Friday, June 17, 2022
Letter "X" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
This Week's Prompts: A word with an "X"; A Favorite; and Looks like an "X".
A word with an "X": Maximilian is a name with an "X". He was an appointed emperor of Mexico until the time of his death in 1867 when he was shot dead.
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A word with an "X": Maximilian is a name with an "X". He was an appointed emperor of Mexico until the time of his death in 1867 when he was shot dead.
A Favorite: Handicap parking calls for Excellent Skill and being Extra Careful.
The marker was not hurt in the least, I just pulled it out and straightened it up.
Looks like an "X": Make the "X" and drive or back the second car in, underneath the first one, now upper.
Reflections and Street Captures: Another double, note the "and" here. My photo was taken of a large mirror, it was reflecting the gentleman making ready to exercise.
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The 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.
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Labels: Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Reflections, Things to know
Friday, June 10, 2022
Who is Caroline Edwards?
Complete article
FYI, Fox News didn't seem to know. Stupid question.
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Labels: The News, Things to know
Friday, March 12, 2021
Letter "K" -- Weekend Roundup
THE ELEVENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES) - the Letter "K" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "Kooky"; (B) "Kooky" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D.1 & D.2) A Reflection/Street Scene and Lagniappe.
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First picture is the 'food to go' kitchen. Next is the inside of the men's room. Last on the right is the outside of this building. Mrs. Jim said the women's room had stalls with curtains for doors.
Here, at Luckenbach, Texas (google link), the action is starting. We were there from about 6:00 PM to around 7:15 and this fellow was playing and singing on the stage the whole time.
Mrs. Jim was waiting for me to come back from the men's room. The last picture says the singer is taking a break and that 'all that's left is us chickens.' Happy picnicking with your food on those tables. Shoo the chickens off first.
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[ The Blarney Stone is a part of the structure in the top passage inside this tower outside Killarney. ]
(A) Starts with the Letter "K": Killarny, Ireland, starts with the letter "K". I have Kissed the Blarney Stone on two different visits. (Read more)
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[large picture] [super size]Our nice B&B in Killarney, we stayed there three different years. (Read More) I found a four leaf clover beside the sidewalk while walking down into the town.
Remember to wear Green next Wednesday for St. Patrick's Day.
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(Down pictures, Kooky town of Luckenbach, Texas).
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First picture is the 'food to go' kitchen. Next is the inside of the men's room. Last on the right is the outside of this building. Mrs. Jim said the women's room had stalls with curtains for doors.
Mrs. Jim was waiting for me to come back from the men's room. The last picture says the singer is taking a break and that 'all that's left is us chickens.' Happy picnicking with your food on those tables. Shoo the chickens off first.
Answer, if you believe the Bible is true, the chicken. Genesis says that God created the fowls, it doesn't say that he made eggs. He made chickens so that the chicken could make her eggs.
Now, also the Kook or Kooky as both being words. Please see google's answer in "D" below.
(C) A Favorite: Keeping with Texas Spring Tradition, this Redbud Tree that we found on our Wednesday's walk decided to bloom. Note the brown grass due to our recent cold, very cold. But the Redbud Tree stood ready to bloom.
(D.1) A Lagniappe: Kook or Kooky?
Now you know.
(D.2) Street Photo and another Lagniappe: Where I broke my Kneecap, at Powerscourt Garden, Ireland. I fell on these steps going down the hill into the garden, the Young Lady sitting there and another fellow helped me get up. They overcame my objections, I didn't want to get up, rather just lay there and misserate. (Read More)
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Bonus Questions:
(1) Tell about your accident or other some other unusual experience away from home that you'd like to share. Besides breaking my kneecap, I would tell about backing our rental SUV in Italy into a bruiser monster truck double parked behind me. Several witnesses told me to hurry and leave before the owner came back. Fearing an altercation by judging the frenzied motioning we did leave, quickly. The rental people passed this damage on as I had noted previous damage there at the time we picked it up.
(2) What is your favorite Word starting with "K"? Mine today will be "King", because at my age people have started treating me like a "King".
(3) Anything else you were reminded of here that you would like to tell about?
My going blogs:
Jim's Little Blog, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/
Jim's Little Photo and Picture Place, http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/
Jim's little Christmas tree farm, http://jimmiehov7.blogspot.com/, and
Ask Dr. Jim (blog), http://jimmiehov8.blogspot.com/ (seldom newly posted)
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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: Friday's Weekend Roundup 06, Humor(?), Ireland, Reflections, StreetPhoto, Texas, Things to know, Walk pictures
Friday, April 19, 2019
Letter "P" ~~ Weekend Roundup
From http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-in-space-pioneer-astronaut-owen-garriott-w5lfl-sk :
"04/15/2019
The US astronaut who pioneered the use of Amateur Radio to make contacts from space — Owen K. Garriott, W5LFL — died April 15 at his home in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 88. Garriott’s ham radio activity ushered in the formal establishment of Amateur Radio in space, first as SAREX — the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, and later as ARISS — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.
“Owen Garriott was a good friend and an incredible astronaut,” fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin tweeted. “I have a great sadness as I learn of his passing today. Godspeed Owen.”
An Oklahoma native, Garriott — an electrical engineer — spent 2 months aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 during a 1983 Space Shuttle Columbia mission. It was during the latter mission that Garriott thrilled radio amateurs around the world by making the first contacts from space. Thousands of hams listened on 2-meter FM, hoping to hear him or to make a contact. Garriott ended up working stations around the globe, among them such notables as the late King Hussein, JY1, of Jordan, and the late US Senator Barry Goldwater, K7UGA. He also made the first CW contact from space. Garriott called hamming from space “a pleasant pastime"...(more at the link above)”
We have a couple of pottery pieces designed and crafted by the now deceased former Mrs. Garriott, a "Moon Jar" and a "Sun Jar" that we proudly display at our home. You can see them here on my older blog post.
Additionally, their daughter was in one of my college classes, taking it for dual credit, college and high school. We did discuss her brother who later also traveled to the Space Station as a civilian.
I am a Ham Radio licensee but never did make contact with any of the Garriott's via Ham Radio.
Passing starts with "G". Please read above of the passing this week of a work friend, Astronaut Owen Garriott. We didn't see each other after I left the space program to teach Business courses at the community college.
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The 16th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
- the Letter "P" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with "P"; (B) A Favorite; (C) Pile; and (D) Reflection(s).
(A) Starts with "P": "Passing" starts with "P", my work friend at NASA Passed away this week (posted above).
(B) A Favorite: Mrs. Jim's Potato Salad is the BEST, my favorite!!
(C) Pile: A "Pile" of brush by the road.
(D) Reflection(s): An inside window decoration found in the foyer at church this afternoon. An artist came last week to give of his talent.
Mrs. Jim and I also served at church this noon service. I was a greeter for those coming in and we both helped with baptism. Seven were baptized today, we have three more services this weekend, tomorrow evening and two Sunday morning.
We also plan to help with baptism tomorrow evening and I will help again with the service. We attend Second Baptist Church of Houston, the Highway 1463 Campus of the town of Fulshear, Texas (link). There are five other campuses scattered around the Houston, Texas, area.
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.
- I am also linked this week with James at Weekend Reflections, https://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved - Click on most any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
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Labels: Celebrities, Food, Friends, Jim's Life, Reflections, Things to know, Weekend Roundup 03
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 11-18 (for letter "K")
The 11th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
The week's prompts:
(1) Starts with "K"; (2) A Favorite; (3) Kids; and (4) Lagniappe
2) A Favorite: This is our lemon tree. It could be a lime tree, we've not had one piece of fruit from it before so we aren't sure what it is. It blooms in the spring but doesn't set on fruit. A rain we had beat off a lot of the blossoms, you can see some of the fallen pieces below the tree in the first picture.
We don't see any bees. Our long term U.S. Senator killed a bill for the Federal Government to spend money trying to figure out why the bees are declining drastically. I don't think he believes in Climate Change either.
(3) Kids: This shamrock was drawn and painted by KP, our youngest granddaughter. She says it is a four leaf clover but aren't they the same? Dunno for sure but I always thought so.
(4) Lagniappe: Kaiser starts with "K". Manufacture of Kaiser-Frazer cars began after WWII in 1946. "The company was founded on July 25, 1945 and in 1946 K-F displayed prototypes of their two new cars at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The Kaiser was of an advanced front wheel drive design while the Frazer was an upscale conventional rear wheel drive car... " Wikiepedia, link
Kaiser Frazer "Buffalo logo" photo source,
"cartype, selected Kaiser logos" (link)
Kaiser automobile production stopped in 1955, only 210 '55 Kaisers were produced for domestic consumption. Collectible Classic: 1951-55 Kaiser
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The fine print: - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link to Weekend Review 2018)- 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.
(1) Starts with "K": Kolaches starts with "K". Our daughter bought us this pictured above Kolache, it is a Sausage and Cheese Kolache left over from some more that she and KP brought. Since it was a leftover, I modified it by adding half a hard fried egg. Below are a 'work in progress' and an 'almost finished eating' pictures. [click on any picture to see it in larger sizes, one or two clicks]
2) A Favorite: This is our lemon tree. It could be a lime tree, we've not had one piece of fruit from it before so we aren't sure what it is. It blooms in the spring but doesn't set on fruit. A rain we had beat off a lot of the blossoms, you can see some of the fallen pieces below the tree in the first picture.
We don't see any bees. Our long term U.S. Senator killed a bill for the Federal Government to spend money trying to figure out why the bees are declining drastically. I don't think he believes in Climate Change either.
(3) Kids: This shamrock was drawn and painted by KP, our youngest granddaughter. She says it is a four leaf clover but aren't they the same? Dunno for sure but I always thought so.
Kaiser Frazer "Buffalo logo" photo source,
"cartype, selected Kaiser logos" (link)
"By the end of 1946, over 11,000 cars (total Kaiser and Frazer) went out to dealers and distributors; many of them sold to retail owners... (in) 1948, the 300,000th car came off the production line. In 1950, Kaiser-Frazer began production of a compact car, the Henry J and ended production of the Frazer automobile... In 1952 and 1953 Kaiser-Frazer provided Sears Roebuck & Co. with Allstate-branded automobiles that Sears sold through selected Sears Auto Centers... " Wikipedia, Kaiser Motors, link
Henry J photo Source, Curbsideclassic.com
Kaiser automobile production stopped in 1955, only 210 '55 Kaisers were produced for domestic consumption. Collectible Classic: 1951-55 Kaiser
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The fine print: - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link to Weekend Review 2018)- 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: 2016 Caribbean Cruise, Cars, Flowers-buds-plants, Food, Things to know
Friday, October 14, 2016
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.2.16 -- "P" is for ... [sign says]
Friday's Hunt for the week of October 14th: (1) Starts with "P"; (2) Week's Favorite; and (3) Whole:
1. Starts with "P": Sign on the road said, "Pick your own Pumpkins."
Sure, you can pick from one of these or from any of those below. Also there are other's inside with the vegetables. Pumpkins are my favorite vegetable, baked in a pie. We first heard of that ruse in Vermont, south a bit from Stowe. Only it was apples this time, with a big sign before out on the road of course.
(2) Week's favorite: Do you have your Pneumonia shot yet? People over 60 should get one every five years. When I first started getting them it was every ten years. This was my first year for that five year thing.
There is a new Mexican restaurant across the street from the subdivision where we live before moving. Mrs. Jim and I stopped there to eat a bite. So we ordered off the 'Lunch Menu.'
Mrs. Jim and I each ordered the same plate. Actually we got two plates for a total of four. I had a beef taco and a guacamole salad on one and the other was two chicken enchiladas, rice, and a small bowl of beans charro. Before these came we munched on Corn Chips with sauce from three smaller bowls. That was all for $5.99. And since they didn't have their liquor license yet, drinks were free also. The food was great!!
(4) Bonus: I generally have a car of some kind. On our trip to Louisiana last weekend we came up on this vehicle full of little green aliens from another planet.
Click on it to get it large enough to see the green aliens inside. Some days they hide.
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The Fine Print:
- Teresa of Eden Hills, (click) is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm." You have plenty of time to enter as you can get the letter and the other two requested topics as early as Monday. That is in her sidebar.
1. Starts with "P": Sign on the road said, "Pick your own Pumpkins."
Sure, you can pick from one of these or from any of those below. Also there are other's inside with the vegetables. Pumpkins are my favorite vegetable, baked in a pie. We first heard of that ruse in Vermont, south a bit from Stowe. Only it was apples this time, with a big sign before out on the road of course.
(2) Week's favorite: Do you have your Pneumonia shot yet? People over 60 should get one every five years. When I first started getting them it was every ten years. This was my first year for that five year thing.
(3) Whole: I can't believe I ate the Whole Thing.
There is a new Mexican restaurant across the street from the subdivision where we live before moving. Mrs. Jim and I stopped there to eat a bite. So we ordered off the 'Lunch Menu.'
Mrs. Jim and I each ordered the same plate. Actually we got two plates for a total of four. I had a beef taco and a guacamole salad on one and the other was two chicken enchiladas, rice, and a small bowl of beans charro. Before these came we munched on Corn Chips with sauce from three smaller bowls. That was all for $5.99. And since they didn't have their liquor license yet, drinks were free also. The food was great!!
(4) Bonus: I generally have a car of some kind. On our trip to Louisiana last weekend we came up on this vehicle full of little green aliens from another planet. Click on it to get it large enough to see the green aliens inside. Some days they hide.
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The Fine Print:
- Teresa of Eden Hills, (click) is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm." You have plenty of time to enter as you can get the letter and the other two requested topics as early as Monday. That is in her sidebar.
Labels: Driving Pictures, Food, Friday’s Hunt # 02 - 2016, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim Does, Signs, Things to know
