From Grandma Dohn’s Bulletin Board
The Bike Ride
October is for scary stories-not spooky but genuinely scary. The stories this month are definitely ones where the people involved were scared. Read on. Both of my girls were born while we were living in the country. We were twenty-five minutes from the west side of Middletown which was where we worked and shopped and…
Where’s Ben?
I need to give you some background information before I really talk about the disappearance of Ben during the Pig Roast. Lydia was living in California and had become the overseer of the wine auction section of Christy’s Auction House. (How cool is that?!!) Jimmy, here in Ohio, was somewhat of a wine connoisseur. A…
The Young Gentleman’s Tent
The Young Gentleman’s Tent This was originally aa tent for a father and son who were camping for the Pig Roast weekend wile mom was at home relaxing and enjoying the quiet. Occasionally, there would be another young man whose parents were not staying for the weekend who would sleep in the tent. The name…
Pig Roast – The essentials
(The beer and the potty ) When you have close to 100 people at a party and you have one bathroom in the house, this becomes a problem very quickly. I don’t know how many people stayed for the whole weekend (my mom kept count and I actually have those records) but one year I…
Pig Roast – The Pool
A pool is a tricky thing. It can be loads of fun and it can also be a very dangerous place. From sunburns to dunkings to almost drownings, we’ve seen it all at the Pig Roast. These incidents are in no specific order because they are jumbled in my memory. First, Lydia. A friend…
Pig Roast Overview
Here is a basic description of how the Pig Roast worked and a sort of time line for the weekend. At some point in late summer my parents would make available surveyors flags. You could write your name on one and claim your tent spot for the Pig Roast. As early as the Wednesday before…
Let’s Roast a Pig
Early in 1973, (I’m not sure of the details, I was ten) a few friends got together at some point and decided they wanted to roast a pig. They weren’t sure of all the details but there was going to be a party on Labor Day weekend and the main course on Sunday afternoon was…
How Crocheted Skulls got me a job Teaching Knitting at Michael’s
I have mentioned in a previous post (Why I Learned to Crochet) that in order to lear to crochet, I made skulls. They were 3d skulls and the yarn I used was a natural off white-kind of yellowish color and 100% wool. It came from a company who was going out of business (like they…
Why I Learned to Crochet
When my daughter was in high school, her best friend’s mother was the art teacher at the local Catholic grade school. I can’t explain how much I admire this woman! She is an amazing artist, an amazing parent to her children and grandchildren, she has a sense of humor that can’t be beat and so…
The Last Vacation With my Family
When I was in high school, probably a junior, my family and the Roberts were going backpacking in Colorado. I was going to be at summer camp and I was either going to have to miss the entire session or I was going to have to leave a day early which was unheard of. However,…
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