Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Golf, rides, ranches, and work — Ruby (Red) Tuesday — My Week Meme
This blog post will be of my activities since last Tuesday. Just a lot of the pictures will have red in them, I did my best. A few don't. I did do a MidWeek blues about doing my income tax. The tax got done on April 15th.
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On April 13th, Tuesday, a group of men from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class has been golfing. I started golfing with them a couple of months ago. This week we played the Cape Royale at Cold Spring, Texas. The course borders on Lake Livingston and is very pretty. The hills are not real steep.
While I was playing with the men, Mrs. Jim played our course with the ladies here. She regularly plays on Tuesdays with the ladies from here and also plays Fridays with three other close 'buddies.'
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On Thursday Adi had a Vet appointment in the afternoon to get her ear checked out. I had an infection and we had been putting medicine in it for over a week.
Did I mention before that last Saturday we passed our Delta Society certification good for another two years. We will be able to continue visiting the nursing homes, hospitals, schools, libraries, etc. as a pet therapy team. This may be our last time to test, both of us are getting pretty old. Adi is 13 in dog years. She loves to visit the residents with me at Hearthstone, our local assisted living home.
Later on Friday afternoon I went into town (Conroe) for gas and some groceries. The H.E.B. grocery store is one of my favorite, the prices are good there. Adi and Katrin needed dog food.
I like to stop at the cooking connection for samples. Friday's are the best days to go. The fellow pictured was cooking shrimp and marinated steak. Both were excellent.
Another lady was making fajita and they were great too. Those two stations had wine 'tasting' and there was another lady passing out a couple of local beer sample glasses.
On the way home the road was petty full, especially the right hand lane which should average about 75 mph. It is supposed to be the fast lane but we weren't even going the speed limit of 65 here.
On Saturday we were having Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class picnic at the ranch of members Don and Charlotte. It was 450+ acres, which is small for a Texas ranch. But for East Texas that is fairly large. Don's major problem there is wild hogs. The come in and root around for worms, etc, which does a job on the grass, tearing it out and digging holes in the soil.
For lunch we had BBQ beef brisket and sausage links, both beef and deer. I like both. The members brought the food to go with the meat, like potato dishes, salads, and deserts. There was food left over but Baptists are noted for their heavy eating at church functions, this was not an exception.
After lunch groups of us rode into the woods for sight seeing.
We were in three mover utility trucks, two red and one green, and then these ladies were on the four wheeler. The hog damage was quite evident. Please enjoy the pictures.
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This is the kid with the fishing pole (did you see the red reel it had?). He is photogenic like Adi. Saying they both like to 'pose' but nothing about how their pictures turn out. I think both are popular with viewers and readers(here) .
The ride home was uneventful. Mrs. Jim drove more than half the way home. Going up I was alone because she went after Golfing on Friday. The ladies played bridge most of the night I hear.
These are a few of the Texas Wildflowers. This is a scrawny bunch I took right after changing drivers. Right after that I slept until we turned off the Interstate 45 at Willis, Texas, onto our road. Home was just six miles down.
Sunday was a go to church-rest up-work on my poem blog (link) day.
Today, Monday, as I write this, I am putting away my records for income tax and other junk so that year 2009 can hide away.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, I am playing golf again. This time it will be at the Texas National Golf Course here in Willis. If it is cart path only I won't go because my foot wouldn't take all the walking in golf shoes.
I might golf anyway and wear my tennies. My feet like them better anyway. I wore tennies on Wednesday as they would not honor my handicap flag.
Click on any picture to get full screen view. You can click then click on the picture again and it will get really BIG! Click on the back button to return to the blog.
On April 13th, Tuesday, a group of men from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class has been golfing. I started golfing with them a couple of months ago. This week we played the Cape Royale at Cold Spring, Texas. The course borders on Lake Livingston and is very pretty. The hills are not real steep.
While I was playing with the men, Mrs. Jim played our course with the ladies here. She regularly plays on Tuesdays with the ladies from here and also plays Fridays with three other close 'buddies.'
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On Wednesday my brother-in-law, Jim W, from Iowa and a good friend, Everett, played golf at the Pasadena Municipal Golf Course. My sister (Lois) rode along with her husband.
I rode with my friend, Everett. We have been friends since 1976, I was also a very good friend of his father. Everett is 93 years old and his father was 99 when he died. Everett beat me by five points, he shot a 98 while I had a 103.
You see in the above picture Lois retrieving on of our balls that had gone into the roadside ditch. Click on the picture to make it larger, then click again to make it really big so you can see her better climbing up out of the ditch. I believe Lois found almost two dozen balls that day, only a couple belonged to us.
On Friday, Mrs. Jim played golf with some ladies here. Most Fridays when she does that Adi and I ride up to the club house with her and walk home. Adi really enjoys her walks.
Last week the flowers were perking up after the cool wintry weather. You can tell that Adi likes yellow flowers about as well as red.
There were others out walking and running too. On the sidewalk/golf cart side way below you can see a lady running with her dog. There were only slightly more people than dogs out Friday.
I rode with my friend, Everett. We have been friends since 1976, I was also a very good friend of his father. Everett is 93 years old and his father was 99 when he died. Everett beat me by five points, he shot a 98 while I had a 103.
You see in the above picture Lois retrieving on of our balls that had gone into the roadside ditch. Click on the picture to make it larger, then click again to make it really big so you can see her better climbing up out of the ditch. I believe Lois found almost two dozen balls that day, only a couple belonged to us.
On Friday, Mrs. Jim played golf with some ladies here. Most Fridays when she does that Adi and I ride up to the club house with her and walk home. Adi really enjoys her walks.Last week the flowers were perking up after the cool wintry weather. You can tell that Adi likes yellow flowers about as well as red.
There were others out walking and running too. On the sidewalk/golf cart side way below you can see a lady running with her dog. There were only slightly more people than dogs out Friday.
On Thursday Adi had a Vet appointment in the afternoon to get her ear checked out. I had an infection and we had been putting medicine in it for over a week.
Did I mention before that last Saturday we passed our Delta Society certification good for another two years. We will be able to continue visiting the nursing homes, hospitals, schools, libraries, etc. as a pet therapy team. This may be our last time to test, both of us are getting pretty old. Adi is 13 in dog years. She loves to visit the residents with me at Hearthstone, our local assisted living home.
Later on Friday afternoon I went into town (Conroe) for gas and some groceries. The H.E.B. grocery store is one of my favorite, the prices are good there. Adi and Katrin needed dog food.I like to stop at the cooking connection for samples. Friday's are the best days to go. The fellow pictured was cooking shrimp and marinated steak. Both were excellent.
Another lady was making fajita and they were great too. Those two stations had wine 'tasting' and there was another lady passing out a couple of local beer sample glasses.On the way home the road was petty full, especially the right hand lane which should average about 75 mph. It is supposed to be the fast lane but we weren't even going the speed limit of 65 here.
On Saturday we were having Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class picnic at the ranch of members Don and Charlotte. It was 450+ acres, which is small for a Texas ranch. But for East Texas that is fairly large. Don's major problem there is wild hogs. The come in and root around for worms, etc, which does a job on the grass, tearing it out and digging holes in the soil.
For lunch we had BBQ beef brisket and sausage links, both beef and deer. I like both. The members brought the food to go with the meat, like potato dishes, salads, and deserts. There was food left over but Baptists are noted for their heavy eating at church functions, this was not an exception.
After lunch groups of us rode into the woods for sight seeing.
We were in three mover utility trucks, two red and one green, and then these ladies were on the four wheeler. The hog damage was quite evident. Please enjoy the pictures.
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This is the kid with the fishing pole (did you see the red reel it had?). He is photogenic like Adi. Saying they both like to 'pose' but nothing about how their pictures turn out. I think both are popular with viewers and readers(here) .
The ride home was uneventful. Mrs. Jim drove more than half the way home. Going up I was alone because she went after Golfing on Friday. The ladies played bridge most of the night I hear.
These are a few of the Texas Wildflowers. This is a scrawny bunch I took right after changing drivers. Right after that I slept until we turned off the Interstate 45 at Willis, Texas, onto our road. Home was just six miles down.
Sunday was a go to church-rest up-work on my poem blog (link) day.
Today, Monday, as I write this, I am putting away my records for income tax and other junk so that year 2009 can hide away.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, I am playing golf again. This time it will be at the Texas National Golf Course here in Willis. If it is cart path only I won't go because my foot wouldn't take all the walking in golf shoes.
I might golf anyway and wear my tennies. My feet like them better anyway. I wore tennies on Wednesday as they would not honor my handicap flag.
Click the Ruby Tuesday button for Mary's Ruby Tuesday post list
of other interesting RED finds today.
Mary is in charge there, you can see more or post your own from there.
Labels: Driving Pictures, Golf course, Jim Does, Ruby Tuesday, Stuff to know, Texas, Views, Walk pictures
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Cold in Duluth -- MidWeek Blues -- Happy Birthday Sister!
My favorite (and only) sister, Lois
My sister, Lois, is celebrating her birthday! She is standing on the first cement pad waiting for the ship to come into the ship canal at Duluth, Minnesota.
She called me from that pad to let me know that she should be on the Web Cam. You can watch the ships come if you'd like, click here.
This is what Iowa people do for relaxation. They need rest from all the excitement there in Iowa, the place "where the excitement begins" as stated on the welcome signs when you drive in.
Her green jacket is a heavy one for cold weather. I have one like it. We call it our green Pioneer jacket. Dad sold Pioneer Seed Corn for quite a while and he gave us these jackets for Christmas one year.
I do hope Lois gets down here to Texas this winter when it is really cold up North.
Last year's picture below. Click here for the whole last year's blog.
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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My sister, Lois, is celebrating her birthday! She is standing on the first cement pad waiting for the ship to come into the ship canal at Duluth, Minnesota.
She called me from that pad to let me know that she should be on the Web Cam. You can watch the ships come if you'd like, click here.
This is what Iowa people do for relaxation. They need rest from all the excitement there in Iowa, the place "where the excitement begins" as stated on the welcome signs when you drive in.
Her green jacket is a heavy one for cold weather. I have one like it. We call it our green Pioneer jacket. Dad sold Pioneer Seed Corn for quite a while and he gave us these jackets for Christmas one year.
I do hope Lois gets down here to Texas this winter when it is really cold up North.
Last year's picture below. Click here for the whole last year's blog.
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.
Labels: Family, Lois, Midweek Blues, Sister, Stuff to know, Views
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
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Have you had your car read lately? #015 -- Our Early Ford V-8 club meeting for lunch -- Part II
I have been having people ask if the old car club (Early Ford V-8) lunch was just for men. I thought I had better show that quite a few women came too.
Mrs. Jim could not come, she is coming tomorrow for our Christmas lunch at another farm (the one with the cow pies).
No, this isn't Mrs. Jim. This is the hostess of our lunch, she and her husband own the little farm. But she wouldn't stand still for me to take her picture. I had to hold her down so she wouldn't run from the camera again.
The old cars are from left to right, 1941 Ford Fordor, 1935 Ford Coupe, 1940 Mercury Convertible, 1947 Ford Club Coupe, (red) 1946 Ford Tudor, and a (green) 1951 Mercury Fordor. On the trailer is a just purchased 1941 Ford 3/4 Ton Pickup.
These bricks don't say "Mexico," they say "Mexia." Mexia is a nice fun little town between Houston and Dallas. They used to have a brick factory making red bricks.
One famous person grew up in Mexia, Anna Nichole Smith (my blog link).
Not everyone brought an old car. Some are just a little old, here '65 Ford Mustang, '74 Ford Mustang II (mine), '57 Ford T-Bird, and then this newer runt of another make.
Ponies but not Mustangs
The ride home was nice, I took the quicker way back. It was still fairly 'scenic.' My 1974 Mustang II, it was my Mom's until she passed away in 1999. I was the original owner, then I sold it to Mom two weeks later. Before that it was a program car rented by a Ford Motor Company employee from Ford. I worked for Ford also but did not have a lease car.
There was a better and faster way home. This road led to the Interstate.
Mrs. Jim could not come, she is coming tomorrow for our Christmas lunch at another farm (the one with the cow pies).
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No, this isn't Mrs. Jim. This is the hostess of our lunch, she and her husband own the little farm. But she wouldn't stand still for me to take her picture. I had to hold her down so she wouldn't run from the camera again.
The old cars are from left to right, 1941 Ford Fordor, 1935 Ford Coupe, 1940 Mercury Convertible, 1947 Ford Club Coupe, (red) 1946 Ford Tudor, and a (green) 1951 Mercury Fordor. On the trailer is a just purchased 1941 Ford 3/4 Ton Pickup.
These bricks don't say "Mexico," they say "Mexia." Mexia is a nice fun little town between Houston and Dallas. They used to have a brick factory making red bricks.
One famous person grew up in Mexia, Anna Nichole Smith (my blog link).
Not everyone brought an old car. Some are just a little old, here '65 Ford Mustang, '74 Ford Mustang II (mine), '57 Ford T-Bird, and then this newer runt of another make.
Ponies but not Mustangs
The ride home was nice, I took the quicker way back. It was still fairly 'scenic.' My 1974 Mustang II, it was my Mom's until she passed away in 1999. I was the original owner, then I sold it to Mom two weeks later. Before that it was a program car rented by a Ford Motor Company employee from Ford. I worked for Ford also but did not have a lease car.
There was a better and faster way home. This road led to the Interstate.
Labels: Car Reading, Cars, Friends, Jim Does, Mustang, Texas, Views
Sunday, September 28, 2008
The secret to a lower golf score
is to play fewer holes.
(Alieve TV commercial)
I press toward the mark for the prize of
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. **
is to play fewer holes.
(Alieve TV commercial)
I press toward the mark for the prize of
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. **
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Photos taken at the The Westin Turnberry Resort, Scotland (link)
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Photos taken at the The Westin Turnberry Resort, Scotland (link)
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12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Philippians 3:12-15 (NIV)
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Philippians 3:12-15 (NIV)
Labels: Bible, Golf course, Holiday Posts, Jim Does, Scotland, Travel, Views
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
"Follow the Yellow Brick Road"
Our recent visit to The Antique Rose Emporium (link) with the Montgomery County Early Ford V8 Club.
The Antique Rose Emporium has some wonderful landscaping. They specialize in antique roses. We took a lot of pictures, everyone did. I especially liked these.
The Antique Rose Emporium has some wonderful landscaping. They specialize in antique roses. We took a lot of pictures, everyone did. I especially liked these.
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Looks like someone was left behind.
Labels: Antiques, Cars, Humor, Jim's Life, Stories, Travel, Views
