Friday, May 05, 2023
Letter "R" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "R"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "R"obust.
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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| Houston Chronicle page D7, March 24, 2023 |
Starts with "R": "Rhyme" starts with "R". This Comic, "RHYMES WITH ORANGE", is one of the ones I have on my 'Read Daily' list, the others are: FAMILY CIRCUS; ZIGGY; PEANUTS; F-MINUS, ARGYLE SWEATER, MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM, HAGAR THE HORRIBLE; BEETLY BAILEY; B.C.; and BLONDIE. Some days I also read BIZARRO; none is top on the list unless it's BEETLE BAILEY because I have pity on his life as I was in the U.S. Army for five years.
The Army did however merit a job, me a college dropout, with Ford Aerospace Engineer using my Army 43-week schooling in their NIKE Missile Fire Control Systems Maintenance School. There I was third in my class of 47 students. I used that job for 19 years, ending as a Senior Aerospace Engineer at the NASA Houston Johnson Space Center; that was until I changed careers to be a College Business Professor.
A Favorite: Recipes would be my favorite today. I have them scattered on my various blogs, both in use and mostly dormant now. These links will get a few of my favorites,
Do that with my other blogs as well. Some have a "Label" for "recipe". Here for this blog:
And for another blog still. My favorite Recipe here is the "Jim's Quick and Easy Apple Pie".
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Being a "mid-term bachelor", i.e. single, for three years, I developed as many shortcuts as I could to save my precious time between work, sometimes 50 or 60 hours a week, during astronaut time in space, and other. (I worked in the "Mission Control Center" at the NASA Houston facility.)
You may run into a Recipe for Jim's Easy Stuffed Bell Peppers when you are viewing the others. I made that yesterday for a noon lunch, they turned out really good. There are some pictures I took too, for when I put that on 'again'.
A Lagniappe: So I developed a "Quick and Easy" method of cooking. One example is my microwave cooked egg. James thought that sounded good. Here is my recipe for "Egg and cheese sandwiches":
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These are the Last two pieces of my egg and cheese sandwich.
I cook the egg in the microwave in a sprayed dish of bread slice size (if it's a lot smaller, you can slice the cooked egg through the middle and make thinner pieces to fit the bread). Cook the egg for 66 seconds at 60 percent power.
Stir the egg a bit before until the yolk and the whites are in close proximity throughout. (If you just wish to eat an egg fast cooked, don't stir, leave the yolk be in the middle and cook for 56 seconds.)
Cover either way while cooking as it may "pop" one time, or more.
Use one slice of toasted bread for open face, two for a regular sandwich.
When finished cooking lay a slice of American cheese on top while still hot in the dish.
Remove it and lay it down on the cheese (I use one slice of American cheese) on the prepared toast.
Then, or earlier, prepare the bottom slice with low fat mayo, the top with a couple of restaurant packs of catsup. Slice into two pieces.
Voilà!! A wonderful sandwich in less than 10 minutes preparation, even for two. You could embellish with a slice or two ham, chicken, or even a sausage patty. They are good on a biscuit if you have some.
Tom's suggestion, "Robust": "Seven Extremely Robust Car Brands and Why You Should Buy Them" URL . These Seven Extremely Robust Car Brands are
1. Toyota
2. Subaru
3. Ford
4. Chevy
5. Dodge
6. Jeep
7. (Seems that Mr. Gordon only had six in his list
but had seven in his title and writing???)
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| Our younger daughter lives across the street from these houses |
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| Looking to the west, we live about a half mile deeper than what you see |
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| Before there were homes here it was cultivated rice fields--these are 12 and 13 years old |
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| Its purpose is water retention as flood control |
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Our Beagle dog, Adi, would have loved this walk. |
Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I thought I'd share some of our walk pictures with you. Over three miles. Both Mrs. Jim's and my doctor's orders, not known to each other, are to walk a half hour and to do those five days a week.
Guess we doubled up this time because this walk took well over the doc's half hour. That might be a bit far for some of you but we are getting in practice 'in case' we go more traveling this summer.
All this and more walking trails are within a three-mile radius our home.
Not only our hearts got warmed but our entire body.
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The Fine Print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.]
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Traveler" (click here, Link, 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.
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Traveler" (click here, Link, 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).
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Labels: Cars, Cartoons, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, Recipes, Reflections, Walk pictures
