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,
James, Reflections and/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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.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.
CSU April hurricane forecasts FOX Weather©
For Tom, "Nice": Nice to know information, especially for us along the Gulf of Mexico coast.
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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 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 unless noted otherwise and their 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 unless noted otherwise and their rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law
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Labels: Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Grandchildren, granddaughter, Iowa, KP, KP driving, Lois, Mustang, Reflections, Sister, Weather
Friday, September 22, 2023
Letter "L" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "L." A Favorite. "L"ovey.
Plus Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures.
Starts with "L": Lois is my sister's name, she is five years younger than me. ["Lois" search results]
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| Bestofhiandlois.jpg (Wikipedia Fair use information) |
Lois is also the name of Beetle Bailey's sister, she is host of the Hi and Lois comic strip. [Beatle Bailey characters info Wikipedia link, click here] [click on picture for larger viewing]
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| My photo copy courtesy of Houston Chronicle Comics |
A Favorite: "Lucy" next to Snoopy is my favorite comic character in "Peanuts". Right now Lucy is in the process of finding an affordable private school so she can escape from her horrible public one. In the strip that Snoopy, her dog, has recommended. Charles M. Shultz, it's writer died in year 2000. His comic ran from 1950 until 2000 when he died. After that what we read now are replays. (Wikipedia)
My favorite comic strips are Peanuts, Family Circus, Ziggy, F-minus, Rymes With Orange, Bizarro, Mother Goose and Grim, Hagar the Horrible, Blondie, B.C., and Beetle Bailey. That's out of all the 33 in our paper, Houston Chronicle.
What are yours?
Right now, Lucy, above is in the process of finding an affordable private school so she can escape from her horrible public one. In the strip above she tells of one that Snoopy, her dog, has recommended.
Charles M. Shultz, it's writer died in year 2000. His comic ran from 1950 until 2000 when he died. After that what we read now are replays. (Wikipedia)
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| My photo copy courtesy of Houston Chronicle Comics |
"Lovey": Loving this, just "Lovey" towards this couple, Dagwood and Blondie.
Reflections and Street/Candid Captures: I haven't figured what was going on here. Or why I took the picture.
It is the traveling semi of the University of Nebraska football team. It carries all the team's equipment and goodies. I have never seen this truck on the road but it looks like it should keep up with traffic quite well. I was happy to see it here on November 2009 at a Game with Baylor University.
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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, Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Lois, Reflections, School, The Comics
Friday, June 16, 2023
Letter "X" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
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- James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures."
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My first Car, the 1950 Studebaker Starlight coupe
[picture of my toy 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe, a cast iron model of my first car]
[I have quite a few cast iron 1:18 scale toy cars, this one included.]
A word with "X": "Texaco gasoline pump", old fashioned pump gas measured by what's in the glass jar on top, and my 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe. Be watching as there are a couple of other words with the letter "X" here today.
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| The fellow on the bench is made of bronze |
My Choice: This one is a repeat of one from last week's blog. My readers may have missed this posting, on it I had a lot of the lake pictures out the south windows of the Library. It is sooo Relaxing, I've spent time, but not sharing with the Art Work fellow here, on the other benches while Mrs. Jim was attending her Book Club meeting.
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- James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I took this on our supposedly Daily Walk. There is a reflection, but the wind was so breezy that the disturbed water was not in the mood for reflections. The brownish cluster spot just beyond the duck's head was a reflection of the second tree cluster from the left.
Mrs. Jim was away with her bridge group on this their playday, so I walked by myself. I noticed that the smaller, younger ducks were gone. I think someone must have captured them for cooking. They would come to a person if that person had some food for ducks.
A Favorite: Isn't she an excellent Beauty, the truck, that is. Of course all the ladies featured on my Calendars she being very nicely kept.
A Favorite: Isn't she an excellent Beauty, the truck, that is. Of course all the ladies featured on my Calendars she being very nicely kept.
"I will always like the 1949 Ford Pickup., it is one of my favorite old trucks. One like this is what I drove to high school in town for my last two years (the first two years I did not attend a town school, but rather a 10-grade two room country school to which I rode my horse, Minnie).
This one is on the August 2009 NAPA calendar that I have in my collection. Here is a link to read about me and that truck." [Collected from my previous Weekend Roundup May 25, 2018 post,
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The Fine Print:
Labels: Art, Birds, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, Lois, Reflections, Sister, Walk pictures
Friday, June 09, 2023
Letter "W" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "W"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "W"ater.
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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| The fellow on the bench is made of bronze |
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| This kind of ducks also live near us three miles away over in a flood water retention green area |
James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I was at the library again this Wednesday and had an hour by myself to read, work my Sudoku, and work on getting this and my Poetry blog ready for Friday.
This lady who came along and sat across the aisle from me didn't ever say a word or look my way. She had to know I was taking ''water pictures" for Tom and James' Reflections. But she didn't even squint or flinch and look my way when I took this one.
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Four-year-old KP was driving this Jeep. She's going on fourteen next month. Check "KP Driving" label at the bottom. When she gets her license she wants my '98 Mustang Convertible for school |
Starts with "W": Women and Woman start with "W". We will discuss Women Drivers today.
1. One of the worst woman drivers I have ever known lived in El Paso, Texas. She ran a stop sign right in front of my Vespa motor scooter. I was riding it down a main thorough fare, she was coming out of a side street.
2. We were not traveling too awfully fast, each well within the speed limit. She just didn't stop at the stop sign.
3. So I ended up on the hood of her car. Both of my knees were sore for a long time but nothing was broken. The scooter needed quite a bit of repair. It turned out she did not have insurance for anything except collision (covered her own car). She had just purchased this Pontiac new and that is all the dealer had sold her.
4. She did fuss at me for being on the street. Then she said not only did I not have a right to be there with the scooter but that I was traveling without any lights on. The policeman told her that yes, I did have my lights on. When I pushed it out of the middle of the intersection the lights tried to come on until I took it out of gear.
5. The policeman agreed, he too had seen that.
6. The woman was put on probation for her driving and for not having liability insurance she could lose her license. I had to sign a paper that I would take payments from her for my damages, scooter and doctor, etc., I would notify the Court if she missed even one day on her payments. Needless to say, she was always on time in paying.
A Favorite: This was my dad's toy tractor and Wagon. Now, since Dad died in 2009 at age 97, the tractor is mine and the Grain Wagon belongs to my little sister, Lois. They are cast iron 1:18 scale models, the wagon has a wooden bed.
Dad's last real farm tractor was like this, an International Farmall M GTA, his wagons were older. The tractor has joined my other scale model cars, trucks, and tractors. Most are 1:18 scale, a few are 1:24 or smaller; I have around fifty of them.
Adults having fun in the water:
Playing beach ball in the water with the kids
Stealing from the kids -- rescuing lost golf balls that kids might have sold
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.
Tom's suggestion, "Water":
A Lagniappe: A Quiz; Describe in as few words as possible could describe the driver of the little grey car. (hint--my answer is one word)
Answer: Woman highlight the space to the left and see if you had the right answer.
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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: Birds, Friday's, Humor(?), KP, KP driving, Lois, Reflections, Toys, Weekend Roundup 10
Friday, September 23, 2022
Letter "L" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's This "Week's Prompts, Starts with "L." A Favorite. - "L"ove.
- James' wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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Starts with "L": Lois starts with "L". This is my sister, Lois. We don't see her very often anymore; she lives in a faraway state, and we live down south in Texas.
Here, Lois 'baby' sits' dogs for her son and grandchildren. She has never said yes to my request for her to 'baby' sit Adi. Probably she thought I wasn't being serious. Adi, the Beagle Dog, was here because we were visiting Lois.
Find more of my posts having Lois, click this link.
A Favorite: "Last" will be my Favorite today. This is my Last garbage Can Liner out of the batch we inherited from Mema, Mrs. Jim's mother.
Where Mema lived a big roll of liners came, no extra charge, every two or three months. She didn't need that many but saved them for us, her son-in-laws. After she moved out of her house we collected six rolls of these, I think we found a few more and I took two more. They have lasted us for about twenty years, now we'll have to but them.
Oh yes, Last isn't always my favorite. Generally I hate being Last in many things. Standing in Lines and being Last, to shut off the lights, I hate being last to shut off the lights as I hate being in the dark. But being nice may be polite, Jesus said the first shall be last. Matthew 20, verse 16, Matthew 20, verse 16.
Tom's choice, "Love": I Love my grandchildren. I have six, none are favorites. That said the younger and those living close naturally get more attention.
This is our Last grandchild, the picture taken several years ago. She is a teenager now. Probably it will be the Last time I'll catch her with my camera pulling in the garbage can.
Lagniappe #1: I Love this quote, so does one of my Facebook friends who posted it.
Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I went out to get a picture, the one on the left, and noticed the Reflection in the window of the plant, a --- that is about to reach the eaves of our house. The Reflection is of that in the window of our back yard. So I took another that showed it better, and then one of Palmeira flower showing the living room back window's Reflection.
A Lagniappe #2: Tell about one of your experiences with peppers.
I have a recipe for "Quick and Easy Stuffed Bell Peppers."
Use precooked boudin, it consists of Cajun spiced sausage and rice, perfect for stuffing precooked (boiled) cut in halves Green Pepper. One link will make two stuffed half peppers, a package generally comes with two or more links.
Bake in the oven, probably about 350 degrees until nice and hot.
You can garnish the top with breadcrumbs or even put ketchup on the tops. Yum Yum.
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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: Adi, Bible, Family, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, granddaughter, KP, Lois, Reflections
Friday, June 24, 2022
Letter "Y" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
[Reflections on my dresser top]
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Starts with "Y": Yodel starts with "Y". My Uncle Howard used to Yodel out in the corn fields whenever it was just him and me hoeing weeds from the corn. I have never heard him Yodel when others are around, but he was quite good and needn't have been ashamed.
[Photo is from the early 1940's; from the left, Aunt Faye, Uncle Howard, Cousin Jack, and Cousin John. Only Jack, the youngest of these, is still living.]
I lifted this photo from an earlier post, in on December16, 2005, and updated on June 11, 2010 (link).
A Favorite: The Bactine had to Yield to the smaller White Bottle.
Question: What do these four items have in common?
Answer: They are four of my favorite 'hair care' stuff for this summer. I went to a different dermatologist a few weeks ago and he put me on Clobetasol Propionate to combat my itching sores on my scalp. I had been using the Bactine spray against the itching.
Tom's choice,"Yellow". "Yellow Cab". I'm not sure this a Yellow Cab taxi as the Yellow Cabs that I have seen are all Yellow, no black. Not two-door models either. It seems to have been repainted, maybe not even a taxi before. My sister gave it to me, with an outlandish price tag attached. It could even be a fake.
THANK YOU AGAIN, SISTER LOIS, it is one of my favorite toys. Although this toy taxi is Tootsie Toy sized, it makes me think of the cast iron scale 1:18 scale model Yellow Cab I once had as a young boy.
Reflections: The toy cars and trucks have invited Snoopy to race with them today. This is my dresser top, it is over 100 years old. The top is Reflecting the cars and the ceiling fan Reflection just happened as showing in the mirror.
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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: Doctoring, Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Lois, Reflections, Toys
- 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).