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Dad's Day Gift
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Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:44:41 GMT
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Here’s the father’s day gift I gave my Dad yesterday:
The story behind it:
My grandfather owned 40 acres of land in the outskirts of Texarkana, Arkansas,
15 of which was cleared (the rest is dense forest). My grandfather didn’t do
much farming, but he did do a little, and he kept the field nice and trim with
his old 1959 John Deere liquid propane fired row-crop farm tractor pulling a
brush hog (big lawn mower attachment).
When my grandfather passed away he left the tractor and half his land to my
father, the half with the field, and the other half to my aunt. My father has
spent many years fixing up that old tractor (my grandfather didn’t know the
meaning of the word ‘maintenance’), and he’s got it running real nice.
However the tractor and bush hog are too large and ungainly to mow the small
fenced yard around the house, so a few years ago my father bought a John Deere
riding mower, which he is very proud of. My father has always been a John Deere
man; every one of his push-mowers for our house where I grew up were John
Deeres, and my father owns several John Deere t-shirts, ballcaps and other
paraphernalia.
So for my gift to him this year I gave him a pair of custom minifigs of him and
his father, and LEGO versions of his mower and tractor. The mower is an
unchanged design of one I found on Brickshelf, so I cannot take any credit for
that. As for the figs, I commissioned Jared “Kaminoan” Burks to design and
create them for me, including my father’s John Deere “Suberban Legend” T-Shirt
and my grandfather’s trademark light blue windbreaker and day-glo orange
hunter’s ball cap.
Here’s a pic of my dad and a pic of a painting my mother did of my Grandaddy
(the only ‘pic’ I have of him that’s digital).
 
Close ups of the figs and WiP pics of the tractors can be found in my Flickr
Gallery.
My father really liked his present, btw.
--Tony
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| Looks great. A nice present. I was wondering if the logo on the ball cap is a decal? Any close up pictures available? I need some ball cap logos done and was thinking I might have a very small rubber stamp made but the detail in a decal would be (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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