argh, these lites. my only joy is waiting for UPS to deliver my leg lamp in fish net stocking!

the annual outdoor xmas lite project is about to begin, get the hot chocolate started!

Fresh Floors is coming today, clean carpets means that holiday parties are not far behind!

Today was one of those stressful days that can only be addressed at the Woodhouse Day Spa. How can I get my clients to meet me there?

The ROI on Certified Networker can only be measured with the hamburgers served calculator used by McDonalds. I'm heading there NOW!

the votes are in and we now have the results...Sally Monahan makes the best dinner in America!

The ballots are mostly cast, the work has been done, regardless of the outcome we are a nation united. Let's act like it!

Your High School Is?

Since you can find desendants of Frank and Margaret Monahan all over town, I was wondering how many high schools have benefited from having us attend. Click on the comments to let us know.

The Early Years - Chapter 2

I was about 10 or 11 when I got my first job at Hoffman's Grocery at the corner of Gilsey and West Liberty. It was a mom and pop grocery. I think I got about about 2 dollars a week. I swept the floor, cleaned the shelves and other menial tasks. Between Hostess Cup Cakes, candy bars and Royal Crown Cola there never was any money left to get paid. I probably still owe Mr. Hoffman some money plus interest. Like the National Debt. I also delivered the Enquirer for Geo Borgman. He had the largest route in the city, 2300 Sundays and 900 daileys. Geo insisted that we put the paper on the porch. Now days they put the paper on the sidewalk, that's only when they miss the gutter. I like the way they double bag the paper when it rains, only problem is both bags go the same way so the paper still gets wet. Jack, can't you teach those carriers the proper way to bag a paper?

I got my first real job working for Krogers for .75 cents an hour. For that I quit high school in my junior year. Show you how smart I was. I think that was the only time mom did anything wrong letting me quit. Going back to when I was in grade school at St. Lawrence I was on the football team. When I was in the 7th and 8th grade we won the CYO City Championship both years. Our pastor was Monsignour Wagner whose family owned the Wagner Bottling Co and Ft. Scott Camp near New Baltimore. The football team got to go to Ft. Scott for 2 weeks free. The first year the camp was over booked. The cabins held 4 campers in bunk beds, since they needed extra space they put an iron cot in the middle of the room. I was on the top bunk, on the first night I fell out of bed hitting the iron cot and scraping my leg from my ankle to my knee. I had a nice 18 inch gash. (that's an estimation) Needless to say I couldn't go swimming the first week. That was a two week vacation each year my family couldn't afford. It takes a lot of money to raise 6 children and 6 bartenders.

When I graduated from St. Lawrence all my friends went to Elder. We couldn't afford the high tuition ($40.00), of course I was wasting that much money from my part time jobs. Maybe if I went to Elder I might have got a little more disciplence from the Priest than I got from the teachers at Western Hills.

Growing up. The early years

Joe,Bill,Jack,Gene

The month of July 1934 was a hot one. 25 out of 30 days hit over 100 degrees. Can you imagine what is was like to be 8 months pregnant with 3 children, Gene 6, Jack 4, and Bill 2 years old with me on the way. The only air conditioning was a hand held fan. I was born in a house on Iliff Ave. on August 6th, 1934. If my memory serves me correctly the house had 4 rooms, 2 on the first floor and 2 on the second floor. The bad news is we only had the first floor. My God parents had the second floor.

In the first month of my life we moved to Dewey Ave. where we had 4 rooms for mom, dad, and 4 boys. I guess I'll never know or understand why we moved back to that same little house on Iliff 6 years later. I went to Ressurection school for the first 3 years and then we moved to Beech Ave., from the time I was 9 years old to 15 years old and I attended St. Lawrence School. When I was 15 we moved to Duebber Dr in Delhi Hills. We had 4 rooms down and 2 rooms up. We thought we died and went to heaven.

There are two of Jack's favorite stories I need to record for future generations.
Jack likes to tell at all family gatherings how he is only going to live to 102 years old and will not be available after 2032.

When I was growing up I had a friend whose name was Frank Braun, his nickname was Dutchy because he was always in trouble. Dutchy's parents owned Braun Bakery at the corner of Iliff and West Liberty. One day he decided to relocate (a better word then steal) 2 cigars. On Gilsey Ave. was an abandoned ice house. Back in the depression people had ice boxes instead of refrigerators. We decided to smoke the cigars in the ice house. I was 10 or 11 years old. Later that day Jack came home and said the ice house burnt down and guess who was seen leaving the ice house. Thank God they didnt turn us in.

Another time Dutchy took some money from the cash register. He was only relocating it. We went up on Glenway Ave. where a Chili parlor had coney islands 21 for a dollar. Dutchy purchased 21 of them and before we could eat any of them he remembered that is was Friday and we couldn't eat meat on Friday. It was alright to steal but don't eat meat on Friday.

By the way Jack said he needed me for a Pall Bearer in the year 2032. I don't know if I will be available I may have golf that day so we are looking for a volunteer to take my place.

Until I read Kathy's blog I didn't know about the squirrels in the attic but I remember a squirrel getting in the kitchen on Beech Ave. Mom came to the rescue and got him out. Another time on Duebber we had a rat come up the pipes and into the toilet bowl. Mom got a pot of boiling water from the stove and took care of him. Those were the only pets we had while we were growing up.

Pat almost got arrested in Arizona

Better to read the story here.

Who's the clown in the middle?

Thom

I saw your picture on the new web site I see the two clowns in the masks
but do you recognize the real clown in the middle?

Love

Barb

Lachmann Family News

September has been a good month for the Lachmann family. Michelle celebrated her 20th birthday on the 11th. No longer a teenager. She is a junior at NKU, working part time at Montgomery Inn Boathouse and living in her first apartment in Kentucky. Not my little girl anymore. Her boyfriend Danny is home for 2 weeks from the Navy where he is stationed near Fresno Ca. Watch the reality TV show on MTV "Made" as they tape a show at the Boathouse recently and Michelle had to sign a release in case she appears in the show.

Paul has already been on TV in commericals for WLWT's My High School Playbook. Paul covers highschool sports for Channel 5's webpage. Check out his interviews and highlights on www.highschoolplaybook.com. You have to signin but the site is free. He has his own Press Pass, Camcorder, microphone and new computor to edit his videos for the webpage. Paul wasn't in any hurry to get his driver's license but due to an upcoming school dance has been motivated to finally take the test and passed the 1st time. I don't think he wanted mom to drive him and his date. Go figure. The same day he also landed a second part time job for after school. Best part is that he won't have to work any weekends and it won't interfer with his Channel 5 job.

Bob is staying busy with the upcoming Mt. Healthy Haunted House. Construction started on the 8th and will open to the public on the 28th. One of the best haunted house' to go thru. Check out cincyhaunts.com for special bus tours to 3 of the most popular haunted houses in the area. This is a nice fundraiser for the boyscouts and Knights of Columbus.

I have volunteered my time to help with making lunch for the construction workers on the haunted house every weekend till we open up. A special thanks to mom and dad for preparing the food. Once we are open you can find me working the concession stand every Saturday night. I hope to see you there, its a fun night out.

Getting off track got me here!

I've been scanning pictures non stop for about a month now. I've put everything else on hold, working on getting pictures in my computer so I could store them on the internet in case of fire or a computer crash. Going through the photos has been a trip down memory lane. After starting to put some pictures on the internet for storage I decided to make a site for my parents and mother-in-law. They enjoyed it so much I thought it would be great to have a Monahan site. Hopefully by Christmas, but first I needed to update some family history and get contact information. In the mean time I took a class at the Apple store and learned so much at the class I decided to put the site on the web now and then I could make my changes as needed. Well one thing lead to another and I still have stacks of pictures to scan but I got the site up and running with lots of help from my family. The blog has been a great addition to the photo album I had in mind when I started this. I hope everyone tries to add something.
This is what my art room looks like now. (minus all the dishes I just removed) I can't turn around without knocking something else over. I still have many photos to scan but the biggest part is done. Now I can go back to scanning the rest of my photos in. And when my e-mail pings I can take a break and enjoy "Growing up Monahan"