my dad took a selfie with a life-size skeleton model while at my mom's physical therapy appointment and he sent it to my nephews the youngest one (almost 5yo) got upset bc he thought his grandma was somehow transformed into just a skeleton 😑

my dad and i got stoned and watched the Hell episode of Adventure Time together

my dad is watching the weekend 2 coachella livestream

my dad just made a big breakfast for 7 people

my dad is improvising a silly bedtime story for his grandkids

my dad fell asleep in a chair watching the season 3 christmas episode of Adventure Time

my dad is fast asleep on the couch with the Canadian sitcom Corner Gas playing quietly on the tv

my dad loves Luigi's Mansion 3 but he's always calling it "Wario's Castle"

my dad fell asleep during a good episode of Anne of Green Gables (1979) for ten minutes and woke up and made me rewind it 🤭

Anne of Green Gables (1979, dir. Isao Takahata)

my dad and i have finished watching Heidi, Girl of the Alps and are now moving onto our next series !!

my dad is fast asleep on the couch 😪

my dad keeps singing this ancient new country corn flakes jingle

my dad drew this picture of me 😊

my dad insists my mom said "Funk is the power of voice" in her sleep last night and now they both keep saying "funk is the power of voice" randomly

today my dad and i will complete our watch of Isao Takahata's Heidi, Girl of the Alps Takahata (Pom Poko, Tale of the Princess Kaguya) directed the 52-episode adaptation of the Swiss novel in 1974, over a decade before the founding of Studio Ghibli Miyazaki called Heidi Takahata's "masterpiece"

my dad loves tacos... he makes them for the family once a week almost and we love them :)

while the power is still out due to windstorm, my dad has decided to write fun messages on cards to mail to his grandsons

my dad cannot stop himself from buying my mom flowers from the grocery store

my nephews call my dad "poppa poop" because he's always making poop jokes with them...

"who is this again? cameron summer? cameron diaz? camera ready?" —my dad asking me about the cameron winter album i keep playing

my dad made us unearth my old sonic the hedgehog mini pinball machine toy to see if we could get it working for his grandsons (the motor that moves all the little elements works, but the lights and sounds are busted, looks like... also battery acid has been eating thru the entire thing 😔)

my dad just texted me this photo of a rainbow he saw on his walk

my dad went and bought super glue so he could try to glue my glasses back together

my dad is cooking a lunch feast of jamaican cornbread stuffing, chicken cutlets, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, and brussels sprouts for my sister and her partner who are visiting from north carolina

my dad got excited because he remembered a video he took of hot dogs making a shrieking sound in the oven and he looked at the date of the video and it was from may 17 2020 exactly 3 years ago today and now he's excited about that he texted my little sister about it (May 17, 2023)

my dad is teaching my little sister how to use her first record player (February 9, 2023)

my dad won't stop singing "the middle" by jimmy eat world, with improvised lyrics (January 29, 2023)

my dad is singing to the dog (December 10, 2022)

text from my dad just now (August 11, 2022)

my dad is repainting our deck (June 17, 2022)

my dad is making french toast for the dog (May 13, 2022)

my dad made homemade bagels (April 30, 2022)

my dad says if he had to eat only one kind of meal for the rest of his life, it'd either be fish and chips or tacos (but probably fish and chips) (April 21, 2022)

my dad says the west side story remake should have had zombies in it (March 10, 2022)

my dad did the beavis laugh and my mom laughed at it very sincerely (February 19, 2022)

my dad won't stop singing "jamming" by bob marley he's just walking around the house like "holy mt zion... we're jamming in the name of the lord..." (February 5, 2022)

my dad just said "don't be rude" to my mom bc she said animal crossing was more than a year old (September 18, 2021)

my dad is telling me about how he's been encasing our animal crossing island villagers in jail bars 😔 (August 15, 2021)

my dad and my mom are asleep in bed HOLDING HANDS 😭😭😭😭😭 (August 5, 2021)

my dad texted this to me tonight (July 16, 2021)

my dad is going on his daily walk (June 20, 2021)

my dad fell asleep on the couch watching soccer (June 13, 2021)

my dad is singing a song he made up to coco the anxious dog that goes "🎵we love you very much/we love you very much/oh yes we do🎵" (May 20, 2021)

my dad is looking at his smartphone in bed while coco the dog is cuddled against his leg (May 16, 2021)

my dad has declared fridays "Five Guys Fridays". his intention is to buy us all burgers from five guys every friday, including a cheeseburger he will cut up for the dog. (May 14, 2021)

my dad is on the phone with his mom and he just asked her what time he was born lol runs in the family (April 23, 2021)

i asked my dad what he wanted for his birthday and he said "learn a song on your guitar from a Ghibli movie" 🥺 (April 22, 2021)

my dad is cooking eggs + turkey sausage hash for breakfast (April 15, 2021)

i told my dad if he doesn't stop farting his grandson isn't allowed to come visit "yeah he can, we're gonna have a farting contest" "if you do his mom is gonna put you both in timeout" "so what we'll just play games" "there's no games in time out" "yes there are" (April 3, 2021)