Proud Dad!

[Gary Hill]

While I was on my way home today from the TPFA Clinic with Chris Geogory, MY Son who is taking an EMT course through the High School, is working in the local ER. Well today a car pulls up with a lady in labor and MY Son the Future Peditrician runs out and delivers the baby girl! Next week he rides with the Parimedics! He just got home and told me he had the Greatest day in his life and just told me the story! Being this Proud wasn't in the manual that came with him, kinda like the one that came with my wife, now where DID I put that one? :D

[George Geist]

Good for you Gary!
Congrats on your fine family
George

[vthorseshoe]

Great story Gary. Congratulations to your son for not only learning the skills but being able put them to use in an emergency.
A proud Poppa you should be. :D

[Phil Armitage]

Hey Gary sounds like you have one of those teenage gems Tom B. was talking about. Darn he wants to go into the medical field, too bad he would probably make a great farrier. ;)

[Rick Burten]

Congrats to you and your son. Ya both done good.

Rick

[EileenHughes]

That is outstanding Gary! Congratulations on raising such a fine young man! :)

[Bill Adams]

Aint nothing better than seeing the kids do well. Good job outa you.

[Gary Hill]

Thank you all for your comments! I will confess that this profession is part of the reason he has turned out without giving me too much grief. I have raised him on my own from when he was 6 and in first grade. I did remarry , May, will be 3 years, BUT when it was just him and me and actually before the divorce he rode with me and always loved going to the differant Vet clinics, where he was always watching everyone work from surgeries to me bangin out shoes. He has also been in the backyard of every Circus that comes around our area and a bunch of horseshows. The point I'm trying to make is that this trade permitted me the TIME to spend with him and his activities . Sure I turned away alot of work sometimes, but I knew the time I spend with him was quality. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I gambled on him and it seems to be working out, of course ,Thanks to the Good Lord, he put both of us on the paths we follow. Humbly, Gary

[EileenHughes]

You sound like an awesome Dad, Gary. There should be more like you.

[Thomas_Ride&Drive]

The point I'm trying to make is that this trade permitted me the TIME to spend with him and his activities . Sure I turned away alot of work sometimes, but I knew the time I spend with him was quality. You get one shot at getting parenting right and it sounds like you have a good one in your son.

[Tom Stovall, CJF]

Good on you, Gary! You did good and it shows.

[matryoshka]

Congrats! And you have a right to be proud. The new mom will be telling her child the story about your son and the delivery, so this event will be remembered by more than you and your boy (and us)! Wow.

[Skinfaxi]

You must have done alot right to get such a level headed and caring son! Congratulations! :)

[goeslikestink]

i know i am not surpose to post on farrier to farrrier threads
for give me please

but gary mate ---well done for being a great dad
you know your son reflects the image you give out
well done for being one solid wholesome parent -- pride works both ways
to -- bet hes proud of you for being his dad

perfect---------------



as a note-- good peditritians are worth there weight in gold, my daughter had cdh, with self help group that was started with my pedetritian went on to become a national thing theoughout hospitals in uk to catch the babies not being scanned at birth-- as its a simple method to address if cuaght early --
doc went on to become top notch goverment offical doc for worldwide disasters warfare out side uk--- as he was to a surgeon--
just goes to show how high up a peditriian can go -- lucky me, hes a matey --haha


so you be as proud as punch for your lad --xx

[Gary Hill]

Thanks to all!

[Red Amor]

Yeah Good O Gazza Mate

you seem a good bloke olson and as the saying goes we reap what we soe
well done digger
clap ya boy for me ;)

[Bill Adams]

I have to brag on my son Chase today. He starts tomorrow at the California Highway Patrol Academy. He's 23 years old and was one of 4 who were accepted from a group of 48 who started the testing together.
I taught him to be a good Farrier, which he likes doing , but he hates horses and horse people.
So he's taking the easy job execpt for the being shot at part of it, and dealing with drivers like me.
Bill

[Ron Oldenbeuving]

Your children are a reflection on yourself, so all cudos to you. I too am a proud father. My 17 y.o. old daughter has just started a 4 year traineeship as a veterinary nurse. Only 1 problem, it's at a small animal practice.:eek:

[danverschild]

Tyler Child, sophomore starting catcher for Central Catholic High School, Lafayette, IN.... photos from State Championship game at Victory Field in Indianapolis last weekend...

Outside the bullpen, gettin' a game face on...http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k248/danvers_cjf/TylerCCState078a.jpg

All the jitters gone, down to business and framing pitches...http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k248/danvers_cjf/TylerCCState0743.jpg

Tyler and other CC sophomores, proud to be State Champions!http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k248/danvers_cjf/TylerCCState07-67copy.jpg

By the way, for Maki and the other baseball junkies amongst us... final score was 12-1.... Season record was 25 and 4. Seventeen of their games were against 2A, 3A, or 4A schools (his school is 1A), and all losses were to 3A and 4A opponents, biggest loss margin was 3 runs. Tyler caught all but six innings for the season, with only one error in 29 games. BA was 391. OBP was 714!!

[Rick Burten]

My congratulations to Danvers and Bill and especially, to their sons. It is no small feet(sic) to do what they have done and will, in the future, continue to do.

And Bill, will he play Erik Estrada's role in the next iteration of CHiPs? :)

[Gary Hill]

This post may be a day late, but I hope all the Dad's on this site had a great day yesterday! I never liked the term "Fathers Day" because it really only means ya sired a child! To earn the title "DAD" means you actual have influenced your children and actually spend TIME with them! :D

[Bill Adams]

Rick,
Thanks and at this point, we have exausted just about all of the "Paunch" jokes we could think up.
Danvers,
Congratulations to your son Tyler and his team. Something about Farrier kids makes good catchers out of them.
This is not to be at all competitive, but remember I have six sons. My son Eli is the only catcher for his small high school. They went 23-2 this year and won their state championship turnoment with a colective score of 29 to 1 and that run was unearned. Didn't get the tallent from me but after I have him shoe some fat QH mare the big kid coming down from third don't look too big after all.
Bill

[Tom Stovall, CJF]

Bill Adams in gray, deletia

Something about Farrier kids makes good catchers out of them.

I'm starting to wonder about the farrier/catcher connection. Both my boys played catcher in HS - but none of their teams ever went to state. :)

Bill and Danvers, please convey my sincere congratulations to your boys, they done good.

[Phil Armitage]

I don't know if their is a connection here but my youngest daughter the one who severely sprained her ankle last summer danceing. Wants to be the goalie on her field hockey team. Her ankle is 100% now she starts field hockey practice tommorrow. No fear and gives me grey hair on top of the grey my oldest daughter gave me rideing any horse she could. :)

My fathers day card from my oldest:

"Over the years Dad, you've impressed me, inspired me, supported me, loved me, p*i*ss*ed me off................."

"Uh, howe'd that last one get in there?"

[Bill Adams]

This is to anounce that my son/apprentice/partner Luke (age 21) won his first boxing mach under the USABC in Klamith Falls, Or. this last Saturday.
I must take credit for toughening him up through shoeing, and as it turns out, most of the horses we work on are heavyer than the 132 lb. weight class he's in.
He clames that the boxing skills are helping his Farriery in that he can disipline a horse more effectively while under it with an upper cut.
Bill

[Bill Adams]

Proud Dad update:
Today I watched Chase graduate from the acacdamy and become a California Highway Patrol Officer.
In a class that started with 189 cadets and finished with 143 he placed 42 in his class and at #10 marksman.
He will start his carrer Dec. 31 in beautiful East Los Angles.

[J.H. shoeing]

kewl, glad he made it thru. He will meet some "really intresting people". I was reminded a couple of weeks ago when I went in and had my blood work done.

tell him not to let them drink Mt. Dew;)

God speed, and we will keep praying for him. Gotta love "Road Dawgs"

[Gary Hill]

Now he is a real "CHiP" off the old block! Congrats to him and you for being a Great Dad!:D

[Rick Burten]

Congratulations to him!

If he pulls one of us over and we drop your name, will he let us off with a warning? :p

[Bill Adams]

Rick, He better. I've gotten out of two tickets droping his name. He told me he'll send me a few business cards and the family clips them on to the back of the their licences.

[Red Amor]

Bewdy Bill may whoever you neel to keep him safe;)