Monday, March 27, 2017

Share Your World -- March 27 Week

Here are Cee’s questions for this week. I hope you’ll share your answers, too.

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.
The picture is of our teacher, Dr. Charles
 and his wife.  Our class is aged 60 and up.
 


 I had Chile Reno dinner, besides the pepper filled with

hamburger my plate had rice, guacamole salad, charo beans,

a chicken enchilada, and all the corn chips I could eat. 
I took a doggy plate home for Sunday lunch, about half of this.  
 
-  In the WEEK COMING UP, we are looking forward to our seven-year-old granddaughter, KP, to have a soccer game.  She plays mostly at Left Guard.  That was on Saturday, on Friday night the men of our Sunday school class will have a supper and meeting at the Church.  The ladies will meet Saturday morning.
 - 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, 
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/03/27/share-your-world-march-27-2017/comment-page-1/#comment-128670
 - You might want to participate, check her out
 - To view older versions of Share Your World (SYW), click here
 - I try to add photos to my answers although it is not a requirement to participate in Share your World.

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

A New Morning

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“Morning Has Broken”
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Morning has broken, like the first 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
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Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God’s recreation of the new day
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Pictures Copyright, © 2014 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
 
Top:  Our back yard on an early dewy, foggy, morning
Bottom:  New Zealand harbor taken from our ship's deck

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Sunday, June 09, 2013

Have a Happy Sunday Morning

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Adrianna introduced this song to me from her blog.
It is very encouraging:
 
Arms that Hold the Universe w/lyrics by 33 Miles




Enjoy! (the song and your Sunday)

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

A poem by Lon Woodrum -- Succintly Yours

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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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140 Characters as counted by Design 215
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.
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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.

Note 2, the Bible verses about King Og:
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.

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Abbey Road Baptist Church, London, U.K — Eight things to do in London things 03

Happy Spring! It starts at 6:21 PM per my calendar.

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Psalm 122, Verse 1 (King James Version)
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Turn right into this intersection and you will be on London's Abbey Road of Beatles Jacket fame (link). Generally there are quite a few tourists taking pictures of each other crossing the Abbey Road street as were the Beatles in that record jacket. Driving, you might want to take another route if you are in a hurry as pedestrians have the right of way crossing in the marked crosswalks.

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.

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Sunday, November 07, 2010

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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

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Sunday, March 14, 2010


Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.

Proverbs 4:23 (link)
(New International Version)

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Fruits de Mere -- MidWeek Blues -- The Jim Bunch Eats



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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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Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

A Sunday Poem: Lost Is Not Home

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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.
Link: John 14:5-6 (New International Version)

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

A Sunday Poem: The Stranger

Orginal sent to draft. Visit the original OSI (Sunday) posting of it here on Jim's Little Photo and Poem blog. (link)

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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter!
I have a little Easter diddy that I drew up quickly,
it's over on JIM'S LITTLE P&P PLACE (link).
Again, Happy Easter! Jesus arose, He is alive!

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

We have a house guest, a grand ...

2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2 (New International Version)



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.


I tried to catch her laying on her back, legs up. But she rolled over when she heard the camera turn on.

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
...2. Amber is the 'cat in the window' of my earlier cat whisperer post.

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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Be glad

I was glad when they said unto me,
Let us go into the house of the LORD.

Psalm 122:1

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Good and Bad -- Bad Corvettes

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)

What does this Bible verse have to do with my lying?***

Bad Corvettes

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*** Notes:
1. I don't think lying is a sin unless it is malicious. Or hurts someone.
2. I am calling these Chevys a couple of Bad Corvettes. Is that a lie? (They look good to me.)
3. I am running late in answering my comments, will I ever catch up?
4. Click here for the rest of Isaiah 5.
5. The six Woes are at verses 8, 11, 18, 20, 21, and 22.
6. I hope this is okay with you? Reader Ray requested I resume my usual Sunday Scripture posts again.

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with cane in hand because of his age. Zechariah 8 (NIV) (KJV)


a scene all have seen
old men sitting on a bench
no movement here
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Guess we've been doing this for a long, long time
(more? click here)

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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Pick a time, any time (2 through 8) -- Teacher says "Tell why"

A Time for Everything

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!).

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SBC)

O Lord, You have searched me and known me. . .
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).

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Adi Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Choose her favorite color -- today it's green -- Twelve/Three Days

Christmas attitude at the Jim's house:

"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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Twelve Days of Christmas -- On the third day of Christmas?
Three French Hens -- Symbol of the rich and represented the three wise men with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.


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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.

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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)]

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Sunday, November 09, 2008

...there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Romans 13:1

... 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

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