Friday, July 25, 2008
Have you had your car read lately? #001
Let's get started. Perhaps you'll want to send me a picture of your car or a part of it.
"Funny Girl"
[large picture] [super sized]. First of all, this car belongs to a woman who just might be single. That or else she has a bad case of wishful thinking--this is blatant, you know.
Where to do you shop for such a display of mixed comedy and fact, call it satire? (I can do that, I wrote this.)
Obviously this lady frequents places of ill repute, such as tattoo parlors and magic shops. Why do I say this? Look closely, it is copyrighted by 'bad habits.'
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"The Clincher"
[large picture] [super sized] .Of course I had privy to this sticker on the other end of her bumper before you saw this one.
You can see that she is single. Any good Texas husband (Texas license plates here) would not allow a sign like this on their property.
Our lady is a careless Democrat, having no respect for her party.
Otherwise she would have replaced this sticker immediately, without passing go. This is just plain bad advertising.
A can of spray paint would color over those black marks and scratches on her unsightly bumper. It was unfortunate that there was unwanted contact (a felony in Texas) but at least heal the wound so she won't have to think of it so much.
I could go on, but I won't bore you any more today. Perhaps you have some observations of your own for the comments.
** This is not an original idea. Reading cars came from a sermon I heard last Sunday, brought by Dr. Roger Yancey, Director of Missions, Tryon Evergreen Baptist Association, of which our church, First Baptist Church of Conroe Texas, is associated. I believe my count of 118 was pretty close (link, you can check yourself).
I saw a few cowboy churches and quite a few Hispanic churches. All are within a 35 mile radius of our home.
Labels: Blogging, Car Reading, Cars, Jim Does, People, Places, Preacher friends, Signs, Things to know, Travel
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
June Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No, it's a naughty July, 2008, bug
[large picture] [super sized]I caught this little guy on the outside looking in!
What was he seeing?
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Oh well, I can't win them all.
But what can I say, I found this naughty guy in Colorado
Labels: Colorado, Humor, June Bug, Signs, Travel
Monday, July 21, 2008
From Blogstock cornfields to Colorado hills, plains, and mountains -- Colorado Holiday Part I
Click on any picture for a large size. Changing the "s800" in its URL Address to "s1600" and clicking "Go" at the end makes it 'super sized.'
Yes, I am finally posting the first of two Colorado pictorial travel journals. This one will be travel to meet our friends. We traveled from Blair Nebraska to near Telluride, Colorado. This was done leisurely in two days.
My first picture/view of note on our ride is Linoma Beach on the Platte River before coming into Lincoln. Here us three guys would bring the pickup (Dad's 1950 which I had for my last bit of college and the first dropout days) with coolers, blankets, food, etc, in the back.
We would rent a boat, put supplies in, row out and up stream, then just drift for an hour or so. Most times we would do that all over again. Other times, we would just lounge around on the beach and swim a little.
This arch was over Interstate Highway I-80, at Kearney, Nebraska I believe. My Nebraska readers might correct me here. Oklahoma does better, they have a McDonald's inside their arch over I-44 (Will Rogers Turnpike) (link) which is billed at the largest McDonald's.
Then we had our last Runzas at Ogallala, Nebraska. One for each of us and one for the road. There are four Runza Restaurants in three other states (click for maps).
In Colorado we would stop and see my cousin, Bud, who lives in Longmont. We had a very nice visit and got to meet his son and DIL whom we had never met before. We reminisced a lot, we seldom get to be together. Bud left Nebraska right after he got home from Korea and made his new home there in Longmont.
We drove right through Denver, around the northwest side on I-76 [Colorado - link] again. Denver really isn't all that big, especially for people from Houston and Dallas.
The night was spent in Dillon, Colorado, west of Denver a few miles. We got in after dark but had no trouble in this small town. It is modern yet pretty.
This is the view we had the next morning looking south from our motel window.
The scenery was nice, we didn't tire of the mountains. Before long we were tagging along with the Arkansas River. That is a busy little river, rafting is a favorite activity on it.
We had a couple of more stops before we would be at our friend's home near Telluride. Guess which one was high on our list?
Almost last was gas at Montrose. I wasn't used to 85 octane except for the E-Gas but our friend said it works for them like our regular because of the high altitude. That was over 9000 feet above sea level in the 'hills.' Anyway we treated the car nice (it belonged to our friends we were visiting) and put the middle grade in.
We called them from Montrose and met them in Ridgway (link). We ate then headed to the ranch for a nice evening of settling in.
The next Colorado post will be of our visit with our friends at their ranch. Labels: Colorado, Colorado Holiday, Friends, Jim Does, Places, Travel
Sunday, July 20, 2008
For the wedding reception (our newly married great niece and husband):
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Let them give glory to the LORD
And declare His praise in the coastlands.
Isaiah 42:12 (NAS)
Labels: Kids, Married Life, Sunday, Texas
