| Happy Birthday, Dad... we love you & we miss you! |
[04 Jul 2008|09:06pm] |
Today is my Dad's birthday. It will always be Dad's birthday, no matter how many years pass.
We got the memorial signs up alongside the highway, and we went to his favorite restaurant (Salty's) and had coconut prawns and did a calamari toast in his honor. We had a good laugh and a good cry, and shared some memories of Dad. When we were leaving, I was stopped about to pull out onto the main road from the parking lot, and I said "I don't want our 4th of July to just be like everyone else's"... and right as I said that, a blue car drove by with the license plate 638 DAD. This was the last time I talked to him... he called me less than 20 minutes before the crash, at 6:38pm.
 That's the sign. We installed them on each side of the intersection (which you can see in the background) where he was killed. We are very thankful to the property owners who allowed them to be installed on their land (Oregon law prohibits "non-official" signage on their highways and roads, unless a property owner ok's the installation on their property).
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