Friday, May 17, 2024
Letter "T" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "T"; A Favorite; Tom's request, "T"rio; and For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "T": Trees, they fell right and left during out during our really rough thunderstorms.
"HOUSTON (AP) — Power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston, an official warned Friday, after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city, knocking out electricity to nearly 1 million homes and businesses in the region, blowing out windows on downtown high rises and flipping vehicles.
The National Weather Service said it confirmed a tornado with peak winds of 110 mph (177 kph) touched down near the northwest Houston suburb of Cyprus in Harris County.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the county’s top elected official, said crews were still trying to determine the extent of the damage and the number of casualties from Thursday’s storms. Houston Mayor John Whitmire said four people, and possibly five, had died.
“It was fierce. It was intense. It was quick, and most Houstonians didn’t have time to place themselves out of harms way,” Whitmire said at a news conference."
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A fine "Trio", Me (Jim), Ado. and Mrs. Jim [A trio of three make for a pair. Two Pet therapy teams.] Tom's request, "T"rio: This is a picture of our dog, Adi with Mrs. Jim and I in 2005. She was a purebred female tri-color beagle. Adi was our younger daughter's dog. She had thought her new apartment allowed dogs but then she found that they did not allow beagles. So Adi had to come to live with us. That is me, Jim, on the right, and Mrs. Jim on the left. All three of us had just passed our therapy dog examinations. Whew! This is Montgomery Intermediate school, where all three of us would tutor sixth grade reading students. That year Adi and I also visited folks in an assisted living home on Tuesday afternoons. She was well liked there. We heard a lot of dog tales (worked to be a pun here) from these residents, mainly about dogs that had to stay at their former homes or were in their earlier lives. A Favorite: Adi is retiring from Pet Partners .  . Dear Jim,Thank you for notifying us. We will be sure to honor Adi's past contribution to our Pet Partners Therapy Animal Program in our Interactions Magazine, and "Pet Partners, Retired" on our web page. Warm Regards, Kelly Schnitzmeier -----Original Message----- From: (Jim and Mrs. Jim) Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 6:56 PM To: Info (Pet Partners Headquarters) Subject: Retirement Information Request To whom it might concern: My dog and I will not be renewing our certification this year. Adi, the dog, is now 16 years old and has two major problems which make it hard for her to visit. First, she is VERY hard of hearing. Second, she has severe arthritis in her back legs. I would like to have her classified as being retired if that is possible for us. Dog: Adi Breed: Tri-color Beagle, a female Age: 16 Co-team member: James Hov... (me) ID #: 51... When we first started my wife, (Mrs. Jim) was also certified with Adi. Due to her having many other volunteer responsibilities she was unable to continue with Pet Partners. She was active though, while a member. Mostly she and Adi tutored reading students who needed help. Wife, former co-team member: (Mrs. Jim -- ID # 51...) - - - Additionally, I do thank you for the certificate you sent of in appreciation of our work together, Adi and me. It was for nine years of service. Thank you very much. Jim |
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: Conversation like buddy, buddies
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods 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.
- 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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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, By Adi, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Reflections, Weather
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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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.  |
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For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: Adi 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.
- 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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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, By Adi, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Reflections, Walk pictures
Friday, May 12, 2023
Letter "S" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "S"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "S..."
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
These Segways aren't for sale, you can rent them.
You are seeing my first ride on
one of these wonderful fun machines.
Roger, Luke, and Mrs. Jim stood in the shade
while we tried the Segways out.
Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: Adi appreciated the yard as a nice place for her walk but I don't think she really appreciated the rain as much as we did. Rain had been very scarce that year.
Check her out in the second picture as she patiently waited for me to finish taking She Shed and other back yard pictures. Adi died at age 15 after a good life of being our friendly pet Beagle dog. We also were a Pet Animal Therapy Pair. Read more here, Adi's Meme.
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Starts with "S": Letter "S" starts for She Shed. This was Cousin Mary's a few years before she replaced it. Above is Mary's potting and garden Shed. She spent a lot of time here doing things to keep the yard so pretty. In addition to the flower beds you see she also grew few rows of vegetables.
We all had a nice visit. Of course with Southern hospitality we had plenty to eat. I had a nice ham sandwich and chips. Mrs. Jim had brought a Key lime pie and she very nicely divided it into eight pieces. Mary's sister, Nellie and husband had brought some citrus fruit from the Florida orchards, so we all had a tangerine.
Mary died in December, 2020, a couple of years since she bought her new She Shed. (Her obituary, URL) We attended her funeral and visited with her family, probably for the last time.
A Favorite:
These Segways aren't for sale, you can rent them.
You are seeing my first ride on
one of these wonderful fun machines.
Roger, Luke, and Mrs. Jim stood in the shade
while we tried the Segways out.
Tom's suggestion, "Silence": This Segway machine is very quiet, one could sneak up on a person, it transports its rider in total Silence. They rented them in Telluride, Colorado, and I was next for a test ride. Neither of us rented.
Check her out in the second picture as she patiently waited for me to finish taking She Shed and other back yard pictures. Adi died at age 15 after a good life of being our friendly pet Beagle dog. We also were a Pet Animal Therapy Pair. Read more here, Adi's Meme.
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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: Adi, Adi Can, Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, Meme, Reflections
Friday, December 02, 2022
Letter "V" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
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| Fourth of July Parade photo -- Adi likes |
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "V"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Vibrant".
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "V": Volkswagon car starts with the letter "V". My 1962 VW Bug was the 9th of 32 cars that I have owned/and or used. I used the Bug for my work car in going to and from the NASA Space Center from 1965 to 1970. Then I blew the engine about 75 miles west of Houston; I had a friend tow me back into town and I rebuilt the engine on the Bug. See my car list here:
1970's VolksWAGON Bugs, found in Montevideo, Uruguay, January 1, 2017.
[Click on the pictures for a larger view. Back button returns to here.]
We were making a pit stop potty-wise, and not many places were open on the New Year Holiday. Not even MacDonald's. But this gas station was kind and loaned us the use of his facilities
This Little Red VW find was a beauty in my book. I'd like to have seen and heard it run. I believe it is used for street purposes. Street racing? I'm too old for that now though my Mustang GT strains at times, but I hold it back.
A Favorite: A slug-bug at that! This one's a 1955 Volkswagen, my 1:18 die cast toy car. Supposedly the toy gas pump belongs to Mrs. Jim, but I keep it with my toy cars. (see my Bug Collection)
Tom's suggestion, "Vibrant": Adi, our deceased Beagle dog exhibited Vibrant behavior when she rode in our Golf cart or the car whenever she sensed she was nearing a destination that was fun for her. Or excited sometimes just riding.
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| As seen on Houston TV's K P R C last night |
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A Lagniappe: [Click on the Photos for larger sized viewing]
Adi liked riding but she tried to back seat drive.
Another Lagniappe:
Adi's Retirement picture:
A Notice: Now that Thanksgiving has past, I am posting Christmas Trees and Christmas oriented items on my Christmas Tree Farm blog. See them at
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (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.
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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Reflections
Friday, September 02, 2022
Letter "I" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's posting prompts: This "Week's Prompts, Starts with "I."
A Favorite. - "I"ce.
Adi died in 2012. She and I were a Pet Therapy Team. She loved to visit the elderly and also children. We regularly visited an Alzheimer Wing of the assisted living facility most residents loved her too. She also was a "Reading Dog", we helped children learn to improve their reading skills.
- James' wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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Starts with "I": Ain't she cute! "Icicle " starts with "I". We got down to 22°F that 2007 night here, so we dripped the outside faucets.
Look closely for the Icicles. The big one, about 18 inches long, fell from the faucet and broke. I have a piece of it sitting on the sprinkler pipe. The other icicles (not Adi's) are on that weed to Adi's left, your right.
A Favorite: The horses here are purebred Icelandic horses. They have a carefully guarded strain. Part of that guard is to keep horses from another country from coming in. Furthermore, once an Icelandic horse leaves the country it is very hard, and often impossible to bring these horses back into the country.
The horses are beautiful. They are pictures I took from our tour bus window last June during our Iceland cruise stops. We had three stops in Iceland from our Transatlantic, Pacific Princes ship, cruise from NYC to London. We also stopped in Halifax and made two more stops in northern Scotland. You can read more about the Icelandic horses here.
Tom's word choice, "Ice": Blue Bell is our favorite brand of Ice Cream. Blue Bell originated in Texas but now has spread fairly well over the U.S. We mostly buy the Homemade Vanilla and the Peppermint with Chocolate chips.
Kroger has a nice store brand Ice Cream that we also like, Kroger Private Selection. Of those English Toffee Caramel is our Favorite
Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I had hoped the red roses on the two sides of the pool would reflect. But they didn't. I think my Red Eye filter killed them.
A Lagniappe: Here are three other pictures that I took on one of our Iceland stops. The snowcapped mountains at the bottom were taken from the ship pointing towards the mainland. We were somewhere near the Artic Circle then; we did cross into it.
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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: Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Iceland, Reflections
Friday, July 01, 2022
Letter "Z" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
[New cat in the family]
Starts with "Z";
A Favorite; and
Tom's choice, "ZZZ".
From James:
Weekend Reflections/Street Photos
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[New American Encyclopedia,
Grammar, Rhetoric, page 25,
c. 1908, P.F Colier & Son]
Starts with "Z": Zeugma, a.k.a. Syllepsis, starts with the "Z". A grammar term that means omitting an implied word, a verb or noun, which the reader by the mind presumes is there. I don't think we had this in grammar school nor in high school. Did you?
["as seen on TV" advertisement video]
My pictorial example for Zeugma. They were all seated at the table and began eating, and the dog. [what was the dog doing, it also was at the table eating.]
A Favorite: Pets will be my favorite today. This posting may be going to the dogs anyway.
This is Adi, our therapy dog, reading with BP
She specialized in reading with children
and visiting assisted living residents"
Adi died September 17, 2012 (read my tribute to her here)
Adi was born September 1, 1996. Read Adi's blog post here.
Tom's choice, "ZZZ": "ZZZ", I was getting my Z's, a little snooZe, but then Jim came along and by his commotion woke me up.
Dutch, a Blue Russian cat, belongs to my younger daughter and youngest granddaughter. He's still fairly new to our family.
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Lagnaippe: I can't leave the Alphabet with telling of Katrin . She was our Toy Poodle dog, who died in November 2014. We miss her very much also. (Adi and Amber go for a walk)
(A search here for the word, 'Katrin')
(A search on my "other blog" for 'Katrin')
Read of "Princess BP's" tale about Katrin being naughty with the toothpaste.
Go here --
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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: Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Cats, Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Katrin, Naughty Katrin, Reflections
