Friday, April 26, 2024
Letter "Q" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "Q." A Favorite. For Tom, "Q"uite". For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "Q": This Canaille was quietly getting ready for blooming. It is the first flower this spring where a plant that has been cut to the ground has blossoms.
The rabbits living around here have nibbled on some ends when they were more tender.
A Favorite: The Canaille is my Favorite because my father had canailles all around his converted office up in Nebraska.
Those are his canailles around the smaller building. It was converted from a baby chicken brooding house into an office for his seed corn business. There is a yard light on top of the pole, yes there is not a street, it was sitting in our farmyard. I slept on the front porch behind the hedge.
I grew up in the house sitting in the back. It was a two bedroom, four room, two structure built around 1900 and moved to our family farm in 1920. The new owner had bulldozed it down and has burned the rubble.
Read more about that here.
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: The Guadalpe River is great for rafting. I'm not sure why the picture came out so striated.
For Tom, "Quite": This is one is a spot where the river runs Quite smoothly but there are rapids along its route at other places. You can read more about the house and my growing up here.
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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: Animals, Flowers-buds-plants, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Reflections
Friday, March 01, 2024
Letter "I" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "I." A Favorite.
For Tom, "I"ce".
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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| You can see the frost build up and it was defrosted a couple of weeks ago. |
Starts with "I": Our small freezer is beginning to be an Icebox, as it fills with frost way too fast. I think perhaps the door seal has worn. Icebox starts with the letter "I". Read here, in Wikipedia, about the early iceboxes, "the non-mechanical refrigeration appliance". I don't remember ever seeing one, as we lived on a farm and didn't get electricity until 1938. At the same time the folks purchased a refrigerator.
A Favorite: These are a couple of Ivory Carvings the Mrs. Jim inherited from a retired military officer's wife. They sit on a bookcase shelf in our living room now. Ivory cuttings are the death of the elephant many times because the illegal hunters kill for them. [I may take another picture in the morning with better light.]
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| [click on the picture to better see the Ice piece of sitting on the pipe] |
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For Tom, the word, "Ice": Ain't she cute! We got down to 22°F that night in 2007 shown here, so we dripped the outside faucets. [Adi was our Beagle dog, she died in 2012.]
Look closely for the icicles. The piece of Ice you see sitting on the pipe was from a big icicle about 18 inches long that fell from the faucet and broke. I have a piece of it sitting on the sprinkler pipe. The other icicles are on that weed to Adi's left, your right.
A Lagniappe:
"Blue Bell Light Homemade Vanilla" was our favorite for a long time. Back when Blue Bell was shut down due to a bacteria run loose in their plants. Finally, this Light variety, was the last to start production, months behind the regular flavors. It was also Adi's favorite. (link). But after the COVID Blue Bell stopped making it. That was when we stopped eating Blue Bell brand altogether.  |
| [click on any picture for larger size] [link for super sized] |
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: Adi and I found this pretty pool on our walk this back in 2008.There was not a cloud in the sky that morning!
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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: Adi, Adi Can, By Adi, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Reflections, Walk pictures
Friday, December 08, 2023
Letter "W" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "W." A Favorite. "W"hite. Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
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My Christmas tree blog is up now
Starts with "W": Wheelbarrow, from our home in Texas, 23 years, then we moved to our retirement home in 1999. The wheelbarrow didn't make the move though. I had loaned it to the neighbor and it was mistreated.
First they left it out several days, under an eve and it got wet and since in the shad didn't dry. But when they returned it, besides being rusty, the front wheel was broken, and the tire was flat. It got given to the heavy trash man and I've never had a wheelbarrow since.
A Favorite: My home from birth until I left home for college. Note the buildings. Dad kept them painted white very well. I was born in the house, it had a living room, a kitchen with eating table space, and two bedrooms.
When my sister was born, I was five. She got my room, and I was to sleep on the front porch, you can see the roof. Grandpa and Dad screened it and put storm windows on. No heat nor air conditioning. Frost would be on my blanket in the cold Nebraska winters. I could have changed to sleeping in the living room, heated, but I declined.
The smaller white building in front was the baby chicken growing house. When the folks quite raising chickens, Dad used it for an office for his seed corn business. That is the water cistern to the left and behind. Above ground, it would not have to be pumped.
The new owner of the farm bulldozed the house down and other outbuildings except for the barn and granaries. I'm not sure about the office. There was a yard light on top of that pool beside the office. The tall flowers were canailles.
Tom's choice, "White": My 1974 Dodge Convertible was white. It got totaled when my son-in-law's mechanic, drunk, was driving it, "testing".
For James post, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: Taken from a window in the Houston Methodist Hospital West. The building across the lake is the Katy, Texas, Western Branch location of Texas Children's Hospital.
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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: Cars, Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Houston, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Reflections
Friday, July 24, 2020
The Letter "D" -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections
The twenty-ninth issue of Weekend Roundup for this year, 2020...
(THE FOURTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter D" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "D";
(B) A Couple (Tom's Choice);
(C) A Favorite; and
(D) Reflections.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "D": "Die Afrikannse Taalmonumt" is The Afrikaans Language Monument dedicated to the acceptance of "Afrikaan as the official language of South Africa. We visited the monument on a hill not too far away. (
Wikipedia Link)
For us the sign, one of the lines, directed us on the "Road to Our Winery Picnic and Tasting." And the monument is pretty and large.
Look like good South African fun outing? Each couple had a basket full of good food. We were a ways northwest out of Cape Town.
(B) Dark (Tom's Choice): I am afraid of the Dark and what can't be seen in the Dark.
One thing I am not afraid of is the International Date Line. At the right is a picture of it from our plane, out the window. Unfortunately, it was Dark outside.
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We were over the ___ Sea flying from Australia to our home near Houston, Texas.
(C) A Favorite: This is the Outhouse on our farm. Unfortunately a tree fell on it and then it became unusable. Fortunately for indoor plumbing coming in 1938 along with electricity.
Fortunately also was that my little sister would walk with me before bedtime, in the Dark. That she only did if I let her carry the flashlight.
(D) Reflections: We were at the "Old Town" in South Dubai looking across the water to the city North.
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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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(THE FOURTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter D" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "D";
(B) A Couple (Tom's Choice);
(C) A Favorite; and
(D) Reflections.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "D": "Die Afrikannse Taalmonumt" is The Afrikaans Language Monument dedicated to the acceptance of "Afrikaan as the official language of South Africa. We visited the monument on a hill not too far away. (
Wikipedia Link)
For us the sign, one of the lines, directed us on the "Road to Our Winery Picnic and Tasting." And the monument is pretty and large.
Look like good South African fun outing? Each couple had a basket full of good food. We were a ways northwest out of Cape Town.
(B) Dark (Tom's Choice): I am afraid of the Dark and what can't be seen in the Dark.
One thing I am not afraid of is the International Date Line. At the right is a picture of it from our plane, out the window. Unfortunately, it was Dark outside.
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We were over the ___ Sea flying from Australia to our home near Houston, Texas.
Fortunately also was that my little sister would walk with me before bedtime, in the Dark. That she only did if I let her carry the flashlight.
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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: 2019-20 Dubai to Cape Town, Aus-NZ, Eating, Friday's Weekend Roundup 06, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim's Life, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Reflections
Friday, October 11, 2019
The Letter "O" ~~ Rev 04 - Weekend Roundup and Reflections
The 41st issue of Weekend Roundup for this year... (THE FIFTEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "O" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "O"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "O" for "Over". (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections.
(A.1) Starts with the Letter "O": Oranges start with "O". This is KP again showing us the Orange Fruit, Oranges.at our local Sprouts Grocery store.
(B) A Favorite: Our Old House. We bought before the building was finished and were able to make some changes. It was our first owned house, we bought it in 1976 and sold it in 1999 when Mrs. Jim retired.
It flooded once when we owned it, 33 inches of water inside, and later at least two other times. Here it was finishing up with remodeling after the latest flood.
(C) "O" for "Over". (Tom's choice): Historical Moon "Over" homes.
(D) Reflections: My Reflections here are mainly of the trees against the water. We were Driving Over the Atchafalaya River Flood Basin. Pretty full. The Atchafalaya flows into the Mississippi River in the Baton Rouge area, before New Orleans.
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My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. Has you home ever flooded? or your car? Our home in the picture flooded in the 1979 Claudia Tropical Flood. We lived in Galveston County then. We also lost three cars and a motorcycle because the water in the street was much deeper than that in our driveway. My 1969 Ford Thunderbird may have been resurected, I know the fellow in the junk yard was going to get the motorcycle going again.
2. Do you take pictures in the grocery store, perhaps for your blog or for some other reason that you would like to write about? If you do not take pictures in the stores why not? I take them mostly for my blog. A few I take because I just want to remember this event. But then generally I cannot find the picture when I want it..
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "O" word? "Over" is my favorite "O" word because being over is just nice. Most times there is freedom in being over.
2. What are your thoughts about Oranges? Often I think of Christmas because when we were small there would generally be one in our hanging stockings.
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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 Letter "O" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "O"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "O" for "Over". (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections.
(A.1) Starts with the Letter "O": Oranges start with "O". This is KP again showing us the Orange Fruit, Oranges.at our local Sprouts Grocery store.
(A.2) Starts with the Letter "O": This is Our Backyard Orange Tree. Some of the Oranges were getting ripe and I picked them. But I have none to show now.
(B) A Favorite: Our Old House. We bought before the building was finished and were able to make some changes. It was our first owned house, we bought it in 1976 and sold it in 1999 when Mrs. Jim retired.
It flooded once when we owned it, 33 inches of water inside, and later at least two other times. Here it was finishing up with remodeling after the latest flood.
(C) "O" for "Over". (Tom's choice): Historical Moon "Over" homes.
(D) Reflections: My Reflections here are mainly of the trees against the water. We were Driving Over the Atchafalaya River Flood Basin. Pretty full. The Atchafalaya flows into the Mississippi River in the Baton Rouge area, before New Orleans.
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My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. Has you home ever flooded? or your car? Our home in the picture flooded in the 1979 Claudia Tropical Flood. We lived in Galveston County then. We also lost three cars and a motorcycle because the water in the street was much deeper than that in our driveway. My 1969 Ford Thunderbird may have been resurected, I know the fellow in the junk yard was going to get the motorcycle going again.
2. Do you take pictures in the grocery store, perhaps for your blog or for some other reason that you would like to write about? If you do not take pictures in the stores why not? I take them mostly for my blog. A few I take because I just want to remember this event. But then generally I cannot find the picture when I want it..
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "O" word? "Over" is my favorite "O" word because being over is just nice. Most times there is freedom in being over.
2. What are your thoughts about Oranges? Often I think of Christmas because when we were small there would generally be one in our hanging stockings.
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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: Driving Pictures, Jim's old home, KP, Reflections, Shopping, tree(s), Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, February 23, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 08-18 (for letter "H")
The 8th issue of my Weekend Roundup for this year...
1. Starts with "H"; 2. A Favorite; and 3. House.
1. Starts with "H"; 2. A Favorite; and 3. House.
2. A Favorite: We ate lunch today at Dozier's in Fulshear, Texas. Friday's are our FAVORITE DAY because their special on that day is a BOGO BBQ beef sandwich.
3.a. House: This (and at the top here) is a picture of the House I was born in. A tree had fallen on the roof of the screen and storm windowed in the front porch where I had slept, starting at about the age of six.
Before that I had the second bedroom of the two-bedroom house, but after my sister was about one she was given that room and from then until I left home I slept out there. It wasn't heated and in the winter frost would develop on my blanket (this was in the hills of Eastern Nebraska).
In December of 2007 my Sister Lois and I had the farm sold (link). At the age of 97 Dad died early in 2007, Mom had died in 1999. The weather had turned snowy and bad but the farmers turned out nicely anyway to attend the auction.
(Link, Lois pictures)(Link, Lois on my blog)
The buyer owned three neighboring farms so he bought this one for his youngest son. They have since bulldozed the house down and most all of the other surrounding farmyard structures. No one had lived there since Mom and Dad had moved to town in the early 90's.
Jim's old home, Jim's old home place
3.b. A Lagniappe for you: An automobile logo emblem for the Hyundia car.
"The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea." Wikipedia. I am most familiar with the Sonata and Elantra models.
I didn't explore their site very much, it is new to me. They only have the cars you'd see driving around in this section. I didn't see any antiques and discontinued cars. You might check out some of my earlier posts for that.
The fine print:
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link to Weekend Review 2/16/2018)
- The pictures are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
Labels: Cars, Food, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Weather, Weekend Roundup 01
Friday, December 15, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.4.24 -- "X" is for ...
Friday's Hunt for the week of December 15th
1. Starts with "X"; 2. craft; and 3. growing
1. Starts with "X": "XTBD", if ever. It should be "XMAS" but the rest of post isn't very '"X"mas-sy'.
2. Craft:
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You might think this was in the farm room but these toys were at Dad's nursing home. We had stopped in to tell him goodbye. That was in August, 2006 (link). Dad died in February, 2007, at age 97.
Aren't those nice trucks? The Red Hat ladies and the Construction Guys (they gave Dad his hard hat)(July 24 posting) made toys for a fundraiser.
The residents helped too. The day before we had watched one of the men residents painting the trucks and the benches. He was doing a good job, I didn't know they would turn out this nice.
3. Growing:
To the south of the corn crib was where Mom had her garden. It was large, about an acre including the potato patch.
Now Grass and Weeds are Growing where the precious garden once was. I wrote a 'poem' about this in my other blog yesterday. (You can read it by clicking here. )
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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 signing in link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm." You can read others' posts there any time.
________others posting this_Week's_Friday_Hunt_posts_______
4. A bit of Lagniappe: Still not saying much about this picture. If I don't get a better "X" word, we will for sure have "X marks the spot." The dart board to which the balloons are attached is also a craft work of sorts. In the meantime you can be guessing what this picture is all about.
1. Starts with "X"; 2. craft; and 3. growing
1. Starts with "X": "XTBD", if ever. It should be "XMAS" but the rest of post isn't very '"X"mas-sy'.
2. Craft:
.You might think this was in the farm room but these toys were at Dad's nursing home. We had stopped in to tell him goodbye. That was in August, 2006 (link). Dad died in February, 2007, at age 97.
Aren't those nice trucks? The Red Hat ladies and the Construction Guys (they gave Dad his hard hat)(July 24 posting) made toys for a fundraiser.
The residents helped too. The day before we had watched one of the men residents painting the trucks and the benches. He was doing a good job, I didn't know they would turn out this nice.
3. Growing: To the south of the corn crib was where Mom had her garden. It was large, about an acre including the potato patch.
Now Grass and Weeds are Growing where the precious garden once was. I wrote a 'poem' about this in my other blog yesterday. (You can read it by clicking here. )
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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 signing in link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm." You can read others' posts there any time.
________others posting this_Week's_Friday_Hunt_posts_______
4. A bit of Lagniappe: Still not saying much about this picture. If I don't get a better "X" word, we will for sure have "X marks the spot." The dart board to which the balloons are attached is also a craft work of sorts. In the meantime you can be guessing what this picture is all about. 
- The top picture is one of the remaining buildings on my parent's Nebraska farm. Shown is the corn crib and to the left side of the picture across a little lane was Mother's large garden. We all, my sister, Dad, and I, helped her with that. The best part was eating the vegetables fresh from picking but we all enjoyed helping there, especially when we were all out there with mom.
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- The bottom two pictures were taken from my cousins' (Jean and hubby, Dwain) garden this summer, July 1. Jean's rhubarb needed to be picked. We did and she gave us most of what we had picked which we took back to Houston. Mrs. Jim makes really good rhubarb pie. The rhubarb is the lower large green leaves on the left picture.
- For more pictures and a little history of the farm, please look at these blog pages:
(or on the two farm links below with the "labels")
Labels: Family, Food, Friday’s Hunt # 04 - 2017, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Toys
