Happy Birthday, Daddy
Yeppers, it's my dad's 100th birthday! (I guess it still counts even if he's not with us any more, right?)
Also my mom would be turning 101 on Monday, which was also my parents' anniversary. A neat idea, actually. One less Very Important Date to remember! (Did I mention that my daddy was one smart cookie?)
Here's a picture of him taken back in the summer of 1994, when the retired engineers from the Mississippi River Commission had a "do" out on the river. That towboat is the "Mississippi" and it's now been retired and is drydocked a few blocks from where I'm working (at the library) awaiting the construction of a new museum devoted to the history of the MRC, the Corps of Engineers, and the Mississippi River.
