Category: Who Am I
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Christmas Village 2025
In motion Everybody loves to see the action, but I needed some help to maximize the fun so my grandchildren, Sam and Annabelle, helped out. Improved track configuration Each year my fans look for what is new in the Christmas Village. Some years the changes are subtle, but not this year. The small hidden trolley…
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Christmas Village Fun 2024
“Wheels are rolling!” Open House Season It has been a joy for my wife and I to welcome about forty people to our home in the various open house events that we have hosted. We love to have our friends and neighbors visit anyway and the Christmas village set provides the attraction. JoAnne and generous…
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More Flower Fun
A Cup of Gold A week ago, just before the hard frost, I rushed out, despite having arrived home after dark, and grabbed armloads of marigolds. I put them in five gallon buckets filled one-third with water and brought them inside. That set the stage for more flower arranging fun. I completed a fall bouquet…
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Marigolds in a Real McCoy!
A vase from Grandma In one of my visits to my sister, the topic of conversation turned to our grandmother’s flower vase and pot collection. We reminisced that grandma had some pots and vases by the classic pottery maker named McCoy. I guess that’s where the old idiom came from, “It’s the real McCoy.” Long…
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Daylily Clumps
Let those daylilies multiply! As daylily lovers, we get used to pictures of perfect single blooms. Catalogs tout them; proud growers post them. Plus we take plenty of those kind ourselves too. But, what really impresses in the garden are the daylily clumps that have been tended for years and are producing a truly beautiful…
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It’s Daylily Season
Open garden scheduled Kelvin’s daylily garden is about at its peak with around fifty different varieties in bloom. A couple early ones have already completed their season and some late ones are yet to start. The Joneses are inviting friends who would like to drop by to an open garden time on Friday, July 12…
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Nostalgia filled puzzle
A picture that evokes memories Puzzle season is in full swing at our house. I just finished this gem. It is a favorite these days because it reminds me of so many things from my childhood. Take, for example, the big stove. While the style of this stove is from an earlier generation, we had…
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We are retiring again!
Here is the text of the post I wrote for our church blog.
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News about our house
JoAnne has written a great blog post with the story of our purchase of the West Granby parsonage. I invite you to read it. https://inspiredbyhope.us/?p=8646
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Uncovering History in my Garden
Hitching Posts At our home in the historic section of West Granby, CT, the old granite hitching posts standing in the rail fence line are immediately obvious. The remaining granite sentinels with their broken rusty metal loop tie hooks remind me of the mid nineteenth century mill origins of this part of West Granby. I…