JIM'S LITTLE BLOG

The Throwing of a Ball by Robot 

[photos courtesy of KPRC-TV Houston, Texas]

 

Labels: Eating, Family, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Health, Houston, Reflections, School, Sheds

# posted by Jim : 8/20/2021 10:18:00 AM  7 comments

The forty-third issue of Weekend Roundup for this year, 2020... 

(THE SEVENTEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES) - the Letter "Q" Prompts are: 

(A) Starts with the Letter "Q"; 

(B) "Quarter" (Tom's Choice); 

(C) A Favorite; and 

(D) Reflections. OP

 _ _ _ _ 

(A) Starts with the Letter "Q":   "Quite" starts with "Q".   Here we have "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary's" (of How does your Garden Grow?) new She Shed.  

That She Shed is one step higher than a Man Cave.  Why?  Because it has more utility.

Or regular priced at $4.38 at our Neighborhood Walmart.  It is Quite Brisk, if your grocer stocks it you should try some, it is our regular coffee.  That said, we mix Dark Roast half and half with Decaf.  That's because of my mineral and red cell counts getting too low with too much cafine in my diet.

(C) A Favorite (Good Reflections too):  Leaving Istanbul through the Bosporus Strait and heading into the Black Sea for Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ukraine.

(D) Reflections:  Sunrise in the Black Sea coming into Bulgaria. 

 _ _ _

Bonus Questions:

(1)  Please tell us your Gardening Likes.  My Thumb definitely is not Green and I dont like gardening.  I do like to visit pretty Gardens. 

(2)  What are your favorite coffee tastes, habits, brewing, etc.?   We have a 6-cup Dripolator, a broken Keurig, and an older Nespresso machine.  I like the 6-cup the best but often use the other two for a single cup, generaly Decaf. 

(3)  What is your favorite "Q" Word?   My favorite "Q" Word today will be "Quebec", really for "Quebec City".  We've spent about a month total time, 1/4 each in Quebec City, Montreal, the East Township,  and Other Places at large.  All sleeping was done in the first three.  I've blogged about some.

 _ _ _ _ 

Labels: back yard, garden, Istanbul, Reflections, Sheds, tree(s), Weekend Roundup 03

# posted by Jim : 10/23/2020 12:08:00 AM  6 comments

[large picture] [super large]

After last week's Ruby Tuesday activities at the 'Down Home Cooking' restaurant where I gave it a rating, my friend, John, asked me if I minded following him to this place. He had left his camera home and wanted some pictures of a car he knew about. I never pass up opportunities to look at old cars so off we went. This is what he wanted to see, he had discovered them earlier in the year. They are a pair of Model T Ford cars. Either 1926 or 1927, my guess in 1927. In 1927 the Model T had wire wheels standard equipment, in 1926 they were optional. Before that the T's used wooden spoke wheels. Please note that the wheels are red. That bit of red is what is keeping me honest today for Ruby Red Tuesday. I was surprised and delighted with the find. The last time John had talked with the owner they were not for sale. Times and circumstances since have changed now. He doesn't know if they could be bought. I suggested that he offer to pay $1000 for cleaning the shed out if he could have the cars and whatever else the family did not want. That means work but John has some grandsons who would really like to help grandpa in his quest for more old cars.

[large picture] [super large] [large picture] [super large]

[large picture] [super large]

Click the Ruby Tuesday button for Mary's Ruby Tuesday post list. Mary is in charge there, you can see more or post your own from there.

Labels: Antiques, Cars, Driving Pictures, Jim Does, Ruby Tuesday, Sheds, Things to know

# posted by Jim : 8/25/2009 12:03:00 AM  25 comments

Mom's cat house

My mom always had a lot of half-way stray cats. A few would let us pet them or come to the milking barn for a fresh teat treat. She had this special cat house at the edge of the grove. The cats would get fed out there and at our back door. None ever got shots or the like. They seemed to be pretty tough though, most lived to run off or get killed by a wild animal or the neighboring Toms.

The old pig shed .

At one time this pig shed of Dad's was in the corral. Now the corral is cultivated to become an excellent corn field.

The small door on the left got mainly used by the pigs, but Dad and I went in many a time to help a pig out of some trouble, or to mark their ears so we could tell them from the neighbors if they got mingled.

Dad usually raised about 120 hogs from pigs. He would pick ten to fourteen to become mother pigs and another cycle would begin.

Those others went to the slaughter house. We generally butchered a couple for family eating. Remember, the Jim Bunch eats good.

. Original farm house,

Mom raised the laying hens and handled the egg marketing. Again we raised from babies, chicks this time. She always got unsexed chicks. Most of the roosters would get sold for fryers, we would eat about sixty. That is one for each Sunday and a few more for company or the threshing crew.

She would wash every egg with vinegar. Like me, she was a night owl and would start this task around midnight. A lot of times Lois and Dad would have had several hours of sleep before Mom and I went to bed. Farm Cathouse Pigs Cat+House Family Cat Pigs Life travel+and+places Travel Food+and+Drink Photos Food

Notes:

1. On our farm, the cattle, cows, hogs, and chickens ate the grain and hay grown on the farm. The oat straw was used for bedding. Most times there would be more profit, not counting family labor, from raising and marketing the animals, eggs, and cream.

2. All of the farm buildings were kept in good paint. The cat house and hen house were red, the hog house was black. There is still some of that paint showing after twenty-five years of non-use.

3. Unsexed chickens meant buying a mixture of male and female chicks. The mixture generally was around fifty-fifty. It figures.

Labels: Cats, Jim's Life, Jim's old home, Jim's old home place, Nebraska, Pig, Sheds

# posted by Jim : 8/10/2006 08:04:00 AM  1 comments