Showing posts with label Havertown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Havertown. Show all posts

Saturday, June 07, 2025

Saturday, June 7:Havertown and Plumsteadville


Hi! Well, we got up and Mary made breakfast while she was making breakfast. I went out to the café and got some coffee. After a little difficulty, I 
did get the coffee and came back. We then went to the Internet rabbit hole. We 


just thought of the song one
to the line by Brewer and Shipley. I did not 

know the song was sung by them. I just remember having the 45 as a 

kid. Then once you went down that rabbit hole somehow we found out that on Wikipedia that 

Lawrence Welk covered the song and we had to go there and it was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen!!

hilarious as all hell oh my God Grab your Gummies oh my God it was absolutely

 absurd! Anyhow, we decided to take an Uber to pick up the car at 11:20 South Broad Street, which is a budget Rent-A-Car. It’s still drizzling outside. It’s not hard rain just a drizzle which is 

probably gonna go on most of the day wherever you might be today. But we’re at the Rental Car Pl. and there’s quite a few people in front of us. Some dude in 

front of us having credit card trouble. Never seen that before that’s for sure so it’s 12:24 PM anyway, we got the rental car and decided we’d go to Ardmore and take the path and I used to always take

 during the pandemic. It’s a private drive for SEPTA only. So we kept walking past my normal point and there was some kind of event in festival going on we found out it was the Havertown Irish

 festival. It’s really cute and the sun started coming out. Just we got here.It’s a real wholesome family event, but they do sell booze here which shouldn’t be surprised in anyone who knows anything.

 But that’s some nice people and walked all the way to Eagle Road. I thought of Eagle Pizza cause I guess I’m hungry. That pizza was great. Anyhow, I’ll 
the rain held off and actually the sun did come out later on while we’re at the parade. We then walked back to the car along the path and drove out to 

Plumsteadville. That was a pretty long drive. It’s about an hour and five minutes. We avoided tolls because when used the tolls on a rental car you get charged Rental


Car fees on top of the toll fees. I found out the hard way. Anyhow, we got there, and it was a suburbia of paradise in the backyard. We talked to a couple people that Mary
knew. This one neighbor tried to cause 

a fuss because I was close to his bumper and actually threatened to call the police, but the host 
of the cookout calm things down and I move the car.

 The guy was kind of a prick, but I kept my cool. I wasn’t feeling too cool though during it, but I kept it  together. I just didn’t want to need. Didn’t need any trouble. Anyhow, we hung 

out there till about 8:15 PM. The food was very good. They had it catered. Now I know how the people in suburbia I live and and go about their business. It’s a different world from the 

world I live in for sure. It was weird when somebody else was a Rental Car 
really loud like it was something 

to be embarrassed about, but hell I don’t need a car I live in the middle of the city and I can always rent a car. Speaking of which has decided to stop being a member of Zipcar cause I never use it. If I. want a short trip I just called Uber and I don’t have a nine month nine dollar a month fee on top of that. 

Anyway, we got back to Mary’s watch some late night, comedians such

 as Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and others. I got really tired and then 

we crashed. Who is an eventful day? That’s for sure. Ongoing 

I am in the beginning stages of trying to recover of what the hell I did with 

myself in my shoulders both left and right and  my right scapula. It is amazing how human beings get really comfortable in their routines while other routines of other so-called “normal“ people look really different and oddly uncomfortable. Anyway, that’s the way the world is special with Trump and his goons from ice going after Los Angeles.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

This Past Weekend AND Here Comes Summer!!

Walking Through Manayunk
I am at 15th and JFK I'm gonna catch the 27 to Main Street and then get
Ye Olde Manayunk
picked up and go to Perkiomen Park.
Gwynne,I'm on the 27 bus which will take me a close to your location on Main Street in  Manayunk
This is the waterfalls right near the entrance to the expressway near Ridge Avenue.
I thought I was meeting Gwynne for a picnic to pick me up in   Manayunk, It turns out it was next weekend.
 I'm  going to the Manayunk Canal Towpath and walk. This will be different!
Going to Manayunk on Saturday!
Manayunk Towpath
After walking the towpath and taking pictures, i was invited me for lunch so I came back on Manayunk train with a bunch of Kenny Chesney fans. They were mostly really young girls with their boyfriends and beers at the train station. when I got back to West Philly i walked to  39th. We chilled out and then walked the dogs and I'm now doing Pat a favorite at the  TD Bank.
We are going to have  homemade Indian dinner and then I will be taking the train to a book signing at some woman's house in  Penn Wynne. I will be taking the EL to 69th St and then the  P&W. it's formally called the Norristown high-speed line around 6:30or so.
Well the Norristown High Speed Line. I missed my stop and I got off one stop PAST the correct stop!!
I did a 27 minute walk to a book signing up probably and by the time I get there in Penn Wynne, I am in Havertown  right this moment! The book signing was pretty good the woman was pretty interesting after I got over her repeated Jesus references. She was pretty cool when I got to talk to her.
Book Signing
Sunday Morning I got up kind of late because I had trouble sleeping and then I am weight I took the 21 and I'm catching the 57 which came like really right on time which is wonderful.
Strolling in Harvertown on Saturday
me up with Drew  then maybe go for a walk I need a walk today it was it was kind of me got hit me hard.
Got your bro I'm meeting up with Drew.He just said he was like five blocks away so anyway that's armadillo and then
maybe go for a walk. It was it was kind of meeting that hit me good.

Well after lunch Loretta and
At Sommerst EL Stop
I chilled out at the café and I had a tuna wrap and that was tasty!!  I was in Fishtown at the Rocket Cafe  
Port Richmond
charging my phone and hanging out with Loretta him so I will be here and then I met up with Larry at 7pm at the 20th and Walnut Saxby'a. He lives right off the 2nd
Sunday at the Rocket Cafe in Fishtown
street. Going from Somerset to second completely different world and in 10 minutes is now 4 PM. I then took a nap and went to the Saxby's and then the Sunday night meeting. I proceeded to walk home most of the trip since
Mini Husky!
SEPTA on Sunday night is not really ideal. I took a trip inside my own city and I enjoyed it very much. This week I have not been in the mood to blog so much. Very tired and unsettled. I think due to owing $$ to family and the overdue student loan.
NEWS FLASH!!!!
Dean will NOT be staying with me for awhile. Got word he must go to a facility for awhile. I got this from his public defender. I found this out on a voicemail I heard yesterday around 7pm, just before the Gratitude meeting. OH, I chair Thursday morning's July and August for topic discussion every other week with another man. Ought to be a funky Summer. Also planning to go to Michigan and LBI. I am also attempting to eat better with mixed results.
I babysit a dog in Overbrook Farms as well.!!!!! LOOK OUT HERE COMES SUMMER!!!!!