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Category: Joy Notes

  • Adirondack Vacation 2015

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    I like sitting by the campfire late at night.   JoAnne likes to read, sometimes even sitting in the car to get away from the bugs or the rain.   Both of us love to canoe around the lake. I nearly finished one book this year.  JoAnne pulls out her recorder and plays folk songs, gospel choruses…

  • Florida Vacation 2015

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      Must be we made ourselves useful and didn’t cause too much trouble in 2014 because our daughter Keely and her husband Mark invited us to go with them on their annual spring Florida vacation again this year.    Yeah!   Of course, it is such a trial (wink, wink) for us to be with our two…

  • Finding Joy As You Go

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    Written June 1, 2015 Looking for unexpected beauty As you know, I like to walk.  When I walk, I look for beauty and joy.  Today, on vacation, I walked out toward the beach, there was a wild yellow daisy flower in bloom in the sand dunes.  It was beautiful!   I learned by online research that…

  • Spring walks are refreshing in many ways.  

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    I love a good walk.  It gets the heart pumping and fills the lungs with fresh air.  It eases the tensions of to-do lists and day-to-day circumstances.  Sometimes I pray aloud on my walks too.    Here in Northern CT, we are blessed to live near the Granby Land Trust area as well as a rail…

  • Christmas Trains for 2014

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    How it started One of my hobbies is model trains, specifically, O-gauge trains running around my Christmas tree. Yes we had a Lionel train which we three Jones brothers shared when I was a boy. But what really started me back in this hobby was the gift of a Lionel train much like the one…

  • Sam Visits for Christmas

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    My Grandson Sam is a hands-on guy. He was not very interested in running the trains, though he did that briefly once or twice. He liked the whistle on the train a little better, which is the main reason he might run a train at all. But the main thing he wanted to do this…

  • A New Granddaughter!

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    [nggallery id = 66] Someone is way overdue for a Grandpa post.   I am so much enjoying being a grandparent. And on November 17, 2014, our second grandchild was born, a little girl, Annabelle Jocelyn Stater, 6 lbs. 11 oz. One of the special moments over Christmas was being left in the Stater dining room holding…

  • An Unusual Winter Walk

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    I’ve been walking in our neighborhood for about 17 months now. I see lots of fascinating and beautiful things because I look for them.   I’ve found picturesque stream crossings, a hidden falls, and a mountain overlook. Until today, the only large wildlife I’ve seen were deer.   But nature has a way of surprising you. I’m…

  • My daylily hobby

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    An inherited avocation The last daily bloom faded away one day this past week ending another season of daylily delight. Growing the flower technically called hemerocallis is a pastime I inherited from my grandmother, Jessie Isaman. Watch out! Growing daylilies is catching; my daughter has the bug as well. How it started I started growing…

  • A Maple Syrupy Memory

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    On the last day of our recent week of vacation, my wife and I stopped at a Maple Syrup Museum on Route 7 just north of Rutland, Vermont.  It was a fascinating stop for me as it brought back many childhood memories.   The museum contains many artifacts from the production of maple syrup in the…