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
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- 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, 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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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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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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"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, November 05, 2021
Letter "S" -- Weekend Roundup
Letter "R" -- -- Weekend Roundup
THE NINETEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "S" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "S"; (B) "Silver" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; and (D) A Lagniappe.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "S"; My 1943 School Picture for 6th grade. It was a one room School for grades one through eight. I think the taller two girls were in the 8th, my Sister then five, to the left, was in 1st grade. I'm the boy in the back row.
Four of us were cousins, all were neighbors. This fall my high school class of 48 will have our 70th year class reunion. Because of previous engagements I was not able to attend. 18 of us are still around, a few others we may have lost contact.
(B) "Silver" (Tom's Choice): Our kitchen Silver Drawer. All Stainless and Plastic rather than Silver.
In the cracker box open display are our vitamins, minerals, and medicines, one box for one day. Mrs. Jim's are the red and yellow ones, mine are the green for mornings and blue for afternoons and evenings. Mrs. Jim keeps her night meds in the bathroom towel pantry.
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Adi is retiring from Pet Partners
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Dear Jim,. . . [this would be a letter crediting Adi for her service and acknowledging that she had died. Click here to read her letter.](D.2) Another Lagniappe: "R" and "S" countries I've visited.
Romania
Russia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Seychelles
Slovakia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
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- [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: Adi, Adi Can, Bible, Dogs, Eating, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, School
Friday, October 29, 2021
Letter "R" -- -- Weekend Roundup
THE EIGHTEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "R" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "R"; (B) "Rustic" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; 
These cars belonged to members of our former Montgomery Early Ford V8 Club. From left to right, a 1934 Ford Roadster, a 1934 Ford Three Window Coupe, and a 1932 Ford Coupe. My car, not showing, was a 1950 Ford Tudor. Cars eligible for this club were Ford vehicles regardless of body style or type, i.e. pickup trucks and Mercury cars, etc.
At the right is a better picture of the Restored '34 Ford Coupe. I have sold my '50 Ford six years ago now. I am also about ready to sell my mom's pristine 74 Ford Mustang II as a part of our down sizing. It only has 67K miles, the lowest mileage car we own.
(D) A Lagniappe: I also loved studying Paul's Letter to the Romans from William Barclay' "The Daily Study Bible Series".
and (D) A Lagniappe.
(A) Starts with the Letter "R": Rabbit starts with "R". Since it's inception in December, 2005, this blog has had a lot of Rabbits. To see some of those click here. So has my other blog, Jim's Little Photo and Poem Place, to see some of those click here.
[Above photo sent in eMail by Warren, thank you Warren
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Today's Big Rabbit sitting on the bed has lost his respect from the other animals since Mr. Lion has entered the scene.
It is a sample of Rabbits on another page, starts as thus"
"A lady opened her refrigerator and saw this rabbit
sitting on one of the shelves. . . "]
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[A toy 1934 Ford Coupe]
(B) "Rustic" (Tom's Choice): Tomorrow, October 30, is my Birthday. I am becoming Rustic myself, it will be a lucky number a bit shy of 90. Hint, it was "the number" of our Modified Stock 1934 Ford three window coupe Race car, you can search for that.
It was painted baby blue with our number painted on both doors and the sloping trunk. Nothing could show as modified, even the engine, i.e. no dual carburetors, obviously a much newer engine, etc. Trimmed fenders, stronger bumpers, dual exhaust, plexiglass windshields and other window glass removed .
These cars belonged to members of our former Montgomery Early Ford V8 Club. From left to right, a 1934 Ford Roadster, a 1934 Ford Three Window Coupe, and a 1932 Ford Coupe. My car, not showing, was a 1950 Ford Tudor. Cars eligible for this club were Ford vehicles regardless of body style or type, i.e. pickup trucks and Mercury cars, etc.
(C) A Favorite: This is one of my favorite toys, the educated Monkey. He is a mechanical calculator, he helped me with my 'Rithmetic in learning my Multiplication Table. His Right foot is to be placed over a number you have and the Left place the multiplier. His board will be showing the answer.
My Educated Monkey is also old, Rustic? He was not new, rather a hand-me-down toy when I was in the early grades studying Math. That would make him well over 100 years old. My son thought that I had lost the monkey and so he found and bought me another on eBay. Now I have two, I ought to be well "educated" also.
I loved learning the basics in grade school, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic.
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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: Animals, Bible, Cars, Early Ford V8 Club, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, School, Toys
Friday, September 24, 2021
Letter "M" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections
THE THIRTEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "M" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "M"; (B) "Metal" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
Then I add a dash of Creole Seasoning powder to suit my slightly hot taste. I generally have another nine or ten shrimp, depending on size, to eat with Shrimp Sauce or Sweet and Sour Sauce and some saltine crackers with Cheddar cheese.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "M": Maruchan Instant Lunch is my favorite go-to meal when Mrs. Jim and I differ on evening meal choices. For instance she might decide to have oatmeal which makes me gag.
Those times I generally make a soup of it instead of a lunch. Making it a soup merely involves adding more hot water. The ingredients are dried, Ramen Noodles, a few vegetables, a few shrimp, dried beef or other, and then a dash of flavor. It can be spicy or natural.
- For Shrimp soup to Most times a Shrimp flavored base I add 1/3 to 1/2 cup of frozen peas, slightly cooked, in the heating water along with about three shrimp cut up into five or six little pieces.
- For Beef soup I will hopefully (I don't always buy any of the beef lunch), add the same stuff except that for the beef I substitute one large sized frozen Meat ball, thawed and cut into 8-16 pieces, and heated with the slightly cooking frozen peas.
- I like the latter because I can mush chew this without having to put in my top dentures.
(B) "Metal" (Tom's Choice): This is my left knee, it has a Titanium Metal joint that "we" exchanged for the old knee joint in 2011. You can see it protruding, but not through my skin, like a door hinge. Its bottom is above the short dark line about a fourth of the way up in the picture.
(C) A Favorite: "M" and "L" countries I've visited (I missed posting the "L's" last week):
Latvia
Liechtenstein (2 times visited)
Lithuania
Maldives
Mauritius
Mexico (lots and lots of times visited)*
Monaco
Mozambique
*Note: most Mexico visits were entered from El Paso when I was in the Army stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas.
(D) Street/Reflections: Dubai classroom taken through the window. Note the teacher's "Magic Behavior Wand".
(E.1) A Lagniappe: Mountain Range in South Africa near Capetown. Sorry, the area is filled with Mountain Ranges and I couldn't figure out which one this is as there are several in the area. It was across the Freeway that we took from Capetown getting to the wild life refuge where we had our "Safari".
(E.2) Another Lagniappe: My two Ford Mustangs, a 1974 Mustang II Ghia and a 1998 Mustang GT Convertible.
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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: 2019-20 Dubai to Cape Town, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Jim Does, Kneecap, Reflections, School
Friday, August 20, 2021
Letter "H" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections
THE EIGHTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "H" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "H"; (B) "Half" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "H": House starts with "H", this She Shed House is in a friend's neighbor's back yard, the doors and window were on the other side.
(B) "Half" (Tom's Choice): We had eaten Half of the chocolate pie that my sister, Lois, had made from scratch, it was sooo good.
But in getting the leftover pie from the refrigerator it slipped and fell and landed upside down on the floor . Only the top Half was on the floor, the méringue, and she could scrape that off. The bottom Half that was left was delicious. (my sister's (link here)
(C) A Favorite: One of my three Favorite BILs, Dan (I only have three BILs). He had a triple Heart bypass three days ago and was about ready to go home that afternoon. He is doing well now although he did have to go back for the doctors to get his Heart beating in regular rhythm. That is fine now also, the surgery was a month ago and the doctor okayed him to drive yesterday.
(D) Street/Reflections: The House Lights Reflected in my bowl of lobster bisque. This was the first serving in my free four course lunch.
The Throwing of a Ball by Robot
[photos courtesy of KPRC-TV Houston, Texas]
(E) A Lagniappe: High school kids build and operate robots at Clear Creek High School in Texas, near Houston.
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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
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Labels: Eating, Family, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Health, Houston, Reflections, School, Sheds
Friday, December 21, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 25 -18(b) (for letter "Y") and Reflection(s) too
The 51st issue of Weekend Roundup for this year..:
1. A Word with a "Y". 'Hilly' has a "Y", here is a town on a hill.
2. A Favorite.
3. "Y"ellow.
4. Reflection(s).
1. A Word with a "Y": The Word, Hilly, has a "Y". See too in the foreground a large tractor trailer with a Yellow Cabbed tractor truck.
2. A Favorite: A Yellow School Bus in the FOG waiting for traffic.
3. "Y"ellow: In Macy's day before we found all these Mixers, a couple were Yellow.
A Yellow Breasted Partridge My Egg McMuffin has a Yellow Yolk
and three Yellow Chickens. and Cheese with a thin sausage patty.
Red elves always carry a Yellow Pencil.
They were taught that way in school.
4. Reflection(s): Many boats in the Harbor, all leaving their reflection.
5. "X" shaped object that I couldn't find for an "X" Object last week. This one was hanging from the ceiling on the second floor of our local Macy store just beyond the top of the escalator.
1. A Word with a "Y". 'Hilly' has a "Y", here is a town on a hill.
2. A Favorite.
3. "Y"ellow.
4. Reflection(s).
1. A Word with a "Y": The Word, Hilly, has a "Y". See too in the foreground a large tractor trailer with a Yellow Cabbed tractor truck.
2. A Favorite: A Yellow School Bus in the FOG waiting for traffic.
3. "Y"ellow: In Macy's day before we found all these Mixers, a couple were Yellow.
A Yellow Breasted Partridge My Egg McMuffin has a Yellow Yolk
and three Yellow Chickens. and Cheese with a thin sausage patty.
Red elves always carry a Yellow Pencil.
They were taught that way in school.
4. Reflection(s): Many boats in the Harbor, all leaving their reflection.
5. "X" shaped object that I couldn't find for an "X" Object last week. This one was hanging from the ceiling on the second floor of our local Macy store just beyond the top of the escalator.
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link to Tom's Weekend Reviews) - The pictures are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am also linked this week with James at Weekend Reflections, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
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Labels: Houston, School, Shopping, Travel, Weekend Roundup 02
