STREET ROADWORK ON WESTFIELD ST.

I was so impressed by the roadwork crews as they resurfaced our street in front of our home. It needed to be redone and the fun part was to see how they stripped the pavement off with this big machine, dumping it directly into the truck in minutes. When they stripped the pavement off you could see the old brick streets underneath. Our neighbor up the street remembered when he first lived there 49 years ago and drove those brick streets. They are in almost perfect condition. I drive down many brick streets in Pittsburgh and many of them are in expensive neighborhoods, preserved. Anyway they did it all in about 4 hours and tomorrow they will resurface, neat!!

PITTSBURGH'S 250TH ANNIVERSARY

Just a few pictures Rita and I took at the evening fireworks display for Pittsburgh's 250th Anniversary. We grabbed an evening train from our house(took 5 cars that passed us before we got on one) The train took us down to Station Square where we started to watch the fireworks from the Smithfield bridge(see photo's of mass of people on bridge) Remember Pittsburgh has a lot of bridges so this was a large crowd downtown. I suspect that there was over 500,000 people downtown watching the fireworks, music and all. They were shooting off the fireworks from many places around town, including off the top of the buildings and I suspect from the river itself. Our friend Amy Fisher and her husband Matt were downtown and wouldn't you know it our paths cossed on the bridge and we watched the fireworks together(see Amy hanging on to the upper part of the bridge) Hi Amy!!!
Sorry, I suspect Matt has better pics than me because he had a tripod and all. It was fun and hope you get an idea of the happenings shown below. Don't forget to click on the pictures to blow them up for better viewing.

TIME FOR A HAYRIDE AND A FEW HOT DOGS ON THE FIRE.

We recently had our annual Hayride at Mike and Esther Krajacic's farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mike and Esther are members of our church family at CMA church in Upper St. Clair. They are both in their mid 80's and still farm a large parcel of land and raise feeder beef. Mike travels around speaking to churches and sharing his testimony. His travels have taken him to Russia and many other countries as a Christian Farmer speaking to those nations. As are many of our members they are warm caring family and Mike has attended several of my Sunday School classes, sharing his background and contributing so much to the church ministry in Upper St. Clair. Rita and I skipped the hayride this year but we had a lot of fun with the kids and our church friends(and the food was good too) Fall is approaching finally and it looks like it will be a beautiful one again this year. Below are several of our shared photos just to give you the feel of the Farm and friendly folks.

CMA CHURCH FAMILY AT THE FARM