Marge and I being married in 1960
Marge’s 1961 birthday photo
Marge's 1961 birthday photo
Bob
Category Archives: Pennsylvania
Summer’s End 1978
Marge and I in 1978 were a middle age suburban Pennsylvania couple with two growing children. This post is about summer ending, a week at the beach, minutae of everyday life, hobbies, memories of the past and comments on them in the present. Join us. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, family, friends, memoir, relationships
6 Comments
Vacation Over
Summer is over now. Marge and the girls have come back from their long visit in the Tampa, Florida area. We did go to the Jersey shore for a week and discovered a very small, very loud Florida frog in the trailer. Marge located him and took him outside and he is now on his own. Some car problems with our 1970 Ford station wagon, house and home projects; the miscellany of life in suburbia. I am looking forward to some business trips and school for the girls will soon begin. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, family, Marge, PP&L, road travel
3 Comments
Winter 1978
Unusual, for us, stormy weather in January and February of 1978. This did cause some difficulty for me getting to work in Allentown due to drifting. Home repairs and improvement included putting a new relay in the furnace. That was easy. A harder task was getting up on the roof chipping ice from the flashings and repair interior water damage to the floor in place. Marge and I went to a local dinner theater a few times and also to a local production of “A Dolls House” Very pleasant. Marge’s sister Pat, fiance Adam, and her children Kathleen and Scott paid us a visit. Ingrid and I went to dinner on her birthday and to the movie “Close Encouners” Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged family, friends, fun, history, life, work
5 Comments
January 1978
Marge and I work together on some home improvements in our kitchen. We also joined the church choir; another activity we both enjoy and pleasant together. I went to two utility conferences speaking at one of them. We were plagued by ice storms in the fall but managed to cope with the power outages. Indoor camping one might say. My Mom visited us from her home in Plattsburgh NY which we all enjoyed. The fall season visits us with the flu, though not too seriously. We look forward to the coming year including a trip to Georgia during Easter vacation time. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, Marge, PP&L
2 Comments
Marriage Encounter
Marriage Encounter, an ongoing Catholic program for couples to enhance their relationship through improved dialog. This is our experience. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania, Relationships
Tagged dialog, family, feelings, love, Religion
6 Comments
May Memories – 1975,Holiday, Wallenpaupack, Trailering Home improvements
Wallenpaupack holiday, Nichols family plot, Hancock, NY, Beverley Hills home, upgrading, new chairs, trailering, High school musicale Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Pennsylvania
Tagged children, church, coopersburg, driving, family, featured, life, memoir, music, PP&L
2 Comments
Independence Day – 1973
I had the day off since 4th is a holiday. Louise’s birthday is the 6th so we all celebrated a day early. Seven years old already, how did that happen? Of course, we had birthday cake and presents and altogether … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Pennsylvania
Tagged children, coopersburg, life, love, Marge, memoir, New York, PP&L, relationships, vacation
8 Comments
Great Expectations – Our First Trailer Trip
I am shameless in appropriating titles, though we did in fact have great expectations for our first trailer vacation. The time was April 1973 just preceding Easter of that year. We made a trial trip to Lancaster PA to get an actual … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Pennsylvania
Tagged Atlantic coast, coopersburg, driving, emotions, Marge, memoir, Myrtle Beach, road travel, trailer
6 Comments
Orphanage of Marge
I want to reprise a bit from the earlier long quote about the Charismatic Movement. It does still exist in different forms, but I don’t believe here (LV). Marge had made some very bad decisions in our early life and was … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania
Tagged abandonment, anger, archetype, coopersburg, depression, emotions, friends, loneliness, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, orphan, Religion
6 Comments
PA 1972 – 1973
Back to the Pa. suburbs at Beverly Hills. We did make a trip in December to spend time with Marge’s sister Pat and her family in Penn Yan, NY. The weather was cold for December, but reasonable for January though … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania
Tagged Air Force, Beverly Hills, Charismatic movement, entertaining, food, God, insecurity, PP&L, relationships, Religion, singing
6 Comments
WASP (Not the Insect)
The emotional rush of being in love and a couple, both figuratively and physically, ended about when the relationship texts proclaimed, that is, about 2 years after making our informal commitment to each other. Sure enough, we responded to the ancient call … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania, Relationships
Tagged baby, clothes, coopersburg, emotions, friends, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, PA Power and Light, Pennsylvania, PP&L, relationships
2 Comments
The Green, Green, Grass of Home
April 7, 1970 was another step forward in transforming our new house into a finished home. When we bought the house, the lawn work had never been completed, and we understood that. The excavated material left from digging the basement piled … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, featured, friends, grass, landscaping, marriage, memoir, Pennsylvania, PP&L, wedding anniversary, weeds
4 Comments
Where the Hell is our Well?
The Way-Back machine is dialed to the first of March 1970. The water pressure in the house dropped, then stopped. Why? The first thing I thought of was that a circuit breaker had tripped. I checked this and no luck. Our big … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, dining, drilled well design, friends, gravedigger, home wells, Submersible pump, well water
2 Comments
The Iceman Cometh to Beverly Hills
No this isn’t about our own production of Eugene O’Neill’s famous play. It isn’t about play at all it’s about work. My work, and it was not working out to be a good day for me. This all has to … Continue reading
Posted in Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, gutters and downspouts, Home repair, memoir, Pennsylvania, Rain gutters, Roof leaks
Leave a comment
Winter Wonderland on Beverly Hills
“It wonders me.” So said the Dutchman. The link “Dutchman News” will take you to news and Dutch recipes, but no Dutch uncles. This is also a WordPress site and will open in a new window. Click it, try it, … Continue reading
Posted in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, Joseph Mitchell, Marge, Pennsylvania, TV antenna, VHF-UHF
2 Comments
A Dark And Stormy Night
OK, that is a cliché, but it truly fits this post. Lets take the Way-Back machine to January 1969. Marge and I had planned on closing the sale in December of 1969 but unusual bad weather postponed the ceremony of … Continue reading
55 Years Together 