FISHER REUNION/JULY 2007

Rita and I attended the Fisher reunion in late July in Hadley,Pennsylvania, at the same location for last year's reunion. It is good each year that we continue to attend and being with Mom's extended family and see Aunt Eva again. So many cousins and extended relatives that I am slowly getting reacquainted and acquainted with. Rita also enjoys meeting many that we have got to know together. Some of those are Cousins Ed and Rowena Slater(Aunt Hilda's son) and his sisters Alice, Grace, Mary and Joanne(who's first name I found out was Gladys, never mentioned). Aunt Eva of course and her daughters Peggy, Janet and sons, Gene and Jerry Free. There was much food for everyone as always and I did my fair share in putting it away for the trip home to Pittsburgh. I was told we are high on the list for organizing the next reunion after next year, haven't done that for awhile!! My brother Ron has told me that he hoped that he could come next year and perhaps bring some of his children to Pa since some like Patty have not been back to our area before. Anyway below is a picture of Aunt Eva who will be 93 this October. She is pictured with her latest grandchild, great great I believe, the oldest and the youngest at the reunion. A picture of Rita and some of the guests follows below. In all it was fun and a good feeling to be among those that Mom loved and remember her with her family here in PA.

WORK WORK WORK!

Things move along in our lives. I am working full time for 2-5 months at Passavant Hospital in the ER. Passavant is a mid-size medical facility in the Cranberry area of Pittsburgh, very nice neighborhood with a lot of retired and working professionals. The ER I am working in takes all trauma but the main flow is residential type of accidents and emergency work(Fx hips, pneumonias, arms and legs type injuries) I like the department because I just stay in the ER doing patients and all their imaging is digital(computerized filming). This is really fast imaging, shooting the images and then transferring them all to the computer for reading across the system. The crew here is very young so they take good care of the "old man" and I get a lot of respect(says Rodney Dangerfield). I will be here probably for some time and then as always I will get another assignment to another facility belonging to the UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) group. We had a lot of fractures today and I am always so sympathetic to the geriatric group and the young kids. I had a patient the other day, a three year old that was asleep on the mothers chest, as she laid on the guerney and we did the whole study while the youngster slept on the mothers chest. The mom really appreciated my doing it that way(of course I covered her up with a lead apron). I drop Rita off at her office and then drive on to work(about 20 minutes further) and then reversed the procedure that evening. It works out good for us and we both are enjoying the work we have. I thought I would be done doing this kind of work but like many retired professionals you miss it after a while. I decided as long as they want me to work I will continue to work and as long as Rita is working. It is fun not having to make the management decisions anymore and just do patients. "That, that, that"s all folks" for now.

MY DAY OFF...

Today, I decided to plan a trip to KENNYWOOD park here in Pittsburgh. I have been wanting to go to the park since moving here but something always came up and I delayed my visit. I went to the park with my mother when I was a teenager almost 50 years or so ago and my memories are still there about that visit. The park was celebrating something today and the price for regular admission was cut $10. The regular admission price is $31 and seniors get in for $15 regular, so with the reduction today I got in for $5, neat right!. The price includes the admission, free parking, and all the rides, this was too much to turn down. Rita, unfortunately had to work so off I went on my own. Kennywood is over 108 years old and features many of the same rides that were there at the turn of the century. The wooden rollercoaster is one of the few remaining and may be the oldest still in existence(I didn't ride it Rita!) Kennywood calls itself a real family park and that certainly is true from the entrance to the exit, very clean, reasonable and just great fun. I like the food, since it is not a ripoff like you find at many parks and they give you so much. I am sharing many of the pictures that I took beginning with a look at the last producing steel mill remaining in Pittsburgh, located outside the park along the Monongahela river. This mill was part of Andrew Carnegie's legacy and has quite a history. Enjoy the pictures and when you come to visit us we can go to Kennywood for a fun day...

ONE OF THE FIRST AND NOW THE LAST PRODUCING STEEL MILL IN PITTSBURGH..

I GUESS THIS LEAVES YOU AND ME OUT MEGAN !!

MY DAY AT KENNYWOOD BEGINS HERE

KENNYWOOD, "A PLACE TO RELAX"

KENNYWOOD NEVER STOPS