Saturday, May 11, 2024
Letter "S" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "S"; A Favorite; Tom's request, "S"top; and For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "S": Sore starts with "S". I have been doctoring for a Sore Knee, partly from a fall this Thursday, got to see my Orthopedic Doctor Yesterday (excuse for being late for this Friday's post??). Nothing broken. I cannot get on either knee, formerly broken kneecaps.
I fell, tripping over my cane just after I had gotten up for the Bathroom at 4AM. The muscle behind my right knee is hurting and won't let the leg hold me up. My son-in-law and a Neighbor came and helped me to get up.
Other parts of the knee are sore as well. The knee had been hurting anyway from a dead knee joint bearing. The tissue had worn down so that the upper bone is rubbing against the bone. I have replaced the Left Knee joint with an artificial joint one back in 2011. It works wonderfully.
That may be the fix for this one now, seems the injection series did not help the noise and pain one bit. Today the doctor gave me a steroid shot into the kneecap area, it has helped somewhat. This would be parodically needed for the rest of my life, very likely.
A Favorite: Strawberrys and Raspberrys in a cake. Love them!! Our younger daughter brought them over, saving for herself a piece, as she is the only one in her family who eats this desert. 
Tom's request, "S"top: Stopped to ask, "Who Gets the Straw?"
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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 "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.
- 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: Cartoons, Doctoring, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Kneecap, Reflections
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Letter "G" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "G." A Favorite.
For Tom "G"round.
For James Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "G": What does the word "Gras" stand for in 'Mardi Gras'? Answer: highlight the blank area below
Mardi is the French word for Tuesday, and gras means “fat.” In France, the day before Ash Wednesday came to be known as Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday.”
(to find more Click Here)
This year Mardi Gras was on February 13. Our younger daughter brought us these two small cakes as a Mardi Gras present.
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| A sheet metal green grasshopper. Work of Art? My photo, taken 2010 |
A Favorite: My favorite today will be Green
Grasshopper. I have forgotten where I found this green guy grasshopper. Maybe in the Grocery store garden section?
Read more about him in my 2010 blog post, click here.
One of my reader commenters there said of this,
"that grasshopper is a good old green soul
and as Kermit has taught us - it's not easy being green
I think he needs a good home and a loving friend
and I think you fit the bill"
and as Kermit has taught us - it's not easy being green
I think he needs a good home and a loving friend
and I think you fit the bill"
Tom's choice, "Ground": In the move we've lost our meat grinder. No more ground baloney. I'll have to put my teeth in before I eat, or really chew hard. (directions for the above recipe, click here)
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: She is supposed to be telling a joke. Her jokes sometimes are kind of corny. We have a second row seat, our pew.
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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: Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, garden, Green, Holiday Posts, Jokes, June Bug, June Bug 1, Reflections
Friday, December 01, 2023
Letter "V" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "V." A Favorite. "V"oracious. Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
What is nice, and so sweet, is that the dog had rested its head on a toy bear. A plush little Walmart type Teddy like Adi has and loves. (link) Click on the extra large button above to see this aspect.
Looking at that dog made me want to rescue it. In fact, if I could have, I would have rescued both the owner and the dog."
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Starts with "V": Very is a very hard-working word, both an adjective and an adverb. Perhaps overworked, I use it a lot. It even has another spelling, vary, which has a meaning of its own.
I'll word it by saying that this lady is VERY "Stoogey"
"Dear Dr. Jim
My sister gave my kids really crappy Christmas presents this year. We all draw names and the minimum was $50; however, they gave him a $5 gift card to McDonald's.
How do I handle the response to this? We bought their child a Wii game that was well over $50 with tax. Please let me know your opinion. I have googled your blog and it seems like you give honest responses to people's questions.
Thank you for the response, in advance.
Warmest Regards,
Trying Not To Be a Scrooge!"
My sister gave my kids really crappy Christmas presents this year. We all draw names and the minimum was $50; however, they gave him a $5 gift card to McDonald's.
How do I handle the response to this? We bought their child a Wii game that was well over $50 with tax. Please let me know your opinion. I have googled your blog and it seems like you give honest responses to people's questions.
Thank you for the response, in advance.
Warmest Regards,
Trying Not To Be a Scrooge!"
To see his response, click here
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A Favorite: A young Vagabond, I hope he didn't get far.
Tom's choice, "Voracious": I had to look that word up: (perhaps you already knew)
Web: "Voracious is an adjective that means having a huge appetite or being excessively eager. It comes from the Latin verb vorare, which means \"to eat greedily\" or \"to devour\""
If our Vagabond (young?) fellow has not gotten some food for his dog, it will become Voracious.
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For James request, "Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: "Now to what is going on with the dog. It has turned its head, probably to rest. Possibly to avoid any interaction with me.
Looking at that dog made me want to rescue it. In fact, if I could have, I would have rescued both the owner and the dog."
The above is excerpted from my previous post,
https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2010/03/homeless-in-america-midweek-blues.html
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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 "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.
- 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: Dogs, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Reflections
Friday, October 13, 2023
Letter "O" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "O." A Favorite. "O"ne. Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "O": Onions, they are a part of many of my recipes. I was pretty proud of this sandwich. Mrs. Jim was having eggs and grits for lunch. I opted out of those although she volunteered to hard boil an egg for me with hers if I wanted. I wanted.
Before the egg was finished I had decided that I would like an egg salad sandwich. I said that I would make her one also but she stuck with having her beloved grits. (Note: I had my first serving of grits at a Holiday Inn restaurant where I was staying when I first came to Houston from a three year duty with my company, Philco Corporation)
My Ingredients, yours may vary:
- One hard boiled egg
- One hot dog bun
- A piece of onion, One large purple plum, One teaspoon tartar sauce, Mayo as needed for consistency (I used light), One teaspoon yellow mustard if you want, I did not, Salt and Pepper, I used a couple of pinches each.(mix all these together and make the consistency suit yourself by the amount of mayo and mustard
My Ingredients, yours may vary:
- One hard boiled egg
- One hot dog bun
- A piece of onion, One large purple plum, One teaspoon tartar sauce, Mayo as needed for consistency (I used light), One teaspoon yellow mustard if you want, I did not, Salt and Pepper, I used a couple of pinches each.(mix all these together and make the consistency suit yourself by the amount of mayo and mustard
- Other items that you yourself would add to make a deviled egg or egg salad can be used
- Two fairly large Romaine lettuce leaves
I cut the center out of the hot dog bun to replace that part with my egg salad. Dice the egg and onion into fairly small pieces, the fruit into larger. Put in the lettuce, add the salad. Yummy!
- Two fairly large Romaine lettuce leaves
I cut the center out of the hot dog bun to replace that part with my egg salad. Dice the egg and onion into fairly small pieces, the fruit into larger. Put in the lettuce, add the salad. Yummy!
A Favorite: This little Hibiscus has been having a pretty bloom about one every other day, all spring and all summer. Once in a while it has two blooms at the same time. I took this picture from right our back door window, it is full length.
Growing in the box are seven little volunteer Vinca flowering plants that I rescued from being covered with the new mulch put on our flower beds. BTW, rabbits do not eat vinca plants or blooms.
Tom's choice, "One": One good great sandwich.
This was our supper the other night. Almost a sandwich, for the picture, Mrs. Jim had hers open faced, for mine I completed with a covering slice of toast to complete its being a sandwich. The French would call hers a "Croque Monsieur" with ham and cheese.
Ingredients: (makes two)
Two eggs
Four slices of deli ham
Four slices of cheddar cheese
Four slices of bread (Mrs. Jim's used only one)
Cooking and assembling:
Cook the eggs one at a time;
Open and stir the egg in a square bread slice sized microwaveable Pyrex type bowel (I should add to spray the vessel with vegetable oil, and cover the egg with a paper towel as it will likely pop a little-that doesn't hurt a thing)
Microwave 75 seconds at 60% power
(This was my supper the other night. Almost, the Mrs. has hers open faced as shown in the picture; I completed mine with a covering slice of toast to make the sandwich.
It takes about ten minutes to make for two.)
Flip them upside down
Layer the ham, then the cheese
Turn them right side up so that the pretty egg is on the top.
(I put a little ketchup on each bite when I cut it. For me, ketchup goes on a lot of things.)
Pronto!!
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Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: My son, Tim, took this photo back in 2016 while at his work. He is a Boatman and had just untied this ship from the dock five minutes before.
The ship, leaving the Houston Ship Channel with its cargo, struck an obstruction in the water, leaking gallons and gallons of flammable liquid. Somehow the liquid floating on top of the water caught fire. Causes and damages are still under investigation when he gave me the photo. No life was lost.
The fine print:
- [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 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. This photo in 2016, February 8, was formerly posted by me, at
- 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. This photo in 2016, February 8, was formerly posted by me, at
and was posted today again on my other active blog at http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2023/10/i-have-this-fear-poem-now-for-friday.html
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Labels: Food, Food-breakfast, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Recipes, Reflections
Friday, September 01, 2023
Letter "I" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
[Note: I may be out of pocket for next week's post.]
James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures."
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Starts with "I": This crafted model outdoor Ice Skating Rink mostly comes from a well bleached bed sheet. It is a part of one of the two toy train scenes crafted, assembled, and displayed in the foyer of our church at Christmas time.
Both children and adults stop for their Imaginations' workouts.
A Favorite: I had found this Insane Driving cartoon on one my Facebook friend's pages and pasted it here in April, 2017. 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 was used to driving in.
Tom's request is "Ice Cream": We have switched to Aldi's Ice Cream. These are $2.49, but being cheaper isn't the reason we switched from Blue Bell. They used to have our favorite, "Homemade Vanilla Lite", we would buy that and some others with. But they dropped having 'Lite' Ice Cream and we don't buy the others either now.
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Reflections and
Last week's Street Photo/Candid Capture (in case you missed it): Taken in Italy near our hotel when visiting the Cinque Terre towns. We had a rental car, of course, and had it parked by the train station. (Note: Bad also, I may be too old to rent a car anymore.)
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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 "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.
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Labels: Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Italy, Italy-2, Reflections
Sunday, August 06, 2023
Wrapped in Blue -- my Tanka Poem for Blue Monday
Something Sweet
Blue wrap--something sweet
Help yourself they're really good
More where these came from
All my sweets have blue wrappers
Gum drops Chocolates Peppermints
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Labels: Blue Monday, Eating, Food, Friends, Monday Blues, Poem, Tanka
Friday, July 21, 2023
Letter "C" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures -- Corny, but there is a lot of Corn here today
- This Week's Prompts Starts with "C." A Favorite. Tom's Choice, "C"andy.
- James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures." _ _ _
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| Roasting Corn Ears ready for Cooking (boil until kernals are soft) |
.Starts with "C": Corn starts with "C". I can't eat corn anymore, doctor's order. Nor can I eat nuts and seeds. I cheat a little, could be Fake News, but I believe that Pecans are vegetables.
A Favorite: These are Corndogs that I cooked. Corndogs, sliced dill pickles, and Diet Cokes with corn chips on the table.
Picture courtesy of S T A T E . F A I R http://corndogs.com/
Corn Dogs are one of my favorite foods. I had my first one in California, on a pier near San Franscico in 1964.
Tom's Choice, "Candy": Candy Corn Day, October 31, is always on my birthday. So every year I buy a big bag of the Candy Corn for my namesake.
A Lagniappe No. 1: A Corn Plant. There are no ears or blossoms, ornamental only. They are very easy to grow though. Even forgiving if not watered a time or two.
A Lagniappe No. 2: Corn Field, this is me and youngest granddaughter a long time ago, peeking around out from the Corn Stalks. Click on this URL for the story behind the photo.
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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: Driving Pictures, Eating, Flowers-buds-plants, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Grandchildren, granddaughter, Jim's old home place, KP, Reflections, Selfies
