Friday, October 20, 2023
Letter "P" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "P." A Favorite. "P"lural. Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "P": Pony starts with "P" We had one of those new, a yellow 1972 Ford Pinto. Bought it new on the Ford employee discount plan. I worked for Ford Aerospace at NASA Houston Space Center as a Senior Aerospace Engineer. I did that for 19 years, three in New Hampshire and then 16 at the Space Center, in the Flight Control Branch.
A Favorite: Our Favorite Tree was our Palm Tree. When we moved here there were Three Tall Palm Trees behind our pool along the back yard fence. We had a bad winter freeze and lost them all. We replaced them with this one shorter and wider palm tree. Then three years later another hard freeze go this one, it was sooo pretty.
Its kind was supposed to be freeze tolerant. When we first planted it the tree seemed sickly, not bright green, and not many fronds. It snapped out of that fairly fast.
Tom's request, "Plural": Right away I think of "Number" when we say "Plural". Today, then I think of the number word, "Two". I have 'two' more Ponies, both "Antique Mustangs". A 1998 Ford Mustang GT and a 1974 Ford Mustang II. Both are pictured to the right. We have moved from this house, had it planned by ourselves. ..
Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: This was on the golf course where in my not too long ago younger days our men's group of 12 or 16 or 20 played quite often. Once I had a ball that landed on one of the lily pads.
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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 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: Cars, Flowers-buds-plants, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Golf, Golf course, Reflections
Friday, February 18, 2022
Letter "G" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
This Week's Prompts:
Starts with "G"; A Favorite; "Glass"; and Reflections and-or Street Captures
A Lagniappe: Play day is over, all are in from Golf, driving the club's Green Golf carts. Three Red Shirted Fellows and eight of us others will now go on to Incredible Pizza who is having 'all you can eat' senior lunch for $4.50 plus tax for the 19th hole eating.
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Starts with "G": Golf starts with "G". Before we moved to Katy (TX) we had a pretty par 5 fairway adjoining our Golf Course lot. Mrs. Jim played two times a week, I played one or two.
For sure I played in town with the men in a Sunday Morning Bible Study class every Tuesday morning. The men in our subdivision played Thursday mornings and sometimes I would play with them.
A Favorite: This is Mrs. Jim and BP, our next youngest Granddaughter, riding in our Golf Cart in the subdivision's annual July 4th Golf Cart Parade. BP was about Eight then, now she has graduated from College with a Master's degree and has a fine job, out of town. (some parade posts from my blog here)
They worked hard on the decorations, Karen and I helped some. I aways had the job of blowing up balloons.
[click on picture for larger size, click again for super-size]
Tom's Choice, "Glass": These Teapots, mostly are Glass and a few might be pottery like China. The little Green Glass one is the newest, Mrs. Jim and I bought it at the British store in Houston. It makes tea for one, she had been wanting one like that for quite some time.
On the right is a part of our built in China cabinet, it is against the entire north wall of our breakfast room. At the present time I am using it for office work, tax time is coming.
From left to right,
the speckled teapot we bought in Poland when we visited (it was made there);
Next is one that my mom had, it was made in Japan before the WWII;
In the middle is Mrs. Jim's little Green Glass teapot from England, it is a "Price Kensington" product;
The yellow teapot was also my mother's, it is a Lipton promo, she probably used box tops to get it, on the bottom is says "Lipton Tea";
Finally, on the right is one that my niece gave us, I had a red phone booth souvenir from the U.K. and her son dropped it and broke the lid. She replaced it with this, thank you again, BWC.
Reflections and/or Street Captures: This is a very bad selfie of myself, taken last night standing in front of the back door, at eleven o'clock. I was a mess.
A Lagniappe: Play day is over, all are in from Golf, driving the club's Green Golf carts. Three Red Shirted Fellows and eight of us others will now go on to Incredible Pizza who is having 'all you can eat' senior lunch for $4.50 plus tax for the 19th hole eating.
That four-fifty includes pizza, other entree foods, salad, drinks, and desert. Alcohol is not served there. (BTW, about the time we were moving this Golf course closed, not to be reopened. It was my favorite and the least expensive.) (from a search of my blog for the word Golf, click here)
Lagniappe No. 2: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "G":
Where Times First
Germany - Several 1980, on a bus holiday into Eastern Europe, ending with the Passion Play in Oberammergau, Germany
Gibraltar is not a country; it is a British territory. 2013
Great Britain - Seval times, last was in 2014 when from London we took a train to Shrewsbury and then drove the rest of the way to Wales
Greece - 1980 - Last in 2013 from our way back cruising from Ukraine.
Grenada - A stop on our Queen Mary II cruise ship in 2009 [Queen Mary 2 Cruise posts]
Guatemala - Twice, in 2007 and 2008 (my posts made) on missionary trips to an orphanage helping with facility improvements and a Vacation Bible Class in Huehue Tenango (town google search).
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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.
- Click Here for all countries I've visited.
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Labels: Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Golf, Golf course, Reflections, Selfies
Monday, August 10, 2020
The Letter "G" -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections
The thirty-second issue of Weekend Roundup for this year, 2020...
(THE SEVENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "G" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "G";
(B) "Green" (Tom's Choice);
(C) A Favorite; and
(D) Reflections.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "G": Garage is my "G" word for here. Our garage is meant for three cars but we have to much other stuff in front of the car on the left. That stall is tandem, one in front of the other.
The Green car is a 1974 Mustang II Ghia V6 and the Black is a 1998 Mustang GT V8 Convertible. They have 67,000 and 102,000 Miles respectively. I missed the new 1956 Ford Sunliner Convertible that I sold in 1957 when I went into the Army so I never got my 'top-down experience' satisfied. A Vespa scooter and a Honda motorcycle just didn't do it.
I bought the '74 as first owner as a Ford employee rental car with 32K miles for my Mom who wanted a stick shift. When she died in 1999 it came back to me. The other, the '98, I bought from as young lady in 2001 having 49K miles for my retirement present to myself.
Guess Lizzie will spend the rest of her life off-time in our driveway. She is a 2011 Cadillac DTS with 140K miles, just out of warranty. We are looking to retire her after finding a replacement.
p.s: We have not bought a new car in our 47 years of being married. People in education don't make a lot of $$$ and so buying lower mileage used well cared for cars has saved us lots.
(B) "Green" (Tom's Choice): We have two Oranges on our tree this year. Still Green, they are looking Good.
(C) A Favorite: Lots of Favorites here, there are several other pages. On this one Gallery, Google (2), and Google Play for "G's" reside.
(D) Reflections: This is a view from the Golf Cart I was riding on, it was the course where I used to play on Tuesdays before we moved closer to our youngest grandchild. That Tuesday I had lost my ball in the little creek to the left of that golf cart. Even though we lived beside another golf course this municipal one, Conroe, Texas, had become my favorite. But it closed the year after we moved.
The group I played with on Tuesdays was a group of about twenty men from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class. Her age group is from age 60 and up although most are in their seventies with a few 80's.
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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 to Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- The pictures are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am also linked this week with James at Weekend Reflections, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
(THE SEVENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "G" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "G";
(B) "Green" (Tom's Choice);
(C) A Favorite; and
(D) Reflections.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "G": Garage is my "G" word for here. Our garage is meant for three cars but we have to much other stuff in front of the car on the left. That stall is tandem, one in front of the other.
The Green car is a 1974 Mustang II Ghia V6 and the Black is a 1998 Mustang GT V8 Convertible. They have 67,000 and 102,000 Miles respectively. I missed the new 1956 Ford Sunliner Convertible that I sold in 1957 when I went into the Army so I never got my 'top-down experience' satisfied. A Vespa scooter and a Honda motorcycle just didn't do it.
I bought the '74 as first owner as a Ford employee rental car with 32K miles for my Mom who wanted a stick shift. When she died in 1999 it came back to me. The other, the '98, I bought from as young lady in 2001 having 49K miles for my retirement present to myself.
p.s: We have not bought a new car in our 47 years of being married. People in education don't make a lot of $$$ and so buying lower mileage used well cared for cars has saved us lots.
(B) "Green" (Tom's Choice): We have two Oranges on our tree this year. Still Green, they are looking Good.
(C) A Favorite: Lots of Favorites here, there are several other pages. On this one Gallery, Google (2), and Google Play for "G's" reside.
(D) Reflections: This is a view from the Golf Cart I was riding on, it was the course where I used to play on Tuesdays before we moved closer to our youngest grandchild. That Tuesday I had lost my ball in the little creek to the left of that golf cart. Even though we lived beside another golf course this municipal one, Conroe, Texas, had become my favorite. But it closed the year after we moved. The group I played with on Tuesdays was a group of about twenty men from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class. Her age group is from age 60 and up although most are in their seventies with a few 80's.
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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 to Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- The pictures are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am also linked this week with James at Weekend Reflections, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
Labels: Cars, Flowers-buds-plants, Friday's Weekend Roundup 06, Golf course, Mustang, Reflections
Friday, May 22, 2020
The Letter "U" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
BABY GIRL !!!
Our oldest great granddaughter was due to have us
a new Baby Girl Great Great-granddaughter last week. That happened Thursday night.
a new Baby Girl Great Great-granddaughter last week. That happened Thursday night.
The twenty-first issue of Weekend Roundup for this year, 2020...
(THE TWENT-IFIRST LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "U" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "U";
(B) "Under" (Tom's choice);
(C) A Favorite; and
(D) Reflections.
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(B) "Under" (Tom's choice): Under the Bridge in Sydney, Australia on our Ferry Ride. For most of my posts about Sydney and our January 2014 visit, click here.
We had a pleasant ferry ride (Sidney Ferries) around the Harbor on the Inner Harbour Ferry. It left the Circular Quay and sailed over to the Australian National Maritime Museum. I liked going under the Harbour Bridge. You can see the Sydney Opera House in the background.
We rode the train over and back across that bridge, we took the ferry to Manly Beach for a morning, we rode the tram to the Harbor Fish Market, and took the bus to Bondi Beach for our major rides. There were many more as Sydney has a wonderful public transportation system. Since Mrs. Jim and I were seniors our all day tickets to all modes, even the ferry and the train, were $2.50 AUS each day.
(A) Starts with the Letter "U": Unknown starts with "U". This soup was good, great, as it is homemade by Mrs. Jim. but I don't know what kind it was. Nor do I know the fried stuff on the left.
I will let you guess what kind of goodies we ate?
(highlight the blank area below for the correct answers)
(Oops, Mrs. Jim said it was part of our lunch
at Suzie Wong's on a Sunday after church.
It was really good, Hot and Sour soup.
The other was part of our lunch, neither
of us knew what it was, just Chinese.)
at Suzie Wong's on a Sunday after church.
It was really good, Hot and Sour soup.
The other was part of our lunch, neither
of us knew what it was, just Chinese.)
[click on a photo to make it bigger]
(C) A Favorite: Again we will let the age of the fellow on the left, me, be Unknown. The cake is chocolate, my favorite kind. We were celebrating at an Unknown restaurant. 
[click on picture for larger view]
(D) Reflections: Uphill pitch. The green on this hole was very steep and the ball didn't want to stay high. Site was the Wedgewood Public Golf Course, Conroe, Texas, now closed. Conroe is just north of Houston, where the little hills start. This was my Favorite public course to play._ _ _ _
My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you wish):
(1) What comes to mind when you think of "Under"? I think of my dictionary that I hardly use anymore. It is an "Under the Bridge with Dick and Harry", 1970's edition.
(2) When was the last Birthday that you celebrated? Our oldest great granddaughter was due to have us a new Baby Girl Great Greatgranddaughter last week. That happened just during the night now. 6.8 pound BABY GIRL.
Bonus Questions:
(1) What is your favorite "U" word? This time it will be Undecided. That is my official political viewpoint for poles but I'd rather call it Independent. I keep my blogs free of political talk, this is the closest I've come in the 15 years I've blogged. If there is a political comment I quickly remove it and slap the wrist of whoever left it.)
(2) When did you last play a sport? I have not played Golf for about seven years. My artificial knee joint gave me fits after playing and lasted a day and a half after. But I may learn to play "Old Men Golf" this year. Walking is my only sport at the moment.
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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 to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- The pictures 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).
Labels: Eating, Friday's Weekend Roundup 05, Golf, Golf course, Grandchildren, Reflections, Sports, Travel
Friday, November 29, 2019
The Letter "V" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
(THE TWENTY-SECOND LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "V" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "V"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "V" for '"V"ertical' (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections.
(A) Starts with the Letter "V": Valencia Oranges
[click on any photo for larger sized viewing.
[click the picture again, most time for a larger still view]
(B) A Favorite: Candy for my Sweet Tooth, Christmas is approaching.
[An array of Vertical Antennas for sale]
(C) "V" for '"V"ertical' (Tom's choice): It's hard to guy a Vertical Antenna on the peak of a house top. One year I did this with my 32 high foot aluminum Dipole but a strong wind blew it over.
Where we live now according to deed restrictions I cannot erect any antenna attached to our property. This is hard on Ham Radio Operators (Amateur Radio), hard for making emergency communications also.
Where we live now according to deed restrictions I cannot erect any antenna attached to our property. This is hard on Ham Radio Operators (Amateur Radio), hard for making emergency communications also.
(D) Reflections: Mrs. Jim and I were outside the Pro Shop watching our granddaughter practice her putting in preparation for another Sunday afternoon kid's golf game. I just happened to look into the shop window and saw this pretty golf course being Reflected.
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My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. What has been your experience with Citrus Fruit? I cannot eat grapefruit because they interfere with taking Statins for my HIGH cholesterol situation..
2. What are your tastes in Candy? I like Chocolate the best..
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "V" word? "Victory", I like to win..
2. What are your experiences with Ham Radio Operators?" I am a Ham Radio Operator with an "Extra Class License." That is the highest class and had the most operating privileges', such as frequencies, power, ands modes of operation (example, Morse Code only on certain bands for some lower class ones.) Each succeeding higher class, four common ones, have harder tests than the one below. I started with the "Novice Class" which no longer exists back in 1960.
How to become a Ham Radio Operator link.
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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 to Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- The pictures are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law. - I am also linked this week with James at Weekend Reflections, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
Labels: Food, Golf course, Jim's Life, Reflections, Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, November 15, 2019
The Letter "T" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
Our Oranges from the backyard tree had 87 edible oranges. Some were fairly ripe and some needed more time to ripen. earlier(1) (2)
We went ahead and picked everything, all 87 before the freeze came earlier this week (it is debatable if they would have been okay, the temp only got down to 29 F). We had eaten a very few before now and then and some also fell off that we discarded.
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The 46th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
(THE TWENTIETH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "T" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "T"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "T" for '"T"wo' (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections
(A) Starts with "T": "Tomatoes" starts with "T". On the above right, we in the South love our "Green Tomatoesl".
At right, seems leaving stems on the tomatoes makes them cheaper?
(B) A Favorite: This cast iron old 1920's Taxi Cab is small, about Tootsi Car size, but one of my favorites. I also have a 1:18 scale newer model, 1938 or so, cab that my oldest son gave me.
My sister Lois gave me this one. It had a note saying that Antiques Road Show had valued it in the lower $1000's. When I was small I had a 1:18 scale model Toy cast ironTaxi Cab but it was left outside and then it was run over by a tractor. Ruined.
(I have always thought the note was a joke. Lois and I have never talked about that, it was rolled up inside and I didn't notice it when she gave it to me.)
(C) "T" for '"T"wo' (Tom's choice): Two Riders is the rule for golf carts. KP, our youngest, ten years, granddaughter, played in a Golf Tournament last Sunday afternoon.
Here are Thirteen Golf Carts headed out for the kid's first Tee Boxes. Many of the carts were carrying three, two parents and a kid . At right is KP sizing up her putt.
(D) Reflections: Here is a picture of our kitchen, Reflections on the cabinets and around.
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My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. What has been your experience with Tomatoes? My colonoscopy doctor said to not eat seeds. So I take every one of them out of my tomatoes that I love out before I eat.
2. What do you grow with your Green or not-so Green Thumb? I am growing an Aloe Vera plant that is around fifty years old. My MIL had always kept it in her kitchen window above the sink.
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "T" word? Tomahawk is my favorite "T" word because I respect the American Indians very much.
2. What is your take on Oranges? I like my Oranges by the slice but juice is okay.
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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 to Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- The pictures are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law. - I am also linked this week with James at Weekend Reflections, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
Labels: Flowers-buds-plants, Golf, Golf course, Reflections, Toys, Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, March 31, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.3.13-- "M" is for ...
Friday's Hunt for the week of March 31st: Starts with M; Week's Favorite; and Water
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3. Water: You might like this, from an older 2012 post about "Water",
at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2012/09/two-shoes-tuesday-2-water-midweek-blues.html
These are balls rescued from the golf course, many came from the water, possible the water being held in the sand trap where Sam (not his real name) is raking for balls. He found several but not his own.
The children's sign on the tree says:
$1.00 Yellow
...50¢ Blue
...25¢ Green
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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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You can count the keys on this LARGE PRINT typewriter pictured below.
Please also note that it is a manual and not electric.
"Typewriter" posts, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=typewriter
Please also note that it is a manual and not electric.
"Typewriter" posts, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=typewriter
1. Starts with M: "M" is for Make Up.
Here it is "Make up your mind", is it Double or Single Space after a period?
To help matters, I learned in my Typing Class to always do two spaces after a period, also do the double space after a colon. Now-a-days most published material has only one space after periods.
For me I still double space, I think it helps the reader to separate the sentences.
These two links may help you make a decision:
a. Google it:
b. Huffington Post article: (a scientific survey study)
c. More uses of "Make Up" besides 'make up' your mind
- Wearing makeup, I put too much "makeup" this morning;
- Catching up by taking a "Make up" exam in school work or a rained out sports game;
- Patch up a damaged relationship, after a night on the town and dining at a nice restaurant, the couple seemed to "make up" their differences;
And I am sure there are others you might think of. For me, these are the majority of uses of "Make UP".
2. Week's Favorite: Eating, if not leftovers then it's hot dogs made me.
Pie from "Pi Day". Mrs. Jim made Apple pie for me. I told you I would get some (Link to Pi Day Posts)
I am the Hot Dog maker of the house. This is just a plain dog on bun with relish, mustard, and cheese. (Link to hot dog posts)
Left over spaghetti from eating out. I had eaten the Frutti di Mare before getting the rest put into my doggy bag. Then, as usual I add a dozen plus shrimp from our freezer. Really good "Fruit of the Sea" leftover dish.
Pie from "Pi Day". Mrs. Jim made Apple pie for me. I told you I would get some (Link to Pi Day Posts)
I am the Hot Dog maker of the house. This is just a plain dog on bun with relish, mustard, and cheese. (Link to hot dog posts)
Left over spaghetti from eating out. I had eaten the Frutti di Mare before getting the rest put into my doggy bag. Then, as usual I add a dozen plus shrimp from our freezer. Really good "Fruit of the Sea" leftover dish.
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3. Water: You might like this, from an older 2012 post about "Water",
at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2012/09/two-shoes-tuesday-2-water-midweek-blues.html
Stealing from the kids
These are balls rescued from the golf course, many came from the water, possible the water being held in the sand trap where Sam (not his real name) is raking for balls. He found several but not his own.
The children's sign on the tree says:
$1.00 Yellow
...50¢ Blue
...25¢ Green
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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: 2012 April in Europe, Food, Friday’s Hunt # 03 - 2017, Golf course, Humor, Jim Does
