We are Steve and Joy Poole.
We met on a blind date back in 1985.
Steve was involved in the fence business (selling fence not fencing
stolen property) and Joy was a high school business education teacher. We married in 1986 and have "never had a
dull moment" our friend Rich likes to tell us.
We have three grown
daughters--Katy, Caroline and Lainey.
They are, of course, beautiful, intelligent, kind, and entertaining. We
simply adore them. We have two dogs
Piper and Jack and one Grand-dog named Hobie.
Two cats like to eat at our home--no one really owns a cat. Their names are Oliver and Sookie. We have peafowl--currently there are 12, the
oldest male is named Romeo.
We live on sixty acres where
Steve can ride his tractor and fish in his pond. He can feed the deer and watch the variety of
ducks come to roost. He sold his fence
company several years ago and became a commercial developer. He is an entrepreneur in every sense of the
word. He has a career that is difficult
to explain but allows flexibility in his schedule. Steve loves everything associated with boats,
boating and water. He enjoys hunting during the winter season and playing
tennis with his buddies on Monday nights.
Joy returned to teaching when
Steve sold the fence business. She taught math for six years, four of those in
middle school. Middle school students
are her favorite age to teach because they are like colts learning to
walk--uncoordinated and innocent. She
decided to put her teaching career on hold again when our younger daughters
were in high school at the same time with busy and often conflicting schedules.
Now that the girls are all grown she enjoys reading, playing tennis, and
cooking. Experimenting with new recipes
and using her friends as guinea pigs to taste her creations is one of her
favorite forms of entertaining.
Our adventures on Meandering
Joy combine Steve's love of the water and boats with Joy's desire to
travel. Steve likes the challenge and
adventure of traveling by waterway while Joy likes to explore the small
villages and towns (even some of the larger ones) we pass through discovering
the history and unique personality of each.
We both enjoy meeting new friends along the way.
