Thursday, September 28, 2023
Letter "M" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts: Starts with "M.", A Favorite, "M"ini, and Street/Reflections
What do she and our family have in common?
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The young lady is 6 feet 4. Her 49 inch legs, from thigh to toe, may set a world record. For sure for Houston they did and probably are a record in Texas also. Things are bigger in Texas.
For sure too she would intimidate me if we were alone in an elevator. Ladies who are taller than me worry me.
Street/Reflections: Our 2012-13 New Zealand Princes cruise ended up with us being in Sydney, Aus. We had a wonderful three and a half days there.
ZZ Top song, first verse:
.."Legs"
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Starts with "M": "Minutes" to get downtown Houston in a morning with a average good traffic. We live in Katy on the left, I-10 with 44 Minutes. "Houston is the fourth larges city in the United States."
A Favorite: Houston Methodist Hospital West front entrance, scale model. Many nice cars, several old, toy cars. Perhaps I should will them mine, 27 or eight, plus a motorcycle, last count.
"Mini": Mini Skirts were the rage long ago, back then ladies liked to show off their pretty long legs. (even Mrs. Jim had one).
Like this forty-nine inch legged young lady:
(Remember the ZZ Top recording "She's got legs"**)
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We are all from the Houston, Texas area
The young lady is 6 feet 4. Her 49 inch legs, from thigh to toe, may set a world record. For sure for Houston they did and probably are a record in Texas also. Things are bigger in Texas.
For sure too she would intimidate me if we were alone in an elevator. Ladies who are taller than me worry me.
Like a forty-nine inch legged young lady
Remember the ZZ Top recording "She's got legs"**
Remember the ZZ Top recording "She's got legs"**
The large rubber duck out in the harbor was on loan, it left for China, I think, after we had left.
[You can see some more New Zealand, Australia and Sydney pictures that I've posted, please 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 "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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** Note:
.."Legs"
She's got legs, she knows how to use them.
She never begs, she knows how to choose them.
She's holdin' leg wonderin' how to feel them.
Would you get behind them if you could only find them?
She's my baby, she's my baby,
yeah, it's alright.
She never begs, she knows how to choose them.
She's holdin' leg wonderin' how to feel them.
Would you get behind them if you could only find them?
She's my baby, she's my baby,
yeah, it's alright.
Labels: Aus-NZ, Birds, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Houston, Reflections, Songs, Toys
Friday, December 24, 2021
Letter "Z" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections/People on the Street
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
For the 26th letter time, The Week's Prompts are Christmas, A Favorite, and "Red and Green". The letter not asked for would be "Z".
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Christmas: Our Christmas Tree lighted. It's a seven-foot store bought artificial. Also Red and Green.
At the foot of the tree is a manger scene, a Fisher Price "toy". It represents the purpose of tomorrow's holiday, celebrating the human birth of Jesus Christ. Christians celebrate it on December 25 regardless of the actual birth date. (Click here for viewing other nativity word posts)
Hence the song that we sang over and over in my country schools, grades one through ten:
Away in a Manger
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Away in a manger
No crib for a bed
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head
No crib for a bed
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head
(Full words of song at the end below)
A Favorite: My Holly Tree -- Again, also Red and Green.
My Hard Time Canna Lilly
The rabbits ate all the tender
leaves after we planted it.
Red and Green: We hope the hibiscus other plants didn't freeze again this winter
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A Lagniappe: The last rose of Autumn but more are on the way.
Another Lagniappe: my favorite "Z" Words are
1. Zipper;
2. Zigzag; and
3. Zoo (not necessarily in that order; plus there may be other favorites that I have not mentioned.)
I am showing you a fence owned by my friend who has a "little ranch" near Telluride in Colorado.
Today I like best "zig-zag" as a zig-zag fence appeals to the hidden rocket scientist nature in me.
They can be freestanding without the use of buried fence posts. A section can be removed and put back for access/entrance without damage to the fence. Lastly on my short list is that their rustic looking appearance appeals to me.
- This fence belonged to my friend and neighbor before we moved to Katy. It was on his Colorado ranch and was there before he acquired the property.
He was a retired major oil company CEO who started in the Chemistry lab of the company when he graduated with his degree, a PhD in Chemistry.
A Reflection or a Street Photo Capture: during a little bit of Christmas shopping I had to use this restaurant. The store had two, both "any gender" per the sign.
It's been a long time since I've rated a relief facility but this on would have been a Zero except that scale goes from one to five. I RATE THIS ONE A ONE.
Another Lagniappe: Below, is the last full posting on this blog for the year, the following post is from 15 years ago. I started it in December 2005 but the picture and text below are from January 2006, it was Adi's, our beagle dog's, first of many on this blog. She was also on some of my other blogs here and there.
Incidentally, this blog has 2,257 posts, 884 draft posts, for a total of 3,140 writings. It has 18,690 comments with 710,899 hits. Quite a few families and friends read it and tell me about their viewing but don't leave comments.
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 all countries I've visited. (none for XYZ, there aren't any.)
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Note: I have activated my "jim's little Christmas Tree farm" blog posting for this season. Click this label, Christmas 2021 , to have a peek and monitor my progress.
It has directions to send me a picture of your tree or decorations if you wish to do so.
Away in a manger
Away in a manger
No crib for a bed
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head
The stars in the bright sky
Looked down where He lay
The little Lord Jesus
Asleep on the hay
The cattle are lowing
The Baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes
I love You, Lord Jesus
Look down from the sky
And stay by my side
Until morning is nigh
Be near me, Lord Jesus
I ask You to stay
Close by me forever
And love me I pray
Bless all the dear children
In Your tender care
And fit us for heaven
To live with You there
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Sir David Willcocks / W.j. Kirkpatrick
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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Blogging, By Adi, Christmas, Flowers-buds-plants, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Friends, Grandchildren, Reflections, Restroom Rating, Songs, Toys, YouTube
Friday, December 17, 2021
Letter "Y" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections/People on the Street
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
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Weekend Roundup, THE TWENTY-FIFTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "Y" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "Y"; (B) "Yellow" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) A Lagniappe; and (E) A Reflection/Persons on the Street.
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(A) Starts with the Letter "Y": "Yardstick" and "Yes" start. Do you have any "Yardsticks"? Yes, I have Yardsticks, I have Six. The other two are in the house inside the umbrella stand vase. These are laying on top of a garbage container in the garage. I haven't played golf in six years but I do practice a little in the back yard. My "Slotline" putter is a late 1970's model, I don't think they are still in production. I am a good putter and don't want to ever change my putter out.
BTW, Scrabble Word Finder found 5476 words that start with "Y". Browse their Scrabble Word Finder, Words With Friends cheat dictionary, and WordHub word solver to find words starting with "Y".
(B) "Yellow" (Tom's Choice): These Yellow Cabs in the photo are in a NYC parking lot. This shot was taken from a van driving through Manhattan to the Hudson River dock where our princess ship was tied.
The cruise in 2017 would take 22 Days total. On the way back from Nova Scotia and on another cruise to Iceland and on to London would dock at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. I hadn't seen so many Yellow Cabs parked in one place before.
(C) A Favorite: This is my favorite Yardstick. I'm glad for today that it is yellow also. My special Yellow Yardstick. I found the Yellow Yardstick along the side of the road outside our former Montgomery, TX, subdivision, Texas Highway FM 1097.
It is a good one, a metal "Swanson AE141" made by Wilson Tool of Illinois. A metric scale is on the bottom of the face and English on the top. The other in the 'stand' is one that Mrs. Jim was given from a funeral home in South Houston. She thought we had lost all our Yardsticks.
(D.1) A Lagniappe: The Christmas Yodelers Trio.
Mrs. Jim painted the critter on the left. It is a part of a Christmas display in the backyard of our church, along with a really neat light display. We will be served out there with cookies and hot chocolate after the candlelight services, there will be seven over three days.
(D.2) A Lagniappe: Yellow Ford Mustang parked in Katy, TX, at the high school ball field.
(E) A Reflection/Persons on the Street: A shiny maroon ball on the tree downstairs in the lobby from our cardiologist's office which is on the 27th floor. A selfie of Mrs. Jim and me of sorts.
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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 all countries I've visited. (none for XYZ, there aren't any.)
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Note: I have activated my "jim's little Christmas Tree farm" blog posting for this season. Click this label, Christmas 2021 , to have a peek and monitor my progress.
It has directions to send me a picture of your tree or decorations if you wish.
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Labels: Art, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Golf, Reflections, Songs
Friday, May 07, 2021
Letter "S" -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections
THE NINETEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES
Add Boiling Water but first doctor it up with the following:
(E) A Lagniappe: This was a forgotten leftover from last week's Letter "R" stuff.
See more songs by Loudon Wainwright III
- the Letter "S" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "S"; (B) "Short"; (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
Loudon Wainwright - Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road
(A) Starts with the Letter "S": Skunk starts with "S". Mine is the "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" song of the early 70's. Lyrics at the end of this post.
(B) "Short" (Tom's Choice): Our Statue of Sam Houston, our first Texas President, is NOT SHORT. Neither is my cousin, Jack, who looks Short compared with the Statue. Jack is over six feet tall.
They visited us in 2006 and had noticed the Statue when driving down I-45 into Houston. So we went up to look things over. The Statue is 67 feet tall, eleven times taller than Jack.
(C) A Favorite: My Favorite Soup is Maruchan Instant Lunch with Shrimp. I doctor it up a bit to make it look exciting and add just a little bit more boiling water to make it into Soup.
BTW, Maruchan Instant Lunch is a favorite of college students, a few years ago when I started eating it the price was 28 cents a serving, not it has gone to between 37 cents (Walmart) to 39 cents (Kroger).
Add Boiling Water but first doctor it up with the following:
Soup for Supper
Supper
Soup for supper
Mines a fixer-upper
Start with the basics
Gotta suit shrimp fanatics
Add jumbo shrimp
Frozen peas mustn't skimp
Dash of chili
It'll be right for me
Along with the Soup I generally have about eight (two cut up for the soup) Jumbo Frozen Cooked Shrimp, about six or eight saltines with cheddar cheese slices, and Shrimp Sauce and Sweet and Sour Sauce for the Shrimp.
(D) Street/Reflections: Scene Reflected in a Pet Clinic Window
What is it?
Well, what does it look like?
It is a . . .
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A Rat's Nest. Our pool mechanic found it when he opened the pool heater door for some leak checking.
He said it is quite often to find Rat's Nests in that sort of protected places. I suppose it gets quite hot in there when and if the heater is turned on.
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For all of Jim's daily poems for April 2021 NaPoWriMo 2021 posts click
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Lyrics (Dead Skunk Song)
Crossing the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are
You got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinking to high heaven
Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose
Roll up your window and hold your nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
And it's stinking to high heaven
Yeah, you got your dead cat and you got your dead dog
On a moonlight night, you got your dead toad frog
Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon
The blood and the guts, they're gonna make you swoon
You got your dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinking to high heaven
C'mon, stink
You got it, it's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinking to high heaven
All over the road
Technicolor
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinking to high, high heaven
Songwriters: Loudon Wainwright
For non-commercial use only.
Data From: Musixmatch
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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 Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law
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Labels: Animals, Family, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 06, Reflections, Songs
