Things My Father Taught Me

In honor of Father’s Day, I thought I would share a list of what my dad thought was important for me to learn.

1. If you lose something, it is usually in the last place you left it.
2. A journey of 100 miles takes about an hour and fifteen minutes at legal speed on the interstate.
3. How to make canned tomato soup taste good.
4. How to make a fried bologna sandwich.
5. It’s easier to find things when you have a system.
6. Keep your tools clean and in the tool box.
7. People who don’t live by rules 5 and 6 make life difficult for the rest of us.
8. How to identify a field of crops – wheat, barley, oats, soy beans, or corn.
9. How to mow grass, although he failed to teach me how to enjoy it.
10. Don’t be ashamed of your family, no matter how odd, crazy, or poor because it is your history and unique.
11. Age is what you make of it.
12. The basics of how to drive – I wouldn’t want to embarrass him by people thinking he taught me how to drive the way I do now.
13. Doing the right thing isn’t always pleasant, but you won’t hate yourself after.
14. Real faith in a supreme being becomes a part of who you are, not something you do.
15. How to choose a good husband.

For these and so many other lessons, thank you DAD!