Bob's Blog

It is interesting that Bob capitalized Romance.... This may surprise you, my children and grandchildren that I lived (grew up) in the age ...

In the year of 1947, three friends of mine, John McCleary, Ward McDuffee and Frank Hammond and myself took a trip to California and other po...

Just ten years ago today, our second granddaughter was born.  Her dad, Aron, was working nights so Mom and I spent the day with Marie just i...

We named our three sons Bran, Aron, Brian.  Short handles for the long family name, but not to be common.  Something new and different, we h...

I just finished a bowl.  Seems no one else in my family will touch oyster soup.  Except the oldest of my children, Brad, who has eaten about...

A lick'en could mean a switch'en (with a switch), paddling with a thin board designed for that purpose, with holes said to enhance t...

Bob Austine (Austien?) Bob Austien lived all his life in Huntsville Ohio.  My earliest remembrance of him was as janitor of our church.  T...