Friday, September 17, 2021
Letter "L" -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections
Lucky Little Cat named Sugar Bear
THE TWELTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "L" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "L"; (B) "Landscape" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "L": Little Leprechaun
.We caught him! This is the mean Little Leprechaun who pushed me down the stairs while we were visiting in Ireland. I ended up falling down a few very hard stairs. The fall knocked a finger out of joint and broke my right kneecap. I'm still recovering. Read about that nasty incident (click here)
This is from BP's Snow Globe collection (click here). I'm wondering if she still has that collection. Now she has graduated with Bachelor's and Master's degrees and has a very good job, seventeen years later. The little June Bug leprechaun was found hiding out in a gift shop in Killarney.
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(B) "Landscape" (Tom's Choice): The beautiful (not) Landscape viewed from the rear window of the overhead railway train going from C Terminal over to B Terminal ar the Houston Bush International Airport.
(C) A Favorite: This Lucky Little Cat is named Sugar Bear. She was a stray and my BIL took her in when she was a stray who was camping in the back yard.
(D) Street/Reflections: College students waiting for (___you name it___). Taken while driving by the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee.
(E.1) A Lagniappe. Lucius apples in bins for sale at our Kroger Grocery Store.
(E.2) A Lagniappe. A Leading cause
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Fine print stuff
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link 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: BP, Cats, Driving Pictures, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Humor, Ireland, leprechaun, Reflections
Friday, April 07, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.3.14 -- "N" is for ...
Friday's Hunt for the week of April 7th: (1) Starts with N; (2) Week's Favorite; and (3) Blue
(1) Starts with N: "N" is for New. New plants for the backyard. We had a hard freeze in January and the Hibiscus didn't make it. The Rabbits ate our pansies long ago (link to my children's poem about that). So now we have New Vincas in the beds. Plus in the one bed showing we have Lilly of the Nile plants that Mrs. Jim brought here from our previous house in Montgomery for this one bed.
So now our backyard is looking pretty nice again. I can't wait until the natural water temp get warmer in the pool. KP has already tested it.
We also put in a new to us Palm tree to replace the one in the center of the ones beside the back fence. This one is a Silver Palm that is winter resistant, supposedly.
(2) Week's Favorite: I found this Driving cartoon on one my FaceBook friend's pages. I can't remember who, but it floats around I'm sure.
Mrs. Jim seems to be more concerned with my driving since we moved out of the country and back in to YUPs (Young Urban Professionals) land.
Most of the YUPs drive really fast and dart in and out of traffic. Not the peaceful Montgomery setting she's used to driving in.
I think that goes both ways, she may not. We both are good drivers.
(3) Blue: These Blue Sky pictures I took coming back from Washington, D.C. after our January visit with BP (blog link).
And then I found this picture I had taken, I don't remember why though, that I took it. But the Blue packaged cookies are to die for but the red ones are too sticky as the filling is some cooked up sticky-jelly-like concoction.
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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=706616
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So now our backyard is looking pretty nice again. I can't wait until the natural water temp get warmer in the pool. KP has already tested it.
We also put in a new to us Palm tree to replace the one in the center of the ones beside the back fence. This one is a Silver Palm that is winter resistant, supposedly.
Mrs. Jim seems to be more concerned with my driving since we moved out of the country and back in to YUPs (Young Urban Professionals) land.
Most of the YUPs drive really fast and dart in and out of traffic. Not the peaceful Montgomery setting she's used to driving in.
I think that goes both ways, she may not. We both are good drivers.
(3) Blue: These Blue Sky pictures I took coming back from Washington, D.C. after our January visit with BP (blog link).
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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=706616
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Labels: BP, Cartoons, Flowers-buds-plants, Friday’s Hunt # 03 - 2017, Jim Does
Friday, February 17, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.3.07 -- "G" is for ...
Friday Hunt for the week of February 17th: (1) Starts with G; (2) Week's Favorite; and (3) Pink
(1) Starts with G:
"G" is for Grandchildren. Last week's trip to Washington D.C. was a grandchild visit, we went to visit BP. KP, our youngest Grandchild and her parents also came along, Karen (our daughter) and Bill (SIL).
Pictured at right are BP and KP at the skating rink on Saturday afternoon. In these pictures are also BP's three roommates. They live in a Georgetown U. apartment. Note also that KP is skating with a Penguin, which is an aid for helping beginning skaters to remain upright while skating.
Graham Crackers -- What do you see in the right hand picture? I see two boxes of Graham Crackers, same brand, one smaller than the other one. What does this mean?
Kroger has downsized the size of the crackers to fit, resulting in a "savings" from 16 oz in the boxes to 14.4 oz making the smaller box workable. So have other brands (link). Martha Stewart has a recipe for making your own. I'll let you know if I make some (link)
Green RV, I don't know the make but it is not a Jeep, parked at our Kroger Grocery store along with the other cars.
Grocery Cart: Full of savings, this Grocery Cart is. We saved $101.00 and had a payment for the reminder, $67.97.
I wish we could do this every day, but that is the way things work. Our local Randall store was going out of business and everything in the store was 50, 60, or 70 percent off.
Ginger Plant: These bromeliads (???) were sitting in the window of the United Airline Lounge at the Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. Note the Capital building behind the departing plane. We took the picture through the window, from above the plants.
At first I thought they were ginger plants but now I have decided that these are probably bromeliads. If you read some of the following, it's hard to tell.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/publications/Creating-the-Tropical-Look.pdf
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZQt6sdKU8 ]
We had a row of ginger plants on the property line at our former Montgomery hom (link). For a long time we didn't know what they were, just a plant given at Mrs. Jim's Mom's funeral and afterwards we turned it into an outdoor plant. These truly were ginger plants and had bulb type roots similar to the ginger roots found in the produce section of the grocery stores.
(2) Week's Favorite: Galentine Day (also a "G" word) at our LaMadeleine restarant. The Gals could get a buy one, get one meal. We, Mrs. Jim, the Gal, and I had the sampler plate.
And we drank lots of coffee
[clicking picture enlarges it to 'reading size']
(3) Pink: a Pink Guitar (makes this post ALL "G" words). This is a KP's Christmas present from Mimi and Papa.
It includes guitar lessons for some time. Some time is rather uncertain, but that all depends on the progress KP is making.
[click on picture for larger view]
We aren't planning on her doing this:
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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=697917
(1) Starts with G:
Pictured at right are BP and KP at the skating rink on Saturday afternoon. In these pictures are also BP's three roommates. They live in a Georgetown U. apartment. Note also that KP is skating with a Penguin, which is an aid for helping beginning skaters to remain upright while skating.
Graham Crackers -- What do you see in the right hand picture? I see two boxes of Graham Crackers, same brand, one smaller than the other one. What does this mean?
Kroger has downsized the size of the crackers to fit, resulting in a "savings" from 16 oz in the boxes to 14.4 oz making the smaller box workable. So have other brands (link). Martha Stewart has a recipe for making your own. I'll let you know if I make some (link)
Grocery Cart: Full of savings, this Grocery Cart is. We saved $101.00 and had a payment for the reminder, $67.97.
I wish we could do this every day, but that is the way things work. Our local Randall store was going out of business and everything in the store was 50, 60, or 70 percent off.
Ginger Plant: These bromeliads (???) were sitting in the window of the United Airline Lounge at the Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. Note the Capital building behind the departing plane. We took the picture through the window, from above the plants.
At first I thought they were ginger plants but now I have decided that these are probably bromeliads. If you read some of the following, it's hard to tell.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/publications/Creating-the-Tropical-Look.pdf
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZQt6sdKU8 ]
We had a row of ginger plants on the property line at our former Montgomery hom (link). For a long time we didn't know what they were, just a plant given at Mrs. Jim's Mom's funeral and afterwards we turned it into an outdoor plant. These truly were ginger plants and had bulb type roots similar to the ginger roots found in the produce section of the grocery stores.
(2) Week's Favorite: Galentine Day (also a "G" word) at our LaMadeleine restarant. The Gals could get a buy one, get one meal. We, Mrs. Jim, the Gal, and I had the sampler plate.
And we drank lots of coffee
[clicking picture enlarges it to 'reading size']
(3) Pink: a Pink Guitar (makes this post ALL "G" words). This is a KP's Christmas present from Mimi and Papa.
It includes guitar lessons for some time. Some time is rather uncertain, but that all depends on the progress KP is making.
[click on picture for larger view]
We aren't planning on her doing this:
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=697917
Labels: BP, Cars, Eating, Family, Flowers-buds-plants, Friday’s Hunt # 03 - 2017, Jim Does, KP, Music, Travel 7
Friday, February 10, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.3.06 -- "F" is for ...
Friday's Hunt for February 10, 2017: (1) Starts with "F"; (2) Week's Favorite; and (3) Heart
( 1) Starts with "F": "F" is for 'Fantabulous "F"'. These are three of my Fantabulous Four Friends . Mrs. Jim, Karen (missing here), KP, and BP
Adjective Definition, fantabulous: 1.Definition: very good; of the highest quality
Related Adjective(s):excellent, ripping, splendid http://adjectivesstarting.com/definition_of/?adjective=fantabulous
(2) Week's Favorite: Washington, D.C, beckoned us. We went to attend the Georgetown University's production of "The Phantom Tollbooth" which was produced by our granddaughter, BP. BP is now a sophomore at Georgetown. Of course we had front row seats.
At the right is one of the four theatres at Georgetown University. BP's production was a part of the ________ Building.
If you haven't read the book, I think that you will like it. A little like each of Alice in Wonderland and of The Wizard of Oz. Here is as synopsis of that book. Written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, it was published in 1961. "Though the book is on its face an adventure story, a major theme is the need for a love of education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth
On Saturday Morning BP lead us with a group of others on a Campus Tour. One of her part time jobs is with the Admissions Office who is responsible for Campus tours. We had the best campus tour I can remember having.
(3) Heart : I have always admired Peter Max. He paints many Statue of Liberty, American Patriotic emblems, Angels, and Hearts. He has donated his painting, "Angel with Heart" to the Heart Institute housed in St. Luke's Hospital, Houston Medical Center.
Max also sells a poster sized print of this picture. One of his "Angel with Heart" poster pictures is on my Bucket list.
You can read more of Peter Max and his painting and this one at my 2007 blog posting, "My very own Peter Max" (link).
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More Georgetown pictures:
Our tour guide said the Secret Service was not happy with this cannon as no weapons are allowed this close to the Capital buildings. Finally a compromise was arranged and now this is the closest piece of artillery to the Capital area.
...........................We walked through this building, ground floor.
The classrooms are nice.
..................We ended our tour at the Bookstore, just like they end up at the gift shop on the commercial tour. Each of the girls were rewarded by Bill with a new water bottle with the Georgetown University logo.
It was at the book store that I found out from a phone call from my sister that my cousin, John, had died. John stayed at home in Nebraska. We were nine cousins, all grandchildren from my dad and his three brothers. Don, Bud, Lois, Ione, and I all moved away to Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Arkansas, and me in Texas.
We did not get up to the funeral but do plan on going to the midlands in the summer. My sister comes to Texas regularly to visit her daughter and family, a husband, three grandchildren, in-laws, and a great-grandchild, and ME, her brother.
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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=696679
Mrs. Jim and the sisters, my grandchildren. BP is holding KP
[Taken at the Tombs Restaurant in Georgetown, Washington D.C. before the play]
( 1) Starts with "F": "F" is for 'Fantabulous "F"'. These are three of my Fantabulous Four Friends . Mrs. Jim, Karen (missing here), KP, and BP
Adjective Definition, fantabulous: 1.Definition: very good; of the highest quality
Related Adjective(s):excellent, ripping, splendid http://adjectivesstarting.com/definition_of/?adjective=fantabulous
(2) Week's Favorite: Washington, D.C, beckoned us. We went to attend the Georgetown University's production of "The Phantom Tollbooth" which was produced by our granddaughter, BP. BP is now a sophomore at Georgetown. Of course we had front row seats.
A framed Billboard poster for the play -- A couple of lines from the play
[click picture for larger size - click again for larger still]
At the right is one of the four theatres at Georgetown University. BP's production was a part of the ________ Building.If you haven't read the book, I think that you will like it. A little like each of Alice in Wonderland and of The Wizard of Oz. Here is as synopsis of that book. Written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, it was published in 1961. "Though the book is on its face an adventure story, a major theme is the need for a love of education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth
On Saturday Morning BP lead us with a group of others on a Campus Tour. One of her part time jobs is with the Admissions Office who is responsible for Campus tours. We had the best campus tour I can remember having.
At left is a classroom and ahead is the Admissions Office where our tour started.
One might say "No help is needed" but KP was ready, willing, and able to offer BP a hand.
(3) Heart : I have always admired Peter Max. He paints many Statue of Liberty, American Patriotic emblems, Angels, and Hearts. He has donated his painting, "Angel with Heart" to the Heart Institute housed in St. Luke's Hospital, Houston Medical Center.
Max also sells a poster sized print of this picture. One of his "Angel with Heart" poster pictures is on my Bucket list.
You can read more of Peter Max and his painting and this one at my 2007 blog posting, "My very own Peter Max" (link).
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More Georgetown pictures:
Our tour guide said the Secret Service was not happy with this cannon as no weapons are allowed this close to the Capital buildings. Finally a compromise was arranged and now this is the closest piece of artillery to the Capital area.
The Georgetown University Chapel. When the Pope comes to Washington D.C. he attends worship services here. Former Vice President Bidden also attended here, most every Sunday. When KP was standing in front of these I was thinking of her when we went to Dubrovnik (Croatia). She would name the chapels there by the number of bells they had. This would be a "One Bell Chapel." (link)
At right, on entrance to the classroom building below. On the left is the front entrance to the campus. It is also one of the places the cabs and Ubers take on passengers or drop them off. On the left is the building containing student apartments. Four students will share each unit. To the right are a row of apartments for seniors. Senior citizens, or senior class students?
...........................We walked through this building, ground floor.
The classrooms are nice.
This is our little group. 20+?) You may have to click on the right side picture to see good, but in the middle, slightly green area, is the old, old, cemetery.
That is the Potomac River below
On the left is a student apartment with really good views, the Potomac and across.
This steeple has a reputation of having its clock stolen.
Aha, a second gun for the Secret Service to worry about.
That's the Potomac River down below.
Snack time in the Student Center
Georgetown does have a football team.
And behind the stadium is a telescope for astronomy students.
This was our group, minus a few taking pictures and messing back behind
..................We ended our tour at the Bookstore, just like they end up at the gift shop on the commercial tour. Each of the girls were rewarded by Bill with a new water bottle with the Georgetown University logo.
It was at the book store that I found out from a phone call from my sister that my cousin, John, had died. John stayed at home in Nebraska. We were nine cousins, all grandchildren from my dad and his three brothers. Don, Bud, Lois, Ione, and I all moved away to Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Arkansas, and me in Texas.
We did not get up to the funeral but do plan on going to the midlands in the summer. My sister comes to Texas regularly to visit her daughter and family, a husband, three grandchildren, in-laws, and a great-grandchild, and ME, her brother.
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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=696679
Labels: BP, Family, Friday’s Hunt # 03 - 2017, Grandchildren, Jim Does, KP, Travel 7
