Monday, March 27, 2017
Share Your World -- March 27 Week
Does your first or middle name have any significance (or were you named after another family member)?
YES, both first and middle.
My Dad's middle name is Vernon, that is also my middle name. He did answer to Vernon and used C. Vernon for all his documents and signatures.
But no one called him either Charles, his real first name, or a suitable nickname. They mostly called him Jim. Then when I was born they named me James Vernon.
But they couldn't call me Jim as that was Dad's popular name. So I was either Jimmy or Little Jim. Dad was never Big Jim. And I was never a Vernon. My three uncles called me Jimmy all their lives and several of my friends still call me Jimmy. I'd rather be Jim which I am to most people. Hardly ever except for official things am I James. (Sorry this got drawn out and long.)
Music or silence while working?
Classic Rock. That would be a bit of the later 60's, the 70's and maybe a bit of early 80's I'd rather have TV, it is turned on most all of the time now that I don't work. I don't pay much attention to a lot of it though.
If you had a special place for your three most special possessions (not including photos, electronics, people or animals), what would they be?
By my bed.
In my study/office.
In the garage.
The Never List: What are things you know you never will do?
- I will never forgive certain persons even though I can be 'friendly' with him or her. They may have forgotten but I cannot forgive because of scars I have.
- I will NEVER eat egg plant. Probably that is because of a high school joke.
- I will NEVER get to the South Pole. I have always wanted to do that. The closest I've been is around Cape Horn and have visited the Falkland Islands.
- I will NEVER get to Antarctica or the North Pole although I've been into the Artic Circle.
- I will NEVER kick or mistreat a pet or any farm animal, no animal for that matter.
Optional Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I'm grateful for my Sunday School class. Without it our church with thousands of members (Second Baptist Church Houston) would not provide the fellowship with other members. Our class has 137 members, most of them fairly regularly attend. Our attendance averages in the 90's on Sunday mornings.
- LAST WEEK, Friday night, our Shepherd Group met at a Mexican Restaurant near the church, ten minutes from our place. We have 20 in the group, 14 came for dinner.
- EVERY WEEK Mrs. Jim and I put together and mail out a newsletter to our Sunday school class meeting. This week I also will make an April Calendar showing the month's activities for the class.
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The fine print:
- I'm linked with Cee at Share Your World,
- I try to add photos to my answers although it is not a requirement to participate in Share your World.
Labels: KP, Meme17, Share Your World 2017, Sunday
Sunday, September 21, 2014
A New Morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the world
Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God’s recreation of the new day ”
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Have a Happy Sunday Morning
Sunday, January 22, 2012
A poem by Lon Woodrum -- Succintly Yours
The crazy horses featured below have had their oats and hay. Now to practice on pick-up lines.
My µ-fictionStory goes thusly:
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Show me your teeth, I'll show you mine.
Why should I, you're all bluster? Besides you show them every time your mouth opens.
Foiled again!
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µ-fiction
Story Copyright
© 2012 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved
°Written for Succinctly Yours – Week 44
°The word of the week, 'bluster', and the picture were selected by Grandma.
°It's posted on her blog, Grandma's Goulash
°Her Rules: Use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more.
°Using the word of the week is not required. This week I elected to use it, sort of.
Here is the little poem by Lon Woodrum of the 1940+/- era that I found about King Og. Surely you remember him: (see Note 1)
BED OF OG
While browsing through the Bible once
I ran across the queerest thing:
A Bashanite of giant height
Upon his nation’s throne was king.
His name was Og.
There is no record whether he
Was dull or smart or sour or gay.
He had a bedstead made of iron—
That’s all the Bible has to say
About this Og.
He must have used a lot of room!
They laid a tapeline on his bed;
From side to side it was six feet wide
And fifteen feet from foot to head.
Some man, this Og!
I wonder, was he cruel or kind?
A gentleman or snooty cad?
And did he have a smile or frown?
A bedstead made of iron he had!
That’s all we know.
I hope when I have lived my life
And gone the common way of man,
The folks will find I’ve left behind
Something for memory better than
Old Og’s iron bed!
I’d rather be remembered by
One gentle, friendly word I’ve said,
One smile I’ve worn or song I’ve sung
Than by a fifteen-foot iron bed
Like poor old Og!
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Note 1: I found this poem here: Maxwell, John C. ; Ogilvie, Lloyd J.: The Preacher's Commentary Series, Volume 5 : Deuteronomy. Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson Inc, 1987 (The Preacher's Commentary Series 5), S. 12.
10 We [sic, the early Israelites] took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. 11 (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
Deuteronomy 3:10-11 (NIV)
Verse 11 tells all that we really know about Og, the King of Bashan. We can assume that he was a large man to fit that bed. Very likely a giant.
Labels: Bible, Stuff to know, Succinctly-Yours, Sunday
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Abbey Road Baptist Church, London, U.K — Eight things to do in London things 03
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Psalm 122, Verse 1 (King James Version)
[click on any picture for a full screen picture]
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Then Abbey Road Baptist Church (Google link) is almost another block on the right, opposite the Abbey Road Recording Studios. We visited this church again while we were in London during February and March.
On the right below the minister is presenting the church's oldest member a bouquet of roses for her birthday while the congregation is singing her the Happy Birthday song. She was in her ninety's but I didn't catch exactly how old she is. Every visit we have made this lady is in attendance.
Labels: Church, London, Sunday, Walk pictures
Sunday, November 07, 2010
He changes times and seasons;
... He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.
Daniel 2:21 (NIV)
Photo by Jim: Eastern Iowa park near Central City
Labels: Bible, Iowa, Microfiction-Monday, Sunday
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs 4:23 (link)
(New International Version)
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Fruits de Mere -- MidWeek Blues -- The Jim Bunch Eats
Or Fruits of the Sea as my friend Joe, of Joe's Pizza and Pasta, calls this dish. Joe closed his Italian restaurant in New Jersey and moved here so we could enjoy delicious fruits of his Italian cooking skills.
Mrs. Jim and I shared this. I am not sure I could eaten the whole thing. I had my first on Mont-Saint-Michel (link) off the Normandy Coast of France.
It was in a quaint little restaurant carved in the mountain giving it a sort of cave-like atmosphere. Yet we could watch the pedestrians walking along on the sidewalks outside.
We have visited Mont-Saint-Michel three times, staying overnight on the island each time. Make hotel reservations early if you'd like to do that.
In this restaurant which was no exception to the general practice, patrons' dogs would come in with them to eat. The dogs are tethered on the owners' chairs and lay perfectly still until it is time to leave. Some save a scrap for their dogs.
That doesn't happen in Texas although Katrin sits perfectly still under our table while we are eating. Adi would beg through the whole meal if we let her.
This was another meal after Church eating with some from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class. They go to a restaurant almost every Sunday.
Once and in a while they do have a pot luck lunch. We never turn down an opportunity to eat with the group whatever we do or wherever we go.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo here. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
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Labels: Eating, Jim Bunch Eats, Midweek Blues, Sunday
Sunday, August 16, 2009
A Sunday Poem: Lost Is Not Home
I'll let you out here
home is on the other side
just stroll through the brush
if you should be lost
pray to God He'll show the Way
take you in His arms
Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
*** Jesus the Way to the Father
5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Labels: Bible, Driving Pictures, Poem, Sunday
Sunday, July 05, 2009
A Sunday Poem: The Stranger
Labels: Humor(?), Poetry, Stories, Sunday
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Labels: Holiday Posts, Sunday, The News
Sunday, March 15, 2009
We have a house guest, a grand ...
Now this cat isn't exactly a stranger to us. We do think she is an angel, an angel couldn't be any nicer or better mannered and behaved.
We don't see her as often as we would like. She is our grand cat and we would like to have her visit us more often. Amber Adi's sister.
Amber is staying at our house for a week. Usually she lives Karen, Billy, and BP but they are on and off the road or air or just ...
Amber is living upstairs at our house, she and Katrin had a hard time getting acquainted the last time they were together. We will spend a lot of time with her this week and we are thinking she will visit some with Adi.
Here, she found a nice soft place to purr and be petted right after she got here.
Throughout the Bible, the people of God were being hospitable. Peter did not even know these people but he took God at his word and invited these people in:
(From Acts 10 (New International Version) )
21 Peter went down and said to the men, "I'm the one you're looking for. Why have you come?"
22 The men replied, "We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to have you come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say."
23 Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.
Links: 1. How kids think we should entertain angels
Labels: Amber, Animals, Bible, Cats, Grandchildren, Jim Does, Sunday
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Be glad
Labels: Bible, Sunday, Texas Skies
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Good and Bad -- Bad Corvettes
Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)
What does this Bible verse have to do with my lying?***
Labels: Bible, Cars, Humor, Issues, Jim's Life, Sunday
Sunday, February 08, 2009
a scene all have seen
old men sitting on a bench
no movement here
Labels: Bible, Humor, Poetry, Seniors, Sunday
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Pick a time, any time (2 through 8) -- Teacher says "Tell why"
1. There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2. a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3. a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4. a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5. a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6. a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7. a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8. a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV)
I'd give you the time
clocks have stopped would if I could
if I had the time
Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same goes for my poetry attempts (don't know how, but I enjoy it!).
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SBC)
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,And that my soul knows very well. . .
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!(Psalm 139:1, 14, 17).
Labels: Bible, Sunday, Things to know
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Adi Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Choose her favorite color -- today it's green -- Twelve/Three Days
"My soul glorifies the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior"
Luke 1:46,47 (Mary's Song or Magnificat!)
Mary sang those words after she had heard and
understood this message from the angel Michael:
"You will be with child and give birth to a son,
and you are to give him the name Jesus.
He will be great and will be called
the Son of the Most High."
(Luke 1:31-32 -- link)
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Three French Hens -- Symbol of the rich and represented the three wise men with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
This is another of our Thursday (remember that foggy day?) walk pictures. Adi was serious in determining her favorite color. Others are coming.
Adi likes her profile picture pose best but I just about always ask her to smile at the camera and say cheese. I gave in for this one as it is just real nice.
The green color, Adi's for today, is the color of the ivy climbing the brick wall surrounding a future addition to Bentwater down the street a little from our house. (link)
I am not in favor of having ivy or any other plant growing up brick walls as eventually it dislodges the mortar holding the bricks together and in place.
For houses it is especially bad because it provides a perfect path for termites and wood loving ants to crawl up and in. There should always be several inches of only foundation before the home area begins.
Not only does it discourage insects from crawling up and in but also is a hedge against a few inches of water standing from a heavy rain. We had 33 inches of water inside our former home, that would have required a high foundation or stilts.
We are busy making holiday preparations here, this morning I addressed and stuffed (wrote on a few who moved away) Christmas cards for the members of my Sunday school class. In the afternoon I finished preparing for today's lesson which I will teach.
The kids and families are coming up for Christmas day so Mrs. Jim has the menu planned for the Jim Bunch Eats. It may be fine tuned as individual requests come in. They had better hurry with that because she already went into town for grocery shopping yesterday.
I also winterized our lawn sprinkler system. If we don't do that the check valve gets too cold (if we get down below freezing) and breaks the plastic flapper inside. Would you believe we can't replace the flapper by itself, we have to buy a whole new check valve.
Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Christmas, Eating, Family, Jim Bunch, Jim Bunch Eats, Sunday
Saturday, November 22, 2008
One Single Impression, Childhood Memories, click here
(Sorry for the inconvenience)
Genesis 9:2-3
2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.
3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
[The entire account of Noah and the ark, the animals, and the flood can be found in Genesis, Chapters 7, 8, and 9 (link)]
Sunday, November 09, 2008
... first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 1-2

