Chuck's Adventures: Dwight's Annual Pig Roast

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Dwight's Annual Pig Roast

Dwight retired from teaching last week and last night hosted his final "end of the school year" party, a tradition he sustained for 20 or more years, always featuring a pig roast. The volunteer chefs began at 10 am, used 140 pounds of charcoal...

...and spent 3 hours carving the meat, much to the delight of the hundred-plus guests enjoying the beautiful Spring evening, the heaping trays of delicious food, the conversation and socializing with retirees and friends not seen for awhile...

...and the music of the DeKalb Footstompers Band...

Hostess-superlative Nita polkas with Len in the above photo. Thanks, Dwight and Nita, for another wonderful party -- and enjoy your well-earned and much deserved retirement!

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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The older I get, the better I was!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I want to die young at an advanced age.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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