It Was 16 Years Ago Today

There are a lot of events that happen in your life that you tend to remember forever. Days that something special happened or days that one could consider tragic and a turning point in our lives.

July 20, 1999, 16 years ago today was in fact one of those days for me. It was the day that my Father, the man whom I am named after, passed away.

He left one heck of a legacy, that is for sure. Six Children (one we are still searching for), two women that he had married. Seven Grandchildren, Four Great Grandchildren with one more joining us next year as Moke and Ang are expecting their first child early next year.

He is gone, but he is definitely not forgotten as demonstrated in the Picnic that we just had last month. He would always make some awesome Potato or Macaroni Salad and wait until you were eating it. He would always walk up and ask you how you liked it, usually as you had a mouthful of the treat. Of course the answer was always good, then he would proceed to always say "Good, I Cut My Fingers Three Times Making It". Hence the fingers this summer in the Macaroni Salad.

When the kids were getting too rowdy for him or he just needed some peace and quiet, he would always say that the "Roads are Getting Bad" and it was time to go home. Of course he would also say that in the middle of the summer as well, that was just his little way of saying shut up.

RIP George Edward Hall Sr, it has been 16 years since you passed, but we still honor your life.