Fathers’ Day Presents
June 17th, 2024 by G.
On the sweetness…
A daughter gave me a neatly hand-lettered booklet with a handsewn binding that contained a guide to morse code.
My deacon gave me an arduino that he had programmed a morse code fathers’ day message into.
I painstakingly translated it with the help of the booklet.
The message was B O O G E R
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Filed under: Brilliantly Lit | Tags: on the sweetness of Mormon life
Filed under: Brilliantly Lit | Tags: on the sweetness of Mormon life
June 17th, 2024 06:10:23
E.C.
June 17, 2024
I forgot my gift for my dad in the haze of late-night packing for a fishing trip. His gift will be an ice cream shovel, as he eats a comically large bowl almost every night – his main vice.
The real gift is the fishing trip with friends and family. I don’t think any of us have laughed so hard for a long time. His friend’s a real card and a gifted storyteller, and is willing to tell us all about their shared youthful misadventures.
Sutton Coldfield
June 17, 2024
I got “I OLOE YPU” which is just about right.
G.
June 18, 2024
We all oloe ypu, don’t we, folks?
E.C., I haven’t heard anybody described as a card in a long time. Thanks for that.
E.C.
June 18, 2024
@ G,
There’s no other descriptor for the man except a card, a maverick, and an agent of chaos. So far this trip, he’s told stories of how, when he was courting his wife, he took the driver’s seat right out of her car while she was getting groceries, then watched her try to figure out the aftermath. The story of Dad’s and his first deer hunt (unsupervised by adults). How he used to be a cross-country ski and winter survival instructor for the Marines. The man’s done some living, and most of it has been spent plotting the next prank or adventure, my dad his willing accomplice.