Happy Father’s Day Dad!

I called my Father today to wish him a Happy Father’s Day and we talked for a whole 5 minutes.

If you know my Father, that’s pretty good for him. He’s not much of a phone talker because he can never find anything to say.

I don’t know why… you sit down with him over a couple of beers and he’ll talk your head off for hours but put a phone to his mouth and you can barely get more than one sentence out of him.

I guess he’s just not used to it. He’s old school. No phones where he grew up and when he came to Canada from the Ukraine, the last thing that he wanted to do in this big beautiful country was to sit down on his butt and yap on the phone.

He would rather be outdoors fishing, hunting or just working on his farm. None of this girly talking on the phone stuff. He’s a real man’s man.

He’s a tough 88 year old Ukrainian/Canadian who has survived a war (got shot twice), worked 40 years as a uranium miner and busted a lot of heads in drunkin’ barroom brawls.

They don’t make em any tougher than my dad.

I call him every Friday to see how he’s doing. I’ve made sure to call him every week since my beautiful Mother passed away a few years ago. He never has much to say but he ALWAYS says “thanks for calling” at the end of each phone call.

Another thing he always says is “when are you coming to visit?”. Well, trying to get my business to where I want it to be means I have to work a lot of hours and I need my high speed Internet to be able to work fast. My father only has dial up where he is and that just wont cut it. I am looking into seeing if I can get wireless or a satellite Internet hook up while I’m visiting, so I can spend more time with him.

Family is more important to me than anything else so I want to spend as much time as I can with him.

So I’m planning a trip to visit my Dad in three weeks where we can have some drinks and talk till the cows come home

Happy Father’s Day Dad!