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Todd Wilson

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Camped Out – by Brendan Bruce

My five year old son wants to go camping with me. I have a choice: I could run screaming to the garage and bury myself in an “important” project like scrubbing the Rorschach-like oil stains from the floor, or I could take this chance to bond with my little guy and let him have a blast.

I’ve never liked camping. My idea of roughing it is buying generic toilet paper, and I’ve even been known to go so far as to purchase day old croissants. I’m not saying I’m not a manly-man… I mean, I can build stuff, kill bugs and I’ve yet to meet a pickle jar I cannot pop open in less than three grunts – and oh yeah, I don’t eat quiche.

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Top 10 Ways to Prepare for the Flu Season

  1. Proper hand gear — latex gloves or a hazmat suit
  2. Proper Footgear — surgical booties, muck boots, or hip waders
  3. Proper breathing gear — Industrial gas mask or shoot a squirt of air freshener up each nostril followed by a big cork or clothes pin
  4. Install plastic on all pathways from beds to the bathroom. Better yet, remove all the carpet in the house.
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Familyman Tattoo

My Florida, surfer-pastor-friend Chip M. is a one of a kind dad. While in Jacksonville, he showed me one of his favorite tattoos. Wow!!! I told him to send me a picture, so I could share it with you. Here it is!
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The Great RV Makeover – Week 3

Well, we continue to make progress (whatever that means) on the new FM3. Merle (the Amish floor covering guy) came over and said it looks doable. He plans to lay the flooring on Oct. 12. Now all I have to do is have everything ready for him when he gets here.

Got the bunk beds roughed in and now all I have to do is make them “shine.” They aren’t exactly spacious, but I think they’ll work.

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The Great RV Makeover – Week 2

Well, after hanging the wall paper in the main cabin
area…removing the wallpaper form the main cabin area…and rehanging the wallpaper in the main cabin area, it’s looking good.

I can’t believe how much there is to do. One task leads to 3 others. Tonight an Amish guy who works in a local RV factory is going to give me an idea of what’s involved in laying new flooring throughout the coach.

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New Website!

Welcome to the new & improved Familyman Ministries website! We’re so glad you stopped in for a visit, and we hope you enjoy our simpler, more streamlined look.

We’ve made these changes so that navigating through our site is easier for you and more enjoyable. As with any change, there may be some kinks that still need to be worked out. If you notice any of these, please let us know so we can fix them. (“contact info”:http://family.familymanweb.com/contact )

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Great Revenge Ideas from Fellow Dads

One day I found a pair of Channelock pliers when I raked up some composted leaves in the front yard. The joint was welded absolutely solid by rust so that the handles could not be budged! I made a wall plaque for my dad by mounting them to the face of a piece of maple. Underneath was an inscription; “Now my son has sons! Happy Father’s Day!
~Doug”

Personally I can’t wait to leave my old shoes and pool towels in his car when I visit. Let him explain it to his boss if something squeaks or is sticky.
~Kirk

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The Revenge of the Dad

Hey Dad,
I just had to write while the iron is hot. It’s therapeutic for me to blab to 10,000 dads that my children are—how do I say this gently? *PIGS!!!!* Our children do chores, and they have responsibilities. We train them, we dole out consequences when they don’t do a job well, we work on specifics, and still, they’re PIGS!!!

The mess that nine people can create is overwhelming at times. We can work all day cleaning up one area, and then, whal-la, like magic, it’s trashed again within about 13 minutes.

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