Friday, May 06, 2022
Letter "R" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
The "R" Week's prompts: Starts with "R"; A Favorite; and "R"oof.
Lagniappe # 1:
Reflections and/or Street Captures: These are my finding at the Ends of the Rainbow!!
Lagniappe # 2: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "M", I left off at "L" in February, through "R" (I've been to at least 76 countries):
Starts with "R": "Rainbow" starts with "R". This display was for St. Patrick's Day, March 18, on our trans-Atlantic cruise. Mrs. Jim came down with the COVID-19 on the 17th, I was Positive on the 22nd.
That 17th, the 6th day ruined the rest of our 16 Day cruise. Mrs. Jim was "isolated" in the 'isolation ward' for the rest of the time, plus another day at the Holiday Inn Express in Portsmouth in the U.K. I had to spend the entire week there (so we both stayed, but Mrs. Jim could walk around outside).
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Rainbows, the sign of the covenant between God and the earth (the Bible, Gensis 9:14-17 [link])
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A Favorite: The Real Thing, a Real Rainbow. Our back yard from 1999 until 2015, the Green for Hole # 11 on the Weiskopf. I could see that it had dropped down into a sand trap on #15.
(Copyright 2007, first posted here)(Other Rainbow posts here)
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"Roof", Tom's word choice: The Red Roofed houses and buildings of Dubrovnik, Croatia. (More Croatia and Dubrovnik Here)
Lagniappe # 1:This one's our daughter Karen's Race Car, it's
a 1982 or so Pine Wood Derby Racer, we still have it
.Karen did most of the work, Mrs. Jim and I were consultants for her.
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She won first place. Of course technology has improved since then so it probably couldn't keep up with the modern cars. Dad (me) was the chief speed advisor, he drives fast too (160mph on the German Autobahn,) for her project. Mrs. Jim did the fashion painting advice. Karen did [most of] the work.
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Please enlarge the picture by clicking on it so you can see the driver pretty good. The driver is a piece of lead fishing weight, carved to precision weight with the car weighing 1 ounce less than the maximum.
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The paint is acrylic blue with a red, green, and blue butterfly on the hood. There's a rainbow at the rear, and some green growth with a flower on the deck lid. If we were smart, we could have sensed a tree-hugger growing up here with us.
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Weight distribution is 63% in the rear wheels, 37% up front. The uplift in the back functioned better than a spoiler in keeping the car hugging the track surface. Many cars tipped and fell off or tumbled, hers went straight down the slotted hill track.
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Also compare it with Cliff's grandson's car (link for enlargement, link for Tuesday, April 24, blog post with the picture and write up). His car did good too!
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It would be interesting to race these two cars now, '82 model vs. '07. Twenty-five years difference!
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Where First Times
Maldives 2020
Mauritius 2020
Mexico 1956
Monaco 2007
Mozambique 2020
Netherlands—Aruba(yes), Curaçao(yes), the Netherlands and Saint Maarten(yes)—are constituent countries , we've not been to "The Kingdom of The Netherlands"(no) Island Country itself.
New Zealand 2014
Norway 2009
Oman 2020
Panama 2003
Peru 2015
Poland 2003
Portugal 2005
Romania 2013
Russia. 2006
- Click Here for all countries I've visited.
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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 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: Croatia, First Times, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, Rainbow, Reflections
Thursday, December 06, 2012
— My Alphabe-Thursday (2nd), the letter "C" / Thursday Two Questions —
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"C" is for clouds. These rainy looking clouds are the first of my "double C's" for today.
These are Croatia Clouds, double C's, sitting over the red-roofed old town of Dubrovnik. We were on our way to the airport which is out of town proper to the south.
The picture on the left is also a Croatia Cloud picture that we took on the way to the airport. This one is looking south towards the airport.
Please note the big sign right in the middle of a pretty setting. I call these signs Sky Pollution.
Here is another double "C", a rack of Christmas Cards for sale in a London grocery store.
Below is a plate of fish and chips that I had on the last noon meal in a London restaurant before we left for home.
The bowl of chips looks small. I had eaten several after I gave Mrs. Jim almost half (chips are what Americans call French fries and the French call frites).
This TV display of the word "CHIPS" is a chance to show off my latest toy, new to me but about forty years old. It is a John Deere wagon that I can pull with my Farmal MTA tractor. I bought it on eBay with money I received for my latest birthday. (The TV program was 'F a m i l y F e u d'.)
Dad's last farm tractor was an MTA and he found this toy on sale after Christmas at the farm supply store in Tekamah, Nebraska, where he lived. He also had a green wagon this size but it had a wooden cargo area. This one is metal. When Dad died I was elected to have the tractor and Lois (my sister) was given his wagon. (You can click on any picture for a larger size.)
This is another double C picture, a shot of our car's GPS showing the surrounding golf course by our house. In the caption it shows the name of the Country Club. The club building is across the valley on the right from our home which is shown with the circle.
Below are two more double C's. First is a shot I took of our Christmas Concert presented by the Conroe (Texas) Symphony orchestra. It cam out fuzzy because I took it from the back row.
On the right is a picture of the double C'd Coconut Creme pie that Luby's Cafeteria was trying to sell me before the concert. I had a salmon patty, cooked cabbage, and a large dinner salad with a piece of corn bread. But no coconut creme pie. Luby's does make my favorite coconut creme pie, here.
This last picture is a Cloud picture I took at dusk from our back porch. The clouds reminded me of sail boats sailing up from Galveston to the south of us on the Gulf Coast. Remember that my little Sony pocket camera doesn't do sunsets very well. Looks like neither does it do dusk.
The Alphabe- Thursday portion of this post is for Head Mistress Jenny.
Here we have nine pictures to honor Alphabe-Thursday letter "C"
"C" is for clouds. These rainy looking clouds are the first of my "double C's" for today.These are Croatia Clouds, double C's, sitting over the red-roofed old town of Dubrovnik. We were on our way to the airport which is out of town proper to the south.
The picture on the left is also a Croatia Cloud picture that we took on the way to the airport. This one is looking south towards the airport.
Please note the big sign right in the middle of a pretty setting. I call these signs Sky Pollution.
Here is another double "C", a rack of Christmas Cards for sale in a London grocery store.Below is a plate of fish and chips that I had on the last noon meal in a London restaurant before we left for home.
The bowl of chips looks small. I had eaten several after I gave Mrs. Jim almost half (chips are what Americans call French fries and the French call frites).
This TV display of the word "CHIPS" is a chance to show off my latest toy, new to me but about forty years old. It is a John Deere wagon that I can pull with my Farmal MTA tractor. I bought it on eBay with money I received for my latest birthday. (The TV program was 'F a m i l y F e u d'.)
Dad's last farm tractor was an MTA and he found this toy on sale after Christmas at the farm supply store in Tekamah, Nebraska, where he lived. He also had a green wagon this size but it had a wooden cargo area. This one is metal. When Dad died I was elected to have the tractor and Lois (my sister) was given his wagon. (You can click on any picture for a larger size.)
This is another double C picture, a shot of our car's GPS showing the surrounding golf course by our house. In the caption it shows the name of the Country Club. The club building is across the valley on the right from our home which is shown with the circle.Below are two more double C's. First is a shot I took of our Christmas Concert presented by the Conroe (Texas) Symphony orchestra. It cam out fuzzy because I took it from the back row.
On the right is a picture of the double C'd Coconut Creme pie that Luby's Cafeteria was trying to sell me before the concert. I had a salmon patty, cooked cabbage, and a large dinner salad with a piece of corn bread. But no coconut creme pie. Luby's does make my favorite coconut creme pie, here.
This last picture is a Cloud picture I took at dusk from our back porch. The clouds reminded me of sail boats sailing up from Galveston to the south of us on the Gulf Coast. Remember that my little Sony pocket camera doesn't do sunsets very well. Looks like neither does it do dusk.
The Alphabe- Thursday portion of this post is for Head Mistress Jenny.
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Now for my Thursday Two Questions.
I really enjoyed your responses to my "B" Blues and the toy questions post of last week. I did feel badly to hear that some of you did not have toys when you were growing up. My sister and I didn't have many but we did have ones plenty good for us.
Now for my Thursday Two Questions.
I really enjoyed your responses to my "B" Blues and the toy questions post of last week. I did feel badly to hear that some of you did not have toys when you were growing up. My sister and I didn't have many but we did have ones plenty good for us.
My Two
Questions for this week (you can
answer just one if you wish):
1. What if any pleasure to you enjoy when looking at clouds?
I remember laying on my back on warm summer days and looking up at the clouds. I wasn't really enjoying the clouds but I was enjoying my dreams and thoughts that seeing the clouds triggered.
I remember laying on my back on warm summer days and looking up at the clouds. I wasn't really enjoying the clouds but I was enjoying my dreams and thoughts that seeing the clouds triggered.
2. Did you attend any Christmas music presentation this
year? If so we would like to hear a bit about it. Thank you.
The Conroe Symphony Orchestra played about an equal number of Christian Christmas and secular Christmas carols, both classic and modern music. I enjoyed every one.
Bonus Question:
What is your favorite "C" word?
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—My
Thursday Two Questions
post is for
Amanda.
Labels: Alphabe-Thursday-[2nd], Croatia, Dubrovnik, Food, London, Thursday-Two-Questions, Travel
Friday, November 16, 2012
Feline Friday -- Alley Cat, a Cat of the Night
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I think I startled Alley Cat with my camera. She is another Dubrovnik, Croatia, street cat. One of many.
Last week I posted the Dubrovnik cat who lives in the airport terminal (link). This one was out on the streets at night, trying to decide what to do.
She could stay out in the rain and stroll the almost deserted 'Main Street' of the old town city center. The old town is walled and no motorized vehicles are allowed inside.
That makes for a lot of walking as the city area is quite large. We did walk all around the city on the old wall. The wall was built to protect the residents and businesses from unwanted guests.
Now this sister Alley Cat decided to sit out the rain from her perch here, looking down a side street from her dry archway. She wasn't wild at all as the Alley Cat looked in my top picture.
Instead she is a friendly cat who makes her fur shiny and her stomach round by begging food off the street and from the people eating at the outside cafes down the street from our hotel (picture 1) (picture2).
Where did we spend the night? We had a nice Rick Steves recommended hotel, the Villa Ragusa(veview), just inside the wall. Our hotel had five rooms, if you decide to stay make reservations early and ask for the top room called "The Suite." The picture on the left below is Karen's and KP's room. All the essential were there, including the ensuite bathroom.
Oh yes, like the hotel reviewer said, the owner, Pero, did pick us from the airport and bring us back three days later. On the way he told of his city, of his family, and gave us a lot of tips on how to make the most of our short visit. And we nibbled on some of his mother's dried figs with a sampling of local beverages during the rest of his indoctrination at the hotel.
The view of the rest of the city below is beautiful from The Suite. The picture on the right is the view from our room. Mostly we look at the 'house' across the street. But if we hung our head out and looked down, we could see the street below and a lot of orange red roofs around the town. Click on the picture for a better look.
For more Feline Friday cat pictures, you can to Sandee's blog here.
Or go to Steve's at http://burntfooddude.us/ as he is the author of this meme.
I think I startled Alley Cat with my camera. She is another Dubrovnik, Croatia, street cat. One of many.Last week I posted the Dubrovnik cat who lives in the airport terminal (link). This one was out on the streets at night, trying to decide what to do.
She could stay out in the rain and stroll the almost deserted 'Main Street' of the old town city center. The old town is walled and no motorized vehicles are allowed inside.
That makes for a lot of walking as the city area is quite large. We did walk all around the city on the old wall. The wall was built to protect the residents and businesses from unwanted guests.
Now this sister Alley Cat decided to sit out the rain from her perch here, looking down a side street from her dry archway. She wasn't wild at all as the Alley Cat looked in my top picture.Instead she is a friendly cat who makes her fur shiny and her stomach round by begging food off the street and from the people eating at the outside cafes down the street from our hotel (picture 1) (picture2).
Where did we spend the night? We had a nice Rick Steves recommended hotel, the Villa Ragusa(veview), just inside the wall. Our hotel had five rooms, if you decide to stay make reservations early and ask for the top room called "The Suite." The picture on the left below is Karen's and KP's room. All the essential were there, including the ensuite bathroom.
Oh yes, like the hotel reviewer said, the owner, Pero, did pick us from the airport and bring us back three days later. On the way he told of his city, of his family, and gave us a lot of tips on how to make the most of our short visit. And we nibbled on some of his mother's dried figs with a sampling of local beverages during the rest of his indoctrination at the hotel.
The view of the rest of the city below is beautiful from The Suite. The picture on the right is the view from our room. Mostly we look at the 'house' across the street. But if we hung our head out and looked down, we could see the street below and a lot of orange red roofs around the town. Click on the picture for a better look.
For more Feline Friday cat pictures, you can to Sandee's blog here.
Or go to Steve's at http://burntfooddude.us/ as he is the author of this meme.
Labels: Cats, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Feline Friday, Feline-Friday, Travel
Friday, November 09, 2012
Feline Friday -- Airport Cat
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I found this cat waiting for me at the Dubrovnik, Croatia, airport. She was very friendly and for sure was seeking me out. That could have been because I was finishing off my breakfast remains before going through security.
I won't say that she was particularly a pretty cat but her friendliness made up for that.
Cats must be a protected species in Croatia, we would see several every day (I'll post some more here sooner or later) for our old town Dubrovnik weekend stay.
Dubrovnik was a little respite from the busy London atmosphere that we were subjecting ourselves to for the last three weeks (October 16 through November 6).
For more Feline Friday cat pictures, you can to Sandee's blog here.
Or go to Steve at http://burntfooddude.us/ as he is the author of this meme.
I found this cat waiting for me at the Dubrovnik, Croatia, airport. She was very friendly and for sure was seeking me out. That could have been because I was finishing off my breakfast remains before going through security. I won't say that she was particularly a pretty cat but her friendliness made up for that.
Cats must be a protected species in Croatia, we would see several every day (I'll post some more here sooner or later) for our old town Dubrovnik weekend stay.
Dubrovnik was a little respite from the busy London atmosphere that we were subjecting ourselves to for the last three weeks (October 16 through November 6).
For more Feline Friday cat pictures, you can to Sandee's blog here.
Or go to Steve at http://burntfooddude.us/ as he is the author of this meme.
Labels: Cats, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Feline-Friday, Travel
Saturday, November 03, 2012
— Six Word Saturday —
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KP's Six Words:
At the right is KP in her make believe world taking these pictures. She loved the bell towers and the bells on top of the churches. The church on the right seems to have had three bells at one time but KP identifies the towers by the number of bells, now only two.
These are a few of my Dubrovnik (Croatia) pictures. We spent last Saturday and Sunday there and left to come back here to London on Monday. We had a wonderful time. It did rain more often than it wasn't raining. We had a very enjoyable time anyway.
One of our favorite foods was pizza. They make them to be almost as good as the pizzas in Italy are. This little restaurant was at the first 'bottom' of the steps leading down the hill from our hotel room.
If one was to go down almost that many steps again he would come to the little restaurant where we would have our breakfasts. One day we ate outside on the sidewalk but the second day was cooler and the awnings dripped a little of the rain drops so we went inside to eat. Breakfast was fried eggs, bacon or ham, assorted French bread with preserves, juice, and coffee.
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.
Oh yes. I am spending more time sight seeing and visiting here in London than I am blogging. In U.S. English, this means that I am way behind on answering my comments. I really do appreciate your comments and will try to answer. Otherwise if I miss you will have first priority on my answers for next week. Promise.
KP's Six Words:
Two bell clock, one bell clock
At the right is KP in her make believe world taking these pictures. She loved the bell towers and the bells on top of the churches. The church on the right seems to have had three bells at one time but KP identifies the towers by the number of bells, now only two.These are a few of my Dubrovnik (Croatia) pictures. We spent last Saturday and Sunday there and left to come back here to London on Monday. We had a wonderful time. It did rain more often than it wasn't raining. We had a very enjoyable time anyway.
One of our favorite foods was pizza. They make them to be almost as good as the pizzas in Italy are. This little restaurant was at the first 'bottom' of the steps leading down the hill from our hotel room.
If one was to go down almost that many steps again he would come to the little restaurant where we would have our breakfasts. One day we ate outside on the sidewalk but the second day was cooler and the awnings dripped a little of the rain drops so we went inside to eat. Breakfast was fried eggs, bacon or ham, assorted French bread with preserves, juice, and coffee.
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Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.Oh yes. I am spending more time sight seeing and visiting here in London than I am blogging. In U.S. English, this means that I am way behind on answering my comments. I really do appreciate your comments and will try to answer. Otherwise if I miss you will have first priority on my answers for next week. Promise.
Labels: Croatia, Dubrovnik, Eating, Family, KP, Six Word Saturday, Travel
