Friends are family we choose or who choose us. When one of my doctors sent me to a specialist, she said that I should have someone drive me. It occurred to me that this could be a problem as…
We Are Community for the week of Oct 18th, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
Interesting week at the B&B. My two hunters and their three children left on Monday morning. Hope they had an enjoyable weekend despite not taking home any deer. Thursday through Sunday morning the house was filled with judges for…
We Are Community for the week of Oct. 11th, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
Well another Spoon River is in the books. By all accounts it was a good one! Took new merchandise over for three of the four days. Sold well. Also had many return customers and friends stop by the booth…
We Are Community for the week of Oct. 4th, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
The week began with me taking my first load of antiques to Smithfield to the Red Brick School. It was followed by a second load on Friday and more on Saturday and Sunday mornings. More about that later. Would…
We Are Community for the week of Sept 27th, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
It has been an absolutely gorgeous day. Hope you were able to enjoy it. Blue sky, sunny, great temperature and nice breeze. It just doesn’t get any better than this. Began my day with Church on the lawn at Living…
We Are Community for the week of sept 20th, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
That small angel that follows me around is paying attention to very small details. This week I went to Aldi’s two times. The first time the person checking me out put my groceries in a cart that did not…
We Are Community for the week of Sept 13th, 20121, by Joyce Steiner
Our sympathy to the family and friends of Loraine Totsch of Augusta. I remember reading in the paper that she was very active with the Senior Citizen Center. Augusta Days was this week and I hope it was very…
We Are Community for the week of Sept 6th, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
I was sending text photos of the Colchester parade to a friend and they asked “what is the parade for?”. It occurred to me that this was not going to be an easy question to answer. As I grew…
We Are Community for the week of August 30th, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
If you know me now, you would be amazed at how shy I was when I was a child. We lived on a small farm in the Friendship neighborhood. Neighbor children were not really close enough to play with. One…
We Are Community for the week of August 23rd, 2021, by Joyce Steiner
Was very sorry to see the notification that Sally Crofoot had passed. She was a friend and I did not realize that she had moved from near Plymouth. We talked some and she helped me out at the store. …