Within the confines of this little cyber-world, you will encounter mind boggling facts (doubtful), side splitting humor (more doubtful), artifacts of great historical significance (we have a lot of old family photos to bore you with), and maybe you will even come across some genuine German/Canadian stuff
(Got your curiosity up, eh?!?)
Of the nine in this family, I am the Canadian. I am out numbered 9 to 1 by Americans. The odds are still in my favor. I am after all, "The Father." Join me on our wonderful journey.
"The Father"
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Oct 13, 2007
A Unique Car
As we were driving back from a performance today, we pulled up beside a car.... We loved it! :)
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Hello I was just blog hopping and came across your blog. I find it to be one of the more interesting blogs that I have seen in my blogging adventures. I must say though that it is missing a little, ... ummmm , a little ... uh ... something. Well I will put that little something post in. If it is o.k. with "The Father". Ooooooh, He sounds so serious, so scary, so ... god fatherish. Anyway, at the risk of getting a severe verbal font lashing, (verbal is impossible) or even worse, out right refusal to print my comment, here is that extra "A little something". "HTMTEFYFM" --- short for "How To Make Things Easier For Your Family Members" Acronyms are so much fun aren’t they? I am the largest, no make that the tallest member in my family. All the others are what I would call short. Picture this in your Imagination (“The Father" is probably incapable of this. Mr. Serious") Picture this, a husband of about 6'-6", a wife of about 5'-6" and children ranging from 30" to 5'-7". Got it. Are you IMAGINING the scene? Good. The scenario is now in motion. Now, (Mr. serious, try real hard and you might see a glimpse of this in your minds eye.). Now, pretend to be the 6'-6" father. You have something in your hand, say it is a set of keys or your cell phone or something small. Where would you put it? Everything in it's place, right. Wrooong. Many of you are probably like me. You put it down in a convenient place. I put it at a height that is comfortable for my reach. This usually happens to out of reach and out of site for the short family members. I will confess, since it is higher than "In it's place " location, I sometimes forget where I put it. Many productive hours of developing patience and perseverance have been searching for these misplaced items. It has become obvious that we needed to make a change. Well, I thought about stilts for the shorter family members. That way we could all look for these misplaced items at the same eye level. The more eyes, the more ground covered. I began to imagine (there is that word again). I began to imagine the children on stilts, in the house, bumping into each other, knocking things over, falling, trips to the doctor, ... you get the idea. After much consideration to this problem I came up with a foolproof plan. If I can't bring all the others up to my eye level, why not take myself down to their eye level. I decided that I would live the life of a short person when I was home. I developed the "Short Suit". A revolutionary new timesaver for the family. Here is how it works. (I just know all you tall people are going to implement it into you families as soon as you here about it.) Now I will ask you one more time to really make use of you imagination. Think of a harness that is strapped to your shoulders, basically a steel bar with leather straps and buckles. Welded to this steel bar are a number of steel hooks. Lets say for your imaginations sake, six. evenly spaced (VERY IMPORTANT). Next, imagine a leather harness that straps to your heel and ankle. This strap would have just one hook located at the heel. We also need 6 (for this illustration) bungee chords. Here is the scene. The husband (more likely than not the tall person in the family) comes home from work. His wife greets him at the door, looks up at him, and he reaches for, that’s right, his "Short Suit". He straps on his shoulder harness, his two foot harnesses, one on each foot. Next he hooks a couple of bungee chords to his shoulder harness while his wife pulls hard to stretch the bungees to the hooks on the foot harnesses. IMPORTANT: Equal number of bungee chords on each foot. The result, the tall person automatically shortens as his knees bend under the pressure of the bungee chords. Just add more bungees until the desired short height is reached. No more misplaced items, or at least those misplaced items can no longer be pinned on the tall person. There you have it. My "HTMTEFYFM" --- short for "How To Make Things Easier For Your Family Members"
We loved it! :)
We loved it! :)
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Hello
I was just blog hopping and came across your blog. I find it to be one of the more interesting blogs that I have seen in my blogging adventures. I must say though that it is missing a little, ... ummmm , a little ... uh ... something. Well I will put that little something post in. If it is o.k. with "The Father". Ooooooh, He sounds so serious, so scary, so ... god fatherish. Anyway, at the risk of getting a severe verbal font lashing, (verbal is impossible) or even worse, out right refusal to print my comment, here is that extra "A little something".
"HTMTEFYFM" --- short for "How To Make Things Easier For Your Family Members" Acronyms are so much fun aren’t they?
I am the largest, no make that the tallest member in my family. All the others are what I would call short. Picture this in your Imagination (“The Father" is probably incapable of this. Mr. Serious") Picture this, a husband of about 6'-6", a wife of about 5'-6" and children ranging from 30" to 5'-7". Got it. Are you IMAGINING the scene? Good. The scenario is now in motion. Now, (Mr. serious, try real hard and you might see a glimpse of this in your minds eye.). Now, pretend to be the 6'-6" father. You have something in your hand, say it is a set of keys or your cell phone or something small. Where would you put it? Everything in it's place, right. Wrooong. Many of you are probably like me. You put it down in a convenient place. I put it at a height that is comfortable for my reach. This usually happens to out of reach and out of site for the short family members. I will confess, since it is higher than "In it's place " location, I sometimes forget where I put it. Many productive hours of developing patience and perseverance have been searching for these misplaced items. It has become obvious that we needed to make a change. Well, I thought about stilts for the shorter family members. That way we could all look for these misplaced items at the same eye level. The more eyes, the more ground covered. I began to imagine (there is that word again). I began to imagine the children on stilts, in the house, bumping into each other, knocking things over, falling, trips to the doctor, ... you get the idea. After much consideration to this problem I came up with a foolproof plan. If I can't bring all the others up to my eye level, why not take myself down to their eye level. I decided that I would live the life of a short person when I was home. I developed the "Short Suit". A revolutionary new timesaver for the family. Here is how it works. (I just know all you tall people are going to implement it into you families as soon as you here about it.) Now I will ask you one more time to really make use of you imagination. Think of a harness that is strapped to your shoulders, basically a steel bar with leather straps and buckles. Welded to this steel bar are a number of steel hooks. Lets say for your imaginations sake, six. evenly spaced (VERY IMPORTANT). Next, imagine a leather harness that straps to your heel and ankle. This strap would have just one hook located at the heel. We also need 6 (for this illustration) bungee chords. Here is the scene. The husband (more likely than not the tall person in the family) comes home from work. His wife greets him at the door, looks up at him, and he reaches for, that’s right, his "Short Suit". He straps on his shoulder harness, his two foot harnesses, one on each foot. Next he hooks a couple of bungee chords to his shoulder harness while his wife pulls hard to stretch the bungees to the hooks on the foot harnesses. IMPORTANT: Equal number of bungee chords on each foot. The result, the tall person automatically shortens as his knees bend under the pressure of the bungee chords. Just add more bungees until the desired short height is reached. No more misplaced items, or at least those misplaced items can no longer be pinned on the tall person.
There you have it. My "HTMTEFYFM" --- short for "How To Make Things Easier For Your Family Members"
Imagine That
Walther Smitty :)
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