Friday, October 15, 2021

Letter "P" -- -- Weekend Roundup

THE SIXTEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "P" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "P"; (B) "Peaceful" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; and (D) A Lagniappe.  

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(A) Starts with the Letter "P":  Pumpkin.  Pumpkins are used a lot when coming to mind for "P" words.
  Harvest is in and Halloween is beginning to bear down on us.  Pumpkins for eating and for Jack-o-lanterns.  

  


 

(B) The word, Peaceful (Tom's choice)  We chatted with our friends until the Parade started. 
(C) A Favorite:  Pebbles.  Pebbles belonged to Mrs. Jim when we were married.  She was a Chihuahua little dog and was used to half of Mrs. Jim's bed for sleeping before we married.  After that she was relegated to sleeping in her basket placed in the open closet.  

The dog in the picture was her dog later, a Toy Poodle named Katrin, given to her by a friend who was dying.  

Katrin died in 2014, we had her for a nice nice and enjoyable friendship.




(D.1) A  Lagniappe:  After moving to Bentwater,  north of Houston, we mostly went to our subdivision parade. We called it a golf cart parade although there were a few cars and motorcycles also. Not many bicycles.

[click once or twice on most any picture for larger viewing]

This was my Favorite float golf car, Entry No. 68. You might recognize the occupants, GC#4 (a.k.a. BP), Adi, and Mrs. Jim. They worked hard on the decorations, Karen and I helped some. I always got the job of blowing up balloons.

And those airplanes?

Just look below.

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We hardly missed a Fourth of July parade. Nor did we miss the fireworks. Friendswood always had great one too, generally a light show. Mrs. Jim and I reminisced tonight as we watched our subdivision fireworks. One year we went to the Red River in Alexandria, Louisiana. where they had a nice boat light parade as well.

We went home after the parade and had hotdogs. 


(D.2) A Second Lagniappe:  Principalities I have visited in that begin with "P":   (I forgot last week to post the "P" countries, so here are the ones that we have visited. 

    Panama -- Cruising Norwegian style through the Panama Canal (a bucket list item)   -- 

    Peru -- On our Princess Cruise around Cape Horn from Los Angeles to Buenos Aires, Brazil  

    Poland -- Several times, first a Grand Circle land tour of the former Eastern Europe countries from Frankfort Germany to the Passion Play in Oberammergau, Germany in 2000, then several cruises and driving adventures

   Portugal -- On a Princess Cruise to the Canary Islands

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Fine print stuff

 - [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]

 - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews) 

 - I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).

 - The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law. 

 - Click Here for countries I've visited.

# posted by Jim : 10/15/2021 08:31:00 AM
Comments:
some good shots, living in the country we don't see and parades, unless you count the deer or turkeys, that
that come walking thought :)
I miss eating HOT DOGS. :(
have a good weekend
# posted by Blogger jel : Fri Oct 15, 12:14:00 PM 2021
 
...PUMPKINS, PARADES, PEBBLES and POODLE are a great collection of P words. Golf carts sure a BIG thing iin southern state. Thanks Jim for joining the PARTY! Take care and enjoy your weekend.
# posted by Blogger Tom : Fri Oct 15, 07:09:00 PM 2021
 
I see you had a Poodle as well and myself Jim in your post although mine is huge is comparison. All great shots. Have a wonderful week ahead.
# posted by Blogger Margaret Birding For Pleasure : Sat Oct 16, 06:43:00 AM 2021
 
I enjoy parades! I missed them last year. Hopefully the Christmas parade will return to our tiny town this year. Have a wonderful weekend.
# posted by Blogger Betty J. Crow : Sat Oct 16, 07:04:00 AM 2021
 
a good selection Jim! I almost envy how the Americans celebrate Autumn with pumpkins and parades....and halloween
# posted by Blogger Cath : Sat Oct 16, 05:33:00 PM 2021
 
Hi Jim, I always enjoyed going to parades. When I was in high school, I was in the marching band, so we always were in the local parade. My daughter marched in the Rose Bowl parade one year with her high school back in the 90's. She played the flute, but she also was one of the Drum Majors in the marching band. We don't have many parades around here anymore, sort of sad. I love pumpkin pie! Have good week!
Dawn
# posted by Blogger vesselsmemories : Sun Oct 17, 09:50:00 AM 2021
 

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