Saturday, May 22, 2010

Well Gosh — Six Word Saturday — A Trackside Find — Have you had your car read lately? #019


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"Back On The Train"

When I jumped off, I had a bucket full of thoughts
When I first jumped off, I held that bucket in my hand
Ideas that would take me all around the world
I stood and watched the smoke behind the mountain curl
It took me a long time to get back on the train

Now I'm gone and I'll never look back again
I'm gone and I'll never look back at all
You know I'll never look back again
I turn my face into the howlin' wind
It took me a long time to get back on the train

See my face in the town that's flashing by
See me standing at the station in the rain
See me running there beside the car
I left it all behind, again I'll travel far
It took me a long time to get back on the train

When I jumped off, I had a bucket full of thoughts
When I first jumped off, I held that bucket in my hand
Ideas that would take me all around the world
I stood and watched the smoke behind the mountains curl
It took me a long time to get back on the train
It took me a long time to get back on the train
It took me a long time to get back on the train

song by PHISH (link)

But don't hold your breath

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Birthday Girl — MidWeek Blues — Megan, our granddaughter

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Guy's blue shirts were the order of the day, just for MidWeek Blues (of course). This was on a midweek day, last Wednesday, as well

We met at an Olive Garden Restaurant out on I-10 West. It was Megan, her dad Tim, her sister Jeanna, her beau friend James, grandparents Jim and Mrs. Jim, cousin KP, her Aunt Karen and Uncle Billy, and Jeanna's friend, Shawn.

I did get most of their pictures. The first, above, is of Megan and James.

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Here on the left we have Megan (right) and her sister, Jeanna.

On the right are our three granddaughters, Jeanna, Megan, and KP.

KP is wearing the new University of Texas cheerleader dress and undies that Megan gave her. Megan is a grad of our U/T (link). She puts to work her degrees (B.S. Business and M.A. Accounting) and CPA credentials by holding down a very nice job.




Finally we have
proud grandparents Mrs. Jim and me (Jim),
dad Tim, and Megan.


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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Mrs. Jim's pantry, a little QUIZ — Ruby (Red) Tuesday

My question is, "What all is behind this door?"

Answering that would take a long time because we are looking at the door to Mrs. Jim's kitchen pantry. We could narrow that down to, "what is red?" Better for Ruby Tuesday.

There still is a lot of stuff in there so next I will show you the shelves on her 'spice rack' fastened to the inside of the door.

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This is the inside of the top two shelves.

You can see there is some red there. She was just given the three bottles of black peppercorn; two are flavored.

My more simple question of the day is, "What is inside the yellow plastic bag on the second shelf above? What is the red stuff inside used for?"



Here you can see the other four shelves. Mrs. Jim is pretty good at organizing her stuff. She will get a good rating for that on her upcoming annual performance review.

There is a little story behind her organization. When I retired (Mrs. Jim had already been retired for two years--that for sure gave her a set routine which I promptly busted) I offered to organize her kitchen for her.

I for sure thought she would be grateful for my help. A lady had written a magazine article I had read that the fist thing her husband did when he retired was to organize the kitchen. This lady was grateful, very grateful enough to write the article.

Mrs. Jim was not so grateful. In fact she said that I should organize my own junk and then I could help her with hers. That first part will never happen. Someday the kids may retire and do it for me.

Now for the answer to what is in the yellow plastic bag question. It is not berries. They go in Mrs. Jim's refrigerator.
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Hint: they are used for flavoring Wassail and other cinnamon drinks. A cheap sweet source of cinnamon here.


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for a better look.

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of other interesting RED finds today.
Mary is in charge there, you can see more or post your own from there.

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