Friday, August 31, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 09-18(b) (for letter "I") -- Reflections too
The 35th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
The week's prompts:
(1) Starts with "I"; (2) A Favorite; and (3) Inside
(4) Picture on the bottom is for "Reflections"
(4) Picture on the bottom is for "Reflections"
(1) Starts with "I": Island starts with "I". We used this Island as a prop in our VBS (Vacation Bible School at our Church) group this summer. We had third grade kids, 19 of them in our class. The class numbers went from "A" to "J" so there must have been about 200 3rd grade children total.
Our story was the story of David, who rose from a shepherd of sheep to the King of Israel. As king, he was "Captain of his ship" for sure. The theme used a series of stories of David as he ruled his country.
The side story series was of a Captain of his ship having the problems a captain might need to overcome. David had similar but in a more serious vein type problems. (And the ship story the Island was a temporary haven. One of our adult class members made this Island, Thank You John.)
I'll tell the them of the story here: The dog loved to ride, he ranted on how happy he was to get out with the traffic. In the last frame his care giver tells him that they haven't moved for hours because they were stuck in a traffic jam. That didn't phase the dog, he just liked to be in the car having an activity.
If you can't read that explanation and want it, try highlighting the blank area above.
The party costume is homemade, Mrs. Jim's creation: black sweats wearing white stockings over our heads; and a lamp shades for the hats; finally Lamp pulls hanging on our noses. Got to turn on the lights somehow.
BTW, our daughter Karin liked the shades and asked for them. She still uses them on a buffet in her breakfast room. Pottery Barn stocks a lot of nice shades, we got these there.
(3) Inside: Ever cut a corn dog open and look Inside? Above is what it looks like. Our nine-year-old granddaughter, KP, likes them this way. Except she uses ketchup and not mustard.
So that gives it away, I sometimes eat them this way as well.
(4) Reflections: Self explanatory, this is the front mounted camera on the Cruise Ship, Royal Princes. You can see all the Princess ships' cameras views here. https://www.princess.com/bridgecams/?shipCode=pa
The link should open with Pacific Princess as that is our favorite Princes ship. We took it from NYC to Iceland on to England and again on another cruise over into the Black Sea to the Ukraine. Those and the cruise from Los Angeles down to the Antarctic and back up to Rio de Janeiro (on another Princess ship) Brazil.
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- I am also linked this week with Weekend Reflections, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
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Labels: 2013-Venice-to-Athens-via-the-Black-Sea, 2016 South America, KP, Reflections, Weekend Roundup 02
Friday, February 09, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 06-18 (for letter "F")
Weekend Roundup items for the week:Starts with "F"; A Favorite; and Flower
(1) Starts with "F": Fruit starts with "F". So does "Foot Loops", we'll start with that. My lead picture (above) is of KP holding a box of Froot Loops, she was standing in front of the Acropolis at Athens, Greece. 
KP was only four in that picture, now she is eight.
And now Froot Loops also come in round boxes, pour milk and eat. She had one for breakfast this morning.
Below is a full picture, our daughter took both of these.
She and Karen accompanied Mrs. Jim and I on a cruise from Venice, Italy to Istanbul and on into the Black Sea where we made three stops. Most every day we stopped. The cruise ended in Athens where we made our last excursion, that one ended at the airport.
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(3) A Flower: Our backyard Hibiscus did not survive a recent cold night. We haven't dug it up but have cut back all the limb ends. The entire plant now looks dead. We have already decided to start the Hibiscus with a new plant.
Before: the Snow before the Freeze:
(4) Some Lagniappe: Ford emblem Starts with "F". It was found at https://www.globalcarsbrands.com/ford-logo-history-and-models/ where on the Home Page I also found emblems for Fiat and Ferrari. 
I was the original owner Mom's, it was a Ford Employee lease car which was turned in for a 1975 model. As a Ford employee with over 15 years seniority at the time I was able
The picture on the right show four of my cast iron 1:16 scale model Ford cars. Shown clockwise are a 1956 Ford Sunliner Convertible (I bought one of these new), a 1937 Ford Convertible (for a short time my first school car was a 1937 Ford Tudor Sedan), a 2003 Ford Mustang GT Convertible--mine is a 1998), and a 1966 Ford Mustang Convertible (I almost bought one of these from a friend who was moving for $200.00).
I have over 30 cast iron 1:16 model cars, many of which I have owned a real car similar, most are Fords. I like Ford cars. Also I was a Ford Aerospace Engineer for 17 years, working first at El Paso, Texas, then New Hampshire for three years, and for the last 14 years of my tenure at the NASA Manned Space Center, Houston, Texas.
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Labels: 2013-Venice-to-Athens-via-the-Black-Sea, Cars, EM, Flowers-buds-plants, Food, Grandchildren, Jim Does, Kids, KP, Mustang, Weekend Roundup 01
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Warm Heart Wednesday ~~ No. 004 ~~ We Travel, # 001
When we travel, some things make my heart warm. Generally I take a picture on the spot, some I will review, blog, and Warm My Heart again.
Warm Heart Wednesday for the week of December 11 through December 18. Click here, http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/ for links of others or for directions to join with a post of your own. Ms. Jenny there is our teacher.
In 200 Mrs. Jim and I visited England. Our kids, Karen, KP, and Bill lived there in London then, for five years. We stayed with them for quite a while but would travel on side trips while we were on the Continent.
We visited our friends, Graham and Marian who live in Northamptonshire. That involved a short train ride up to Milton Keynes from London, where our friends picked us up.
One of the things we did there was to visit the Spencer mansion at Althorp. (link) Althorp is where Princess Diana of Wales grew up. Now, after her death in 1997, Princes Diana is buried in a small lake in the top picture. [You may click on any picture to make it larger. The back button will return you here.]
Pictures taken on our Princess cruise from Venus to Istanbul,
over to the Black Sea, and back past Istanbul over to Athens, Greece
Top row: Three generation picture. KP and Karen came with us, BP in the picture taken before we left was already starting school. She graduated last spring and now is in college.
KP loved the ship and the ship activities. Food too, pizza was her favorite. Even for breakfast. KP single photo, left, was taken in The Ukraine at the mansion where the Yalta Conference (link) was held in 1945.
Dogs were everywhere, especially in Istanbul. Mark Twain remarked about them in his letters back to California while on his European cruise, from New York city and back (my prior blog). Back then it was Constantinople.
Monks still live in these mountain top monasteries. We visited two of them on our way back to Athens.
Cars, three in the U.K.
Top: Left, a part of a boutique display in a London Market. Right, this little car was parked on the street near Paul McCartney's home. I don't know its make. Other London cars appearing on my blog (link).
Bottom: This old Morgan belonged to some visitors at Althorp (above). We parked near it when we came but it was gone when we left.
Labels: 2013-Venice-to-Athens-via-the-Black-Sea, Kids, KP, Travel, Travel 2, Travel3, Warm Heart Wednesday
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
My Alphabe-Thursday (5th), the letter "Y" — Some places I've been starting with "Y"
"Y" is for some places, countries and cities starting with the letter "Y" where I have traveled:
- No Countries (Yemen is the only country beginning with "Y" and we haven't been there). No States at all begin with "Y".
- States
Yaroslavl, Russia -- We stopped off at Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, on our Moscow to St. Petersburg Viking River Cruise.
Yalta, Ukraine -- We visited Yalta in August, 2013, on our Venice to Istanbul to the Black Sea and back to Athens, Greece Pacific Princess Cruise (link). Yalta's city population is 80,500 but the metropolitan area population is about 139,500.
- We docked at Yalta in the morning of August 16, 2013. After breakfast we boarded a bus and headed for the Livadia Palace outside Yalta. We traveled a little over an hour to get there. It was there that the 1945 Yalta Conference was held by the big three leaders to discuss post warm WWII, plans to rebuild Europe.
Following are some pictures. On this cruise, our daughter, Karen, and our four-year-old grand-daughter, KP, came along with us. KP loved the kids' program that Princess had for them.
Mrs. Jim likes clocks, especially older ones. and has several in her collection. She liked this one. I am not sure if it was there for the Conference or if it was added later as room furniture.
Our ride back to Yalta was uneventful. We traveled down the coastal road and the scenery was beautiful. There were some old mansions along the highway and the road was great.
We took a short excursion ride through town and over to the ship where we had lunch before going out for the afternoon.
- No Countries (Yemen is the only country beginning with "Y" and we haven't been there). No States at all begin with "Y".
- States
Yaroslavl, Russia -- We stopped off at Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, on our Moscow to St. Petersburg Viking River Cruise.
Yalta, Ukraine -- We visited Yalta in August, 2013, on our Venice to Istanbul to the Black Sea and back to Athens, Greece Pacific Princess Cruise (link). Yalta's city population is 80,500 but the metropolitan area population is about 139,500.
- We docked at Yalta in the morning of August 16, 2013. After breakfast we boarded a bus and headed for the Livadia Palace outside Yalta. We traveled a little over an hour to get there. It was there that the 1945 Yalta Conference was held by the big three leaders to discuss post warm WWII, plans to rebuild Europe.
Following are some pictures. On this cruise, our daughter, Karen, and our four-year-old grand-daughter, KP, came along with us. KP loved the kids' program that Princess had for them.
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"The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea." (Read more)
Our ride back to Yalta was uneventful. We traveled down the coastal road and the scenery was beautiful. There were some old mansions along the highway and the road was great.
We took a short excursion ride through town and over to the ship where we had lunch before going out for the afternoon.
We had a little rain shower before we could reach the ship.
There wasn't any lightening so being under the tree was fine for us.
This was my favorite salad aboard the Pacific Princess.
It is a Scallop __? ? ?__ Salad
The Pacific Princess is going to Alaska for one trip this summer. Right now they are finishing filling it up with bargain fares. (Link to Princess) An interior room is going for $299 and a window will be $399.
The Pacific Princess is one of their two Small Ship cruise boats having a passenger capability of about 680. I think we knew about half of them by the end of our two-week cruise (from Venice, Italy, to Istanbul into the Black Sea and them back out to Athens, Greece).
The sister ship is the Ocean Princess. The original Pacific Princess was the Love Boat but this one has replaced it nicely.
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- Jenny is now on her tenth series of Alphabe Thursday. With 52 weeks in a year and 26 letters in the alphabet she is now in her fifth year. I am linked to her blog, GO HERE for more participants and their offerings.
Labels: 2013-Venice-to-Athens-via-the-Black-Sea, Alphabe-Thursday [5th], Jim Does, Jim's Life, Travel 2
