all other fathers here at RFF.
nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
Thank you, Frank...
I just got back from taking my 17 year old son (first child) to the airport...he'll be spending the next 7 weeks in Boston...Summer School at MIT...What a Father's Day gift...!!!
My daughter, 15 will have to take up the slack...
To all you Fathers out there....Have a great Father's Day...hug your kids and kiss their mom...
I just got back from taking my 17 year old son (first child) to the airport...he'll be spending the next 7 weeks in Boston...Summer School at MIT...What a Father's Day gift...!!!
My daughter, 15 will have to take up the slack...
To all you Fathers out there....Have a great Father's Day...hug your kids and kiss their mom...
peter_n
Veteran
My youngest just graduated from college last week and is going to live in Berlin in a couple of months. So I guess I'll be seeing Hertha play on an irregular basis... Yes its fathers day but I'm doing a cookout this afternoon! 
Best to all the dads here!
Best to all the dads here!
FrankS
Registered User
I heard this somewhere: The most important thing a father can do for his child(ren) is to love their mother.
raid
Dad Photographer
Good Morning ... and Happy Father's Day!
It is one day in the year when we are "special".
Great idea, Frank.
To all of the people here: Call your father [if he is alive].
Enjoy this beautiful day.
Raid
It is one day in the year when we are "special".
Great idea, Frank.
To all of the people here: Call your father [if he is alive].
Enjoy this beautiful day.
Raid
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pachuco
El ****
Happy Fathers Day!
Now, where is the steak and eggs my daughter promised me for breakfast?
Now, where is the steak and eggs my daughter promised me for breakfast?
POSTI-Tuomo
Level 1 Camera Repairman
I thought I had missed the day completely! But then I realized Fathers' Day is observed on the second Sunday of November here in Finland...
colyn
ישו משיח
FrankS said:
My Dad loved my Mother for 56 years..
daaris
Established
Yes, Happy Fathers Day to all fathers, and especially those who aren't with us anymore! No better gift in the world like a loving and attentive father.
M
Magus
Guest
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rbiemer
Unabashed Amateur
Happy Father's day to all you RFF dads!
I'm not a father but I will be going to visit mine later today.
Mom told me yesterday that I was cooking for us all. Not sure just what until I get to their home.
An irreverent card, a small gift, and some good food and most of us kids there(one brother is overseas now) to celebrate him. He'll "complain" about all the fuss but we keep showing up.
Rob
I'm not a father but I will be going to visit mine later today.
Mom told me yesterday that I was cooking for us all. Not sure just what until I get to their home.
An irreverent card, a small gift, and some good food and most of us kids there(one brother is overseas now) to celebrate him. He'll "complain" about all the fuss but we keep showing up.
Rob
Sisyphus
Sisyphus
For many reasons, I have ignored Father's day. It has never been a day I like to celebrate. This is my first year that I have been father. My wife has been asking me all last week what I want to do. I asked her to give me my space, so I can work in the darkroom, and take care of our daughter.
Well, we wound up going out to breakfast, but she asked the waitress not to wish me a happy father's day, because I was grumpy. Then we went to a bookstore, and offered to buy me a photography, then she noticed that I was looking at another one, which bought, but gave it to me later.
I wound up spending the rest of the day with my wife and daughter. When I got home I called my father, to do the deed, he fell off his chair in shock. This was the first time I called him, on father's day, in about ten years. I did not wish him a happy father's day, but I asked him if he had a nice time.
Well, we wound up going out to breakfast, but she asked the waitress not to wish me a happy father's day, because I was grumpy. Then we went to a bookstore, and offered to buy me a photography, then she noticed that I was looking at another one, which bought, but gave it to me later.
I wound up spending the rest of the day with my wife and daughter. When I got home I called my father, to do the deed, he fell off his chair in shock. This was the first time I called him, on father's day, in about ten years. I did not wish him a happy father's day, but I asked him if he had a nice time.
colyn
ישו משיח
Sisyphus said:
This is my first Father's Day without my Dad. He passed away this past March and I miss not being able to tell him happy father's day.
My Dad is my roll model and if I turn out to be half the man he was then I feel like I did something right..
thomasw_
Well-known
Thanks Frank!
I wish health, many years and all joy to those who are honorable fathers.
Sincerely,
Thomas
I wish health, many years and all joy to those who are honorable fathers.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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visiondr
cyclic iconoclast
colyn said:
Colyn,
That must be hard losing your father. I can't imagine my dad not being around. He too is my role model. I am so very proud of the man who escaped communist Russia after the war with his wife and infant daughter, made his way to Canada, started a new life and went on to an honorable trade whilst raising a family. He is my hero and I told him so today.
raid
Dad Photographer
I am very much like my father in appearance and personality. Some old friends of my father get a shock when they meet me for the first time, because they think they are seeing my father.
I had to think about the date when my father passed away. It was about 9 years ago. He was a very special person. He loved music and good times.
He always reminded us of the possibility of a civil war in Iraq. He was a very wise man with foresight. May he rest in peace.
I had to think about the date when my father passed away. It was about 9 years ago. He was a very special person. He loved music and good times.
He always reminded us of the possibility of a civil war in Iraq. He was a very wise man with foresight. May he rest in peace.
dazedgonebye
Veteran
This is a bit I wrote a few years ago to share with friends. It's my "Father's Day Story."
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Growing Corn and Little Boys
For the first few years of my life, my family lived in a small town in East Texas. The area was mostly farmland, except for the rocket motor plant where my dad worked as an engineer. We left that small town shortly after I turned 4, so I don’t remember much about it. I do remember looking out of the window of Dad’s Ford Galaxie at, what seemed to me, to be miles and miles of corn fields.
The sight must have made an impression on me, because one night at dinner, I took corn from my plate and announced that I was going to plant it so I could grow corn just like I’d seen in those fields. Dad and Mom tried to explain to me that you could not do that with canned corn, but I knew better. So, after dinner that night, they let me plant a handful of leftover corn, butter, salt and all.
The next morning I hurried out to see how my corn was doing, and would you believe there was a single stalk of corn about as tall as I was, growing right there where I’d planted? Lord was I excited! There’s a picture of me, around my house somewhere, four years old with a look of excited astonishment, standing next to my stalk of corn.
Many years later, when I found that picture at my parent’s house, the memories came back to me with surprising clarity. My Dad filled in the gaps with his version of the story.
In his version, there was a 4 year old boy that believed so strongly that he could grow corn from his dinner plate that a Dad just could not let that moment of faith pass unrewarded. In his version there was a Dad that tucked his little boy in for the night and drove out to a nearby farm to ask a favor, so the corn would be there for the boy to discover in the morning.
“I wanted you to know that if you believed hard enough, you could make anything happen,” is what my Dad told me when I found that picture.
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I called yesterday to thank him again.
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Growing Corn and Little Boys
For the first few years of my life, my family lived in a small town in East Texas. The area was mostly farmland, except for the rocket motor plant where my dad worked as an engineer. We left that small town shortly after I turned 4, so I don’t remember much about it. I do remember looking out of the window of Dad’s Ford Galaxie at, what seemed to me, to be miles and miles of corn fields.
The sight must have made an impression on me, because one night at dinner, I took corn from my plate and announced that I was going to plant it so I could grow corn just like I’d seen in those fields. Dad and Mom tried to explain to me that you could not do that with canned corn, but I knew better. So, after dinner that night, they let me plant a handful of leftover corn, butter, salt and all.
The next morning I hurried out to see how my corn was doing, and would you believe there was a single stalk of corn about as tall as I was, growing right there where I’d planted? Lord was I excited! There’s a picture of me, around my house somewhere, four years old with a look of excited astonishment, standing next to my stalk of corn.
Many years later, when I found that picture at my parent’s house, the memories came back to me with surprising clarity. My Dad filled in the gaps with his version of the story.
In his version, there was a 4 year old boy that believed so strongly that he could grow corn from his dinner plate that a Dad just could not let that moment of faith pass unrewarded. In his version there was a Dad that tucked his little boy in for the night and drove out to a nearby farm to ask a favor, so the corn would be there for the boy to discover in the morning.
“I wanted you to know that if you believed hard enough, you could make anything happen,” is what my Dad told me when I found that picture.
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I called yesterday to thank him again.
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Sisyphus
Sisyphus
Colyn,
I am truly sorry for your loss. I am happy to hear that some people had incredible relationships with their fathers, and that you view him as your role model. I also appreciate reading everyone elses exeperiences with their fathers!
I am truly sorry for your loss. I am happy to hear that some people had incredible relationships with their fathers, and that you view him as your role model. I also appreciate reading everyone elses exeperiences with their fathers!