Granny’s RideAs of this month Granny, Pop-Pop and Piggy have been renting the basement for two years. We had a Stairift installed for Granny to ride up and down the stairs.
Owen made it through his sophomore year at Tuscarora High school. He also passed his driving test and will have a real Virginia Driver’s License by the end of this month. As noted last month, he is working a a lifeguard at one of the local pools.
Mom, Dad, Owen, and some friends made a day trip to HersheyPark this month. A good time was had by all.
Mom and Dad also went on an overnight stay at the Hillbrook Inn in Charles Town, which is down the road a bit in “Wild and Wonderful” country.
Chocolate Town USA - HersheyPark
Granny's Ride
Flag Day 2016
This year's crop
Julia with Steve Wescott and Miles the Goat near Canonsburg, PA
Happy Birthday to Lucy, Rosemary, Fred, Meredith, and Jason
May was much cooler than average and there was an abundance of rain, but the May Flowers managed to weather the storm. The weather finally got back to normal the week before Memorial Day.
Stuff worth noting this month includes:
Ross completed his freshman year at WVU
Owen got a job as a lifeguard at a local pool
Mom’s cousin Meredith and her family made a visit to her great-great grandfather Emil S. Reinhardt’s family residence in Buffalo, NY. The house was built in 1920. The Reinhardt family was still living there during the 1940 US Census.
Pop-Pop and his friend Pat from Morgantown, WV went to their friend Ron’s Daughter’s wedding.
The Pittsburgh Penguins advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals!
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain
Punxsutawney Phil blew it this year. The April Showers never showed up and Weather claimed it never got Phil’s email requesting that it raise the Temperature a few degrees on or about 15 April.
Ross had to make a quick trip home this month to interview for a summer job. On their way to Morgantown, WV to pick him up, Mom and Dad took a side trip to Pittsburgh, PA where they went to the Heinz History Center, took a ride on the Duquesne Incline, went to Saint Anthony Chapel to see its world-famous collection of relics, and last, but certainly not least, stopped in the Strip at Primante Brothers for lunch.
The day after his “10 minute in-depth interview,” Dad and Pop-Pop took Ross back to Morgantown to finish up the last two weeks of his first year at WVU. Before heading home, they had lunch at the Primanti Brothers Morgantown branch. It’s a good thing Pop-Pop didn’t tell them he was born and raised in the Pitsburgh Area – he actually had them substitute onions for the standard french fries on his sandwich!
Owen was inducted into the Spanish Honor Society
Honor Boy
Juice and Cookies
Painting the Birdhouse
The Bad Dogs
A Family Heirloom
Heinz History Center Civil War Relic
Heinz History Center Civil War Relic
Dad and Ross at Morgantown Branch of Primanti Brothers Restaurant
A Burgh Classic at Primanti Brothers Restaurant, Morgantown, WV
