Saturday, February 20, 2021
Letter "H" -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections
Day after, out our front window
We are safe and warm now. Things got pretty cold here, even in the house our nose and ears got cold. We lost power, heat, and water here for 48 hours straight and then on and off for a couple of more days.
Casualties here in Katy, Texas, are that our older daughter slipped on ice and broke her hip (she is mended now and is home from the hospital now) and our pool pump and pipes suffered.
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(THE EIGHTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES) - the Letter "H" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "H"; (B) "Heavy" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
(B) "Heavy" (Tom's Choice): Doing some Heavy Thinking. She had spent a half day at the Houston Zoo. Sort of tired, now mulling over all the new and strange things she had seen. Age one and a half, our youngest grandchild. She is eleven now.
from my "Jim1Jim1" YouTube collection,
(A) Starts with the Letter "H": Happy starts with "H". Adi, our Beagle dog, was always happy, I never saw her frown. As a Pet Therapy partner with me, she loved visiting with the Alzheimer residents at our local assisted living home.
Above is a YouTube recording I made of her welcoming her true owner, our younger daughter who lives in Houston, on a visit with Adi and us.
Our Houston Zoo Day, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2018/02/weekend-roundup-07-18-for-letter-g.html
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(C) A Favorite: Above is Adi after working with the Assisted Living Home residents. Adi died in 2012 at age 16.
(D) Reflections: From near the entrance to the Houston Zoo. In the center of the photo is our Youngest Granddaughter at about a year and a half. [click on the picture for larger viewing. If a + shows on your cursor click again for larger still]
(E) A Lagniappe. Three Happy Guys and a not so Happy Lady. They are a part of a toy village that our younger daughter had when little. They are about 40 years old.
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Bonus Questions:
(1) Tell about your experience with going to a Zoo. Who all was with you? We used to go to the zoo a lot when it was free. Now ticket prices are outrageous.
(2) What is your favorite Word starting with "H"? Mine today will be "Happy". I've used it a lot here today. An old saying, "If the wife isn't happy then nobody is."
(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/
Cars I have owned (32 including the Golf Car) http://jimmiehov3.blogspot.com/2021/01/cars-i-have-owned-toy-cars-not-listed.html
Adi Pictures and Information. Click here, Link to Adi's Meme Adi died in 2012.
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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 linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Grandchildren, Reflections, Toys, Weekend Roundup 02, YouTube
Friday, December 28, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 26 -18(b) (for letter "Z") and Reflection(s) too
The 52nd issue of Weekend Roundup for this year..:
A Word with a "Z";
A Favorite;
"ZZZ" as in sleepy; and
Reflection(s):
(Picture to the right is of a Zippy Fairy riding down from the furniture top on a Zip Line.)
(click picture for a larger size) ....
(note the reflection in the window)
(1.b) A Word with two "Z's": Pizza has two "Z's".
(1.c) Another Word with a "Z": Mazada has a "Z", this car also has a dent in the rear.
(1.d) Then in our part of Texas, the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, there's always the mudder who go mudding in the rice fields and bogs. This Chevy Z-71 is mud from top to bottom.
(2) A Favorite: I love to find old Zombie Trees along the roadside. Here my new to me Favorite was at our old haunt, Montgomery. Texas.
(3) "ZZZ" as in sleepy: While "the kid", our youngest of the six, was tucked away getting her "Z's" her fairy friend was riding the Zip Line in her dining room.
It just so happened that the mechanism got stuck and she had to spend the rest of her morning waiting for help. That was good for me. I could go by and snap a picture of the fairy in dress.
(4) Reflection(s): Our Katy Mills Mall, near the North exit. I can't remember exactly what I was taking, but I was impressed with the reflections in the many windows involved. Everything, including the floor seemed to reflect something it was seeing.
(Also note the reflection in the window of our life boat across from my first title, below the first set of South Sea pictures above.)
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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, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
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Labels: 2016 South America, Cars, Eating, Reflections, Travel, tree(s), Weekend Roundup 02
Friday, December 21, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 25 -18(b) (for letter "Y") and Reflection(s) too
The 51st issue of Weekend Roundup for this year..:
1. A Word with a "Y". 'Hilly' has a "Y", here is a town on a hill.
2. A Favorite.
3. "Y"ellow.
4. Reflection(s).
1. A Word with a "Y": The Word, Hilly, has a "Y". See too in the foreground a large tractor trailer with a Yellow Cabbed tractor truck.
2. A Favorite: A Yellow School Bus in the FOG waiting for traffic.
3. "Y"ellow: In Macy's day before we found all these Mixers, a couple were Yellow.
A Yellow Breasted Partridge My Egg McMuffin has a Yellow Yolk
and three Yellow Chickens. and Cheese with a thin sausage patty.
Red elves always carry a Yellow Pencil.
They were taught that way in school.
4. Reflection(s): Many boats in the Harbor, all leaving their reflection.
5. "X" shaped object that I couldn't find for an "X" Object last week. This one was hanging from the ceiling on the second floor of our local Macy store just beyond the top of the escalator.
1. A Word with a "Y". 'Hilly' has a "Y", here is a town on a hill.
2. A Favorite.
3. "Y"ellow.
4. Reflection(s).
1. A Word with a "Y": The Word, Hilly, has a "Y". See too in the foreground a large tractor trailer with a Yellow Cabbed tractor truck.
2. A Favorite: A Yellow School Bus in the FOG waiting for traffic.
3. "Y"ellow: In Macy's day before we found all these Mixers, a couple were Yellow.
A Yellow Breasted Partridge My Egg McMuffin has a Yellow Yolk
and three Yellow Chickens. and Cheese with a thin sausage patty.
Red elves always carry a Yellow Pencil.
They were taught that way in school.
4. Reflection(s): Many boats in the Harbor, all leaving their reflection.
5. "X" shaped object that I couldn't find for an "X" Object last week. This one was hanging from the ceiling on the second floor of our local Macy store just beyond the top of the escalator.
_ _ _ _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, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
- 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.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
Labels: Houston, School, Shopping, Travel, Weekend Roundup 02
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 24 -18(b) (for letter "X")
The 50th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year..:
1. A Word with an "X."
2. A Favorite.
3. Looks like "X."
4. Reflection(s).
1. A Word with an "X." Lexus has an "X" in it. This picture of the red Lexus also has two Reflections, one of us in the back of the Lexus and the other in the Rear View Mirror of our car.
2. A Favorite. This little BMW was in the Mall where we Xmas Shopped today. It is a 231 something. Perfect for teens or retired people who won't be going far away from home. In a few years I may look for a Certified Used BMW like this.
3. Looks like "X". TBD here
4. Reflection(s): This was me , a Selfie(??), in the side of the Red Lexus parked at the Library yesterday. Not very good, it would have been better had I had the top down on my old 1998 Mustang GT Convertible.
1. A Word with an "X."
2. A Favorite.
3. Looks like "X."
4. Reflection(s).
1. A Word with an "X." Lexus has an "X" in it. This picture of the red Lexus also has two Reflections, one of us in the back of the Lexus and the other in the Rear View Mirror of our car.
2. A Favorite. This little BMW was in the Mall where we Xmas Shopped today. It is a 231 something. Perfect for teens or retired people who won't be going far away from home. In a few years I may look for a Certified Used BMW like this.
3. Looks like "X". TBD here
4. Reflection(s): This was me , a Selfie(??), in the side of the Red Lexus parked at the Library yesterday. Not very good, it would have been better had I had the top down on my old 1998 Mustang GT Convertible.
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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, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
- 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.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
Labels: Cars, Reflections, Weekend Roundup 02
Friday, December 07, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 23 -18(b) (for letter "W")
The 49th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year..
The week's prompts:
(1) Starts with "W"; (2) A Favorite; (3) Weather; and (4) Reflections
(1) Starts with "W": What starts with "W". So does Who. And so What is this and Who will be eating it? It is Friday Night Supper at Jim's house and Mrs. Jim will have Popcorn. I will be eating Sardines and Crackers.
A while later I also had a Plum, Mrs. Jim declined one of those.
(2) A Favorite (and a Reflection): We were leaving the Houston (Texas) Medical Center for home. In rush hour traffic we made it back in a little over a half hour by taking the Westpark Tollway.
The above picture doesn't do justice to the Sunset, it was gorgeous. I chose it over the smaller one because it shows some of the city lights in the distance. Note the Reflection of the Sunset and of the tail lights of the cars ahead. Mrs. Jim was glad when I put the camera back into the armrest niche. [click on either picture for a larger size]
(3) Weather: Garth Brooks (CW male singer) played to 84,000 folk in the Notre Dame (college) stadium but it rained and snowed and the wind blew. It was sold out for the Saturday night performance, December 1. I watched it tonight, Sunday the 2nd in my warm living room on CBS TV. As reported on the "Indy Star" newspaper, https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/10/21/garth-brooks-navigates-harsh-weather-tv-demands-notre-dame-stadium/1647096002/
(4) Reflections (see also the one on the hood of the car I was driving into the Sunset above): The photo on the left is of the casket detail waiting by the casket car of the train would carry the body of President George H W Bush up to College Station for burial. The parking lot beside the rail car was wet as it was raining slightly.
On the right is shown the casket inside the casket car through the newly installed Plexiglas window. Some of our friends found places beside the tracks north of town (Houston) to wave to the train as it passed. We had considered doing that but decided that the wet would not be good for Mrs. Jim''s foot which was still recovering from her bunion surgery [these pictures were taken off our TV).
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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, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
The week's prompts:
(1) Starts with "W"; (2) A Favorite; (3) Weather; and (4) Reflections
(1) Starts with "W": What starts with "W". So does Who. And so What is this and Who will be eating it? It is Friday Night Supper at Jim's house and Mrs. Jim will have Popcorn. I will be eating Sardines and Crackers.
A while later I also had a Plum, Mrs. Jim declined one of those.
(2) A Favorite (and a Reflection): We were leaving the Houston (Texas) Medical Center for home. In rush hour traffic we made it back in a little over a half hour by taking the Westpark Tollway.
(3) Weather: Garth Brooks (CW male singer) played to 84,000 folk in the Notre Dame (college) stadium but it rained and snowed and the wind blew. It was sold out for the Saturday night performance, December 1. I watched it tonight, Sunday the 2nd in my warm living room on CBS TV. As reported on the "Indy Star" newspaper, https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/10/21/garth-brooks-navigates-harsh-weather-tv-demands-notre-dame-stadium/1647096002/
(4) Reflections (see also the one on the hood of the car I was driving into the Sunset above): The photo on the left is of the casket detail waiting by the casket car of the train would carry the body of President George H W Bush up to College Station for burial. The parking lot beside the rail car was wet as it was raining slightly.
On the right is shown the casket inside the casket car through the newly installed Plexiglas window. Some of our friends found places beside the tracks north of town (Houston) to wave to the train as it passed. We had considered doing that but decided that the wet would not be good for Mrs. Jim''s foot which was still recovering from her bunion surgery [these pictures were taken off our TV).
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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, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
Labels: Driving Pictures, Eating, Food, Houston, Reflections, TV, Weather, Weekend Roundup 02
Friday, November 30, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 22 -18(b) (for letter "V")
The 48th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year..
The week's prompts: (1) Starts with "V"; (2) A Favorite; (3) Vast
(1) Starts with "V": Vacation starts with "V". When I was teaching I would say that the best part of teaching was Vacation. First Summer Vacation, then Christmas Break, Spring Break, followed by the U.S. Postal Holidays.
The picture above is of Mrs. Jim and another lady finishing up our room for Third Grade Vacation Bible School, aka "VBS". We had five ladies, two teenage boys, a teen girl, and me for as leaders for four mornings. Our class had 21 kids, some classes had more or less. They were lettered from "A" to "J", if they averaged 21 per class that would be 210 third graders enrolled.
The Yellow Things on the wall are paper plates representing windows on our Pirate Ship (the theme of the VBS this year). Every plate had a child or teacher's picture, as if looking out the boat. My picture is at right [click any for larger size].
Our church is the 1463 Campus of the Second Baptist Church of Houston, Texas. We have six campuses plus a TV Campus.
(2) A Favorite:
I call this Very Pretty picture "Sunrise on the Prairie." It is a drawing by one of our third grade girls. Picasso, eat your heart out. You can give it a name, please. After naming it you can highlight the area between my apostrophes to see my thoughts. It is not yet a final decision.
I may frame a larger size picture for my study. It would be a nice remembrance of VBS, perhaps also Mrs. Jim's and my yellow paper plates with our pictures still glued in.
(3) Vast: This View taken tonight from the bow of the Sun Princess shows the Vastness of the Tasman Sea.
We sailed this sea in January, 2014, going to Sydney, Australia, via Wellborn after visiting Tasmania. Our cruise started in Auckland, New Zealand, and visited on the Eastern Shore, then headed to Tasmania. [ https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=Kangaroo The first picture should be of Mrs. Jim feeding a Kangaroo. ]
You can see the view by the bridge camera of each Princess ship by clicking here, https://www.princess.com/bridgecams/?shipCode=pa
The week's prompts: (1) Starts with "V"; (2) A Favorite; (3) Vast
The picture above is of Mrs. Jim and another lady finishing up our room for Third Grade Vacation Bible School, aka "VBS". We had five ladies, two teenage boys, a teen girl, and me for as leaders for four mornings. Our class had 21 kids, some classes had more or less. They were lettered from "A" to "J", if they averaged 21 per class that would be 210 third graders enrolled.
The Yellow Things on the wall are paper plates representing windows on our Pirate Ship (the theme of the VBS this year). Every plate had a child or teacher's picture, as if looking out the boat. My picture is at right [click any for larger size].
Our church is the 1463 Campus of the Second Baptist Church of Houston, Texas. We have six campuses plus a TV Campus.
I call this Very Pretty picture "Sunrise on the Prairie." It is a drawing by one of our third grade girls. Picasso, eat your heart out. You can give it a name, please. After naming it you can highlight the area between my apostrophes to see my thoughts. It is not yet a final decision.
I may frame a larger size picture for my study. It would be a nice remembrance of VBS, perhaps also Mrs. Jim's and my yellow paper plates with our pictures still glued in.
We sailed this sea in January, 2014, going to Sydney, Australia, via Wellborn after visiting Tasmania. Our cruise started in Auckland, New Zealand, and visited on the Eastern Shore, then headed to Tasmania. [ https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=Kangaroo The first picture should be of Mrs. Jim feeding a Kangaroo. ]
You can see the view by the bridge camera of each Princess ship by clicking here, https://www.princess.com/bridgecams/?shipCode=pa
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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, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
- 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.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
Labels: Aus-NZ, Church, Travel 8, Weekend Roundup 02
Friday, November 23, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 21-18(b) (for letter "U")
The 46th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year..
The week's prompts:
(1) Starts with "U"; (2) A Favorite; (3) Up
[click on picture for larger view]
(1) Starts with "U": Underwood Brand -- Bottle of wine in a box
(2) A Favorite: Christmas preparations -- Santa dispersing his giant workforce, here Store Santa Helpers being driven to work on a flatbed
(3) Up: Up, up in the sky so high -- full moon over out backyard
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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, http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- Click on any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
Labels: Holiday Posts, Toys, Weather, Weekend Roundup 02
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