This Past Weekend

This past weekend was your golf outing. It was a mixture of emotions. I had fun golfing with mom, Larry, and Scott. We didn't do well, in fact we tied for last place. That is right, we couldn't even win last place out right. It was fitting that it rained some as the one person said every time you scheduled an event there it would rain. People shared experiences about you. Larry told me a story that was pretty funny, but not appropriate to post. A lot of people "heard" you on the golf course. I heard "keep your head down." Other heard "Oh Robert." It was fun, but sad because it would have been a lot more fun to play the round with you. I must admit I love the hybrid club. Saturday night Kellie and I met Scott and his wife Andrea at the sun festival. We paid to get in and then bought tickets to taste micro-brews and wines. Uncle John's cider mill had a hard cider that was pretty tasty, but we tried a few that weren't tasty at all. We had Sir Pizza for dinner. In the morning we met mom, Cheri, and Alex for breakfast. We headed home, but did make a few stops on the way. It was a bitter sweet weekend, old wounds were opened, it was fun but sad. Love ya guy.

Light

The light stuff, I have a jar (I still need to clean t out) so my 4 pennies will have a home. I will continue to look for Wheat pennies to fill the jar. Boston came out last night and stomped all over the Lakers to win by 39 points. Tiger had an 18 hole playoff and it still had to go to a sudden death playoff, Tiger won.

Some Thoughts

Sunday was Father's Day. I missed you. I have decided to do something inspired by you. You used to collect Wheat pennies in a jar, I have decided to start doing this as well. I have 4 of them so far, and no jar but it will come along. I also learned how hard it must have been for you. It seems very hard to find a balance between work and family. I know that we work for our families and sometimes that takes us from our families. I know we let them down sometimes because we have to do something. It must have been even harder on you because you owned the business and you had only yourself to count on. I can not imagine the stress. Cheri and Alex had fun at MIS, mom went and saw her brother. I spent this weekend working, although Friday Kellie and I had fun celebrating our anniversary. We went to a comedy club and saw Tom Wilson, he played Bif on Back to the Future, he was pretty funny. We went to Brasa afterward, Brasa is a Brazilian restaurant where they bring all kinds of meat out to you, the Parmesan crusted fillet was the best. The other thing we did Friday was buy Kellie a new car. We bought her a Jeep Liberty with a slider roof, the roof opens up almost the full length. For fathers day I got a Lego set and some cards. The cards were pretty cool, and put the Lego together this morning. It is the Well of Souls from Indiana Jones. Tans really likes to play with all of the snakes and make the wall crash open. So much is going on right now I don't even know what is going on. I missed you on Sunday so I am wishing you a Happy Father's day because you will always be my dad even if you aren't here anymore. Love ya guy.

Wings Win

The Wings closed out the Stanley cup last night. It was cool to watch them hoist the Cup again. They blew it Monday night at home with 35 seconds left. They went on to lose the game in a third overtime period. I almost had to rant because rumor had it that Ozzy was going to be the MVP. He wasn't, and that made me happy. You know how I feel about Osgood, but he did save them and took over the net from Hasek. Zetterberg was the MVP. I will miss you now because I know you would go out and get me a hat or shirt or both and send it to me. You were good with that. In fact we found newspapers from the one before that you had saved for me. Love ya guy.

Fishing

Tanis and I went fishing yesterday. I don't remember the first time we fished, I hope it went better for you than me. He didn't really get the whole hold on to the pole and reel. He set his pole down a lot. Caught several trees and a rock. To be fair we were fishing at the reservoir in Norwalk. The "beach" consisted of a lot of rocks. I found a spot for him to stand at, but he was more interested in playing with the worms, which he started to throw into the water so the fish could have breakfast. I hooked a fish and tried to get him to reel in his pole so the lines wouldn't tangle. I couldn't hand him my pole as it was bent almost double, I had no idea what I had hooked. I figured we would catch small pan fish so I did not buy a net or a hook remover or anything else. We just had 2 cheap poles. So I am holding onto my pole trying to land a fish and also reel his in at the same time. I got his pole done and fought my fish awhile longer, it surfaces and what do you know it is a catfish. A catfish, that is not what I expected. The whole time I am waiting for my line to snap, but it holds. The fish is hooked to good for me to get the hook out, so I broke the line and pushed him back into the water with my foot. He swam away. The catfish was over a foot long, but I figure he weighed less than 10 lbs., as I had 10 lbs. test line. So the chaos is finished, we continued to fish for a while longer and then headed home. I don't know what he will remember of our first fishing trip, hopefully all of it good. Wings lost 1 to Pittsburgh series is 2 to 1 in favor of Detroit. The Pistons have to win tonight and the beat Boston at home to advance. Love ya guy.

Tough Day on the Horizon

Sometimes tough days sneak up unexpected. Yesterday was one of those days. It all happened at Meijers of all places. I saw Schullers chips and couldn't help think of you, it gave me a small twang of sadness. I then went over to another section and had to walk past the fathers day cards. Being a father was one thing we definitely had in common. I even found the card I would have gotten you, it was a picture of a Corvette and it talked about getting you a shiny sports car for fathers day once you opened it the inside had a set of keys you could cut out and talked about paper keys for a paper car. I know you would have liked it. I asked Kellie what she was going to do for her dad for Fathers days, and she almost asked what i was going to do for you. For you I will take some time and reflect on the things I learned from you and all of the time we spent together. I learned to golf from you (hey I have to blame someone). I learned to fish and definitely how to collate. I have learned a lot from you, and I will definitely miss you. The Red Wings won game 1 of the Stanley finals last night. Love ya guy.

Chasing A Dream

This weekend was full of a lot. Saturday was like a day with 36 hours in it. Tanis, Kellie and I headed up to Novi for the convention. We spent time and money. It was fun. We got a new dragon doorbell as the one from last year was stolen. Tanis got a new R2 and a lot of other things. Kellie got to meet Mickey Dolenz and bought an autographed book from him. We met up with James and his friend. We stayed until 6 when it closed. Then the second part of the day started. We headed to meet mom at Frandor where I dropped Kellie and Tanis off, they went to dinner at Emils. James and I went to somewhere on Wise road in Lansing to watch Ron fight. He fought in a sanctioned fight, not an exhibition. We were able to talk to him before the fight and could tell he was ready. He beat the guy in 2 minutes 10 seconds. He actually ended up breaking the guys orbital bone. He was amazing. He has always chased his dream and I saw him achieve it Saturday it was pretty amazing. I wondered if it would of been something I could have talked you into going. I figure probably not. Then I went to pick up my family and got to see the new stairs in the house. It was weird walking into the closet to go to the basement. Mom is pretty excited and it puts the bathroom closer to being finished. I then drove home. I got home around 3 a.m. Sunday Kellie had a bell performance at church it was very good. The new puppy is adapting well and is very friendly with Tanis. She plays a little rough and he is not used to the dog fighting back a little. Cheri got her pop up camper so she has a little dream of camping at the races fulfilled. Red Wings will try to get to their dream by beating the Stars tonight. Cleveland had their dream come to an end yesterday as the Celtics eliminated them. Detroit Boston starts on Wednesday I believe. Love ya guy.