Thursday, October 13, 2022
Letter "O" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- James' wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
Reflections: You may have noticed a dark something in the top photo. It is this small duck swimming along. I'm not sure where they were for the lower right, probably the same park. But obviously it was near sunrise for all the pink. Sunset?
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| The above models of old trucks are on display in my auto mechanic's waiting room. |
Starts with "O": "Old" starts with "O". I like Old cars, I have Mom's 1974 Ford Mustang II Ghia and my 2001 retirement present, a used 1998 Ford GT Convertible with 49K miles. The '74 will be 50 years old in 2024 and the '98 will become a Classic or Antique that same year.
I also had a nice unrestored 1950 Ford Deluxe Tudor showing an odometer reading of 102K miles but I sold it as a sacrifice for garage space in 2015 when we moved to Katy.
Note: I once had another 1950 Ford Tudor, black like this one back in 1965. It was sort of my hobby car, not club or anything like this time. It also was original except for the dual exhausts.
[picture of a toy 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe, a cast iron model of my first car]
[I have quite a few cast iron 1:18 scale toy cars, this one included.]
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I also have a collection of toy 1:16 scale models ranging from a 1928 Model A Ford pickup to a 2003 Ford Mustang. Most are of years of cars that I have owned. (See a list of the cars I have owned, click here.)
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| My favorite Ford Mustang Convertibles [click on a picture for larger size] |
The car I owned before going into the Army was a 1956 Ford Sunliner like the model in the upper left corner.
The very first car that I owned was a 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe like my die cast model one here. The old gas pump is a toy also.
The above models of old trucks are on display in my mechanic's waiting room.
A Favorite: This Old Nebraska farmhouse was where I was born. Dr. Lukens came out from Tekamah special for us, his bill was twenty-five dollars and Dad paid him in potatoes, a year's supply. We were poor but our potato garden outdid itself JUST FOR ME to be paid for.
The house was small, four rooms with two porches. I slept in the smaller upstairs bedroom until I was five. My sister was born then and I had to use the front porch as my sleeping room so she could have the second bedroom. Grandpa and Dad screened it in and put storm windows all around. They did a good job but it was not heated, nor cooled except for opening the windows.
My dad was a small boy when it was moved from several miles away. That was probably around 1920. I was there until I left for college 80 miles away at Lincoln, Nebraska. There I had a small, rented room with my mother's aunt and her daughter. She rented two other rooms, one was Tom, a college student from my high school class. He had a new car, a red Ford convertible in which we would ride home a few times.
My parents lived in the old house until they retired and moved to town. Grandpa had owned the farm which went to my parents after he, then a widower, passed away. The house remained empty until my sister and I sold the little farm of 120 acres. Racoons had taken it over until the new owner bulldozed it down and then burned the pile.
I took this picture while in a visit home, Mrs. Jim and I, in the mid 1970's. The small building behind the back porch was used as a wash house before my parents married and moved to live on Grandpa's farm as a share crop tenant.
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| Photo and print from The American Gem Society |
Tom's choice, "October": Opal is my mother's middle name. And it is my birthday stone for which will be the next to last day in October.
October now also has the tourmaline stone which some men like because it is more masculine in presentation. I have neither but would prefer the original. Read all about the Opal here from the American Gem Society.
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| Photos of Tyler State Park, Tyler, Texas on our PBS TV "Texas Parks and Wildlife" program |
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| [Click on pictures for larger view] |
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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 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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Labels: Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Jim's Life, Reflections, Travel, Walk pictures
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