Friday, August 26, 2022
Letter "H" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
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- Tom's posting prompts: This "Week's Prompts Starts with "H." Prompts Starts with "H." - A Favorite. - "H"eavenly.
- James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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Starts with "H": Horse starts with "H". Most of my readers know I rode a Horse to a neighboring Country school for my first two high school years. There were three in my class, also three in the classes before and after mine.
Minnie was a nice horse, very gentle, one we'd had since I ever knew our horses. She sort of rejuvenated being around we kids. She died while I was away in college in Lincoln, the University of Nebraska.
A Favorite: Houston, the Town, third largest city in the US (some say it's fourth and Chicago should be third). This weather map for a Houston TV station on Wednesday fairly well shows the metropolitan area of Houston. It doesn't show much of Montgemery County where we lived before moving to Katy to be near our younger daughter.
2022 stats, population 2,345K, metro area 6+M, average income $84,279 (well over our retirement income), and over 400,000 illegals. City Demographics are pictured to the right.
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| My cousins, Linda and Jack,standing away from the statue of Sam Houston |
There is another named "Houston", a large statue on I-45 North near Huntsville, Texas, north after Conroe. President Sam Houston was our first and third president of The Republic of Texas back before the United States annexed us. He also was the sixth governor of Tennessee and the seventh governor of Texas. (bing search, "Sam Houston)
Tom's Choice, "Heavenly" and Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: Heavens and Horizon, Reflected towards the viewer.
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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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A Lagniappe: A Poem for Min:
To Min; my faithful pony
Your name was Min
best horse there's ever been
(About you, Min)
Dappled white with
small spots of gray throughout
Always there for
me to pet, brush, and stroke
Min was Dad's horse
Bess, older, was for us
Soon Min grown old
became the horse for me
Rode her to school
high school three miles away
Plodged at first
I taught her to gallop
Also to jump
the puddles and ditches
Come rain and snow
was off to school we'd go
Bareback come cold
Minnie would keep me warm
New friends for her,
they, very soon she made
Other horses
in the school barn, kids too
Two girls we'd meet
at the corner waiting
Waiting for us
to come over the hill
Minnie first saw
the girls and their horses
Years quickly passed
Two in town then we're gone
Minnie retired,
soon after, pasture went
I drove to school
grades eleven and twelve
Off to college
made new friends, boys and girls
Minnie passed on
Heaven's horse now, was friend of mine
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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved
- Previosly posted May 21, 2022, in my other active blog
Sam Houston statue photo previously posted,
also various times, my first post of the statue was
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Labels: Animals, Art, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Poem, Reflect'ions, Weather
Friday, November 26, 2021
Letter "V" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections
THE TWENTYSECOND LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "V" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "V"; (B) "Valley" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; and (D) A Lagniappe.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "V": "Visitors" will be my word.
Beware inviting Visitors that you don't know very well. One or a few Visitors may invite their friends and you will end up with many Visitors.
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(B) "Valley" (Tom's Choice): Taken from a Van Ride in southern South Africa on our way to the south tip of Africa.
(D) Reflection: Look below the dock with the Visitors for the sea gulls' Reflections.
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(C) A Favorite: Blue Bell Light Vanilla Ice Cream is our Favorite ice cream. It was our Adi Beagle Dog's also.
(E) A Lagniappe: Vatican City is the only Country that I've visited that begins with the letter "V".
- [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.
- Click Here for all countries I've visited.
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Labels: 2019-20 Dubai to Cape Town, Birds, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Reflect'ions
Friday, October 01, 2021
Letter "N" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections
THE FOURTEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "N" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "N"; (B) "Nuts" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
(B) "Nuts" (Tom's Choice): Above, this is a small bag of small Nuts and Washers. 
I was the youngest Setup Man they ever had, I think my "some college" helped quite a bit.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "N": The word, "New", starts with Letter "N". We have a New "Judge Judy" type program here in the Houston (Texas) area called "Relative Justice".
It is on local TV Channel 39 and it's law suits are between Family Members. Sort of okay, I liked Judge Judy better, she is hard to imitate. So far we have watched only one program.
They are from my large box of Bolts, Nuts, Washers, and Screws. It was a gift to me, probably for Christmas. The box is pictured on the right.
When I dropped out of college, U of Nebraska, I needed a job so that I could give my father back his pickup. I didn't tell him until I found a job.
The job that I found was at Elgin National Watch Company, there in Lincoln, Nebraska. A part of the aptitude test was to screw on a whole bunch of Nuts onto bolts sticking out of a wooden box. I screwed on every Nut there was before my time went out. I could do this job with both hands which helped me a lot there.
I stayed on at Elgin until I was drafted into the service three years later. I did well at the factory, I hired on as a Degreaser Operator and after about 15 months was promoted to Setup Man with a line of 16 workers to keep happy with parts to work and well adjusted and sharp, if it involved cutting or stamping, equipment.
(C) A Favorite: Do Not Worry. I won't be climbing into that junk. A New Nashville (Tennessee) project doesn't need all this cement and dirt.
(D) Street/Reflections: A Vanderbilt student on it's Nashville campus.
He seems to be hurrying, I was taught to respect those folk with that type motivation.
(E.1) A Lagniappe: Normality like aura in a crowded Nashville setting.
(E.2) A Lagniappe: Six "N" countries we've visited:
Netherland, informally called Holland(yes) — Aruba(yes), Curaçao(yes), the Netherlands (island - no), and Saint Maarten(yes)—are constituent countries, we've not been to "The Kingdom of The Netherlands"(no) Island Country itself.
New Zealand
Norway
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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.
- Click Here for countries I've visited.
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Labels: Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Jim in his Younger Days, Jim's Life, Reflect'ions, The News, Work
