Monday, September 04, 2023
Blue Moon -- an Eight Line Poen for Blue Monday
Shined Last Night
Blue moon shined last night
Made my room bright, through
upper window shone
Enhanced by the clouds
Shining shades of blue
Smiles on you and me
Rarity, it comes
once in a Blue Moon
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- Lower Photo from
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Labels: Blue Monday, Looking At the Sky, Poem, Texas Skies
Monday, June 10, 2019
The Letter "X" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
The 24th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
- the Letter "X" Prompts are:
(A) Contains the Letter "X"; (B) A Favorite; (C) "X" is a tough one; and (D) Reflection(s).
Houston, TeXas, has tall buildings
We are the 4th largest city in the U.S.
Texas has Country Western (CW) Music
Breakfast Music at our church's Go TeXas Day
We live in it's Suburbs, Katy and Fulshear
The food was GREAT -- My Plate
Cooked in part by this guy
plus over a hundred nice ladies
(A) Contains the Letter "X": TeXas contains the Letter "X".
[click the pictures to see better. Click again for more detail, TeXas sized.]
[Over our back Yard]
(B) A Favorite: I love the TeXas Blue Sky 
[Remember, click once, then again, for Super-TeXas-Sized viewing]
(C) "X" is a tough one: Our TeXas tough-sized Sunday Bible Study Class. It is labeled, "Over Age 65" and as you see most of us are. We have 168 members, 94 Women and 74 Men. We also carry 31 visitors who visited us in 2019. Class attendance runs just over 100 most Sunday mornings. Our church is the Second Baptist Church of Houston, 1463 Campus (link). Please visit us when you are in town. Also note, Mrs. Jim and I are NOT in this picture as we were making some arrangements inside the classroom, which is directly behind this wall.
(D) Reflection(s): TeXas Restroom Mirrors -- This was taken at the Men's Room at a TeXas doctor's office. It's a little bit of a Selfie too, that is my hand and camera at the right.
The Mirror looks out through the window to the backs of some commercial buildings facing the other street. The Ladies' room has no windows. Pour souls.
I rate this Rest Room as a Four out of Five possible score. It was very clean, mostly 'No Touch' equipment, but the sink's faucets are a Glaring cut, requiring hands to manipulate the water functions.
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The fine print:
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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: Church, Reflections, Restroom Rating, Texas, Texas Skies, Weekend Roundup 03
Friday, August 03, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 05-18(b) (for letter "E")
The 31st issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
The week's prompts:
(1) Starts with "E"; (2) A Favorite; and (3) Double
(1) Starts with "E": Evening starts with "E". This was the scene over our side yard fence, facing south with the sun going down in the West, to the right.
(3) Even: Getting Even with these wasps. They had invaded our house through a weep hole just below and to he right of the front door.
It took me about an hour to kill all these, I should have counted them. Perhaps you could do that from the picture. Or take an educated guess.
On the left, the weep hole with the dead wasps. I killed them as they came out to evade the bug spray. You can just barely see the weep hole peeking through the fern on the right, at its left hand side through the "V" in the fronds.
Did I Get Even or did I get even?
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The end, that's all for tonight.
The fine print: - 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.
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
The fine print: - 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.
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
Labels: Family, Jim Does, Texas Skies, Weekend Roundup 02
Saturday, January 30, 2010
About my operation — Six Word Saturday — Another stent
The way to a man's heart
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is through his stomach
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or through his groin
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is through his stomach
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or through his groin
[large picture] [extra large]I suppose this wasn't a genuine operation. Merely a medical procedure. This Thursday I had a stent placed in the artery, not to my heart, but to my left kidney as it was 80% blocked. The doctor was very pleased with the result and now my arteries are full blast, wide open, full speed ahead for the streaming blood.
The stent was put in through this little wound (hole) in my right groin. It was shoved up through the artery into the aortic artery. There in a little way up, it made a left turn into the artery to the kidney. When it stopped in the right place it was deployed which meant expanding to open a path to allow the blood flow.
Since I had not eaten after midnight the day before and it was now about three in the afternoon, I was hungry. Tim, Mrs. Jim, and I stopped at the New York Pizza. This time we ate off the lunch menu and had calzone and a salad. Tim had spinach, Mrs. Jim and I shared a Stromboli calzone. Ours had pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, black olives, green bell peppers, and lots of mozzarella cheese. Each has a small dish of marina sauce for dipping.
I thought all those vegetables and the salad would be good for my circulation.
Mrs. Jim drove home as I wasn't supposed to drive until Friday. Here we were on the connecting lanes from U.S. Highway 288 into U.S. 59. The fog coming down from the low clouds was very pretty. My picture doesn't do it justice.
Also in the groin area picture you can see where they shaved me. I ended up with a Bikini shave. Having stents or angioplasty is the only time I have that shave. This is my fourth opening stent (other three are in my heart-LAD-arteries) and I also have one that goes through my Aortic Artery Aneurysm. If the cannibals boil me until my bones are soft those aluminum stents will still be crunchy.
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Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words.
Six Word Saturday, Click the box --> to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate runs Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.
Labels: Driving Pictures, Food, Humor(?), Jim Bunch Eats, Jim Does, Six Word Saturday, Texas Skies
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The little white cloud — MidWeek Blues — all alone here
I am calling it The Little White Cloud That Cried. That is the name of an old, once very popular song. Its lyrics are posted below.
This little white cloud was the only cloud in our blue Texas sky yesterday afternoon. We were blessed to have it at the end of our street watching over things here. It made us feel real secure.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. .
Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.
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The Little White Cloud That Cried
sung by Johnnie Ray
I went walkin' down by the river
Feeling very sad inside
When all at once I saw in the sky
The little white cloud that cried
He told me he was very lonesome
And no one cared if he lived or died
And said sometimes the thunder and lightning
Make all little clouds hide
He said "Have faith in all kinds of weather"
"For the sun will always shine"
"Do your best and always remember"
"The dark clouds pass with time"
He asked if I'd tell all my world
Just how hard those little clouds try
That's how I know I'll always remember
The little white cloud that sat right down and cried
(The little white cloud that cried)
Song lyrics found at
Labels: Midweek Blues, Songs, Texas Skies, Weather
Friday, July 31, 2009
Where's the Texas Sky Pollution? (sneaking Baby KP in) -- Looking At the Sky
First we need a little commercial to promote the latest of our Jim's Bunch.
You can tell Baby KP is a bona fide member of Jim's family because she is already taking charge of the remote.
We think this is a real cute picture because we haven't had too many where she isn't sleeping.
So far her eyes are brown but they could turn green like her Grandpa Jim's (mine).
Now back to Looking at the Sky:
This is a nice looking sky with just one little Oklahoma cloud. I don't know what it is doing in Texas but definitely it is too small to be from Texas. Everything is big in Texas. (Those very small cloud friends are visiting from Louisiana.)
Don't complain about the quality, I took it through the windshield while on the move. I had to put down my cell phone right in the middle of a text message I was making to get the picture.
It wouldn't have looked so good had I not taken using the telephoto setting.
You can tell Baby KP is a bona fide member of Jim's family because she is already taking charge of the remote.We think this is a real cute picture because we haven't had too many where she isn't sleeping.
So far her eyes are brown but they could turn green like her Grandpa Jim's (mine).
Now back to Looking at the Sky:
This is a nice looking sky with just one little Oklahoma cloud. I don't know what it is doing in Texas but definitely it is too small to be from Texas. Everything is big in Texas. (Those very small cloud friends are visiting from Louisiana.)Don't complain about the quality, I took it through the windshield while on the move. I had to put down my cell phone right in the middle of a text message I was making to get the picture.
It wouldn't have looked so good had I not taken using the telephoto setting.
Here you can see the visual pollution of the many signs we have to put up with on our way to town. I hope they are helping the merchants who put them up. For sure the sign companies are staying in business.
And in Texas, the dolphin rider is a cowboy.
What else?
And in Texas, the dolphin rider is a cowboy.
What else?
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Labels: Driving Pictures, Family, KP, Looking At the Sky, Sky Pollution, Texas Skies
Friday, July 24, 2009
Texas Sky Pollution -- Looking At the Sky
City folk don't stand much of a chance to see the pretty blue sky and lovely varied assortment of clouds we have to look at. Oh, we can see them but often times more predominant in our line of sight is a visual blight. I call this 'sky pollution.' Some call it 'visual pollution.' [click on each picture for large size]
These pretty clouds are found in Willis, Texas, at the intersection of FM 1097 and Interstate Highway 45. We are north of the Houston P.O. about forty miles.
On that corner, with their corresponding signs gouging our visual appreciation of the sky, are a Shell gas station (with Taco Bell), a Texaco gas station (not shown--with a fast food chicken place), and this Jack-in-the-Box from last week.
You might ask what is on the other corner? Have a peek below:
I don't know how long this United States Flag on the commercial lot will last. It is prime property and is for sale.
There are two types of drivers that I don't like to follow. Thank goodness this one is turning off. His diesel puts out huge clouds of black smoke which I could never catch with the camera. I do believe that is worse than the smells coming from the outhouse he was moving.
And this one? You could advertise your own business interest on this large Texas sized commercial sign. There are others along the road from our subdivision over to I-45 but you would be bored. I will keep you posted if anything interesting shows up.
The other type driver to avoid following? A person driving a Lincoln Town Car. They are terribly slow and very unpredictable with their maneuvers.
And I suppose we must give Rachel an exception, I know she drives her big Town Car carefully. She does speed a little. ('Speeding Along' link) (her entire blog)
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These pretty clouds are found in Willis, Texas, at the intersection of FM 1097 and Interstate Highway 45. We are north of the Houston P.O. about forty miles.
On that corner, with their corresponding signs gouging our visual appreciation of the sky, are a Shell gas station (with Taco Bell), a Texaco gas station (not shown--with a fast food chicken place), and this Jack-in-the-Box from last week.
You might ask what is on the other corner? Have a peek below:
I don't know how long this United States Flag on the commercial lot will last. It is prime property and is for sale.
There are two types of drivers that I don't like to follow. Thank goodness this one is turning off. His diesel puts out huge clouds of black smoke which I could never catch with the camera. I do believe that is worse than the smells coming from the outhouse he was moving.
And this one? You could advertise your own business interest on this large Texas sized commercial sign. There are others along the road from our subdivision over to I-45 but you would be bored. I will keep you posted if anything interesting shows up.
The other type driver to avoid following? A person driving a Lincoln Town Car. They are terribly slow and very unpredictable with their maneuvers.
And I suppose we must give Rachel an exception, I know she drives her big Town Car carefully. She does speed a little. ('Speeding Along' link) (her entire blog)
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Labels: Driving Pictures, Looking At the Sky, Sky Pollution, Texas Skies
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Out my a borrowed back door -- Sunset through the clouds
I'm saying borrowed because it wasn't taken from my back door. This pretty sunset over the water was from a balcony of a house being built over on the lake (in our Texas subdivision, Bentwater).
Looking straight down, I almost got sea sick. The little waves were rolling up to the bulkhead. So IF we lived here I would always look out, not down.
Maybe more of Jim's European Holiday posting next week. I have been having a VERY busy week but it's isn't almost over.
Like my mother-in-law (link) would say, "'It won't be long now' said the monkey when he caught his tail in the door."
Labels: Houston, Texas Skies, Views, Walk pictures
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Adi Can ............................................................................. do National Start a Walk Day
Adi has already been walking for a long, long time. Twelve and a half years if you'd like to know.
We walk at least once a week, Adi would like to walk every day.
My cardiologist and my GP would like me to walk every day. My podiatrist said not to walk. That's two to one with Adi for walking, what do foot doctors know about these things anyway?
Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Beagle, Dogs, Health, Holiday Posts, Humor, Texas, Texas Skies, Walk pictures
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Be glad
Labels: Bible, Sunday, Texas Skies
Friday, February 13, 2009
Looking At the Sky … From my back porch
Happy Friday the 13th!
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Taken from my back porch on February 1, 2009. At 6:19 PM to the east and 6:18 PM to the west, top and bottom. (For larger size, click on pictures)
For more Looking at the Sky on Friday photos
click over to Crazy Working Mom…
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Taken from my back porch on February 1, 2009. At 6:19 PM to the east and 6:18 PM to the west, top and bottom. (For larger size, click on pictures)
For more Looking at the Sky on Friday photos
click over to Crazy Working Mom…
In case you were wondering what Adi was doing, don't worry. She and I had gone for another walk earlier in the morning.
Here she is looking back to see how far we've come.
I've been working on Income Tax the last couple of days. Still have more to do, I did Mom and Dad's final trust returns stuff. Sister Lois is down and will be back up her Monday. She is busy enjoying her grandchildren right now for a week.
Have a Valentines Day party with Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class tomorrow night. They are having a banquet dinner. Guess I'll have to dress up.
Saturday night a bunch of us couples are playing dominos at a couple's home up the street from here. The game's formal name is forty-two. This game is played with double six dominoes, it is very common in Texas.
For the rules and playing strategy, buy the book, Texas 42. The rules and order information are on-line at (link). We play the for points version.
Oh yes, we will eat too. I think pretty good since it is a Holiday (Valentines Day).
Labels: Adi, Dogs, Eating, Friends, Holiday Posts, Jim Does, Looking At the Sky, Texas, Texas Skies
