Saturday, February 08, 2014
Six Word Saturday ~~ Mrs. Jim's Status Update
my Six Words:
It got chilly; I made chili.
Six More Words:
Sky blue sky; snowy golf course
and Six More:
Cast cut off; walking boot now
Bunion surgery was the easy part. It gets harder afterwards with the walking with crutches for a month, wearing the boot another month, and toe therapy for the repaired members.
With the cast off we can now start Mrs. Jim's toe therapy. That involves bending the joint at the end of her foot. It must go both ways, up and down for the big toe and the second toe. The big toe was straightened and has two screws, the next toe was shortened and has one screw.
The little dish is our "count to 10" pea counter machine. Each toe must go up and down 10 reps three times a day. If we can work off enough scar tissue by February 28 then she will not have to go to a professional therapist.
Six Words Saturday fine print:
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.Labels: Eating, Family, Six Word Saturday, Update, Weather
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Sunday night / Monday morning -- on Tuesday with an old blonde joke
Right away you can tell that I'm running behind this week. This post might even be my MidWeek Blues post. Guess not, there isn't a picture.
We are in the process of cleaning up after our floor replacement and putting thethings stuff we really do want to keep back where it might look pretty and be useful.
AN OLD BLONDE JOKE: (I found this in a book to bethrown away donated to the Friends of the Library being used for a book marker--I suppose where I quit reading that book.) (Any way that's why it is old, it was in an old book that I was reading back in the 1980s')
The blonde was so happy about her new toilet facilities.
"It's even got a star on the door," she said excitedly. "Well, not exactly a star, but real close--its a new moon!"
I will return comments when or if I get time for that. I am pretty well caught up on comments for now. so it's okay for you to leave a comment. Especially if you like my blonde jokes, there was another.
We are in the process of cleaning up after our floor replacement and putting the
AN OLD BLONDE JOKE: (I found this in a book to be
The blonde was so happy about her new toilet facilities.
"It's even got a star on the door," she said excitedly. "Well, not exactly a star, but real close--its a new moon!"
I will return comments when or if I get time for that. I am pretty well caught up on comments for now. so it's okay for you to leave a comment. Especially if you like my blonde jokes, there was another.
Labels: Blonde Joke, Jim Does, Update
Thursday, March 26, 2009
My next movie to see
'Three Stooges' coming together at MGM
Wed Mar 25, 2009, 02:54 PM ET • Source: Hollywood Reporter
from My Yahoo Movies
Well, I know Sean Penn and Jim Carey but I don't know Benicio del Toro (middle guy). That probably shows how much I see the movies too.
They are slated to play Larry, Curly, and Moe (the guy in the middle again??). Benicio isn't signed on the dotted line yet.
Here, with the Stooges, I don't know any of these guys as I never watched TV or went to the movies when I was growing up. At first it wasn't invented and then we didn't get it, and we couldn't afford to go to the movies. Ben Hur was my first, I went with my parents.
Mrs. Jim could drag me to something else before it comes out, which is slated for some time in 2010. I think I want to see Barcelona before we go there this April. We will have to rent that. Red Hut, here we come (maybe)!
To catch up or review the three Stooges history in two minutes, go here to the article on Yahoo.
By the way, did you see the tent city of homeless in Sacramento, California, on the NBC Early Show this morning? That's something that Bankers and us Republicans don't watch. Instead, they want to move those people along. Away from their property and banks. And watch Fox News all day long.
I am the exception, I will not watch Fox News. I can't stand the nastiness in their voice inflections and attitudes. And (another exception) occasionally I help feed these people (homeless, not bankers) at our local Salvation Army instead of spending my bonuses.
Labels: Jim Does, Jim's Life, Review, Things to know, TV, Update
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Today: International Ataxia Awareness Day (IAAD)
Picture of the day:
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So here she is right after her bath yesterday. She was all frisky but decided it would be OK to settle down enough for me to take her picture or two. She will have her own post not too long from now.
MacDonald's cup holding procedure:
This seems unsanitary to me. If I want someones fingers or thumb in my drink cup (which I don't) then at least they could put on a clean rubber glove before handling it.
Do you think they do this so that the clumsy help they hire won't be so apt to drop the cup.
The lady in a different colored dress was doing this at the Sealy, Texas, MacDonald's Restaurant last Friday. That different color dress denoted either supervisor status or a trainee. I don't know which suited her.
At Hurst, Texas (1401 W Pipeline Rd), it was a young man who grabbed every cup with his fingers inside. He had on a regular colored outfit. And he didn't look like he was just hired yesterday, he was knowing what to do and he did most tasks rather quickly.
What about your MacDonald's, is this a nationwide procedure now?
Do you think they do this so that the clumsy help they hire won't be so apt to drop the cup.
The lady in a different colored dress was doing this at the Sealy, Texas, MacDonald's Restaurant last Friday. That different color dress denoted either supervisor status or a trainee. I don't know which suited her.
At Hurst, Texas (1401 W Pipeline Rd), it was a young man who grabbed every cup with his fingers inside. He had on a regular colored outfit. And he didn't look like he was just hired yesterday, he was knowing what to do and he did most tasks rather quickly.
What about your MacDonald's, is this a nationwide procedure now?
Word of the day:
Yesterday:
Ongoing Plans:
Labels: Dogs, Food, Humor, Issues, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim Does, Katrin, Status Report, Update
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Adi Can -- Be a working dog
Jim's Little Photo Place today:
Wordless Wednesday (still has a classic Morris Minor 1000
I found when traveling in the Isle of Man)
Today: National Punctuation Day (so do it write!)
Picture of the day:
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Yesterday Adi was a working dog. We visited residents who live at Hearthstone Assisted Living Center in Conroe, Texas. We have made several friends there, they like to visit with us. Adi sure gets a lot of loving and petting there!
We sign in at the front desk after visiting the residents who are sitting out front, either in wheel chairs or the rocking chairs always there. This is the South you know, even Mrs. Jim has a white wooden rocking chair on our porch.
After that we walk through the halls stopping at the parlors, game area, and puzzle place. Most times we stop in at the Harbor, a portion of the center especially reserved for Alzheimer afflicted residents. Today we ran out of time and couldn't.
We did have pretty long conversations with two of Adi's friends in particular, we look them up every time we come. The rest of the time was spent with shorter visits with so many I lost track. I'm sure Adi did too.
We are a certified Pet Therapy Team, certified by the Delta Society. We are trained, then have to pass both a written test and a two-part suitability test which shows Adi's training and her gentleness, and how well we handle ourselves in different simulated 'surprise' situations. [Delta Society link]
Adi and I belong to the Montgomery Pet Partners (link) which consists of teams, an animal and an owner/other, who assist in various situations where therapy animals are helpful. Our people visit hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living centers. Interested persons may also join our group but cannot participate with an animal until certified by the Delta Society (tests are passed).
The other aspect is reading, Adi is a reading dog as well. This involves tutoring a child where the child reads to the dog (and owner of course) and in weekly visits to the children's reading programs, mostly on Saturday mornings.
Now, all work and no play make Adi and Jim dull kids:
Our morning began with a nice walk back from the golf pro shop where Mrs. Jim dropped us off for her 8:40 tee time. She went golfing with her buds. Actually my day began with a Tuesday morning Bible study with about 15 other men at the club house. Then our walk. [super sized picture]
Too bad Adi isn't a counting dog, she could enjoy herself counting all these horse apples that the winds from Hurricane Ike blew off. Adi can count to two and six, one bite of graham cracker is never enough when I'm taking my medicine. She has one bite and then the second when I am on pill number six. [super sized picture]
We ended up down in the quiet area of the golf course. It is down from our house just a short walk away. The lake is up after our rains but it will be lowered soon for inspection of the dam. Hurricane Ike may have damaged it as did Hurricane Rita three years ago. That year the lake remained empty all next summer still while the dam was being repaired. [super sized picture]
Adi got tired, she is tiring more easily now in her older years. (My Autumn poem link)
In case you don't go to that link, here is the picture I have posted there:
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Word of the day:
Word History: The existence of the synonyms helpmeet and helpmate is the result of an error compounded. God's promise to Adam in Genesis 2:18, as rendered in the King James version of the Bible (1611), was to give him "an help [helper] meet [fit or suitable] for him." The poet John Dryden's 1673 use of the phrase "help-meet for man," with a hyphen between help and meet, was one step on the way toward the establishment of the phrase "help meet" as an independent word. Another was the use of "help meet" without "for man" to mean a suitable helper, usually a spouse, as Eve had been to Adam. Despite such usages, helpmeet was not usually thought of as a word in its own right until the 19th century. Nonetheless, the phrase "help meet" probably played a role in the creation of helpmate, from help and mate, first recorded in 1715
Plans for the day:
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Ongoing Plans:
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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Dogs, Jim Does, Status Report, Update
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Ruby (Red) Tuesday -- The Jim Bunch Eats in Sorrento, Italy
Wordless Wednesday (has a classis Morris Minor 1000 I found when traveling in the Isle of Man)
Picture of the day:
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Word of the day:
HOMILETICS, n. Devil's Dictionary: The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
Urban Dictionary: HOMILETICS isn't defined yet.
TheFreeDictionary: the art of sacred speaking; preaching. — homiletic, homiletical adj. See also: Religion
Plans for the day: Check blog comments and answer, especially the Little Photo Place for Wordless Wednesday madness. Walk home from the club house with Adi (meaning: Mrs. Jim drop us off there while she golfs with her group) Get yesterday's mail that we forgot to get yesterday Take Adi to Conroe where we will visit residents at Hearthstone Assisted Living Center (take shower and get ready first)
Shop a little in Conroe--not decided about taking Adi home first Wash my clothes
Yesterday:
Got all done on my list. Not much though about the clutter organization Trees need stronger wire, right now using 2X4's to help reduce the tension. Will get the wire while I'm in town today. Extra (was TBD): Vacuumed the floors Get my clutter organized Prepare Sunday school lesson, 1 Samuel
Picture of the day:
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This was taken at a restaurant in Sorrento overlooking the Bay of Naples. In the distance we could see Mt. Vesuvius or just look across to see the beautiful Excelsior Vittoria Hotel. Mrs. Jim made a nice self-guided tour over there, I stayed outside on a bench watching people.
If that pepper seed jar lid isn't enough red for you, then click on the pictures below:
This was taken at a restaurant in Sorrento overlooking the Bay of Naples. In the distance we could see Mt. Vesuvius or just look across to see the beautiful Excelsior Vittoria Hotel. Mrs. Jim made a nice self-guided tour over there, I stayed outside on a bench watching people.
If that pepper seed jar lid isn't enough red for you, then click on the pictures below:
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Girl on a motor scooter in red coat. There were a lot of girls riding scooters, I have a picture collection of some of them. [super sized]
The lovely Excelsior Vittoria Hotel across the water just a bit sitting on its own rock. [super sized]
Mrs. Jim and I on the roof of our hotel. Mt. Vesuvius (link) is across the Tyrrhenian Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea)(Bay of Naples), as was Naples beyond the picture width to the left of the mountain. [super sized]
Girl on a motor scooter in red coat. There were a lot of girls riding scooters, I have a picture collection of some of them. [super sized]
The lovely Excelsior Vittoria Hotel across the water just a bit sitting on its own rock. [super sized]
Mrs. Jim and I on the roof of our hotel. Mt. Vesuvius (link) is across the Tyrrhenian Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea)(Bay of Naples), as was Naples beyond the picture width to the left of the mountain. [super sized]
Word of the day:
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Ongoing Plans:
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Labels: Jim Does, Ruby Tuesday, Status Report, Update
Monday, September 22, 2008
Today is the first day of Fall. Enjoy the season!
Jim's Little Photo Place today:
One single impression: Autumn (a poem)
Picture of the day:
Word of the day:
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. Devil's Dictionary: The humorist of the medical profession.
Urban Dictionary: HOMOEOPATHIST isn't defined yet. Straighten and tie waxed myrtle bush tree in front of house (partially uprooted by Hurricane Ike)
Call in prescription refill. This is to our new prescription drug insurance provider. A test to see if they accept our refills.
Call retirement living center to see if they are ready for Adi and my Tuesday visit (may not be back in order due to Hurricane Ike)
Adi gets a bath
Work on organizing my clutter
Wash some clothes
Other things, TBD
Yesterday:
Went to church
Lunch at Applebee's
Paid a bill and shopped for necessities--groceries, printer cartridges, stakes for trees
Answered blog comments
Read part of the Sunday paper
Tried new brand of ice cream, HEB Creamy Creations Light Vanilla before bedtime. All four of us liked it (Mrs. Jim, Adi, Katrin, and me)
Jim's Little Photo Place today:
Picture of the day:
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TheFreeDictionary: (Homeopathy) Noun -- a method of treating disease by the use of small amounts of a drug that produces symptoms of the disease in healthy people [Greek homoios similar + patheia suffering]
Plans for the day:
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Yesterday:
Labels: Jim Does, Status Report, Update
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