Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Quiz, What Is This? — MidWeek Blues —
It's a blue looking mess for sure!
It's the inside of a messy recycle barrel. Someone had dumped a chocolate sundae inside. It had melted and hardened.
The recycle people threw the plastic dish, not visible, back inside. The vanilla ice cream had run all over the bottom and then hardened.
Remedy? I guess put a big sign on it saying "recycle bin only" to keep nasty things like this out.
One thing for sure, it is clean now! I scrubbed and scrubbed with these tools. Sorry that the barrel isn't so very blue.
If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.Labels: Jim Does, Midweek-Blues, On My List, Quiz
Thursday, February 04, 2010
On My List — MidWeek Blues — My 1500th Post
Out of a hundrded women asked, these are the most wanted items.
What is on your list, plastic surgery wise?
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When plastic surgeons check out at a grocery store,
I wonder if they ever choose paper?
I checked tonight -- this is my 1500th post
(for this blog)
had I known earlier it would have been better
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. .Labels: Humor(?), Midweek Blues, On My List, TV
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Passion of the Christ named most controversial film ever -- I haven't seen it, it isn't on my list
Well, well, how about that. The Da Vinci Code is at Number 13 for controversy. I haven't seen that one either.
I have seen Over The Hedge with GrandChild # 4, Karen Jr. All animated with not much plot. The animation and voice overs were fine for me. I think it should have been rated PG-13 instead of PG as there was violence and thievery (stealing food from peoples' houses) .
We saw RV, it was hilarious!
Three movies now showing are on my list, Cars, A Prairie Home Companion, and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (write-up).
Having been to Alaska and seeing what can be seen now, but before had been covered up with ice almost eon's old. Things are alarming, even without seeing the picture, just through reading, I feel our coastal cities will all be covered with 10s of feet of water by time for our grandchildren's old age.
To see An Inconvenient Truth, we will have to go to the Landmark River Oaks Theatre, 2009 West Gray Street, Houston, TX, 77019. That means a nice meal downtown someplace first.
Can we up load pictures now? YES, YES, MY FEET PICTURE UPLOADED!! Maybe it was because I only asked for medium size? See you there soon.
Labels: On My List
Monday, May 22, 2006
An Afternoon with Granddaughter
Here they are,
The Mad Potter calls it 
GC#4 decorated a nice plate for her collection,
This is the store front, in a strip mall
There is a similar pottery painting
Mrs. Jim worked hard on painting
We didn't get to meet the owner, but she had a really nice write-up
in the Houston Business Journal.
So far she has opened at three
Houston locations.
Her Web site is (link).
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And St. Remy's Biscuit & Biscuit
(front and back sides).
At Biscuit & Biscuit there are all kinds of
nice drinks. Our favorite is to have
coffee or tea with cookies.
I had a nice current scone with my coffee.
And used the Internet for a very
economical price.
When you go to Saint Remy in Provence, France,
please visit the Biscuit & Biscuit;
say hello to the owner/operators, Jill and Joy.
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That was just about a day in itself. But not with they younger set.
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Next was and the Alamo Drafthouse. That is a movie house where the chair rows are separated by tables in front of each seat. The menu had drinks (even beer), pizza, and sandwiches. I had a 'western' chicken sandwich, Mrs. Jim shared a pizza with Karen.
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GC#4? She and her friend who came along had French fries and Cokes. The two girls and Billy shared two pitchers of Coke. We forgot about that or the three of us could have had at least one pitcher of Diet Coke for about the same price as the two glasses we had.
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I forgot, there was a movie. It was Over the Hedge, an atrocious animated animal action film. If it wins an Oscar it will be for the animation, not the script. Famous actors did the voice track. William Schatner (alias Denny Crane-link), high on my list, did the Possum character script.
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The Houston Chronicle critique, Amy Briancolli, disagreed. She gave it three and a half stars out of five [The best thing from DreamWorks since Shrek--link]. Besides Shatner, there were Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Nick Nolte, Avril Lavigne, and a host of others doing the voice work.
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After the movie we visited for a while. Yesterday they had birthday cake at their home. Karen said GC#4 "made her own chocolate cake with buttercream frosting and then lots of chocolate frosting for decorations.... A great sugar rush! She decorated it all by herself!"
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This blog is running a little late today, sorry midwesterners. You must be hiding from the rains and doing blogging. I will have a lot to read. Blogger was slow this morning doing pictures, that didn't help.
DAILY STATUS REPORT:
Health check--blood pressure/heart rate 127/64/57 . . . . 1:55 P.M.
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To Do--Pay bills, blog, work on cleanup from taxes, vacation, etc
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**The game's formal name is forty-two. This game is played with double six dominoes, it is very common in Texas.
For the rules and playing strategy, buy the book, Texas 42. The rules and order information are on-line at (link). We play the for points version.
Update (July, 2009): Biscuit and Biscuit has moved from St. Remy to Marseille, France. This was probably a good move as Marseille is a bigger city so they should have a broader customer base. I wish them the very best with the new facility.
They do have the same Web site, http://biscuitbiscuit.canalblog.com/#go
Labels: BP, France, Grandchildren, Houston, On My List
