Friday, March 29, 2024
Letter "M" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
Letter "M" - This Week's Prompts: Starts with "M." A Favorite. For Tom, "M"ild". For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: Mother and daughter. Now what?
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Starts with "M": Milk is my "M" word for this go round. This picture is a Brown Swiss Milk Cow with the same features as my FFA, Future Farmers of America, project for my junior and senior Ag activity and class.
We took her home from a calf auction when she was small, just a few months old. That was for my sophomore year, I fed and cared for her, she was a pretty young heifer at summer break time. By graduation time next spring she was a good Milk Cow. We separated her from her little calf the day it was born, and she joined our small Milk Herd.
All school FFA animals at our school must have been named. Guess the name I gave the calf. Now highlight the next blank space to see if you guessed right.
I named her "Brownie".
The cream we separated away from the Milk and sold it to the local creamery. My cow's Milk was rich with cream.
A Favorite: Monster Jam (we didn't get to see)
For Tom, "Mild": 1947, who all can remember, Pall Mall cigarettes slogan, ". . . and they are "Mild." I do.
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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: Animals, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Kids, Quiz, Race, Reflections, School, Walk pictures
Friday, January 05, 2024
Letter "A" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
We are at the beginning of the alphabet one more time, this
will be Number 12 (six years) writing with Tom and James.
For James: Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: The moon is shingling brightly in its Reflection in the pool. Shining through the slat fence is the neighbor's bright Christmas lighting. I took this a few nights ago but I have a similar and much better photo here, as shown to the right.
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Starts with "A": In my latest AARP magazine is featured Ringo Star. Can you guess his age now? Please highlight the blank area below to see the answer.
Ringo Star is 83 years old.
Adi was retiring from Pet Partners
She and I were a registered Pet Therapy Team
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Tom's pick, ""A" "Favorite": Adi was my Favorite dog. She was a Beagle purebred without papers. (To read more about Adi, click here)
"A"round: The Axle is Round on this Round wooden wagon wheel. Seen at Central Park, NYC, New York. (to read more about Central Park, click 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 "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, Animals, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, New York City, Quiz, Reflections
Friday, April 28, 2023
Letter "Q" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's "Q" Week's Prompts, Starts with "Q." A Favorite. "Q"intet.
- James' Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures.
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Mom's Egg Scale -- Click picture for larger size
Starts with "Q": Quantity and Quality both begin with "Q". We buy eggs which are priced by Quantity and Quality. Grade "A" eggs are at least 24 ounces per dozen.
Grade A eggs must have clean, unbroken shells of normal shape. The air cell of a Grade A egg must not exceed 3/16-inch in depth. The whites should be clear and reasonably firm, so that the yolk is only fairly well defined. Finally, it must be practically free of any apparent defects.
Quantity is generally six, 12, 18 or 36 eggs per carton. I cook my eggs in the microwave. Back in my bachelor days there weren't microwave ovens. See the scale above for the other grades. Click here to read about Mom and I with the eggs, and more on eggs.
Chart is from Southern States Cooperative; How to grade and size eggs. [click on it for a larger size view]
[Photo from F a c e b o o k "cb and ham antenna group"]
A Favorite: A Quaint old truck belonging to a ham radio fellow, see his antenna at the back.
Question (a Quiz): Why is this old truck looking so Queer (starts with "Q")?
Answer: Because it is Quaint and has an antenna for mobile operation on top of the cargo roof.
[hint, highlight the blank area to see the answer]
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| Vernazza -- Picture copyright, Jimmiehov 2006 |
Tom's choice "Qintet": These are a couple of the five villages, or Cinque Terre, (Monterosso al Mare , Vernazza , Corniglia , Manarola , and Riomaggiore [link, Wikipedia]). We visited the first four by train. We did walk the trail along the cliffs from Corniglia to Manarola.
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James' Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures: This was a part of my friend, John's, five-acre yard. We often had car club meetings at his home. John died a couple of years ago.
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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: Quiz
Friday, August 19, 2022
Letter "G" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's posting prompts: This "Week's Prompts Starts with "G." A Favorite. "Grand".
- James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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| Taken in 2013 at Hyde Park, London, U.K. |
"Half is better than none," or so they say. Others will argue, "It's all or none"
Starts with "G": This one-legged Goose wants to be my G-Word today.
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| Click on pictures for larger viewing, most will click again for a full size view. |
I could not find much about this specific car we see. In races the Abrey's enter it in the pre-1920 class. (road rally link picture) I was not sure exactly looking to find more.
BUT ANYWAY, THEY WERE THERE, ON THE STREET BESIDE OUR CITY BUS.
Tom's choice,"Grand": The last beach where we played was at the Seven Mile Beach at Grand Cayman Island.
We always call him, no matter where he is or who he really is, the Friendly Stranger. A Friendly Stranger took this picture, it has been cropped to portrait size.
Aside, he had been drinking a lot but was able to snap this one for us. We hope he didn't drown; the warm water may have sobered him up, I wonder?
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| Do you know how to make chicken jerk? You sneak up on it and holler BOO!!!! Highlight the blank area above to find out. |
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A Lagniappe #1: There's a lot of Gaff that teachers have to put up with. It is no wonder that so many are retiring ASAP, most Gaff comes from the politicians and some also by the mislead parents.
The pictures are some books that teachers, and libraries, have no discretion but to follow new rules to ban them.
For this week's post I've circled all that have a prominent "G" letter in the word and its usage.
From top to bottom the words are as follows:
Ghost; Gay; Gay; and Gender.
I agree, some are not suitable for all ages, but adults should be able to read as they wish.
A Lagniappe #2: BTW, I bought a used book today, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. Both Mrs. Jim and I had read excerpts but not the entire book.
A Lagniappe #3: I like the comics, a.k.a. funnies, but I read only about ten of the many of those in my Houston Chronicle. Five I make a point of reading and then five or six more if I feel like reading more. The top five are Peanuts, Mother Goose and Grim, Hagar the Horrible, Blondie, and Beatle Bailey.
Peanuts is my favorite, I like Beatle Bailey because he is an Army Private and I started my five years as a Private also. The other five or six I often read are Bizarro, B.C, Family Circus, Ziggy, Rymes with Orange, and F-Minus. I hardly ever read anymore.
In peanuts right now, Snoopy's brother, Spike, is visiting. He is in bad shape with the drought in the desert where he lives and came for help.
Questions for you:
Do you read the comics?
If so, how many on average?
What is your favorite?
Growing up I used to read Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annice, and Little Abner which terminated in 1977 (read more). I still have my 127 Dick Tracy camera.
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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.
-The one-legged Goose photo was previously posted in April 2015 with several other photos with a slightly humorous poem I wrote, it is posted at the link below on my other active blog,
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Labels: Bible, Birds, Books, Caribbean, Cars, Cartoons, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Humor(?), London, Quiz, Race, Reflections, The Comics
Friday, July 29, 2022
Letter "D" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
New!! I'm now allowing
anonymous comments!!
(Please leave your name and URL
I'd like to return your comment.)
[There may be a drop-down arrow for putting in
your comment but you can just leave it in your text.]
Starts with "D." A Favorite. "D"ouble:"
-> James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos
-> The pictures mostly are all mine and rights
are reserved by me under Copyright Law.
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| KP in 2016. She's a teen now. |
- Starts with "D": Donut starts with "D". I do a brag for them; I am going on my 19th year without eating ANY donuts since 2004. I do eat Kolache's and Apple Fritters as I don't count them a Donuts. And I've bought a lot of donut holes for KP and other kids and a few donuts for relatives. A poem post about that here. In the photo at right KP has a sack of donut holes and a cholate milk.
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| A Trail Ride, this wagon is being pulled by a Mule Team |
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- A Favorite: I'm liking our annual Trail Ride where the 'country' folk and the wannabe country folk harness and hitch up, or ride, their horses, mules, and donkeys. Hinnies?
A: A mule (highlight between here
and the letter "A" to see if you are right.)
Q: What do you get when you cross
a male horse and a female donkey
A: A hinny (Again do the highlighting
to see the Answer.)
- Tom's Choice "Double": Down to Double Diget temperatures this week! Whew, those triples have been tough. And now nights in the seventies again!
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| Krispy Creme Shop in London, 2011 |
Lagniappe: Ducks at the door. I've left my gun at home. Also could be a "Peeking Duck". Really, I don't know much about this duck. It and a few others hang out by our library. It is a nice place for them, a little pond/lake is out back with benches for duck feeding folk. They also have babies at different seasons and are proud to show them off. Guess maybe they are "showing" their small fry ducks "the ropes".
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Labels: Animals, Birds, Eating, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, KP, Quiz, Reflections, Weather
