Thankful Thursday, 7 decades

Today is my Dad's 70th birthday.   Wow!  Time sure flies quick, It seem like it was yesterday when he turn 65.

He does not read blogs or has facebook, but my sister was hoping to see a post about Dad's birthday here on my blog.  So here it is:

Justino was born in a small little town of Zacatecas, Mexico.  He came as a "brasero"  an immigrant worker, many years ago.  He was very young.  Mom has pictures of him, but Mom did not met him then.  Mom met him many years later.  Both separated from their former spouses.  

But that is another long post, that I will reserve for their 30th Anniversary.

Dad worked at a plant nursery for many years, he knows a lot about gardening.  He was also a Charro (Mexican cowboy).  He loves the ranch and farm life.  That is why he always wanted a house where he could keep horses and chickens.

His wish came true about 8 years ago.  My parents live in a small town here in California.  An hour away from     the Bay Area.  They have a home that has enough space in the backyard to have horses and chickens.  Last year they had a pig and like 3 turkeys.  They have lots of fruit trees.  A walnut tree and pecan tree.

Today when I called him to wish him happy birthday.  He was out near the chickens looking for eggs.  Always up early feeding his farm animals.  That's our Dad.  I am going to borrow some pictures of when he was much younger.  If you are Mexican you might even had seen him in a movie called, "Caminos de Michocan."  Years ago, this movie was filmed in a close by ranch in the city of Sunol, CA.  Dad had his horse there at the time.  There are two scenes in the movie where you see him.   One where he is walking a horse and the other almost at the end, its a dance party and when the people start dancing you see him dancing with some lady.  He is the one with the dark orange suit.

The Spanish channels, show that movie often and every time its on TV, we call everyone in the family to see it.