Bo's Personal Page

Bo Smith's Personal Webpage
(Last Updated: October 18, 2009)

I will be adding more pictures about the wedding and what Diana and I have been doing over the past exciting year including more about our cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I am in the process of completing pages for Diana's sister Linda and her husband, Edwin and my sister, Barbara and her daughter Melissa and family. I have updated the "My Daughters" section

The Cabin: Micaville, North Carolina

The cabin has two bedrooms, a loft in the great room,
a guest porch(far left), and a large main porch(foreground).

View of Celo Knob from our porch in April 2008

We bought the cabin in December, 2008. We spent some time enjoying the snow last winter, some time enjoying the planting season in the spring and most of the summer of 2009 at the cabin. We had a family reunion/picnic/folk festival/anniversary brunch at the cabin and Richmond Inn August 15th and 16TH. We plan to return to the cabin in late October through Thanksgiving and be back in Jacksonville for Christmas.

1st Annual Rice Road Picnic and Folk Fest pictures (coming soon)

Some Recent Pictures
My daughter Laura made a visit to Jacksonville the weekend of Friday, October 16th through Sunday, October 18th. We had dinner (Chicken Austin) with Lindsay and Diana on Friday night, visited Jerry (Possum), Sarah, and Terry Terrell at Goldhead State Park on Saturday morning and survived the Gator Arkansas game on Saturday. Here are two pictures from the Goldhead visit.

Laura with Terry, Possum, and Sarah

Bo with Possum and Sarah

Selling minerals at the Jacksonville Gem and Mineral Society's Annual Fall Picnic at Lake Fretwell at Cecil Field October 10, 2009	We met Wink and Wilma Thornton at the picnic and hope to visit them aboard their Great Harbor 47 Trawler at Marsh Harbor in Abaco, the Bahamas sometime and have them visit the cabin.
Diana and I had dinner with Diana's daughter Ginny and her friend John Dietzen at Clarke's Fish Camp September 25, 2009	Diana and I had dinner with our good friends Joe and Diane Conlon at Clarke's Fish Camp Saturday, August 29, 2009
We went to Diana's 50th High School Reunion in Gulfport, Miss on Friday, September 4th, 2009	The next day, we visited the Diana's grandfather's Hatten's Building in Gulfport. It is receiving post Katrina repairs.

Diana Hatten Groover was gracious enough to marry me on August 16th, 2008 at the Casa Marina Hotel in Jacksonville Beach, Florida

On August 16th, 2008 my family significantly increased in size.

Click HERE for more details and wedding pictures.

Diana's Children

(left to right) Eldest Daughter, Ginny Bemus; oldest son, Hampton Groover; Diana and Bo; youngest son, Wade Groover, youngest daughter, Alice Hickox

Diana's children and their families

Diana has four children; Ginny Bemus, Hampton Groover and his wife Susan, Wade Groover and his wife Shannon, and Alice Hickox and her husband Alec and 20 grandchildren

Bo's daughters and their families

From left to right: daughter Laura (husband Steve and daughter Eliza were unable to attend the wedding); daughter Jessica and boyfriend Tom Scangarello; daugher Heather and husband David; next back row daughter Stacy Smith Gant and husband Jed (their unborn son Oliver was absent); grandsons next to Bo are Austin and Hadden (sons of Heather and David); and on the right back row are daughter Lindsay and boyfriend Dustin McKillip

This picture was taken about 2004
from left to right; Stacy, Laura, Lindsay, Heather, Jessica

This pcture was taken at Stacy's wedding May 17th, 2008
From left to Right; Heather, Laura, Stacy, Jessica, Lindsay

Click HERE to learn more about my daughters and grandchildren,

Bo and Diana's Sisters

Diana's sister, Linda Chambers is second from the left. Bo's sister, Barbara is on the far right. Barbara's daughter, Melissa is between Barbara and Bo. Diana's cousin, Anita is on the left.

Click HERE for more details and pictures of ther sisters

Our Doggies

We currently have three doggies:

Top: Bella (AKA Bellissima, Bella Babe), born March 17th, 2009
AKC female Shih Tzu puppy

Middle: Panzy- 9 year old spayed female part Shih Tzu/part Pekingese

Front: Panda (AKA Pandamonium, Panda Man)- a 7 yr old AKC/CKC male Shih Tzu- a proven "stud" with three litters (14 puppies) on his resume

We intend to breed Panda with Bella in the Spring 2010

My friend and companion for more than 15 years, Chipper died on July 19th, 2008. He is the black and white Springer mix. He was survived by me and his friend Nardo, the reddish brown Australian Shepherd mix in the picture. Bernrdo died at the cabin on Friday morning, August 21st, 2009.

Nardo on the cabin porch a few months before he passed away

Nardo is burried at the cabin. I will add a picture of his gravesite after we return from the cabin later this fall.

Fishing
I have been able to resume my interest in fishing since retirement. Most of my fishing ventures were initially with my friend Lehman Barnes, a retired professor from UNF. Diana and Lehman's wife Marianne joined us on a few occasions. I also went fishing on three ocassions with my sister Barbara on a boat out of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Diana joined us for one of those trips. I look forward to fishing more often with Diana. We recently got our North Carolina Inland Fishing licences and have our trout fishing gear ready to go at the cabin. I will keep our salt water gear in Jacksonville so that we can fish with Lehman and Marianne when they are in town. Marianne and Lehman split their time between Jacksonville and their house in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Our initial fishing was conducted in May 2007 from the surf near the jetties at NAS Mayport. I caught this 'black drum' on my second cast.		In June, 2007, I went fishing on the Norma K III, a 'Fluke boat' in New Jersey with my sister Barbara. We ate this 18" 'monster'.
Lehman and I went fishing February 26th, 2008 at the Jacksonville Beach pier and Lehman caught this nice 12" Whiting.		This is a beautiful Bluefish I caught off the JAX pier on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
My wife, Diana Groover loves to join us when she can. This was her first fish! :-)		Lehman's wife, Marianne, came along for her first attempt at fishing putting us all to shame catching many small 'croakers' including two at one time!

My Parents and Childhood (coming soon)

My Navy

This is a younger me, a 25 year old A4 pilot onboard the USS Intrepid CV-11 off the coast of Vietnam)

Click HERE for a information about my navy career

Trip Reports

I completed a trip at the end of June, 2007 during which I visited my daughter Stacy and her then fincee, Jed in Raleigh, North Carolina; my Cornell Phi Kappa Psi fraterinity brother, Reg Woods in Charlottsville, Virginia, and my sister Barbara and her daughter Melissa and her family in New Jersey. Click here to see some pictures and more details of this trip.

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