January 2, 2011

  • Pass the Pig,Spoons,Pit,Dutch Blitz and Home

    I always know what I am doing on New Year's Day, I go to the reunion.
    My mom is one of eleven children

    and they get together on New Year's Day.
    They are "The Goods"
    My Grandma was really cute and her name was "Anna B Good".

    It has always been one of my favorite days of the year.
    We all bring food and enjoy a great meal.
     
    Then there is the rest of the day to nibble, talk, laugh and play games.
    We play Dutch Blitz
    You gotta be fast to play this!
    Dan thinks he can beat me playing this game,ha!

    (Read a blog about Dutch Blitz HERE ,where I got this pic)

    We play PIT
    this game is fast and loud.

    The "Corner the Market" Card Game. Shout your deal and trade your
    cards to "corner" the market. Be the first to get all the cards of one
    commodity, slap the "Corner!" board and you'll win the hand.
     
    You'll feel like a trader in the pits of the exchange! Beware of the Bear
    and take your chances with the Bull. PIT is great frenzied fun.

    My mom said her dad chased them out in the barn to play Pit and Spoons.
    My niece got a 100th anniv. edition of Pit and it has
    Cocoa, Platinum, Gold, Cattle, Oil, Rice, Silver
    (Cocoa being worth the most,You chocolate lovers drive up that market!)

    our old game has flax, hay, oats, rye, corn, barley, cotton, and wheat

    I learned a new game that was so much fun, called Pass the Pigs.

    You get two piggies

    You toss them like dice,you get or lose points depending how they land

    in between turns you play with the piggies

    We really laugh! My cousin said it reminded her of Conan laughing


    Now wait, that aint right,

    I think she said Conan O'Brien getting the audience to laugh to Jingle bells
    ...sort of like this


    You know how sometimes you are out somewhere and you just want to get home
    you may feel a little disconnected?
    I realized yesterday that I never feel like that with "The Goods",
    they feel like home.

Comments (130)

  • Aaaw! I love family time. The piggies in the cup are Adorable!

  • I have that pig game!
    Did you have Pork and Sourkrout for New Years? I was in New England over the holidays...they don't even know what it is up here. :( I was...and am very sad now.

  • Pass the Pig sounds very interesting... Cute pics of the piggies

  • So the saying "home is where the heart is" is quite true then! :) I love quality family time. One of the best things in life that people often overlook..

  • I really need to find out where I can find the pass the piggie game...I have a niece, my namesake, who love pigs (NOT)  It would be so perfect for her!

  • what fun new year traditions! thank you for sharing...

  • we love dutch blitz too!! :)

  • @dingdongdingbat - I ordered it off of Amazon last night.

  • WOW that is one table of food!!  Pass the pigs looks like fun.  I should google it.

  • sounds like a great way to spend new year's day -- good food, good games, good times

  • Looks and sounds like a wonderful family time.  How cool! 
    How nice you always feel at home there.  That is really special. 

  • Good times and a whole lot of good food.

  • @seedsower - Thanks..How many people are that at your family gathering and who has a place big enough to hold everyone?

  • @dingdongdingbat - My Aunt has a big basement but it is a tight squeeze,there are about 60 that attend every year.

  • Yep, sounds like a PA Dutch Family Reunion lots of food & card games, lol, ahhh what memories that brought me.  Thanks for sharing - I forgot all about Dutch Blitz!!  

  • Urgh, I suck at fast card games.  I like to think!

  • Now this looks like it was a lot of fun and what a beautiful family you have.

  • Sweet! The only game you are missing is Millborne (And I am pretty sure I butchered the spelling of that since it is a French card game.)

  • Lol! I suck at spoons. But I'm pretty good at pass the pig. A seven year old taught me how to play lol.

  • We used to play spoons all the time! And we had Pit too... Sounds like it was a Good time with a Good group of Good people! You are so right, home is where you can snort when you laugh and no one holds it against you.

  • that sounds amazing!!! Dutch Blitz and Pit are always fun!!! (My mom still has Pit from the 70's.. you know its from the 70's because it has a 70's orange bell!)

    We always played 'spoons' on Girl Scout camping trips.  Only it was 'sticks' because we went and collected stick to play!! Good times!!
    I wish my extended family lived closer.   Once a year is definitely not enough!

  • I'd forgotten about Pass The Pigs.  I really must get a game to play with the grand-kids.

  • That looks like a fun game. I want to go and check it out. Pigs...kinda reminds me of the soldiers in risk. 

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  • This sounds like such great, quality family time! I love playing Dutch Blitz. Played it on the ferry ride & throughout a certain camping trip one year. Addicting!

  • your post was really good and I felt like I was at the reunion my self! love the games and I loved the pic of your grandmother.

  • I want to play pass the pigs!

  • Do all the siblings live relatively close by?  Are they all good friends with one another?  I hope my kids stay close as adults!
    Thanks for sharing the games and this fun day with us!

  • @ItsWhatEyeKnow - One lives in Calif. and one in Philly the rest are all within an hour of one another and very close, the sisters especially. They vacation together etc.We all did in fact...for years we all went to Stone Harbor NJ together, rented a huge old Summer house it was the best of times!

  •          cute lil piggies

  • Looks like another great reunion, Beth! Happy New Year!

  • I almost missed this post~ I love it when you share your family and heritage with us. Oh to be a fly in the room~ you all must be a riot!

  • Dutch Blitz is a blast. Unfortunately most of my kids won't play it anymore. We had Pit when I was growing up, but I haven't played it in a long time. The biggest problem is that the Bear gets tattered and easy to recognize.

  • Following a rec to your site and it has been fun. We've played the pig game and it is a hoot.We've played Pit before, fun. Nice to have such a good family reunion.

  • I love Dutch Blitz. Big fan of the piggies here too... somehow ours always get lost though.

  • Looks like a great way to welcome in the New Year. We use to play pit on Thanksgiving, wow that was a fun and LOUD game! We kids knew we had grown up when we got to play pit with the adults! My Uncle Frank was a pistol at this game!!! Gosh those are some warm and cozy memories!!!

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