cowage

Dad and I used to cover our noses as we drove by the cows on the way to North Kern golf course.. we would block our nasal passages and then talk like that and laugh.. quite funny :)
I would use my shirt sometimes.. The smell was REALLY bad.

sooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

when the kids were growing up, one of our favorite foursome games was "Sorry". Doug would dive bomb the pieces when he killed one of us sending them clear across the room saying "sssssssssssooooooorrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy". Not that he was competative, right??

Laaaast Card... dunna dunna dunna

Remember in Crazy eights he always used to sing this song when he had the last card??

Also on the last one Danny it was "Ewe's not Fat, Ewe's just fluffy", because a Ewe is a sheep or something hehe..

You's not fat, you's just fluffy..

I think this may have been a slogan on a magnet that dad saw (it had sheeps on it).. he loved it.. do you remember what a kick he got out of this saying... he would always laugh that full bodied silly laugh.. miss that!

Carky

Remember we always used to call it "Carky" when dad would eat every last piece of meat on a chicken or turkey, etc.. The "carcus" of the meat, Right off the bones.. heh

Swimming in the pool

When i was home in the summers, did would come home for lunch.. We would play Crib and he would do components.. He would also just jump into the pool to cool off as he was so hot all the time.. Even when the pool was super cold he would jump in and shriek!

Pony

Dad used to always pull my ponytail.. and in a really silly voice say "nice pony" over and over as he would comb his fingers through my ponytail.. i used to hate it! dad, get away! and he used to chuckle in his silly way while mom may be saying "Doug!" in the background to get him to stop.. Come to think of it he used to use that voice when he would pet caramel.. hehe..

aww.. miss that dad...

Flossers in the car

Remember Dad started to get obsessive about those Flossers? He loved those so much, I even bought him 2 bags for Christmas and he loved them.

He used both sides of them, the floss part, and the pick part.. And on his boring drives to Oxy every morning for 45 mins he always flossed his teeth the whole way there!

We found those flossers all over the car all the time and I had to tell him to stop flossing when we were driving to the golf course because it started to drive me crazy lol..

Oil Changes

I was always concerned about Damien's car care abilities. I had the "fortune" to have owned a series of junkers on my own, so I always forced the mechanics to explain to me what they were doing, what that car part did, and how and why it broke. I was too scared to get ripped off, so I figured if they explained it to me, then they were less likely to be dishonest.

So then I start dating Damien, who doesn't seem overly alarmed when the entire back-end of his car wobbles when he comes to a stop. I did not understand this.

Fast-forward to when I met Doug and Rose. And Doug immediately puts Damien's car up on lifts and starts tuning it up. I remember thinking how lucky Damien was to have a dad who would fix his cars! There was a weird squeak it was making, and I said, "Maybe it's the CV Boot". And Doug was SO EXCITED that I knew just a little bit about cars. Later that day, I was sitting on the floor of the garage while Doug was narrating exactly what he was doing during his oil change and Rose hollered from the kitchen for Doug to stop boring me with car stuff.

Hehe, good times.

ice cream

Daddy knew how much I loved ice cream!! No matter where we went in the world, if I wanted an ice cream cone, he would take me to get one... no matter if it was way out of our way or not. I can remember us driving 1/2 hour for a "particular" ice cream cone, just because I wanted one. I was sad when he didn't enjoy ice cream like he once had - somehow me "wanting" one wasn't the same anymore.

Peanut butter and clam chowder

Hi everyone.. Dad passed away last year exactly today, so we are all going to do special stuff for him today.. Sara is coming golfing for the first time ever today with Dave and I on Dad's favorite San Diego course, dad would love that!

I remember when we had lunch (Dave, Dad, and I) at Boudin in the UTC Mall.. We all got the Clam chowder in a bread bowl.. Dad couldn't finish the bread bowl so he took it home... Next day he put peanut butter all over it in the middle and ate the whole thing up, yum! heh

Mmm peanut butter and fish.. I guess I got my peanut butter obsession from dad!