Fathers Day 2013! What did you do and what did you get?

[Smoke4320]

My father is not much longer on this earth ..
Spent the day at his house trimming limbs, hauling limbs, cleaning out bird baths, trimming roses, working on lawn mower interspersed with cold drinks and lasagna.. Dad slept most of the day ..
finally got to talk to him for about 5-6 minutes before he slipped away again...but we were able to at least 1 more time get both his sons and my son and daughter in law there to see him .

[daniel lawecki]

Smoked beef brisket pulled pork sammies jumbo shrimp went to Cabela's beer with buddies shoot pellet guns at beer caps at 30yrds. Oh almost forgot went to the gun club early in the day.

[hoosierlogger]

Had breakfast at the local diner with my daughter and expecting wife (18 more days). Then we went to visit my father and came home for a relaxing mid day nap. After that we went to my wifes fathers house and spent some time over there. While there we shot my golf ball cannon.

I got a new pair of swimming trunks. They must have thought something was wrong with the pair I have had for almost 10 years LOL.

[Sweetpea]

Well, my son picked Father's Day, of all days, to decide to especially NOT follow directions, and then to be willfully disobedient.

Pretty much ruined most of the day when he had to be punished several times, sometimes he just doesn't get it...

My little girl, though, made my day as usual. She told me "Happy Fadders' Day"...

BTW... My son told my wife last night, that if he is gonna act like that on my B'day (coming soon), he should probably just stay in his room all day. She agreed.


Then we went and had a good time at the in-laws, at least the day ended well.

Brandon

[otter5555]

cast another 200 30-30 boolits, sized and primed more 30-30 brass, shot my 600 yd iron with 30-30
missed my dad badly

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Our daughter went to Texas with her family and our son is in Hawaii with his, so wife watched sports on tv while I loaded ammo. We went out for dinner and had a very nice meal, came home and indulged in a delicious angle food cake complete with strawberrys and ice cream. The cake was baked by my sweetheart of 55 years. All 'n all a great day.

[10x]

Haven't talked to my dad in almost twenty years - still have stuff to tell him so i have to tell it to my sons and grandsons. Still miss him but telling grandsons about him and passing on the stories he told me is bitter sweet....

[LeadRecycler]

...a nice haul on 380 ACP brass when cleaned up at the range
What I didn’t get: No 40 S&W brass when we cleaned up at the range. This is quite rare as this cartridge seems to be the market dominator these days.

If you'd care to swap, I'd be willing to trade some range pickup .40 for range pickup .380. I'm not sure what the going rate is though...

[Circuit Rider]

Got up at 5 to fire up the smoker, 2 pork butts and kettle of baked beans. Cole slaw, tater salad, and couple gallon of tea. Step-sons and their kids and SNL pretty much did a job on the grub. Received a DVD of the Bible mini-series from my missus. Best part of the day, my Daughter called from Kalifornia and we talked for an hour, haven't seen her, her hubby, or my Grandson since 2010. Second best part of the day, smoked a good cigar and watched the sun go down with a cold beer or two. Then cleaned up everything and hit the sack. CR

[sljacob]

Got my garden planted(it may seem a little late in the spring to start a garden but we are still getting frost on the ground most mornings), mowed the lawn, and a few other honey do's. My little girl baked me a chocolate cake for fathers day. All and all a pretty good day.

[MTtimberline]

If you'd care to swap, I'd be willing to trade some range pickup .40 for range pickup .380. I'm not sure what the going rate is though...

I have some .380 range brass which I have no immediate use for and I am looking to get into .40 S&W in the very near future. Maybe something can be worked out if you are interested.

[Copper75]

Grandsons made cards for me. Card from one daughter an Buckees beaver nuggets from other. Told my wife not to get me anything and she actually listened this year.
Had to sleep most of the day because I'm on nights this month and had to work all weekend .
Worked last night too....

Didn't get to spend much time w wife kids or my dad because i had to work. someone's gotta keep them streets safe right ?
I'm not bitter, just getting tired of missing so many important things for work over the last 24 years.

[Adam10mm]

Slept in until 11am, got myself together then drove down to Iron Mountain to pick up my son (6yo) from a camping trip with my mother and stepfather. He went to the East coast, learned about Plymouth Rock, then went up north to Maine, then back through NY and PA and arrive back to WI on Saturday. Two hour drive with the radio off just listening to his stories of adventure. Simple things in life.

[blackthorn]

Wifey took me out for berakfast. Came home, fooled around in the shop, read a bit. Both sons called during the day and I got an unexpected (but very welcome) call from my middle stepchild (she's 50), thanking me for being there for her over the last year. She is in a battle with lung cancer and I guess her natural father has not been too supportive. Went out for fish & chips supper, came home, relaxed, went to bed. All in all a good day!

[PS Paul]

My father is not much longer on this earth ..
Spent the day at his house trimming limbs, hauling limbs, cleaning out bird baths, trimming roses, working on lawn mower interspersed with cold drinks and lasagna.. Dad slept most of the day ..
finally got to talk to him for about 5-6 minutes before he slipped away again...but we were able to at least 1 more time get both his sons and my son and daughter in law there to see him .

Kinda like part of my day with Dad. Puts things into perspective, really.

[Springfield]

Went out to breakfast with the wife and kids(10 an 11 yo), then cleaned 5 guns we had shot the day before, so while I was there I dragged out 5 others that needed a better cleaning than I had done before. My son helped for a while, then went back to his gameboy. Decided the weather was too good to be inside so we all went to the local park. My kids ferreted out a bunch of others and started a game of tag, which my wife decided she wanted to play too. Went home and my wife made a nice dinner, than we watched a movie we had rented. And for the last 2 days my wife is complaining about how sore he legs muscles are! I told her it's not like running, you use muscles you don't usually use, zigging and zagging dodging kids for an hour. A pretty nice day, all in all.

[Reverend Al]

Well, for several years now our local gun club has hosted a no cost, free to the public "Outdoor Discovery Day" event on Father's Day which is an open house for the general public to come up and try a bit of everything that our club is involved in. They can try fishing in our kid's fishing pond, Archery, Trap, Skeet, .22 and centrefire rifles, .22 and centrefire handguns, black powder muzzle loaders, see demonstrations and try shooting the various guns that are used for Cowboy Action Shooting, PPC, IPSC, etc., all under the watchful eye of our club's volunteer range officers. We typically host about 450 to 550 guests and it has always been an extremely popular family event. We especially encourage family participation and have a variety of draw prizes just for Dad and the Juniors. My wife Laurie and my step-daughter Alison and I helped out with registration, general inquiries about the club, and took care of the draw prizes for the event. All in all it was a wonderful day spent with my family up at the gun club promoting the shooting sports.
(On a slightly sour note though, our club president sent a short description of our open house event to our local newspaper to be included in their "local events" section, with information about our club and all of the shooting disciplines that the public could come and try for free on Father's Day. In typical fashion though, since they are a Liberal / socialist backed newspaper, their description of the event was heavily edited by their staff and in the end it simply stated that the public could "come up and try their hand at archery or throwing a tomahawk" ... with absolutely NO mention what-so-ever of ANY of the shooting sports! Grrrrrrr ....)

[375supermag]

Hi...

Had a real nice Father's Day.

Got up late..6:00AM
Read the Sunday paper, my wonderful wife made a great breakfast of fried eggs, sausage patties and home fries.

Went to the movies with my son and wife...saw "Man of Steel" in IMAX 3D.
They took me out for dinner afterward...Ribeye (medium rare), baked potato and salad. Had stuffed mushrooms and southwest shrimp for appetizers.

Nice cards with gift cards...I will be ordering some books later this week. My wish lists are pretty large, so I need to make some decisions.

Got home around 7 or so, talked to both daughters on the phone for a while.

Off to bed at 9...work week starts at 3:30AM Monday morning.

[phonejack]

My two daughters gave me a bullet ball point pen
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