teaching my sons to drive his riding mower, reading absolutely everything. he had piles of magazines on every subject. round tables. he loved round tables because he felt that they brought everyone into the conversation. watching westerns with his grandkids, and he had a special weakness for chipmunks and especially hummingbirds, he loved hummingbirds. he and my mom loved to travel. in the summer of 2013 when he was 92 and mom was 93, they decided to go on a huge roadtrip. all we knew was that they were heading west. a few days after they had started this trip, they called to say hello, and they said they were they were sitting in their car which had been loaded up to a flatbed aaa truck because they d had a flat tire