Friday, March 01, 2024

Letter "I" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures

This Week's Prompts: Starts with "I." A Favorite. 
For Tom, "I"ce". 
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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You can see the frost build up and it was
defrosted a couple of weeks ago.

Starts with "I":  Our small freezer is beginning to be an Icebox, as it fills with frost way too fast.  I think perhaps the door seal has worn.  Icebox starts with the letter "I".  Read here, in Wikipedia, about the early iceboxes, "the non-mechanical refrigeration appliance".  I don't remember ever seeing one, as we lived on a farm and didn't get electricity until 1938.  At the same time the folks purchased a refrigerator.   



A Favorite: These are a couple of Ivory Carvings the Mrs. Jim inherited from a retired military officer's wife.  They sit on a bookcase shelf in our living room now.  Ivory cuttings are the death of the elephant many times because the illegal hunters kill for them.    [I may take another picture in the morning with better light.]

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[click on the picture to better see the Ice piece of sitting on the pipe]
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For Tom, the word, "Ice":  Ain't she cute! We got down to 22°F that night in 2007 shown here, so we dripped the outside faucets.  [Adi was our Beagle dog, she died in 2012.]

Look closely for the icicles. The piece of
Ice you see sitting on the pipe was from a big icicle about 18 inches long that fell from the faucet and broke. I have a piece of it sitting on the sprinkler pipe. The other icicles are on that weed to Adi's left, your right.

A Lagniappe:  

"Blue Bell Light Homemade Vanilla" was our favorite for a long time.  Back when Blue Bell was shut down due to a bacteria run loose in their plants.  Finally, this Light variety, was the last to start production, months behind the regular flavors.  It was also Adi's favorite. (link). But after the COVID Blue Bell stopped making it.  That was when we stopped eating Blue Bell brand altogether.   

[click on any picture for larger size] [link for super sized

For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid CapturesAdi and I found this pretty pool on our walk this back in 2008.There was not a cloud in the sky that morning!

 

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The fine print

 - [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large] 
 - I am linked with Tom of "Back
woods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Comments:
Good reflection.
 
...we have an old wooden ICE BOX.
...today IVORY carvings are a no-no!
...I remember renting a cabin IN the Adirondack when we went skiing and the faucet had to run so the pipes wouldn't freeze.
Thanks Jim for stopping by, be well.
 
Pretty reflection, cute dog! I remember ice boxes from childhood vacations. We rented a cottage that had an icebox, and my parents had to buy a block of ice for it.
 
Nice shots! I was reminded of defrosting the freezer when I was a kid. I enjoyed doing for some reason.
 
Thankfully ivory carvings are outlawed now but as for the ice cream sadly I am dairy intolerant but my favourite is rum n raisin.
 

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