Friday, February 25, 2022
Letter "H" - Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "H". A Favorite. "Hat".
Starts with "H": Could you ever have guessed what is in this big box that stays on a closet shelf for our bedroom? It is full of my Hats, many more than the average lady has.
A Favorite: The Mustang Hat was one I was given by Ford the day we came to do consumer test runs on the new model Ford Mustang GT and/or a Ford Edge SUV.
Tom's pick, "Hat": Once more I have given my sister, Lois, this moth-eaten Hat. She doesn't know it yet but she will find it soon I am someday. It is under something, something that goes with her back to Iowa. I put it there when I visited her at her grand-daughter's home here in Houston one fall.
I don't know how old the Hat is but when I first got hold of it was in 1978. It was the year my niece, Barb, was married. Our daughter, Karen, was four and she was the flower girl.
Karen made it up to the front of the church but then when she saw her Aunt Lois (my sister) she sat down beside her and there was no more flower girl.
When we were ready to leave the church no one was there except Lois's, my parents, and our family. This hat was hanging on a coat hook and I asked Lois about it. She said it had been there for a couple of years.
I took it over to her house when we left. I hung it on her hall tree and promptly forgot about it. The next time she came Houston way she brought it down to me. I really didn't want it but I had it.
So the next time we went up to see her in Iowa I brought it back up and left it in her house without telling her. From that time on for several years we had the game of "bring the hat and hide it in your house." That is why I am calling it "our" old Hat.
I think the moth holes came while at her home. It was old but in nice wearing shape when I found it in the church.
It has been at our house now for quite a few years without me trying to get it back to her. But that has ended, for now.
This article's beginning was in a previous post I wrote earlier this year before this latest trade. Read the earlier one here (link) .
My favorite everyday hat, made of Canvas Cloth.
Made in Guatemala, I purchased it in 2006 while visiting Guatemala from a street vendor. I really like it for walking, attending outdoor sports, and for riding top down. I wore it this morning while watching KP's soccer game. It keeps my ears out of the sun which a ball cap won't.
It does double duty in top down because it doesn't blow off in the breeze. If it tried to blow off I would use its chin string. Good for riding top down in my '98 Ford GT Mustang Convertible or while playing golf to keep the sun off my tender skin and freckles.
Also "I" think it makes me look younger. People say I don't look nearly as old as I am even without the Hat.
A Three Favorites: These hats pictured above are three of the oldest Hats in our house. On the left is a Hat that Dad sometimes wore in the nursing home. It says "Sugar Daddy." I don't know why he wore such a tattered had when he had some really nice ones.
In the middle is the moth-eaten Hat that Lois and I take turns having in our homes. Then on the right is my old golfing straw hat for summer golf. It was wet from a rain and lost its form so I had to get another.
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Only once one year out of the six since we moved here, and on a terribly cold morning I dug into it to retrieve my Russian winter Hat. That's it hanging on the left upper corner near the box. I took it out for you to see.
A Favorite: The Mustang Hat was one I was given by Ford the day we came to do consumer test runs on the new model Ford Mustang GT and/or a Ford Edge SUV.
I only drove the Mustang, we drove around on a track set up using orange cone borders. The Ford lady was hanging on real tight. I left with two Mustang Hats but one has been lost or filched.
Tom's pick, "Hat": Once more I have given my sister, Lois, this moth-eaten Hat. She doesn't know it yet but she will find it soon I am someday. It is under something, something that goes with her back to Iowa. I put it there when I visited her at her grand-daughter's home here in Houston one fall.
I don't know how old the Hat is but when I first got hold of it was in 1978. It was the year my niece, Barb, was married. Our daughter, Karen, was four and she was the flower girl.
Karen made it up to the front of the church but then when she saw her Aunt Lois (my sister) she sat down beside her and there was no more flower girl.
When we were ready to leave the church no one was there except Lois's, my parents, and our family. This hat was hanging on a coat hook and I asked Lois about it. She said it had been there for a couple of years.
I took it over to her house when we left. I hung it on her hall tree and promptly forgot about it. The next time she came Houston way she brought it down to me. I really didn't want it but I had it.
So the next time we went up to see her in Iowa I brought it back up and left it in her house without telling her. From that time on for several years we had the game of "bring the hat and hide it in your house." That is why I am calling it "our" old Hat.
I think the moth holes came while at her home. It was old but in nice wearing shape when I found it in the church.It has been at our house now for quite a few years without me trying to get it back to her. But that has ended, for now.
This article's beginning was in a previous post I wrote earlier this year before this latest trade. Read the earlier one here (link) .
A Lagniappe: another "Hat" 
My favorite everyday hat, made of Canvas Cloth.
Made in Guatemala, I purchased it in 2006 while visiting Guatemala from a street vendor. I really like it for walking, attending outdoor sports, and for riding top down. I wore it this morning while watching KP's soccer game. It keeps my ears out of the sun which a ball cap won't.
It does double duty in top down because it doesn't blow off in the breeze. If it tried to blow off I would use its chin string. Good for riding top down in my '98 Ford GT Mustang Convertible or while playing golf to keep the sun off my tender skin and freckles.
Also "I" think it makes me look younger. People say I don't look nearly as old as I am even without the Hat.
In the middle is the moth-eaten Hat that Lois and I take turns having in our homes. Then on the right is my old golfing straw hat for summer golf. It was wet from a rain and lost its form so I had to get another.
Lagniappe No. 2: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "H":
Where Times
Hong Kong Once when we had a 23-Day tour of China in 2002 as a part of my bucket list.
Hungary Again, only one time in 2000 in an East European Road trip. That ended in Oberammergau for their annual Passion Play that then they were only performing it on years ending in "00".
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The Fine print stuff:
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- 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 all countries I've visited.
- Click Here for all countries of the world.
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