To everyone who replied to my thread ,Thank you so very much...it only reinforce's what I said earlier about all of you.
We had our up's a down's like everyone .There were many time's I thought those
knuckle's came too quick or too hard ,there were time's when I got overly excited about some new development in my life and he would alway's say "Hang 'er down me son " I used to think to myself "Cripe's Dad can you just give me a little credit",it was his way of saying if it sound's too good to be true it most likely was ...he was usually right.
He grew up in the late 40 early 50's outport Newfoundland ,which was in alot of way's like the State's in the early 30's we were a very poor country then before Confederation ,the story's he told us about growing up were sometime's unbelievable ,like seeing snow blow through the crack's in bedroom wall's as a kid ,every liqued in the house frozen in the morning ,they ate seagull's for christmas dinner because a turkey was a thing of legend !the stone's they would heat over the wood stove's to put in the mattress to help keep a bed with four brother's warm,the tale's of starvation were'nt uncommon here even then...I once heard a story about his uncle who had the boy's out cutting wood ,the pond's were just caught over and to toughen the boy's up he would make them break ice and wade in waist/chest deep water as they towed the hand kat (slide )full of wood!(they did'nt own a horse ).
He was tough as nail's to be sure,but like I told my brother's just week's before he got sick .I never held any of it against him in the long run he was just trying to harden us up to the fact's of life.
Thank's again to everyone who replied this has helped tremendously
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