Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

Happy 4th!!!  Don't forget to thank those that serve!!!

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

OK...here's the deal....planning stages are underway for the third "GATHERING OF GERIATRIC SILLINESS" Here are two dates..Sat.night Sept.24th, or ,Sat. night, Oct. 1st. Hopefully one of those dates will work for most everybody. I will be in Rocky River from Sept. 20th, thru Oct 4th.

                                                                                  We will not use the WINKING LIZARD again just because it wasn't very user friendly. My Ohio Business Mgr, Nancy Westerfield, has a suggestion for a more accomodating place. Also,another friend has a suggestion as well. Anyone who want's to weigh in on the dates..feel free to do so. My Ohio trip is ALWAYS the highlight of the year for me. ALWAYS a blast!

Holly Portz (Koiro (1945-2023))

HAPPY FOURTH EVERYONE!  and thanks for the fireworks background on this page....might be the only ones I see!  So hot and dry here that all local ones are banned.  Do they still have fireworks in Bay out over the lake?

Ellen...your place on the lake looks charming...however did you find it?  What a great place for gatherings.  Looks like y'all had a great time.

I've about had it with the TX. heat but otherwise still doing great!

John...sure hope you are doing and feeling better too. 

Enjoy the day and be grateful for our freedom.  Holly

Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

Holly:  How nice to see you here!!!  Found the Lake place on the Internet almost 2 years ago.   Some vacation rental website.  Yay!

Bruce:  Some day we are going to 'get it together'!!!

Lots  of family fireworks this 4th of July weekend for us in NE....gonna be hot tho in corn land!

Happy 4th everyone!

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

bruce, i didnt know i was your manager, but thanks for the job,can't wait for another get together.

holly, yes they still do have fireworks at bay, and also clague park. wish you could have been at ellens, nice party.

gary reis=happy,happy birthday, many more.

Linda Peate (Powrie)

Bruce: I think Sept. 24 or Oct. 1 is perfect for Barb/me.  Saturday nite means we can stay over & not have to go home & drive all that way at nite.  I am so amazed at all who attend these minis. I love just being free to laugh & have a great time. Wish more would come. 

Nancy: Apparently now you are the Social Director!  You certainly make a good one for sure. I don't even know restaurants or bars around R.R. anymore because I've been gone too long.  Just Herb's!  Hopefully Zbin's will come & others too.  How about Soros? She didn't come to the one in Huron. 

Crazy day at work w/the old folks today so gotta go. (Or should I say older folks as some days I feel I could move in here at Feridean!)  Actually, when there is a full moon some of them have Sundowner's & act as crazy as can be!!!!

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

Our get-togethers just wouldn't be the same without the "PEATE TWINS" I will probably stay of off Crocker Rd.at some motel that night myself incase I get stupid,(wish still happens from time to time) It will not be at the Winking Lizard this time,but will be somewhere just as easy to get too. Start spreading the word.....Love you guy's!

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

john, here's mine grandmanancy3@hotmail.com-hope your feelling better,hope to also see you when bruces is in town. nancy

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

happy birthday linda and barb-hope you girls have a awesome day,loved seeing you at the picnic.can't wait till bruce is in town.love ya,nancy

Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!  Lookin' better and younger than ever!!!!

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

John....."Oh Dudical One" Email is: rcpilot400@gmail.com Panty Raid will be, or not be, in direct relation to the amount of "Liquid Courage" consumed. Someday I will have to tell you how I found out what "Coulots" were. Probably misspelled that one.....I am definately cranked about coming to Ohio....

Larry Gilbert

Just testing to see what's up with Youtube videos on the Forum.  Ellen can't get them to work all of a sudden.....

Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

HELLO FROM LARAMIE, WYOMING!!!  Know who the blonde is????

Barbara Peate (Sabo)

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes.  I'm not good at getting on the site too often.  Guess it has to do w/being on a computer all day at work!!  John, hope you are getting along & know our prayers are w/you.  We love you too much to let you go anywhere.

Love,

Barb

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

hey barb, i agree about john, going to see jersey boys today with my friends, here its great.everyone have a good weekend.

Fred Thomas

Hey Barb,

What about me?  I'm getting older and I have a lot of aches and pains also.  I need love too!!

BTW, happy belated birthday to you and Linda.  Isn't it amazing that two sisters would have the same birthday?  What are the odds? 

Barbara Peate (Sabo)

Oh Fred, I guess I forgot about you!!  So sorry.  You snubbed me in high school as did many others, so I had to turn to dating the St. Edwards boys.  Wow--that was a VERY long time ago--almost married one too.  Have a great day & thanks for belated BD greetings.  Go figure 2 could be born on the same day--or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8???

B

Linda Peate (Powrie)

Well, Sis, maybe you should have married the other guy.  Wonder what he's doing now? But then you wouldn't have the very cute kids & grandkids perhaps!!!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes.  It was bittersweet as mom made it thru out birthday last July, but passed away the day after. Think she stuck around because it was our birthday. She was always a stubborn one that lady!  And she was a lady--she proudly said "I have never pumped my own gas. My mother didn't bring me up to do that."  I laughed & said, "neither did mine, but it happened!  I pump my own gas, except in N.J. where they won't allow you to pump your own gas!

Talked to Marcia Pullin & she is coming in Sept. to the mini reunion. She enjoyed our last one so much. I am going to ask Sally Willey, but somehow she is once again out of my computer! I swear some little person is in my computer snatching Rocky River alumni names & addresses!!!!  L

Holly Portz (Koiro (1945-2023))

Loved the "survival" post.  Think we should all add our additional memories to it.  Like "key" roller skates that fell off our saddle shoes as we were careening down a hill!

Now I had an additional comment but already forgot it! So will have to go back to the forum and see if I can remember!  Must be the 21 straight days of 100+ heat.

Fred Thomas

I won't tell that old story about how I walked five miles to school in three feet of snow or that I had to wake up at four o'clock in the morning to do my chores every morning.  Life was good for a middle class white boy growing up in Rocky River.  However since I never received an allowance I did learn at a fairly young age how to do odd jobs for cash.  I cut grass, raked leaves, shoveled snow and painted fences.  Any money I earned was all mine to spend on candy and superman comic books.  That sort of greed was important for survival.  Later the money I earned would be used for gasoline and drive-in movies.  Ahhhh yessss drive-in movies.  Was there ever a place on the planet as close to heaven as the Autorama? 

I remember when my own kids asked me about their allowance.  I said, "Allowance for what, get a job and I have some work to do around here."

Down here in Texas illegal aliens do all that work.  It is nice to have a bunch of semi slaves doing all the work in our gated community, but I am concerned that these young whippersnappers are not learning how to work or survive.  Many will probably not get a job until after they get their PhD.   But at leasrt they can get a job in the Federal Government with Barry, Timmy or Benny.  They never had a real job either. 

William F. Moga

hello . . . hello . . . am i here . . . ???

must be 'cuz i'm not anywhere else . . . 

em - i - ay for a while . . . lack of inspiration i guess . . . 

anyway . . . 3 months ago i was in a hospital bed . . . 

wearing the " nice ass " robe they give you . . . 

properly accessorized with an external plumbing bag . . . 

eeewwww . . . . 

and today . . . ??????

out cruising with the top down and the music up . . . 

favorite song lyric of the moment:

" i'm  alive and doin' fine . . . . "

just wanted to share the sentiment . . . .

later y'all . . . 

wfm  

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

holly, i fell so bad when my skates came of my shoes, my poor knees were scraped and raw for acouple of weeeks, and boy did it hurt. i remember going to the gas station to pump up my bike tires, and blew one up-what did a girl know about how much air to put into a tire.i think i i was in the 5 th grade. oh the memories, i wish i could remember things now so well. my first old car, checking the oil, and brake fluid. now i wouldn't even know where to look under the hood, nor do i want to.had alot of fun, yes we did, we westerfields always say we wouldn't trade our lives with anyone growing up.

Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

Bill: 

We've missed you.  Glad you are back and apparently recovered (?) from something very unpleasant! 

Don't be a stranger now!

John:  Glad to hear you are 'doing' once again!

Ellen

William F. Moga

hi ellen . . . thnx for the tidings . . . yup . . . allz well here in old, cold new england . .

just my gall bladder and assorted stones . . . but for a while they were waving the

"pancreatic cancer flag" in front of my face . . . makes the gall bladder seem like a root

canal by comparison . . . but there was a moment when they had me somewhere

between Queegqueg and Lieutentant Colonel Frank Slade . . .

(semi-erudite literary reference / semi-obscure cinema reference ) . . .

will elaborate upon request . . . traded my gall bladder for a really cool scar and a

back-up belly button . . . lived to tell the tale . . but my car died . . . got meself

a top-down wrangler for mountain cruising . . . which way to the beach?

be well all . . . 

wfm 

Fred Thomas

Bill,

I'm glad you didn't start chasing a white whale or attempt to blow your brains out while wearing your dress greens.  Life is good.  Everyday I wake up on this side of the River Styx makes me feel like doing a Travolta strut.