The "R" Week's prompts: Starts with "R"; A Favorite; and "R"oof.
Starts with "R": "Rainbow" starts with "R". This display was for St. Patrick's Day, March 18, on our trans-Atlantic cruise. Mrs. Jim came down with the COVID-19 on the 17th, I was Positive on the 22nd.
That 17th, the 6th day ruined the rest of our 16 Day cruise. Mrs. Jim was "isolated" in the 'isolation ward' for the rest of the time, plus another day at the Holiday Inn Express in Portsmouth in the U.K. I had to spend the entire week there (so we both stayed, but Mrs. Jim could walk around outside).
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Rainbows, the sign of the covenant between God and the earth (the Bible, Gensis 9:14-17 [link])
A Favorite: The Real Thing, a Real Rainbow. Our back yard from 1999 until 2015, the Green for Hole # 11 on the Weiskopf. I could see that it had dropped down into a sand trap on #15.
"Roof", Tom's word choice: The Red Roofed houses and buildings of Dubrovnik, Croatia. (More Croatia and Dubrovnik Here)
Lagniappe # 1:
This one's our daughter Karen's Race Car, it's
a 1982 or so Pine Wood Derby Racer, we still have it
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Karen did most of the work, Mrs. Jim and I were consultants for her.
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She won first place. Of course technology has improved since then so it probably couldn't keep up with the modern cars. Dad (me) was the chief speed advisor, he drives fast too (160mph on the German Autobahn,) for her project. Mrs. Jim did the fashion painting advice. Karen did [most of] the work.
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Please enlarge the picture by clicking on it so you can see the driver pretty good. The driver is a piece of lead fishing weight, carved to precision weight with the car weighing 1 ounce less than the maximum.
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The paint is acrylic blue with a red, green, and blue butterfly on the hood. There's a rainbow at the rear, and some green growth with a flower on the deck lid. If we were smart, we could have sensed a tree-hugger growing up here with us.
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Weight distribution is 63% in the rear wheels, 37% up front. The uplift in the back functioned better than a spoiler in keeping the car hugging the track surface. Many cars tipped and fell off or tumbled, hers went straight down the slotted hill track.
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Also compare it with Cliff's grandson's car (link for enlargement, link for Tuesday, April 24, blog post with the picture and write up). His car did good too! .
It would be interesting to race these two cars now, '82 model vs. '07. Twenty-five years difference!
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Reflections and/or Street Captures: These are my finding at the Ends of the Rainbow!!
Lagniappe # 2: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "M", I left off at "L" in February, through "R" (I've been to at least 76 countries):
Where First Times
Maldives 2020
Mauritius 2020
Mexico 1956
Monaco 2007
Mozambique 2020
Netherlands—Aruba(yes), Curaçao(yes), the Netherlands and Saint Maarten(yes)—are constituent countries , we've not been to "The Kingdom of The Netherlands"(no) Island Country itself.
New Zealand 2014
Norway 2009
Oman 2020
Panama 2003
Peru 2015
Poland 2003
Portugal 2005
Romania 2013
Russia. 2006
- Click Here for all countries I've visited.
The 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.
Labels: Croatia, First Times, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, Rainbow, Reflections
# posted by Jim : 5/06/2022 08:16:00 AM
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