Friday, August 11, 2023
Letter "F" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's this Week's Prompts: Starts with "F." A Favorite. "F"resh.
Starts with "F": Ford starts with "F", this is the last Ford that I have bought. I still have it, a 1998 Ford Mustang GT Convertible. It was my retirement present to myself, in 2001. Also it has reached 25 years of age this year so in Texas it is now classified as a Classic.
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Newest Cat in the Family: Dutch is the newest feline in the neighborhood, adopted as a rescue, by our older daughter. He knows his owner is headed out for a work assignment and is hoping she will not notice him here, hoping to catch a ride and go with his owner.
Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: Three guys in a boat out in the Florida Everglades. Fishing? Alligator hunting?
A Lagniappe: Finish is a good "F" word. Mrs. Jim Finished her physical therapy sessions, now she'll add to these on strengthening her back.
- James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures."
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Starts with "F": Ford starts with "F", this is the last Ford that I have bought. I still have it, a 1998 Ford Mustang GT Convertible. It was my retirement present to myself, in 2001. Also it has reached 25 years of age this year so in Texas it is now classified as a Classic.
I have owned 15 Ford branded cars plus my 1950 Mercury, which was a Ford product. Here is a list of the cars which I have owned, click here to read of the 35 cars that I have owned (a 1940 Chevy Tudor is missing--it had been wrecked, I paid $50 for it and was in the process of fixing it back up when I got drafted. I gave it to my landlord's son to finish the job.)
I worked for Ford Aerospace in New Hampshire and at NASA Houston for 19 years (first three in the Elgin Watch Factory, five in the U.S. Army) before I quit and switched careers to something less stressful--teaching at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas.
The Cat In The Window
. [click on picture for full screen photo]A Favorite: Feline is a fancy word for Cat. Amber stayed with us at our house for her last four years of life while our daughter was working in London. This is my favorite Feline picture. I posted it as my favorite before on January 6 of this year. Amber is in all these blogs, the "most posted feline", click here.
["Dutch", New cat in the family]
Newest Cat in the Family: Dutch is the newest feline in the neighborhood, adopted as a rescue, by our older daughter. He knows his owner is headed out for a work assignment and is hoping she will not notice him here, hoping to catch a ride and go with his owner. Right, my "Next to Favorite Feline '"Cat in the Window'" post.
Below is the second feral feline post, the first was on here or another blog, I couldn't find her when I looked.
Tom's choice, "Fresh": Fresh bananas are nice on cereal. These are not fresh, the skins are not yellow but rather a very dark brown. And inside the fruit is off color and mushy. When my wife and I were married I was almost horrified at first when she would have cereal for supper. But she has won me over there, I like it for a light and healthy supper meal. In the picture there are two other cereals, raisin bran and granola which are covered by what you see.
Reflections and
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The Fine Print:
- [Click on some pictures 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 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: Amber, Cats, Dutch, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Reflections, Sports
Friday, April 07, 2023
Letter "N" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's "N" Week's Prompts, Starts with "N." A Favorite. - "N"utty.
- James' Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures.
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A Favorite: No nicer cat than this. It was our daughters but stayed with us while she was working overseas as since her family also came, the cat, called "Amber", would have been all alone. This time it was for five years.
James' Reflections and Street/Candid Captures Photo:
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Tom's choice today, "Nutty": Not, no, not planed, but it doubled the image, it's Nutty. I am not sure what caused the double Reflection. It could be the double paned safety window interacting with the angle that I took it from. Dunno.
I think our granddaughter, KP, was trying to fish out a dead bug floating in the water and was hoping that we would come finish her job. She does not like bugs. Again, Dunno.
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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: Animals, Cats, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, Reflections
Friday, August 05, 2022
Letter "E" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
Note!!! - I for sure read the posts of all. I will also leave a comment except when you do not allow Anonymous comments.
Google has relegated me as to being an Anonymous reader.
Starts with "E." A Favorite. ""E"verywhere:"
-> James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos
-> The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved by me under Copyright Law.
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What has all that to my Photo, taken at the left side of my bathroom sink vanity. Two cans of hair spray, the one on the right recently purchased, eight months after the one on the left? [Hint, to see answer please HIGHLIGHT the shaded areas.]
Easy, you guessed the larger can? Wrong!! They are holding Even amounts, Eleven ounces!! Next question, How? How did they do that? I don't know. Most all brands now have gone to smaller cans, look in the stores.
my Six Words
The dogs were laying all over Istanbul, on the sidewalks and, like the two above, in the grass. I have copied Twain's Chapter 22 of my old 50ยข find on eBay (link to my post about that), Traveling with the Innocents Abroad; Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land. Read it here if you wish, https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/09/dogs-of-constantinople-six-word-saturday.html .
The little golfer guy on the left, Mrs. Jim gave that to me quite some time back. He is inspiration for me as I prepare my body for all to see. I have named him, "Hole in one at the Eighteenth."
A Favorite: Egg sandwiches are one of my favorites, either homemade or McD's Egg McMuffins (pictured above), or the kind my mom used to make. Mine are very much like hers were. She put a broken yoke fried Egg on a slice of bread spread with mayonnaise. The top side slice was laced with catsup. On mine I toast the bread and put a slice of American cheese on the egg before the catsup spread top piece. Oh yes, the egg has salt and pepper on one side.
On the Egg McMuffin I remove the ham or sausage patty to eat with a fork. Sausage gets catsup and I leave the top off for it with jam and my second cup of coffee.
Tom's choice "Everywhere" 1:
my Six WordsI loveqd Twain's "Dogs of Constantinople"
"... dogs," he said, "I feel them Everywhere ..." We did too!!
Twain felt sorry for them in a way and admired them in another way. He told of a Sultan who once tried to kill them all off. That was unpopular so his efforts to rid Constantinople of the stray dogs failed.
Another time he tried to ship them all to an island. Not a problem there until it came back that the dogs never reached the island. Somehow they all "fell" overboard on their way. Sounds like in our 'old' Army when a footlocker falls on a belligerent trooper or he falls down the stairs.
The dogs were laying all over Istanbul, on the sidewalks and, like the two above, in the grass. I have copied Twain's Chapter 22 of my old 50ยข find on eBay (link to my post about that), Traveling with the Innocents Abroad; Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land. Read it here if you wish, https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/09/dogs-of-constantinople-six-word-saturday.html .
Tom's choice "Everywhere" 2: Cats were Everywhere also. (more here, https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-cats-of-constantiople-venice-to.html )
Reflections and/or Street/Candid: These are my neighborhood photos from our walk on Tuesday. We probably walked a mile round trip; we old folk walk slow. Different doctors separately want each of us to walk for 30 minutes, five days a week. Another, a therapist wants each of us to climb our stairs every two hours.
Lagniappe: This would be the beginning of another walk, in Paris, France, here to the Eiffel Tower (https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/03/two-paris-hotels-six-word-saturday.html ) and
then along the river to the D'Orsay Museum ( https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2011/02/little-culture-st-jean-baptiste-rodin.html )
and on to Notre Dame de Paris [one of the oldest gothic cathedrals in the world] all for about three (3) miles. Then we
returned using a shorter route back to our hotel on the corner where we were starting the walk, where I took this picture.
Right side photos from here,
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Labels: Animals, Cats, Dogs, Eating, Food, France, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Reflections, Walk pictures
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, 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
