Friday, July 08, 2022

Letter "A" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street Captures

[This is Amber]
Tom's posting prompts, for This "Week's Prompts Starts with "A." A Favorite. "A"pple:" 
James wishes for our 
Reflections and/or Street Photos
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[New American Encyclopedia, 
 Motor Vehicles Briefly Discussed, 
page 431, c. 1908, P.F Colier & Son
for sure an Antique book] 

 
[click photo to enlarge]
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Starts with "A":   Automobile, now also called Car or Auto, starts with "A".  This would be a typical Auto back in 1908, 114 years ago.
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A Favorite:  Amber was the Family Favorite until she died and Dutch (featured on last week's blog) came.  Amber stayed with us when Karen assignment turned her to London.  Karen stayed five years but Amber died before the five-year assignment was finished.  
[Click here to visit other Amber postings on this blog] 





Tom's choice, "Apple":   "One bad Apple can spoil the whole bunch. 


Reflections and/or Street Photos:  Did you watch the British "Royal Ascott" horse racing this June 18th? 

I have a Reflection of the TV interview showing on the Coffee Tabletop and unintended, my foot selfie was in the picture.  This is my pretty one, the other has as crooked and webbed toes.  The two Hamer Toes are from having a car running over them, and then stopped for a bit while I was screaming at the driver to pull up. 


A Lagniappe:  We had Apple Pie for 4th of July lunch.  It was home baked by Mrs. Jim; it was a Marie Callender's "Ready to Bake" latticed apple pie entry we had found on sale at Kroger's.  

A story.  We were on the way home from Oregon back to Nebraska.  We stopped at Presho, S.D, the town where Mom was born.  I mentioned to my parents that I had seen as sign in the window of a small cafe saying, "Home Baked Pie".  We all laugh, an inside joke, when "home baked pie" comes to someone's thinking.

So:  We stopped and had pie (I had Apple, what else?) and coffee; the pie was very good.  I mentioned to the waitress that with so many pies they all must make them at home before they come to work.  She said, yes, we do bake them, they are Mrs. Smith's.  Yes, we agree, Mrs. Smith does make very tasty pies.
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The Fine print stuff: 

 - The Antique Book had belonged to my father, likely a gift to him or a hand-me-down.  Dad was born in 1910, the book was published in 1908.

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

 - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link is 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. 
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