JIM'S LITTLE BLOG

. Here they are,

. The Mad Potter calls it

.GC#4 decorated a nice plate for her collection,

.This is the store front, in a strip mall

. There is a similar pottery painting

Mrs. Jim worked hard on painting

We didn't get to meet the owner,

but she had a really nice write-up

in the Houston Business Journal.
So far she has opened at three

Houston locations.

Her Web site is (link).

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. The Mad Potter brochure

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And St. Remy's Biscuit & Biscuit

(front and back sides).

At Biscuit & Biscuit there are all kinds of

nice drinks. Our favorite is to have

coffee or tea with cookies.

I had a nice current scone with my coffee.

And used the Internet for a very

economical price.

When you go to Saint Remy in Provence, France,

please visit the Biscuit & Biscuit;

say hello to the owner/operators, Jill and Joy.


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That was just about a day in itself. But not with they younger set.

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Next was and the Alamo Drafthouse. That is a movie house where the chair rows are separated by tables in front of each seat. The menu had drinks (even beer), pizza, and sandwiches. I had a 'western' chicken sandwich, Mrs. Jim shared a pizza with Karen.

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GC#4? She and her friend who came along had French fries and Cokes. The two girls and Billy shared two pitchers of Coke. We forgot about that or the three of us could have had at least one pitcher of Diet Coke for about the same price as the two glasses we had.

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I forgot, there was a movie. It was Over the Hedge, an atrocious animated animal action film. If it wins an Oscar it will be for the animation, not the script. Famous actors did the voice track. William Schatner (alias Denny Crane-link), high on my list, did the Possum character script.

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The Houston Chronicle critique, Amy Briancolli, disagreed. She gave it three and a half stars out of five [The best thing from DreamWorks since Shrek--link]. Besides Shatner, there were Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Nick Nolte, Avril Lavigne, and a host of others doing the voice work.

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After the movie we visited for a while. Yesterday they had birthday cake at their home. Karen said GC#4 "made her own chocolate cake with buttercream frosting and then lots of chocolate frosting for decorations.... A great sugar rush! She decorated it all by herself!"

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This blog is running a little late today, sorry midwesterners. You must be hiding from the rains and doing blogging. I will have a lot to read. Blogger was slow this morning doing pictures, that didn't help.

DAILY STATUS REPORT:

Health check--blood pressure/heart rate 127/64/57 . . . . 1:55 P.M.
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To Do--Pay bills, blog, work on cleanup from taxes, vacation, etc

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**The game's formal name is forty-two. This game is played with double six dominoes, it is very common in Texas.

For the rules and playing strategy, buy the book, Texas 42. The rules and order information are on-line at (link). We play the for points version.

Labels: BP, France, Grandchildren, Houston, On My List

# posted by Jim : 5/22/2006 04:27:00 PM