Friday, October 28, 2022
Letter "Q" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests for this Week's Prompts:
Starts with "Q"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Q"uaint
- James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
Tom's choice, "Quaint": On one of our visits to France, 2013, we went to visit Homps, Southwestern France, to ride a canal boat on the Canal du Midi. When we got there we found out that in late April they only ran the afternoon ride so we had to figure out what to do with our morning.
By unanimous vote of we three, Mrs. Jim, our youngest son Tim, and me, it was decided we would visit an old town a bit to the north.
I will show you around that Quaint little town which once had been a medieval fortress city.
[click any picture for large size]
The boat captain (only he and a boat attendant would be working on our little canal boat) has suggested that we drive north to Minerve (link).
That would help but since we couldn't take the tour from there (we wouldn't anyway). Still we had to have eaten and be back to Homps by 1:00.
We made it back in plenty of time for our canal boat ride. All the canal boat ride are posted here (remember to click on a picture once or twice to make any of them larger)
For sure we had not planned on going to Minerve. After our boat ride, our busy day would continue on. Old town, Carcassonne, was next on our journey. See the map below.
We had fun. I wrote more of our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday later.
A Model T Ford
A Lagniappe (1): From a previous Poetry Post on my poem blog.
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a busy day made busier.
Tom's choice, "Quaint": On one of our visits to France, 2013, we went to visit Homps, Southwestern France, to ride a canal boat on the Canal du Midi. When we got there we found out that in late April they only ran the afternoon ride so we had to figure out what to do with our morning.
By unanimous vote of we three, Mrs. Jim, our youngest son Tim, and me, it was decided we would visit an old town a bit to the north.
I will show you around that Quaint little town which once had been a medieval fortress city.
[click any picture for large size]
The boat captain (only he and a boat attendant would be working on our little canal boat) has suggested that we drive north to Minerve (link).
That would help but since we couldn't take the tour from there (we wouldn't anyway). Still we had to have eaten and be back to Homps by 1:00.
Our son Tim came along for this Holiday
Note the cat digging in the garbage
at the restaurant outside eating area.
And what did we eat? These places here were not fast food
and there wasn't a MacDonalds. So we dug into our emergency rations.
That would be peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made in the car,
some cookies, and canned Coca Cola Light.
We made it back in plenty of time for our canal boat ride. All the canal boat ride are posted here (remember to click on a picture once or twice to make any of them larger)
We hope to travel that ride again, it was really nice.
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| [The orange was our afternoon boat ride in the can going to Bourgeois, the blue was our car ride through Province that day] |
We had fun. I wrote more of our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday later.
And the boat ride is here.
Starts with "Q": Quaint definition:
A Model T Ford Garage carport/shed find -- Ruby (Red) Tuesday --
Starts with "Q": Quaint definition by :
After last week's Ruby
My friend, John, asked me if I minded following him to this place. He had left his camera home and wanted some pictures of a car he knew about. I never pass up opportunities to look at old cars so off we went. This is what he wanted to see again, he had discovered them earlier in the year. They are a pair of Model T Ford cars. Either 1926 or 1927, my guess in 1927. In 1927 the Model T had wire wheels standard equipment, in 1926 they were optional. Before that the T's used wooden spoke wheels.
I was surprised and delighted with the find. The last time John had talked with the owner they were not for sale. Times and circumstances since may have changed now. He doesn't know if they could be bought. I suggested that he offer to pay $1000 for cleaning the shed out if he could have the cars and whatever else the family did not want. That means work but John had some grandsons who would really have liked to help grandpa in his quest for more old cars.
I was surprised and delighted with the find. The last time John had talked with the owner they were not for sale. Times and circumstances since may have changed now. He doesn't know if they could be bought. I suggested that he offer to pay $1000 for cleaning the shed out if he could have the cars and whatever else the family did not want. That means work but John had some grandsons who would really have liked to help grandpa in his quest for more old cars.
The one on the right was for sale at a moderate price, $9,950 . It had been restored but before the restoration I imagine it looked very similar to the one John found in the back of the shed.
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The front one is my favorite. Hot Rodders use them to make "T-bucket" hot rods. Most of the originals have been either restored or used up for hot rods. A new fiberglass reproduction body can be had for several thousand dollars
John is deceased now, he died about a year ago. We miss him.
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| Photo from the Houston Chronicle |
A Favorite: Queer? Isn't it Queer to have World Osteoporosis Day so close to Halloween what with all those bones-alone skeletons running around loose?
Reflection: Yesterday late afternoon our sky Quite Pink, from north to south and west to east
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My friend lost a sandal, still had one left.
What good is it having only one shoe?
If you're a bird and have half an island.
It's still an island, only half as large.
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This was taken from our paddle boat in Regents Park, London.
A Lagniappe (2): Isn't this HALLOWEEN Tree Qute! I found it at the Houston Methodist Hospital West yesterday in one of the hallways near an elevator.
Mrs. Jim had been given a steroid shot in her hip and then we visited two friends who were having procedures there, one was outpatient status and the other had back surgery and would be hospitalized for several days. The later hoped to be home for the Baseball World Series games at home, tomorrow is to be the first.
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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: Family, France, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Holiday Posts, Midi du Canal, Reflections, Travel, tree(s)
