Friday, February 23, 2024
Letter "H" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "H." A Favorite.
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: I couldn't resist taking this shot of a couple of ducks. Wonder what's on their minds and what is transpiring here? This was on my 30 minutes a day walk, two blocks here from our house.
For Tom, "H"help.
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "H": It will be the word, Heaven. When Heaven calls, I will go. Our Sunday morning Bible class now has over 150 members. In that class five of us have had a loose group with our ages of having reached a magic number 90.
This week Larry, the oldest, birthday in March, was called to Heaven before he could reach 91. His service was led by Charles, one of our class teachers. Larry had asked Charles to speak of the Lord's Prayer and to be specific on the relation of us to the Lord's kingdom coming and of the praise of God in that prayer. (Matthew 6:9-13 [click here for Wikipedia])
A Favorite: GOLFING BOOKS
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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - How to Properly Line Up Your Fourth Putt
Chapter 2 - How to Hit a Nike from the Rough When You Hit a Titleist from the Tee
Chapter 3 - How to Avoid the Water When You Lie 8 in a Bunker
Chapter 4 - How to Get More Distance Off the Shank
Chapter 5 - When to Give the Ranger the Finger
Chapter 6 - Using Your Shadow on the Greens to Maximize Earnings
Chapter 7 - When to Implement Handicap Management
Chapter 8 - Proper Excuses for Drinking Beer Before 9am
Chapter 9 - How to Rationalize a 6 Hour Round
Chapter 10 - How to Find That Ball That Everyone Else Saw Go in the Water
Chapter 11 - Why Your Spouse Doesn‘t Care That You Birdied the 5th
Chapter 12 - How to Let a Foursome Play Through Your Twosome
Chapter 13 - How to Relax When You Are Hitting Three Off the Tee
Chapter 14 - When to Suggest Major Swing Corrections to Your Opponent
Chapter 15 - God and the Meaning of the Birdie-to-Bogey Three Putt
Chapter 16 - When to Regrip Your Ball Retriever
Chapter 17 - Can You Purchase a Better Golf Game
Chapter 18 - Why Male Golfers Will Pay $5.00 a Beer From The Cart Girl and Give Her a $3 Tip, But Will Balk at $3.50 at the 19th Hole and Stiff the Bartender
I am writing Chapter 16 first. . .
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.BETTER GOLF: HOW TO HELP YOUR GAME--SAGE ADVICE FROM AN OLD TIMER
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I have just finished my new Christmas present book on golf that purports to give the reader valuable playing tips and insider information.
Here is some more that I have gained through years of personal experience. I'm writing my own book, Better Golf: How to Help Your Game--Sage Advice From an Old Timer. Please note, this is my book, copyright and all. *.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - How to Properly Line Up Your Fourth Putt
Chapter 2 - How to Hit a Nike from the Rough When You Hit a Titleist from the Tee
Chapter 3 - How to Avoid the Water When You Lie 8 in a Bunker
Chapter 4 - How to Get More Distance Off the Shank
Chapter 5 - When to Give the Ranger the Finger
Chapter 6 - Using Your Shadow on the Greens to Maximize Earnings
Chapter 7 - When to Implement Handicap Management
Chapter 8 - Proper Excuses for Drinking Beer Before 9am
Chapter 9 - How to Rationalize a 6 Hour Round
Chapter 10 - How to Find That Ball That Everyone Else Saw Go in the Water
Chapter 11 - Why Your Spouse Doesn‘t Care That You Birdied the 5th
Chapter 12 - How to Let a Foursome Play Through Your Twosome
Chapter 13 - How to Relax When You Are Hitting Three Off the Tee
Chapter 14 - When to Suggest Major Swing Corrections to Your Opponent
Chapter 15 - God and the Meaning of the Birdie-to-Bogey Three Putt
Chapter 16 - When to Regrip Your Ball Retriever
Chapter 17 - Can You Purchase a Better Golf Game
Chapter 18 - Why Male Golfers Will Pay $5.00 a Beer From The Cart Girl and Give Her a $3 Tip, But Will Balk at $3.50 at the 19th Hole and Stiff the Bartender
I am writing Chapter 16 first. . .
The above is an excerpt from Chapter 16 written as a teaser for the book, a previous blog post on that I had written on January 6, 2006. I haven't made much progress on the book yet, I am waiting until we sell this large house and move into a Senior Living Place. My readers then seemed to think it would be a great idea. You can finish the short story intro to Chapter 16 by clicking here.
For Tom's choice, "Help": This is Mrs. Jim with our daughter and granddaughter, three generations. Mrs. Jim is a very giving and concerned lady, I have given her a middle name, Help.
An example, yesterday Mrs. Jim accompanied me to a visit with my Podiatrist about a sixth toenail growing on my big toe, left foot. Numerous times she would get up and open the door for someone in a wheelchair coming or leaving. A big help to them, even when some were being pushed by someone.
Oh yes, seven years later now, the granddaughter is a freshman in high school. Also, we have moved close to them, a ten-minute walk away. And the doctor cut out the toenail our although it will grow back again (no picture here, I forgot to take one).
Also note that this shows that many of our trees stay green all winter. That is a pedestrian bridge in the back, to cross the little stream.
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The fine print
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- 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: Books, Church, Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Golf, Reflections
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, April 21, 2023
Letter "P" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's "0" Week's Prompts, Starts with "P." A Favorite. "P"ink.
- James' Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "P": This is my toy car, a 1:18 scale cast iron model of the 1955 Ford Crestline hardtop. I bought it way back from the farm store in Tekamah, Nebraska, from them after Christmas sale for half price.
Starts with "P": The machine on the rail is in the Peppa Pig Amusement Park in the U.K, just north of Southampton. KP, Mrs. Jim, and a SIL are riding it.
This car, next to the bottom, is another 1955 Ford, on a NAPA calendar, part of that collection. It might be red but I think it is a dark pink. Ford made more pink ones than red in 1955. The other may have been at the Peppa Pig Place, not sure.
You can see more of my scale model toys and toy cars here,
and some of my Toys in general here, a lot are cars,
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The Pink Panther movie had all of us laughing most of the night, it was hilarious. I would recommend going to it. Rated at 'PG', it could have been rated 'G' except for a couple innuendoes and a crotch burning scene. And those weren't nearly as funny as the rest.
Now, I laugh out loud, LOL, I really do. With my mouth open too. I wasn't the only one laughing, everyone was. And I didn't go to sleep once--except during the commercials before it started.
A Favorite: Play day is over. 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 and that four-fifty includes pizza, other entree foods, salad, drinks, and desert. Alcohol is not served there.
These fellows are all in Mrs. Jim's Sunday Bible Class but they let me play with them because our fellows don't Play golf. This course was Private and the owner has gone out of business, there was no buyer for it so it is now closed.
A Langiappe: Beyonce Knowles as Xania in MGM/Columbia Pictures' The Pink Panther - 2006 [Beyonce is a Houston, Texas, girl made good in the flicks]
James' Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures: (Note, this is a repeat of last weeks.) Adi, our now deceased Beagle dog, from our former Montgomery County (TX) found this pretty place on our walk. We spotted it one morning on Our walk around and along the golf course.
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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: Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, Golf, London Summer 2013, NAPA calendars, Reflections, Walk pictures
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:
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- 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.
- Click Here for all countries of the world.
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Labels: Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Golf, Golf course, Reflections, Selfies
Friday, December 17, 2021
Letter "Y" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections/People on the Street
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
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Weekend Roundup, THE TWENTY-FIFTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "Y" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "Y"; (B) "Yellow" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) A Lagniappe; and (E) A Reflection/Persons on the Street.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "Y": "Yardstick" and "Yes" start. Do you have any "Yardsticks"? Yes, I have Yardsticks, I have Six. The other two are in the house inside the umbrella stand vase. These are laying on top of a garbage container in the garage. I haven't played golf in six years but I do practice a little in the back yard. My "Slotline" putter is a late 1970's model, I don't think they are still in production. I am a good putter and don't want to ever change my putter out.
BTW, Scrabble Word Finder found 5476 words that start with "Y". Browse their Scrabble Word Finder, Words With Friends cheat dictionary, and WordHub word solver to find words starting with "Y".
(B) "Yellow" (Tom's Choice): These Yellow Cabs in the photo are in a NYC parking lot. This shot was taken from a van driving through Manhattan to the Hudson River dock where our princess ship was tied.
The cruise in 2017 would take 22 Days total. On the way back from Nova Scotia and on another cruise to Iceland and on to London would dock at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. I hadn't seen so many Yellow Cabs parked in one place before.
(C) A Favorite: This is my favorite Yardstick. I'm glad for today that it is yellow also. My special Yellow Yardstick. I found the Yellow Yardstick along the side of the road outside our former Montgomery, TX, subdivision, Texas Highway FM 1097.
It is a good one, a metal "Swanson AE141" made by Wilson Tool of Illinois. A metric scale is on the bottom of the face and English on the top. The other in the 'stand' is one that Mrs. Jim was given from a funeral home in South Houston. She thought we had lost all our Yardsticks.
(D.1) A Lagniappe: The Christmas Yodelers Trio.
Mrs. Jim painted the critter on the left. It is a part of a Christmas display in the backyard of our church, along with a really neat light display. We will be served out there with cookies and hot chocolate after the candlelight services, there will be seven over three days.
(D.2) A Lagniappe: Yellow Ford Mustang parked in Katy, TX, at the high school ball field.
(E) A Reflection/Persons on the Street: A shiny maroon ball on the tree downstairs in the lobby from our cardiologist's office which is on the 27th floor. A selfie of Mrs. Jim and me of sorts.
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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. (none for XYZ, there aren't any.)
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Note: I have activated my "jim's little Christmas Tree farm" blog posting for this season. Click this label, Christmas 2021 , to have a peek and monitor my progress.
It has directions to send me a picture of your tree or decorations if you wish.
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Labels: Art, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Golf, Reflections, Songs
