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.
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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.   


For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures:  Mother and daughter.  Now what?

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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.
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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.


A Favorite
:  This couple, Matt and Claire Abrey [
google them and also click the picture for a full screen look at this nice car], are driving down Piccadilly Street in London.  They may have been returning from the filming in London of an episode (episodes) for Top Gear.  There were £200million of British cars around for this. (
link).

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?

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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Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: Students intently (??) listening to their Bible Study teacher.  The lesson was from 1 John 3.



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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Sunday, May 08, 2022

Day After Photo

 

See: https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2008/05/and-theyr-off-running-race-set-before.html?m=1 

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