Friday, January 15, 2021
Letter "C" -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections
The third issue this week of my 2021 WEEKEND ROUNDUP postings and ... (THE THIRD LETTER FOR THIS SERIES) - the Letter "C" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "C"; (B) "Colorful" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
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(D) Reflections: 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 in Dubrovnik, Croatia (picture 1) (picture2). (original post with sister's cat).
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The Cat In The Window
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(from an earlier post, April 6, 2007 -
(A) Starts with the Letter "C": Cat begins with the letter "C". This is Amber, our cat sat kitty, we sat with Amber while she and family were in London five years with her work.
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(C) A Favorite: As soon as our Boarded Cat came, she decided that our Beagle Dog had a much nicer bed than she. Adi wouldn't give in to her though, so Adi and Amber shared Adi's bed for her stay's duration (4 1/2 years until she died of old age, 18 years).
(For more Amber blog appearances on my blog, please click here.)
(D) Reflections: 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 in Dubrovnik, Croatia (picture 1) (picture2). (original post with sister's cat).
Houston Ten Day Forecast, courtesy of Houston TV Channel 2
(E) A Lagniappe: Above, a part of our pretty downtown scene and today's forecast courtesy of Houston NBC Channel 2.
On the right this morning's view from our bedroom windows. (Note, window needs a cleaning.)
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Bonus Questions:
(1) Tell a bit about your experience or feelings about parades? When our grandkids were still kids they loved to go with us to a parade. Sometimes we were in the parade, several times as adults, once driving the Mustang top down to carry a retired marine. Also unusual I took the younger grandson to an Art Car Parade back when the Art Car Parade had just coming into existence. Most times it was the Houston Thanksgiving parade or the local 4th of July parade.
(2) What is your favorite Word starting with "C"? Mine today will be "Car" , I have had many in my life, list here to click. I also have about 40 toy cars, most scale model cast iron cars.
(3) Anything else you were reminded of here that you would like to tell about?
My going blogs:
Jim's Little Blog, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/
Jim's Little Photo and Picture Place, http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/
Jim's little Christmas tree farm, http://jimmiehov7.blogspot.com/, and
Ask Dr. Jim (blog), http://jimmiehov8.blogspot.com/
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Fine print stuff:
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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.
Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Amber, Cats, Dubrovnik, Friday's Weekend Roundup 06, Grandchildren, Jim Does, Reflections, TV
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
