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August 31, 2015
By day, Dad fixes stuff. He's a fitter and turner by trade.
He fixes cars, trucks, tractors, diggers, dozers, graders. Engines and everything else - huge and small. He fixes them when they're broken, burst, blocked, boiled over or blown up.He does this in the pit of his workshop or on the side of the road, in hot sun; in torrential rain. My father gets up every morning at 4.30, to start work at 6am. My father is 69 years old. I don't know a whole lot about fitting and turning and all that it entails. But I do know he is great at what he does. Brilliant, even. He's old school. He doesn't necessarily do things the easiest or the fastest way. He does things the proper way, the right way. He’s a good man, and thorough. Dad @ Pastry Box
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Dad is a dinosaur, becoming extinct everyday in this 30 second microwaved throw away market driven social network society.
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at August 31, 2015 10:25 AM
"My father gets up every morning at 4.30, to start work at 6am....He’s a good man, and thorough... he said, "every morning I get up, I have my shower and my toast and coffee, and I think about all the things I've got to do. The problems I've got to deal with. I think about how I'm going to fix them. I plan my day around all that. "
Old School. Yes.
Its nice to crib things every so often. Tells me I'm on the right track. Sometimes to go forward, you need to go back.
"gets up every morning at 4.30, to start work at 6am"
Hmmm... so true.
"If you wake up after the dawn, you might as well go back to bed, because you missed the day."
(From my Stepdad Ray - Farmboy from Herman Minnesota. Sadly the glare from this truth is very "bright". "Painful" even.) :(
Posted by: John Condon at August 31, 2015 10:30 AM