In honor of my dad on his 70th birthday, here are 70 things that remind us of him. Happy Birthday, daddy!
1. ‘snot
2. 10¢ whiskers
3. 1937 Tiffin St.
4. 7-11 coffee
5. agua sin hielo
6. Ballreich’s
7. barbershop music
8. beards
9. beauty queens with train wheels
10. bedside manners
11. Big Boy
12. binks
13. BNSF Diesels
14. bobbers
15. boxcars
16. Cheyenne
17. chicken feet
18. cookbooks, esp. American Woman’s
19. corn huskers
20. cruise ships
21. dancing
22. donuts
23. Dr. Daddy
24. engineer caps
25. false teeth
26. fireworks
27. Für Elise
28. goat lungs
29. gray cats with green eyes
30. Guatemala
31. health insurance
32. HMOs
33. Hoggies
34. hymnals
35. jellyfish
36. knee surgery
37. Lego trains
38. Leinenkugel’s
39. Lo, How a Rose
40. Memorial Hospital
41. model trains
42. Monty Python
43. Monty Python auf Deutsch
44. mushrooms & spores
45. nickels & plates
46. Ohio
47. otoscope
48. planting trees
49. prairie dogs
50. ratatouille
51. rattlesnakes
52. roses
53. Sauternes
54. sinkers
55. six am phone calls
56. skunk language
57. Spanish
58. Splenda packets
59. Star Trek
60. stethoscopes
61. stitches
62. tendiscular mundromes
63. The Durants
64. the mackerel in our freezer
65. the smell of corn tortillas
66. Tin Plate Junction
67. train museum
68. used cars
69. Wild Irish Roses
70. wine...wine...(not whine)...wine!
