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 23, 2022
Letter "Y" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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| [Click on picture for a very pretty Street Photo scene © Jimmiehov] A Lagniappe: Seen driving home in a Neighbor's lawn, one of my favorite Christmas Nativity Scenes One of my favorite Christmas Nativity Scenes. I am glad that Lucy has Yellow hair band as do the wise men. Also, the Lucy looking Angels. |
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "Y"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Y".
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "Y": Yellow cab starts with "Y".
A Favorite: Our neighbor lady's father was visiting. I like his Yellow Vette.
This Yellow Kia was parked at our Kroger store this afternoon. It looks like a fun car to drive except I'd rather be driving the Corvette.
Tom's suggestion, "Yellow": I sliced this Yellow pineapple with Mrs. Jim's pineapple slicer.
James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I'm not sure what this is, I'm guessing that the Yogee Man took this picture when I wasn't minding my cell phone.
Another Lagniappe:
MERRY CHRISTMAS (again) !!
Sh... I think I saw Santa practicing his delivery
over in Australia where it's past Midnight already.
Is he using his old 90's International Pickup Truck
instead of the Reindeer and sleigh?
A Notice: The Snoopy scene above and this one are a part of my seasonal blog. Now that Thanksgiving has past, I am posting my Christmas Trees on my Christmas Tree Farm blog. See them at
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (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.
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Labels: Art, Cars, Christmas, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Holiday Posts, Reflections
Friday, October 28, 2022
Letter "Q" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests for this Week's Prompts:
Starts with "Q"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Q"uaint
- James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
Tom's choice, "Quaint": On one of our visits to France, 2013, we went to visit Homps, Southwestern France, to ride a canal boat on the Canal du Midi. When we got there we found out that in late April they only ran the afternoon ride so we had to figure out what to do with our morning.
By unanimous vote of we three, Mrs. Jim, our youngest son Tim, and me, it was decided we would visit an old town a bit to the north.
I will show you around that Quaint little town which once had been a medieval fortress city.
[click any picture for large size]
The boat captain (only he and a boat attendant would be working on our little canal boat) has suggested that we drive north to Minerve (link).
That would help but since we couldn't take the tour from there (we wouldn't anyway). Still we had to have eaten and be back to Homps by 1:00.
We made it back in plenty of time for our canal boat ride. All the canal boat ride are posted here (remember to click on a picture once or twice to make any of them larger)
For sure we had not planned on going to Minerve. After our boat ride, our busy day would continue on. Old town, Carcassonne, was next on our journey. See the map below.
We had fun. I wrote more of our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday later.
A Model T Ford
A Lagniappe (1): From a previous Poetry Post on my poem blog.
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a busy day made busier.
Tom's choice, "Quaint": On one of our visits to France, 2013, we went to visit Homps, Southwestern France, to ride a canal boat on the Canal du Midi. When we got there we found out that in late April they only ran the afternoon ride so we had to figure out what to do with our morning.
By unanimous vote of we three, Mrs. Jim, our youngest son Tim, and me, it was decided we would visit an old town a bit to the north.
I will show you around that Quaint little town which once had been a medieval fortress city.
[click any picture for large size]
The boat captain (only he and a boat attendant would be working on our little canal boat) has suggested that we drive north to Minerve (link).
That would help but since we couldn't take the tour from there (we wouldn't anyway). Still we had to have eaten and be back to Homps by 1:00.
Our son Tim came along for this Holiday
Note the cat digging in the garbage
at the restaurant outside eating area.
And what did we eat? These places here were not fast food
and there wasn't a MacDonalds. So we dug into our emergency rations.
That would be peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made in the car,
some cookies, and canned Coca Cola Light.
We made it back in plenty of time for our canal boat ride. All the canal boat ride are posted here (remember to click on a picture once or twice to make any of them larger)
We hope to travel that ride again, it was really nice.
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| [The orange was our afternoon boat ride in the can going to Bourgeois, the blue was our car ride through Province that day] |
We had fun. I wrote more of our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday later.
And the boat ride is here.
Starts with "Q": Quaint definition:
A Model T Ford Garage carport/shed find -- Ruby (Red) Tuesday --
Starts with "Q": Quaint definition by :
After last week's Ruby
My friend, John, asked me if I minded following him to this place. He had left his camera home and wanted some pictures of a car he knew about. I never pass up opportunities to look at old cars so off we went. This is what he wanted to see again, he had discovered them earlier in the year. They are a pair of Model T Ford cars. Either 1926 or 1927, my guess in 1927. In 1927 the Model T had wire wheels standard equipment, in 1926 they were optional. Before that the T's used wooden spoke wheels.
I was surprised and delighted with the find. The last time John had talked with the owner they were not for sale. Times and circumstances since may have changed now. He doesn't know if they could be bought. I suggested that he offer to pay $1000 for cleaning the shed out if he could have the cars and whatever else the family did not want. That means work but John had some grandsons who would really have liked to help grandpa in his quest for more old cars.
I was surprised and delighted with the find. The last time John had talked with the owner they were not for sale. Times and circumstances since may have changed now. He doesn't know if they could be bought. I suggested that he offer to pay $1000 for cleaning the shed out if he could have the cars and whatever else the family did not want. That means work but John had some grandsons who would really have liked to help grandpa in his quest for more old cars.
The one on the right was for sale at a moderate price, $9,950 . It had been restored but before the restoration I imagine it looked very similar to the one John found in the back of the shed.
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The front one is my favorite. Hot Rodders use them to make "T-bucket" hot rods. Most of the originals have been either restored or used up for hot rods. A new fiberglass reproduction body can be had for several thousand dollars
John is deceased now, he died about a year ago. We miss him.
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| Photo from the Houston Chronicle |
A Favorite: Queer? Isn't it Queer to have World Osteoporosis Day so close to Halloween what with all those bones-alone skeletons running around loose?
Reflection: Yesterday late afternoon our sky Quite Pink, from north to south and west to east
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My friend lost a sandal, still had one left.
What good is it having only one shoe?
If you're a bird and have half an island.
It's still an island, only half as large.
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This was taken from our paddle boat in Regents Park, London.
A Lagniappe (2): Isn't this HALLOWEEN Tree Qute! I found it at the Houston Methodist Hospital West yesterday in one of the hallways near an elevator.
Mrs. Jim had been given a steroid shot in her hip and then we visited two friends who were having procedures there, one was outpatient status and the other had back surgery and would be hospitalized for several days. The later hoped to be home for the Baseball World Series games at home, tomorrow is to be the first.
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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 is 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.
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Labels: Family, France, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Holiday Posts, Midi du Canal, Reflections, Travel, tree(s)
Friday, June 10, 2022
Letter "W" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
Tom's Requests for this Week's Prompts:
Starts with "W": "War" starts with "W". Here it will be for WWII time, we always fly our U.S. flag on D Day, June 6, 1944, a U.S. holiday commemorating our most costly in lives Normandy Invasion to repel the Nazi Germany's takeover of the countries of that part of the world, Africa and up.
Starts with "W"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Wet"
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We have visited the Normandy Beach, France, once and driven through several other times, once past on a cruise ship, that part of France but not Normandy. We were always welcomed with a friendly "Thank You" by the French people there.
The picture above is the front of our home, the flag is flying under the eve, at the edge of our small front porch. The flowering trees are Crepe Myrtles, one on each side of the house. We also have two Oak trees in the front and two small evergreens on each side of the sidewalk near the one small step up. On the left side, not showing, is the garage and driveway. To the left is a Miniature Magnolia which produces a few white blossoms from spring and through the fall. In the fairly near future we plan to downsize for the rest of our senior years.
My print of "Revelation 21:4"
A Favorite: A print of Larry Dyke's painting. (Wikipedia) He was painting Texas scenes at the time we bought this one, later he went to golf course impressions, and then I lost track of him.
Each of them has a related Bible reference, this one is Revelation 21:6 - "6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." (Revelation 21:6)
Larry and I were church friends, we participated in several of the same church activities. Larry gave the original of this painting to President Nixen on the National Day of Prayer, 19
National Day of Prayer in U.S. History (Wikipedia)
Tom's suggestion, "Wet":
Adi, our Beagle dog, had to be squeaky clean. She tolerated her bath but got really frisky after. Adi died in September, 2012.
Reflections and Street Captures: What's in the mirror behind Snoopy?
His street to ride is in our game room. Seems the Media end of the room has become a 'Junk Room'. The other end has a make-a-bed couch, two recliners, and a table and chairs that Grandpa H brought to my parents after their honeymoon. December 1932, almost 90 years ago.
Lagniappe: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "W" was Wales . We visited in May 2014 -- A short account, click here . In a nutshell,
[A nice Old hotel in Wales]
"We
visited northern Wales this May for a few days, train from London to Shrewsbury, U.K, rented a car, stayed at B&B's in and around Barmouth, Wales, U.K, and visited with friends traveling to Northampton by train after turning car back at Shrewsbury."
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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.
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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Holiday Posts, Reflections, Toys, Travel 7, YouTube
