FOMO VIII

Houses:

Slytherin 6 (aka House 2) bedroom house- 4144 Falcon Terrace, Tobyhanna, PA 18466 Joe and Susan, Craig and Alysse, Eric and Jesse, Jan and Mike, Rob, and Caitlin’s family.

Ravenclaw 5 (aka House 3) bedroom house- 8505 Bumble Bee Way, Tobyhanna, PA 18466 Marty and Matt, Sean and Christa, Gabby and Connor, Toni and Grant, Ryan and his family.

Gryffindor (aka The Party House) 4 bedroom house-116 Feather Ln, Tobyhanna, PA 18466 Bill and Betty, Bob, John and Beatriz, Dan and Beth.

Hufflepuff house-(aka House 4) 3625 Robin Lane Tobyhanna PA 18466 Rory, Bill and families.

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safeco field

Welcome to Safeco Field

The panel was the transition between the end of the escalator and the upper floor. In the space where the panel was meant to be was open air that went two hundred plus feet to the lower level below.

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Embarrassed in Montreal

I consider myself to be very fortunate to have attended the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.  I traveled there with Marty who took care of all the logistics.  (Thank you, Marty!) We took a Greyhound bus to Montreal, bought a ticket package to numerous events and slept in a youth hostel that was a fifteen-minute train ride to the Olympic stadium.

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Road Trip with Marty

About two or three years after high school I flew with Marty out to Denver and we saw Bob in Fort Collins for a while and then Road Trip! to Las Vegas. We were starting to feel tired a few hours out and wanted to find a place to sleep. After seeing a couple of places with No Vacancy signs we were getting discouraged. Finally we stayed at this decrepit motel in Fruita, Colorado. Al least it was cheap, but it was so bad the door did not close and we had to move some furniture against it for added security.

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How Biff Saved Me from Anaphylactic Shock 

When I was a freshman in high school I was stung by a bee while searching for golf balls in a field adjacent to the 10th hole of Silver Lake Golf Course. I ran after being stung. I was only stung once and I didn’t think much of it. I kept looking for golf balls for a little while, then I noticed by dog Biff

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Uncle Tom’s Steamboat

Aunt Rosie (actually she wasn’t really my aunt but was my cousin’s aunt – but we always called her Aunt Rosie) worked for CBS – I think as a secretary – but I am not sure really what she did there. Sometimes she would give me and my brothers tickets to TV shows.  The first time she did this the three older brothers (Marty who was 6, Myself who as 5 and Bob who as 4) got tickets to

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