Friday, January 19, 2024
Letter "C" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "C." A Favorite.
For Tom "C"loud.
Tom's "Cloud": Pretty Cloud Lining
For James Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
From left to right, my inherited watch, Mrs. Jim's father's clock, and my grandfather's pocket watch. Grandpa had hocked this clock when he needed to come back to Nebraska after having found the soil was for miserable farming soil, full of rocks as well.
A Favorite: Mrs. Jim has a nice Clock Collection for an amateur.
I have three clocks, an "atomic clock" still in a box, a Western Union rectangular wall clock pictured here, and the 'inherited watch' also above. Technically Grandpa's watch is mine as well as the kitchen clock in my growing up home. I inherited the wall clock. My parents, former owners, were married in 1932. The ones you are seeing are all in Mrs. Jim's collection.
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Starts with "C": Well, I 'have' a Corvette. Last week, the "B" post, I mentioned that a Corvette was on my Buckett List. Yes, I 'have' it, a toy, but it belongs to my younger daughter, a Barbie Doll Corvette. She left it here with most of her toys.
Mrs. Jim inherited these traveling clocks.
This clock was in the kitchen of our farmhouse growing up. My parents received it as a wedding present. Note in its location photo, left, is another clock in the upper right, possibly my grandparents.
Mrs. Jim inherited these three furniture top clocks as well.
Mrs. Jim inherited the antique clock on the left, the history is on the note behind the front door, see below. We purchased the newer Emperor clock on the right. I had to assemble it from mail order although they were also selling these models in kit form.
The note on the door on the bottom left above was pasted on.
It tells that the History a little of the Antique clock above to the left. The note reads,
- Thomas Whipp (maker), Rochdale Long case clocks, 1820-1842 (sources I found said "circa 1770")
- Rochdale is 10 miles North of Manchester
- Purchased in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 5 July 1965
I have three clocks, an "atomic clock" still in a box, a Western Union rectangular wall clock pictured here, and the 'inherited watch' also above. Technically Grandpa's watch is mine as well as the kitchen clock in my growing up home. I inherited the wall clock. My parents, former owners, were married in 1932. The ones you are seeing are all in Mrs. Jim's collection.
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| May your dark clouds have silver linings! (my, Jimmiehov, photo) |
Tom's "Cloud": Pretty Cloud Lining
James' Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: Moody Garden's "South Atlantic" presentation in Galveston, Texas, courtesy of TV Channel 2, KPRC in Houston, Texas.
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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: Antiques, Birds, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Reflections, SkyWatch Friday, Toys
Friday, July 08, 2022
Letter "A" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
[This is Amber]
Tom's posting prompts, for This "Week's Prompts Starts with "A." A Favorite. "A"pple:"
James wishes for our
Reflections and/or Street Photos
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[New American Encyclopedia,
Motor Vehicles Briefly Discussed,
page 431, c. 1908, P.F Colier & Son
for sure an Antique book]
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Starts with "A": Automobile, now also called Car or Auto, starts with "A". This would be a typical Auto back in 1908, 114 years ago.
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I have a Reflection of the TV interview showing on the Coffee Tabletop and unintended, my foot selfie was in the picture. This is my pretty one, the other has as crooked and webbed toes. The two Hamer Toes are from having a car running over them, and then stopped for a bit while I was screaming at the driver to pull up.
A story. We were on the way home from Oregon back to Nebraska. We stopped at Presho, S.D, the town where Mom was born. I mentioned to my parents that I had seen as sign in the window of a small cafe saying, "Home Baked Pie". We all laugh, an inside joke, when "home baked pie" comes to someone's thinking.
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The Fine print stuff:
- The Antique Book had belonged to my father, likely a gift to him or a hand-me-down. Dad was born in 1910, the book was published in 1908.
- [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: Amber, Antiques, Books, Cars, Cats, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Reflections, Selfies, TV
Friday, March 24, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.3.12-- "L" is for ...
Friday's Hunt for the week of March 24th: Starts with L; Week's Favorite; and Antique
(1) Starts with L: "L" is for Llama. You can help us decide if this animal that I am posed with is a llama or an Alpaca. Mrs. Jim isn't for absolute certain but she thinks it is a an __??__ . She goes by the Length of its ears and neck and height. "L" for Long and "L" for Llama. Not much help, huh?
(3) Antique: This Bombay chest is old but it may or may not be antique. It is a little shakey and has a small cigar sized hole in one end. We have had it a long time, Mrs. Jim bought it from a widow lady who was moving to Florida to be near her daughter.
She also bought six green upholstered dining chairs with Queen Anne legs and brass tacks. Well, ... there was also a fairly large sitting dog, definitely not antique. If we have another antique day here and if I remember I will show these items then.
(4) Starts with L: Some more
"L" is for Leftovers. This half my lunch (on the left). Mrs. Jim had two left over baked and frozen sweet potatoes and a left over small end of a baked pork loin, also frozen, and a left over cabbage, not frozen. Remember that I had already eaten half of my leftover meal before I remembered to take a picture.
"L" is for Long Life. (Enlarge to read the article photo I've posted here at the right.) Scientists are beginning to believe that humans have a maxim age, regardless of modern medical advances They believe that will end up somewhere around age 115. . Do you believe in Science? How about the increasing extremes, warming and cooling, of the weather for the next zillion years? As an ex-rocket science worker, NASA Aerospace Engineer (before leaving to teach), I do for both of these. - - - - -
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The Fine Print: - Teresa of Eden Hills, (click) is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm."
http://www.inlinkz.com/new/view.php?id=705298
(1) Starts with L: "L" is for Llama. You can help us decide if this animal that I am posed with is a llama or an Alpaca. Mrs. Jim isn't for absolute certain but she thinks it is a an __??__ . She goes by the Length of its ears and neck and height. "L" for Long and "L" for Llama. Not much help, huh?
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(2) Week's Favorite: La Madeleine honored National French Bread Day last Tuesday (check it out, click here). All the customers having an La Madeleine App were sent One Free Baguette (large size) with a purchase (really free?). Each of us had a sandwich salad, coffee and a free Baguette.
(2) Week's Favorite: La Madeleine honored National French Bread Day last Tuesday (check it out, click here). All the customers having an La Madeleine App were sent One Free Baguette (large size) with a purchase (really free?). Each of us had a sandwich salad, coffee and a free Baguette.
(3) Antique: This Bombay chest is old but it may or may not be antique. It is a little shakey and has a small cigar sized hole in one end. We have had it a long time, Mrs. Jim bought it from a widow lady who was moving to Florida to be near her daughter.
She also bought six green upholstered dining chairs with Queen Anne legs and brass tacks. Well, ... there was also a fairly large sitting dog, definitely not antique. If we have another antique day here and if I remember I will show these items then.
(4) Starts with L: Some more
"L" is for Leftovers. This half my lunch (on the left). Mrs. Jim had two left over baked and frozen sweet potatoes and a left over small end of a baked pork loin, also frozen, and a left over cabbage, not frozen. Remember that I had already eaten half of my leftover meal before I remembered to take a picture.
"L" is for Lipsync. I took this snap above of the Kelly (and friend) Show while they were doing the WINTER LIP SYNC trivia contest on March 23. I think a lady won a nice trip to a resort. It may have been to an Arizona Dude Ranch that day.
The name for this contest because a dancer in a cage-like stage lip sync sings to the music playing of a song that she is dancing to. This is just before the person is called to answer the trivia question, generally something about the previous day's program or guest.
You can see the sign behind Kelly and her friend of the day, please forgive the poor quality, but note the sign says "Winter". Winter ended on Monday, March 20 with the first day of spring. I.e. we were three days into Spring and the sign had become dated, out of date. I plan to see if they have changed it by next week for Monday's program.
"L" is for Long Life. (Enlarge to read the article photo I've posted here at the right.) Scientists are beginning to believe that humans have a maxim age, regardless of modern medical advances They believe that will end up somewhere around age 115. . Do you believe in Science? How about the increasing extremes, warming and cooling, of the weather for the next zillion years? As an ex-rocket science worker, NASA Aerospace Engineer (before leaving to teach), I do for both of these. - - - - -
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The Fine Print: - Teresa of Eden Hills, (click) is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm."
http://www.inlinkz.com/new/view.php?id=705298
Labels: Animals, Antiques, Food, Friday’s Hunt # 03 - 2017, TV
Friday, February 24, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.3.08 -- "H" is for ...
Friday Hunt for the week of February 24th: (1) Starts with H; (2) Week's Favorite; and (3) Chiaroscuro or shadow.
(2) Week's Favorite(a): This February 24th is our 44th Wedding Anniversary. I posted on Facebook: ( https://www.facebook.com/jim.hovendick )
To see our other Years' "Anniversary" posts, please click here.
The Fine Print: - Teresa of Eden Hills, (click) is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm."
(2) Week's Favorite(a): This February 24th is our 44th Wedding Anniversary. I posted on Facebook: ( https://www.facebook.com/jim.hovendick )
To see our other Years' "Anniversary" posts, please click here.
(1) Starts with "H": This week my "H" is for Horse. Did you know that I rode a horse to high school for my freshman and sophomore years?
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. The ones in the picture I took from our tour bus window last June during our Iceland cruise stops. I haven't posted much about this but 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.
(2) Week's Favorite (b): Our chair is ready to be picked up. This chair he did for free for a class he was taking about recanting chairs. He has offered a reasonable price to redo the other five. One will be more than the others because it is in pieces.
I intend to check the value of a restored chair. They are slightly over 100 years old but I think that they were rather inexpensive chairs when they were purchased way back then. Mom had stored them for her step-mother (Mom's mother, my grandmother, died of the flu in 1917) when the family moved from Tekamah (Nebraska) to Missouri back in the 1930's.
(3) Chiaroscuro or shadow: "Chiaroscuro, the marriage of light and shadow, is primarily used to emphasize details for dramatic effect. It consists of bright light and bold contrasts, hence balance. In Renaissance painting, the technique is used to master human anatomy, formation and structure. The art will often have a heavily darkened background, sometimes reaching out to the darker parts of the subject. Most of the time only the subject is being touched by light."
I don't have great pictures to represent these. I do have quite a few with shadows, perhaps a few with the Chiaroscuro effect to some extent.
Here are three more that I took on one of our Iceland stops. The snow capped 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.
The Fine Print: - Teresa of Eden Hills, (click) is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm."
Labels: Animals, Antiques, Friday’s Hunt # 03 - 2017, Iceland, Jim Does, NYC to Dover Cruise
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Poppy Candle with Tin/Holder ~~ Warm Heart Wednesday No. 013
This is a "Poppy" Candle Holder that I found when I unpacked. It must have belonged to Mom but I can't remember ever seeing it before. It would make a good Valentine.
The candle is center top in the picture above (the wick is melted into the top surface). It fits into the bottom side of candle tin. Close the lid for storage and I suppose for snuffing the candle out also.
I couldn't find one like it on line but there were other bits of Poppy ware. Antiques Road Show would probably say "Two Bucks" but I won't ever be able take it there. I wouldn't sell it for $2.00 either.
Have you ever seen one like this?
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The fine print: Warm Heart Wednesday for the week of February 10. Click here, http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/ , for links of others or for directions to join with a post of your own. There Ms. Jenny is our teacher.
Labels: Antiques, Jim's Life, Stuff to know, Warm Heart Wednesday
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
A blue day — MidWeek Blues — Ford Model A Pickup
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Click here to register your guess. You can take a peek at the other guesses while you are there.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
This light blue Ford Model A Pickup was parked in the Handicap Parking section of our church parking lot during church services. I'd love to have one like this. My guess on the year is 1929 or 1930.
I pushed the blue color but everything you see blue is really blue though some is not as blue as you are seeing.
It's a blue day today. It rained all day yesterday and last night so there won't be any golf today. Bad wintry days can be the bane of a pleasant retirement.
Speaking of guesses, I regret to say my contest isn't coming along very well. I need to publicize it better.
Here is the deal:
That sounds easy. Just guess how many dog biscuits are in my jar.
They're sold in boxes like this. The jar is an antique (almost) from the 1950's.
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I pushed the blue color but everything you see blue is really blue though some is not as blue as you are seeing.
It's a blue day today. It rained all day yesterday and last night so there won't be any golf today. Bad wintry days can be the bane of a pleasant retirement.
Speaking of guesses, I regret to say my contest isn't coming along very well. I need to publicize it better.
Here is the deal:
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How Many Dog Biscuits Are in My Jar?
(winner and correct answer here soon—I will contact the winners)
How Many Dog Biscuits Are in My Jar?
(winner and correct answer here soon—I will contact the winners)
That sounds easy. Just guess how many dog biscuits are in my jar.They're sold in boxes like this. The jar is an antique (almost) from the 1950's.
Although these biscuits are sold for puppies I give them to my adult dogs, Adi (beagle) and Katrin (toy poodle).
I don't give them a whole biscuit at a time so these thin ones break easier.
Okay, now, give it a try. Leave your guess in with your comment. Your last entry is the one that counts.
Oh yes, you can click on the picture to make it bigger. Easier to count? I didn't say that.
I don't give them a whole biscuit at a time so these thin ones break easier.
Okay, now, give it a try. Leave your guess in with your comment. Your last entry is the one that counts.
Oh yes, you can click on the picture to make it bigger. Easier to count? I didn't say that.
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Click here to register your guess. You can take a peek at the other guesses while you are there.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE or BLUE THOUGHT, you don't have to write.
Labels: Antiques, Cars, Contest, Midweek Blues, Midweek-Blues
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Slap her down again, Pa (make her tell us where she's been, Pa) -- Ruby (Red) Tuesday -- Cars
The Ruby (Red) old cars pictures were taken at our October Early Ford V-8 Club picnic. Cars in order (down): 1957 Chevy Belair 2-door Nomad; 1934 Ford Three-window coupe (we ran one of these as a modified stock car in the 50's); 1965 Mustang; and 1935 or 36 Ford Coupe with rumble seat (closed). Click on them for larger size, change the "/s800-h/" to "/s1600-h/" in the URL for extra large .
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Now for this important message:
911 operator just got this message earlier:
"Help, help. Please help me!"
911 operator: How may I help you
Caller: This lady knocked her husband out cold with an eight iron and he crashed the Navigator. He's laying on the grass out cold!
911 operator: Can you wake him up? 
Caller: I don't think so, he's laying on my grass.
911 operator: This sounds like a domestic quarrel, we'll call domestic relations.
New call a few days later:
911 operator just got this yesterday: "Help, help. Please help me!"
911 operator: What seems to be the problem?
Caller: My wife is laying on the floor, I just knocked her cold.
911 operator: Why did you do that? 
Caller: She was terribly drunk and came after me with a knife. I had to defend myself.
911 operator: Don't move an inch, you might hurt her worse. I'll send someone. Stay on the line.
Caller: Help, help. Please help me!
911 operator: What seems to the problem? 
Caller: They've tassered me, the police tassered me, and now I'm cuffed!
911 operator: It serves you right. I can't help you any for that. I think you deserved it. I sent them.
Caller: Please, quick, I need a lawyer, my lawyer.
911 operator: Oops, they just told me that this is your one phone call. Tell the judge in the morning about things. He might let you get your lawyer.
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What's wrong with these two scenes? Can you reconcile them?
Note: I have changed some of the facts and parties to protect the innocent.
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I remember this old hit song on the whole family helping to raise the younger daughters. The above family violence situations reminded me of the song, popular in my younger days. This did not occur in MY family. The song: Slap Her Down Again, Pa Lyrics at allthelyrics.com
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Come here gol-darned you
Take that and that and that
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That's right
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(Chorus):
Slap her down again, pa
Slap her down again
Make her tell us more, pa
Tell us where she's been
We don't want our neighbors
Talkin' 'bout our kin
Slap her down again, pa
Slap her down again
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Well pa and ma were so darn sore
They woke me up one night
There was an awful cussin'
And ma said pa was right
They was awaitin' sister Bess
Who never kept her word
The sun came up as Bess came in
And this is what I heard
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(Chorus)
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Now poor old Bess got so darn mad
She ran away one day
To meet that travellin' salesman
With city-skickin' ways
We ran and stood beside them though
With shotguns by our sides
Me and Deke and pa and ma
Who yelled as they came by
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Why don't you
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(Chorus)
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Now ma and pa, they planned for Bess
To marry Deacon Brown
And not that travellin' salesman
Who always came around
They made poor Bessie go to church
Her face was mighty red
The deacon took one look at her
And this is what he said
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Oh
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(Chorus)
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Unquote
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Doesido
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Oh yes, hot stuff
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Well the moral of this story girls
Is don't stay out too late
Unless you take your shoes off
Outside your pappy's gate
If ma don't hear you comin' in
She won't lay down the law
And you won't have to worry
'Cause you won't see much of pa
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(Chorus)
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Take that and that and that
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Click the Ruby Tuesday button for Mary's Ruby Tuesday post list of other interesting RED finds today. Mary is in charge there, you can see more or post your own from there.
Labels: 911, Antiques, Cars, Humor(?), Ruby Tuesday, The News
