Pocket Watch

 From Jeni:

In jewelry box or dresser

Grandma Nina Miller Connor graduation watch

Chain with a knife

Jim Stroup won the chain and knife at a Spring Valley and give it to his grandpa Thomas Sheldon Connor

Fo Alyssa so that she will know the history of the watch and knife

Grandpa always wore the watch to church and sat in the front row

Had candies in his pockets so that all the kids sat with him to get candy

Hats, lots of hats

 

Purse and a Woodstock for Shery.

Violets

 You got these four violets some time ago, made hangers with bowls so that you could hang them in the dining room window.

For the first time, one of them is blooming.

Reflections

 Sitting on the bench watching the river go by.
Just sitting and thinking about you.
Trying to focus on happy memories of the things we did and the places we visited.

Violets

This is the first time your violets have bloomed, sorry you were not able to see it.
You had these for a while.

 

Take the trips

Take the trips.

Short trips, long trips,

24 hour trips, food trips, anything 

that consists of traveling and new experiences.

Jeni called them Adventures

Ocala Wetland Recharge Park

 After visiting Sholom Park I stopped by the Ocala Wetland Recharge Park. I walked the green gator loop trail. It was a little over a mile. I got my 10k steps in before lunch.

Sholom Park

 Went to Sholom Park this morning. We visited this park a couple of times and you liked walking the paths.

The Magnolia trees were blooming. I loved the smell of the one we had at the house in Spring Valley Township. Right by the door so coming and going it always smelled wonderful.

                                 

Micanopy FL

Jeni loved visiting Micanopy FL. A small town that had a few shops and a restaurant. We enjoyed going to the fall festival each year.

In 2024 she struggled to walk the entire event and in 2025 we were unable to attend.

She would have lived to see it as a movie set.

 

Clifton Mill

After delivering Jeni’s hope chest to Shery’s house I stoped at Clifton Mill.

I remember Christmas time when we would go to see the lights and decorations.

They had lights on the water wheel and all along the bank.