Photo from Dartmouth

Here's a photo of Gerard and Kathy taken in front of a friend's Christmas tree in Halifax.

Photos from Moncton

These photos were taken while in Moncton during Christmas. The lobster photos make me jealous but you guys have to remember that I have good old sea duck!! Eat your heart out.
Barry

Christmas Photos From Marystown

Hey Everyone:

Hope you all had a nice Christmas Day with your families. The following is a few photos of the Stacey's in Marystown taken during Christmas Cheryl made it to St. John's on Saturday afternoon at 3:00pm about a half hour late minus her luggage. As you can imagine she was quite upset and we stayed in St. John's to check the next flight at 7:30pm. Still no luggage so we waited until 11:00pm for another flight, then 3 at midnight and still none. There was a 3:00am flight from Halifax with just luggage so we went back at 7:30am and one piece was there. We left after a 9:00am flight and came to Marystown. The other piece arrived that afternoon and it came to Marystown on Christmas Eve on taxi. She was quite relieved.
Christmas has been relatively busy with us visting family and family visiting us. In between Cheryl and I are watching the Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Tournament. Always fun to watch those games.
Please forward any photo you may have and want me to upload.
Look forward to hearing from you.

Barry

Christmas Moncton Style!

Hi Everyone, I thought I would give you a little update on how things are going with the Moncton Stacey’s. Cory is still working at Atlantic Lottery, Matt is with the RCMP in Ottawa in the IT department and Adam has his own company. Diane is at the airport and Playtex the company I work for was sold to Energizer and yes I am still selling tampons. Diane and I are looking at four more years and we are planning on retiring. We are trying to come up with some ideas of things to do in retirement so feel free to contact us and offer any suggestions you might have. We went out and cut our Christmas tree (at a tree farm) a twelve footer with two trunks and about twelve feet wide. We had a hard time to get it in the trailer to get it home, had to force it in the door, Diane, Adam and myself tried to stand it up and it fell over on us. We had to summon Cory over and all four of us finally got it upright and into position. It will be nice because all our family will be together for the holidays and most of the boy’s girlfriends. Diane and I are planning on going to Newfoundland this summer and renting a cottage at the Golden Sands for a week if all goes well. Cory and Jen are planning on maybe spending the week with us. If I am not communicating with you guys and gals before the Holiday Season have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Kevin

Merry Christmas From Marystown 2007

Hi everyone:
Just a note to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas as well as a healthy and prosperous New Year.
We are quite busy here with work and getting ready for the Holiday season. Gladys and I are both working full time these days so it doesn't leave much time to get ready. We took a couple of days the week before last to go to St. John's to do some shopping. Hopefully she has all of it done. As for me I guess it will be a last minute thing.
Cheryl will be coming home for Christmas on Saturday December 22 and will be home until January 1. We are looking forward to having her home for that time. I will be going to St. John's on Friday to pick her up. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.
All is well with Mother, Joan and Bernadette. Alv, Bernadette and Boyd have been back at the fish plant since June and will be laid off Friday Dec. 15 until the middle of January. Hopefully things will be much more settled at the fishplant in 2008.
In other news, Pat is now settled away in Florida and will be there for the next few months. It must be nice to be away from those cold temperatures which have come much earlier for us than in recent years. It seems like winter is here to stay. He can be reached at his email address which he should have set up by now. If you don't have it and would like it, just drop me a line. Also, I heard from Diane that Matthew will be home for the Christmas season. He and Christine(his girlfriend) will drive down from Ottawa soon. I believe Christine is coming over to Newfoundland to visit her father during the holidays. Maybe we'll get an opportunity to see her.
Please post a comment and let us know what happening with each of you during the holidays. I shall post again soon with some more information and maybe a few photos of Marystown.
Have a great Christmas with your families and friends.
Barry

Tyler King Photo

Here's a before and after photo of Tyler(Before) taken at his birthday in April and (After) taken today. He recently had a haircut and thinks he is too much cut off!!

Morning Shots Marystown June 28,2007

A couple of photos taken from our deck this morning June 28,2007. Nice here today.

Family Visiting Marystown this Summer

From what I've been told there are a couple of you visiting us here in Marystown this summer. Namely, Pat who will be here for the month of August. He is coming to cash in on the food fishery. It will run from the last week of July until August 19, I believe. It also runs for one week later on in September. I will not likely partake. I like the fish but am not all that enthused about going out to catch it. Since you are only allowed 5 fish it is cheaper to buy a few pounds of fillets. Less hassle, cleaner and doesn't take near the time.

Also I hear that Brian, Josie and Julie will be visiting - not sure when but I believe it may be the first two weeks of August. Someone can correct me on that. Not sure if there are any others that will be visiting. Other than Cheryl who will be home from July 7 -15 for a visit.

Also you may be interested to know that the fishplant in Marystown will be up and running again tomorrow. Alv went back to work last Monday to help get things ready for the startup this week. Bernadette and Boyd are returning tomorrow morning(June 25) for the first time in about 18 months. They are looking forward to getting back to work. Do hope things work out with the plant!

All for now.
Barry

Left to right: Roy Hillier, me, Wilf Miller, Ches Cribb
We get set to tee off at 6:30 am on June 9.

A Division Low Net Winners. L to R:

Rhodie Smith 6th, Glen Picco 5th, Justin Cluett 3rd,

Moi 2nd, Joe Drake 1st

Hello again

Hi Again:
I haven't posted in a while as I have been quite busy the past while. Besides taking on a new job recently at Keyin Technical College in Marystown I am Chairman of the Grande Meadows Men's Tournament Committee. I spent quite a lot of time organizing our Annual Men's Invitational held June 8-10. We had quite a turnout with over 90 golfers from across the province participating. Everything went really well as we all enjoyed three great days of golf and fellowship. I did reasonably well and finished second in my division - good enough for $125 gift certificate at the Pro Shop.
Gladys and I have booked a couple of weeks visiting family in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. We will stay a few days with Kevin and Diane, then move on to Kentville to stay a few days with Gladys's sister Sandra and her family. From there we will spend a few days with Gerard and Kathy in Dartmouth. We will cross back to spend a couple of days with Gladys's sister Mary and her husband Lem in Pasadena. We leave home on July 22 and get back on August 4. It should be a nice couple of weeks. We are looking forward to it.
Not much other news. We just had some company as Gladys's nephew Mark, his wife Amelie, and their two children, Charlie and Clhoe were visiting from British Columbia. It was Mark's first visit in 15 years while it was the first time on the Burin Peninsula for Amelie and the children.
Took mom to visit the eye specialist in St. John's on Monday. He didn't see any change in her eye from last visit. She has another scheduled for March 17. I don't think there is anything he can do for her eye. I recently had an appointment with an eye specialist and he says I have the beginnings of macular degeneration. As of right now there isn't anything that can be done for it except to take some multivitamins which may slow down the rate of degeneration. As it is it will be a long time before it gets much worse.
Will write again soon.
Barry

Moon setting over Marystown on May 30,2007. Photo taken by Gladys from our balcony.

Marystown News

As the month of May winds down our temperatures are beginning to rise even if it is only to double digits. Today we could get outsdie without a jacket on. Our weather for this month has been cool and dry with overnight temperatures hovering near the freeing mark.

I am now holding down two jobs. Not bad for a retired old fellow. I work at my first job for a day a week - usually Monday or Saturday and from Tuesday to Friday I teach at Keyin Technical College in Marystown. I work from 8:00am to 1:00pm with a group of students who are hoping to begin a pipe insulation course in June. Most of the people I work with have worked at FPI, local fish plant, for over 30 years until it closed in December 2005. If the pipe insulation course begins I will be finished or if the fish plant opens in late June most of these people will return to work at the plant for the summer at least. I hope things work out for them.

Gladys is still working at Riff's and it seems like she is going to make a career out of it. Cheryl is still at the same law firm, Mcmillan Binch Mendelshon, and like her mother, seems to be set to stay there!!!

All is well with the family here in Marystown. Mother is now 84 and is doing well. She still gets out and around and does some housework. She stays with Joan and Tyler. Alv has been working in Medicine Hat, Alberta since late February but will return to the plant if and when it opens. Bernadette and Boyd are in school hoping to begin a pipe insulation course, mentioned above, in June or whenever it begins. They will return to work when the plant opens but when the course begins they will take educational leave.

Theresa is finished school for now and is working in St. John's. Tyler is finishing up Grade 8 and is doing quite well in school.

I am starting to play a little golf these days. I am a fair weather golfer so I have not golfed a lot because of the cool weather. These days I am busy helping set up our 10th Annual Men's Invitational Golf Tournament from June 8-10. We have about 100 golfers from Stephenville to St. John's compete over two days. It is usually very successful and players love to come back here to play.

Cheers,
Barry

Family News

Hello everyone! I am not sure if this is a good idea but we'll see. I have decided to try and come up with a small blog to update things in the extended Stacey family. I am new to this thing so you will have to bear with me as I try and make this happen. Any suggestions, comments, and ideas will be appreciated. From time to time I will update the blog with whatever new information I may have. Any photos or news from anyone will be added as I get time from my very busy schedule. I am not sure how far I will go with this but I guess time will tell if I can put my computer time to good use.

I look forward to hearing from you all.

Barry