Friday, May 17, 2013
— Six Word Saturday — A Random Five post [003], This and That
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my Six Words
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1. Flip Flops
Spring is time to get out your flip flops. Or to buy some new ones. There is no doubt here which ones are for the girls and which for the boys.
2. What is the purpose of having goat?
Below is a goat on the farm we helped with visiting city youth last Saturday. Goats are for petting. So was their beagle (see a week ago Thursday's post below or click here for a description of some of that fun).
3. Fishing
Also Saturday, here is a picture of the second fish that I ever caught in my life. It came from the lake on our left. And it went back in after the picture. The hook did not have a barb so the fish wasn't hardly hurt at all.
4. A nice wedding
Saturday evening we attended a wedding of the son of a friend of ours and his lovely new bride. I like outside weddings. This is a lovely looking couple, they both are tall.
Cutting the cake is one of the my favorite wedding activities. One this on we ate very nice too after the ceremony. It was light, cheeses, fruits, and shrimp. But one can fill up on that too. We all had a big plate full.
5. Family Promise
This Tuesday night Mrs. Jim and I stayed at the church with a three young adult families who are 'clients' of our Montgomery County Family Promise.
These families are currently without a home and so they rotate staying in local churches for one week at a time. At this time there are about fourteen churches participating.
Here Mrs. Jim and two of the ladies from her Sunday school class are solving the problems of the world. The parents were putting their children to bed now. On this night the lady on the right and her husband will spend the night.
On the right we are back to Mrs. Jim's and my night, only it is morning. Not too many days do I wake up at six to see pretty sunrise views like this.
I am linked up today with Nancy at A Rural Journal. She conducts her "A Random Five" blog hop there. Click that link to read other "A Random Five" posts or join in with your own.
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Sorry about having to recycle this blog agin for Saturday Six Words. We are on the road and won't be able to post anything else for it. But it is good stuff to know about me?
Does that make things better?
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.
Don't forget that May is Hamburger Month. I've had another since last Thursday, this time it was a $1.00 MacDouble from MacDonald's instead of Beck's Prime.
my Six Words
Comment returns will be sluggish today
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1. Flip FlopsSpring is time to get out your flip flops. Or to buy some new ones. There is no doubt here which ones are for the girls and which for the boys.
2. What is the purpose of having goat?
Below is a goat on the farm we helped with visiting city youth last Saturday. Goats are for petting. So was their beagle (see a week ago Thursday's post below or click here for a description of some of that fun).
3. Fishing
Also Saturday, here is a picture of the second fish that I ever caught in my life. It came from the lake on our left. And it went back in after the picture. The hook did not have a barb so the fish wasn't hardly hurt at all.
4. A nice wedding
Saturday evening we attended a wedding of the son of a friend of ours and his lovely new bride. I like outside weddings. This is a lovely looking couple, they both are tall.
Cutting the cake is one of the my favorite wedding activities. One this on we ate very nice too after the ceremony. It was light, cheeses, fruits, and shrimp. But one can fill up on that too. We all had a big plate full.
5. Family Promise
This Tuesday night Mrs. Jim and I stayed at the church with a three young adult families who are 'clients' of our Montgomery County Family Promise.
These families are currently without a home and so they rotate staying in local churches for one week at a time. At this time there are about fourteen churches participating.
Here Mrs. Jim and two of the ladies from her Sunday school class are solving the problems of the world. The parents were putting their children to bed now. On this night the lady on the right and her husband will spend the night.
On the right we are back to Mrs. Jim's and my night, only it is morning. Not too many days do I wake up at six to see pretty sunrise views like this.
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Does that make things better?
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.Don't forget that May is Hamburger Month. I've had another since last Thursday, this time it was a $1.00 MacDouble from MacDonald's instead of Beck's Prime.
Labels: A-Random-Five, Jim Does, Six Word Saturday, this-and-that
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Zuider Zee — My Alphabe-Thursday (2nd), the letter "Z" / Thursday Two Questions —
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"Z" is for the Zuider Zee.
What do you know about the Zuider Zee?
When did you first hear about the Zuider Zee?
The map above is from Wikipedia (link). The second map, here,is from Google Maps of "Zuider Zee" (link-you may have to select Zuider Zee, the Netherlands on the left of your map).[You can make either map large by clicking on the picture once or twice.]
I first learned about the Zuider Zee in my country grade school from the poem, "The Leak in the Dike" (link). You won't see the sea named by the Zuider Zee but that was it. The Zuider Zee was mostly recovered by land using a series of dikes. In the 1600's through to the 1900's the dikes would break and tens of thousands of people perished. Also see the Wikipedia article here (link).
The gist of this poem, and the legend that became before and after was all about The story of the little boy who averted a flood disaster by sticking his finger in the dyke. This story is famous all over the world . Mary Mapes Dodge (1831 - 1905), an American author of children's books, wrote the story and published it in her book around 1865. (link).
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This was my school. I suppose I was about in the 6th grade and my sister in the front left was in the first or second grade. Beside her was my first cousin as was the boy on the right. So half the school kids were either brother-sister or first cousins. I don't know the tall girl beside me. The girl beside me and the girl in front by my boy cousin were sisters.
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Now for my Thursday Two Questions.
My post last week was about the "Y" word Youth. and fishing.
Please do not forget to observe this May as National Hamburger Month.
My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):.
1. What do you know about the Zuider Zee?
2. When did you first hear about the Zuider Zee?
1. What do you know about the Zuider Zee?
2. When did you first hear about the Zuider Zee?
Bonus Question(s):
1. What is your favorite "Z" word?
.==> My Questions here are for Amanda at her Thursday Two Questions blog, Self Sagacity. Please visit her there for her questions and links to other partakers of her fun blogging idea.
Labels: Alphabe-Thursday-[2nd], Jim in his Younger Days, School, Thursday-Two-Questions
Monday, May 13, 2013
Succintly Yours
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Mama Pig was happy. The audition had gone well. Now she could live happily ever after on her cut of the Piggys' agenda.
Oink, oink, phooey.
GMa's Succinctly Yours Week 112 has links to other posts and gives the rules.
Rules: Use the photo as inspiration for a story. Maximum of 140 characters OR 140 words.
Mama Pig was happy. The audition had gone well. Now she could live happily ever after on her cut of the Piggys' agenda.Oink, oink, phooey.
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Picture prompt furnished by GMa -- Optional Word of the Week: agenda
GMa's Succinctly Yours Week 112 has links to other posts and gives the rules.
Rules: Use the photo as inspiration for a story. Maximum of 140 characters OR 140 words.
Labels: Succinctly-Yours
Saturday, May 11, 2013
— Six Word Saturday — A Random Five post [002], This and That
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my Six Words:
I am linked up today with Nancy at A Rural Journal. She conducts her "A Random Five" blog hop there. Click that link to read other "A Random Five" posts or join in with your own.
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Sorry about having to recycle this blog. But it is good stuff to know about me.
Does that make things better?
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.
my Six Words:
Recycling this blog — short on time
1. We had a visit to Baton Rouge to visit with Mrs. Jim's Aunt Mary. I always like visiting there and the drive is a pleasant five hours or so, three through the country and then two on I-45.
This church bench holding Mary and Mrs. Jim is for sale. We didn't inquire about the price. But it will sell fast because is one of a few from the old downtown Baptist church.
This church bench holding Mary and Mrs. Jim is for sale. We didn't inquire about the price. But it will sell fast because is one of a few from the old downtown Baptist church.
2. Sometimes Mrs. Jim and I play golf together on Tuesdays. On this day we found this large nest up in the tree. We have no idea what kind of bird may have made it. I always imagine with these large nests that it is an eagle's nest. We do have eagles around here.
3. I make a pretty good lunch and it is time I posted a picture of one. This shrimp, shaved carrot, olive, onion, and lettuce salad was nice and yummy. I was going to mix these two dressings, the shrimp read sauce with the Girard's Greek oil and vinegar.
But instead I dipped a few shrimp in the sauce and put the Greek dressing on the salad. A tasting showed that the shrimp sauce overwhelmed any semblance of being Greek whatsoever.
But instead I dipped a few shrimp in the sauce and put the Greek dressing on the salad. A tasting showed that the shrimp sauce overwhelmed any semblance of being Greek whatsoever.
4. Are hood ornaments coming back? This winged pig was on a late model Cadillac's front.
5. Don't forget that May is Hamburger Month. We used one of our Beck's Prime hamburger buy one/get one free coupons. The cheeseburger seemed to be the best I have ever had. Was it because I was hungry? We each cut ours in half and so we had another meal for the next day.
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.I am linked up today with Nancy at A Rural Journal. She conducts her "A Random Five" blog hop there. Click that link to read other "A Random Five" posts or join in with your own.
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Does that make things better?
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.Labels: A-Random-Five, Food, Jim Does, Six Word Saturday, this-and-that
Thursday, May 09, 2013
You___? — My Alphabe-Thursday (2nd), the letter "Y" / Thursday Two Questions —
"Y" is for Young People, Youngsters, and Youth
(maybe also you)
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Saturday a group mostly from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class and a group of about twelve youth from our church journeyed to a local East Texas ranch where we worked with 127 young people from Houston.
Our 'work' consisted of conducting activities at six different stations scattered about on the ranch. In order of my post, they were fishing, horse riding, paddle boating, face painting, a hay ride, and a short Bible study.
Pictured here is one of the helping youth who came with the younger children participating in fishing. These kids liked to dig right in along with the younger ones.I was stationed to help with the fishing group. This also shows the 'leader' of our group. We baited the hooks, helped the kids with 'casting' their rods, holding them waiting for a bite, in pulling them in, and
then taking the hook out and putting the fish back into the lake.
This is the only turtle that was caught. Everyone was pretty excited about it. The youngster here didn't want to get too close to it but did want her picture taken with it. So, ...
BTW [By the way], the hooks had no barbs.
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Show above left are our two fishing spots. I caught this little fish before the kids came back from lunch. This was my fourth time to 'fish.' The first was with my first steady girl friend at her parents farm. We 'got to' take her little brother and we spent most of our time baiting hooks and taking fish off for the brother. I caught no fish.
The second time was when camping with our four older children. Again no fish for me, it was all balt and release for the kids.
The third time was for my 70th birthday, BIL Billy took me to Orange, Texas, to fish with him and his dad in the Inter Coastal Canal that runs from Florida to Mexico. I was the only one who caught a fish as a storm came up and we had to come in (link to my prior fishing post). I got my first fishing license for that outing.
After our station came horse riding. The kids did ride one the horses, but they did not ride a horse. That second meaning means having control of the horse and can see that no way was this five-year-old in control his his big horse. He 'rode' in the same way that Mrs. Jim, Mema, and I rode camels in Egypt.
This station was very pleasant. I can remember that I always like to ride the paddle boats. We had six paddle boats.Each group of children ran from 21 to 25 kids. They were grouped according to age, the youngest were five and then ages went on up to age twelve.
Our adults ran from the 60's up into the 80's. Alan, our Youth Director is about 30.
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These are the face painting ladies at work. A kitty-cat face was the favorite for the girls. This girl will have one of those right after Mrs. Jim paints a pretty flower on her hand. I have a feeling they picked the ones with some artistic talent for this place.
The beagle above reminded me of Adi. She loved having her next scratched. And Adi? She died on September 17, 2012. I still miss her very much.This group here belonged with the paddle boats. Their job beside putting in and pulling out the boats included putting on the life jackets. Right now they were resting (waiting for the kids to come after lunch).
This is the smallest group. They help with making Cross necklaces which are a cross-shaped bottle filled with colored 'sand' and having a neck string attached to the screw lid.Most work groups were six but this was smaller. We all enjoyed working with the young people as most have experience from being grandparents.
Here you are seeing the assembly in the morning when the bus loads of young people arrived. Behind the groups in the center the white and brown spotted SUV is hitched to the hay ride wagon. I think there is at least one other group out of camera's view to the ride. If you count 127 of these youngsters then I got them all in the picture.
Here comes a group of youngsters, being escorted by a couple of the youth, to the fishing spot.Below is the chow hall where we were served chili cheese dogs, chips, some fruit, and two Oriel Cookies. I had colored punch for drink.
At the right is the tired of not-so-young group ready to go home. The Bible study chapel is in the room behind this wall.
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==> You can see other "Y" letter posts by visiting Jenny's blog post, Alphabe- Thursday. My letter "Y" portion of this post will be critiqued by Head Mistress Jenny. I always hope for a good grade from her..
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Now for my Thursday Two Questions.
My post last week was about the "X" word Xu. Since Xu does not have a definition it was a "free post " for me. I did an assortment of items. Please do not forget to observe this May as National Hamburger Month.
My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):.
1. What is your idea of having fun with the young people?
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2. How do you feel about fishing? .O
1. What is your idea of having fun with the young people?
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2. How do you feel about fishing? .O
Bonus Question(s):
1. What is your favorite "Y" word?
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==> My Questions here are for Amanda at her Thursday Two Questions blog, Self Sagacity. Please visit her there for her questions and links to other partakers of her fun blogging idea.
1. What is your favorite "Y" word?
and/or
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==> My Questions here are for Amanda at her Thursday Two Questions blog, Self Sagacity. Please visit her there for her questions and links to other partakers of her fun blogging idea.
Labels: Alphabe-Thursday-[2nd], Church, Jim Does, Kids, Thursday-Two-Questions
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Succintly Yours
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Malcolm was happy with his MODERN ORGAN GRINDER.
But so much time spent with Polly, he felt they were
coalesced.
Today he'd swap for a monkey.
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Labels: Succinctly-Yours
Saturday, May 04, 2013
To do in Paris — Six Word Saturday —
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my Six Words
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.
my Six Words
Two Americans in Paris -- I'm jealous
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Waiting for the Chunnel train going to Paris, France
On the train, KP is eating her PB sandwich that her daddy made for her
KP showing off in front of the Eiffel Tower
Girls like to have chocolate in the hotel dining room
Luck would have it her carousel is still by the River Seine
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Last words from Paris this morning:
She is still sleeping - it's 7:49. I'm going to start her with a granola bar and then... Crepe on rue cler! :)
Sent from my iPad
Sent from my iPad
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.Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.Labels: Family, Paris, Six Word Saturday
Friday, May 03, 2013
A Random Five post [001], This and That
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1. Karen, our daughter who lives and works in London, and KP, our granddaughter are visiting in Paris for the weekend.
2. Mrs. Jim and I had a 1:08 PM tee time today but we canceled it due to cold weather and high winds. It was only 54°F here today at noon.
3. Mrs. Jim and I did play golf Tuesday morning in the warm weather. Temps got up to the 80's for a high.
4. My '98 Ford Mustang GT Convertible rolled over to 100,000 miles. At 100,036 miles it decided that it needed a new-to-us rebuilt transmission. We got it back yesterday. Now it drives like a new 1998 Mustang.
5. Tomorrow Mrs. Jim and I will go to camp with other members of her Sunday school class to help with disadvantaged youngsters. We will be helping our church youth with them running the activities for the day.
In the afternoon our vet is having an open house.
Then tomorrow evening we will attend a wedding with our good friend's son getting married. It will be a 'house wedding' at the home of the new bride. We have not met her but will make her acquaintance after the wedding.
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I am linked up today with A Rural Journal who conducts her "A Random Five" blog hop. Click that link to read other "A Random Five" posts or join in with your own.1. Karen, our daughter who lives and works in London, and KP, our granddaughter are visiting in Paris for the weekend.2. Mrs. Jim and I had a 1:08 PM tee time today but we canceled it due to cold weather and high winds. It was only 54°F here today at noon.
3. Mrs. Jim and I did play golf Tuesday morning in the warm weather. Temps got up to the 80's for a high.
4. My '98 Ford Mustang GT Convertible rolled over to 100,000 miles. At 100,036 miles it decided that it needed a new-to-us rebuilt transmission. We got it back yesterday. Now it drives like a new 1998 Mustang.5. Tomorrow Mrs. Jim and I will go to camp with other members of her Sunday school class to help with disadvantaged youngsters. We will be helping our church youth with them running the activities for the day.
In the afternoon our vet is having an open house.
Then tomorrow evening we will attend a wedding with our good friend's son getting married. It will be a 'house wedding' at the home of the new bride. We have not met her but will make her acquaintance after the wedding.
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Labels: A-Random-Five, Jim Does, Mustang, this-and-that
