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Friday, June 14, 2024
Letter "X" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Has an "X"; A Favorite; Tom's request, "Xword" and For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Has an "X": Her name is Marceline (after the "l" I guessed).
Our new great great niece is Extra cute, Extra small, and Extra happy. For the picture she was just newborn. At birth she weighed 4 lbs 13 oz and was 17 inches long.
Tom's request, an"Xword": Before my knee joint replacement surgery I'm having a bunch of X-rays. Soon after that I hope not to need this wrist band.
For James, Reflectionsand/or Street/Candid Captures: I can't remember the port our ship was pulling into or could be leaving. Overseas for sure.
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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.
For this reason, I still do the alphabet, but I'm thinking not after we reach the letter "Z" here.
Most of the four or so that respond to Tom don't return my comment left after reading theirs. I like comments from them. As I write this on Sunday night there have been NO COMMENTS left here on this blog for the last two weeks.
But most of my faithful readers are friends and relatives of whom I don't expect comments, not many at least. That said, I intend to keep on writing on weekends, kind of a report on the things that our family and I are doing. I THANK YOU VERY MUCH, you friends and relatives.
And Tom, I thank you very much too for supporting us faithful ones who respond. I may switch to another of your blogs.
A Favorite and Street/Candid Captures: Waiting for her ride, granddaughter.
Window view from my recliner.
Tom's request, "Weather": Sunshine after the rain. Cooled it down, 87F now, it was 96F before.
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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.
# posted by Jim : 6/07/2024 02:39:00 PM
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Friday, April 05, 2024
Letter "N" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
Letter "N" - This Week's Prompts: Starts with "N." A Favorite. For Tom, "N"ice". For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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. Adi is posing with her aunt and uncle for a goodbye picture. We enjoyed staying with Lois and Jim (my sister and bro-in-law). You have seen most of our local tours. From August 2, 2006 post,
Starts with "N":Now soon I need to see my sister, haven't seen or visited with her, other that messages on the cell phone for probably nine years when she came here. Next should be my turn.
But I may have waited too long, the ladies in my life think I am too old at 90 to drive that far anymore. Southwest is having a $39 per flight sale now close like Memphis, $80 to Iowa where Lois lives. But I wouldn't drive straight through all the way one, up or down, but would and stop and see/visit my cousin in Arkansas who is a couple of years later than my age.
A Favorite:New Driver of my latest Antique? Car that I got back in 2000 for my retirement present. I would retire in 2001. This is our younger granddaughter, now a high school freshman.
For Tom, "Nice": Nice to know information, especially for us along the Gulf of Mexico coast.
James, Reflectionsand/or Street/Candid Captures: Seems I might have posted before. Not sure where is located but feel it's close to our home, southwest of our home. Sorry 'bout that.
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The fine print
- [Click on most any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Back
woods Travel" (Link hereto 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 unless noted otherwise and their rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law
# posted by Jim : 4/05/2024 06:27:00 PM
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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.
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.
Reflections and/orStreet Photos/Candid Captures: After the Corn is harvested and sold or in the crib the corn farmers become Snowbirds.
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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 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).
A Favorite: Mrs. Jim and I found this bit of original Art in the Lautrec Museum in Albi, France. It is by Paul Cézanne (1839 to 1906) and yes, he was pretty quirky, both artists were.(Cézanne Wikipedia link) In just a lot of his pictures you can see Mont Sainte-Victoire as in this one. It is a mountain in Provence, France. Cézanne can see the whole view of the mountain from his house near Aix-en-Provence. He drew a series of oil paintings about or using his favorite mountain of his.
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"A"lone: KP's new cat does not like being left Alone. We think he might be missing his former owner.
Named Dutch, he is an adopted four-year-old male Russian Blue. He was a one-owner never taken out in the rain pretty boy belonging to a little old lady, an LOL.
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A Lagniappe: Bells on our front door until After New Year's Day. This will be my last Christmas/New Year's Seasonal Post on my "jim's little Christmas Tree farm" blog posting of Christmas items for this season. Click this label, Christmas 2021 , to have a peek.
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Weekend Reflections/Street Photo: A Sidewalk conference.
Another Lagniappe: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "A":
Note: I have finished with my "jim's little Christmas Tree farm" blog posting of Christmas items for this season. Click this label, Christmas 2021 , to have a peek.
It has directions to send me a picture of your tree or decorations if you wish to do so I can post it.
# posted by Jim : 1/07/2022 04:07:00 PM
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Friday, December 24, 2021
Letter "Z" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections/People on the Street
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
For the 26th letter time, The Week's Prompts are Christmas, A Favorite, and "Red and Green". The letter not asked for would be "Z".
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Christmas: Our Christmas Tree lighted. It's a seven-foot store bought artificial. Also Red and Green.
At the foot of the tree is a manger scene, a Fisher Price "toy". It represents the purpose of tomorrow's holiday, celebrating the human birth of Jesus Christ. Christians celebrate it on December 25 regardless of the actual birth date. (Click here for viewing other nativity word posts)
Hence the song that we sang over and over in my country schools, grades one through ten:
Away in a Manger
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Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus Laid down His sweet head
A Favorite: My Holly Tree -- Again, also Red and Green.
My Hard Time Canna Lilly
The rabbits ate all the tender
leaves after we planted it.
Red and Green: We hope the hibiscus other plantsdidn't freeze again this winter
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A Lagniappe: The last rose of Autumn but more are on the way.
Another Lagniappe:my favorite "Z" Words are
1. Zipper;
2. Zigzag; and
3. Zoo (not necessarily in that order; plus there may be other favorites that I have not mentioned.)
I am showing you a fence owned by my friend who has a "little ranch" near Telluride in Colorado.
Today I like best "zig-zag" as a zig-zag fence appeals to the hidden rocket scientist nature in me.
They can be freestanding without the use of buried fence posts. A section can be removed and put back for access/entrance without damage to the fence. Lastly on my short list is that their rustic looking appearance appeals to me.
- This fence belonged to my friend and neighbor before we moved to Katy. It was on his Colorado ranch and was there before he acquired the property.
He was a retired major oil company CEO who started in the Chemistry lab of the company when he graduated with his degree, a PhD in Chemistry.
A Reflection or a Street Photo Capture: during a little bit of Christmas shopping I had to use this restaurant. The store had two, both "any gender" per the sign.
It's been a long time since I've rated a relief facility but this on would have been a Zero except that scale goes from one to five. I RATE THIS ONE A ONE.
Another Lagniappe: Below, is the last full posting on this blog for the year, the following post is from 15 years ago. I started it in December 2005 but the picture and text below are from January 2006, it was Adi's, our beagle dog's, first of many on this blog. She was also on some of my other blogs here and there.
Incidentally, this blog has 2,257 posts, 884 draft posts, for a total of 3,140 writings. It has 18,690 comments with 710,899 hits. Quite a few families and friends read it and tell me about their viewing but don't leave comments.
"Saturday, January 07, 2006
another FIRST TIME
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it's for Adi this time
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This is Adi, our therapy dog
She specializes in reading with children
and visiting assisted living residents"
Adi died September 17, 2012 (read my tribute to her here)
Adi was born September 1, 1996. Read Adi's blog post here.
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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 herefor 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 to do so.
