Friday, January 14, 2022
Letter "B" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
A Lagniappe: "B" is also for Blue. I found this little antique toy pedal car in a friend's museum. The friend owns a Ford dealership so this toy car is special to him.The car is a blue toy 1940 Ford Pickup. I am sure that it has been restored and probably painted at that time to this very blue blue color.
1940 Fords did come in a blue but these were much darker.
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
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- 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).
Labels: Reflections, Toys, Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, February 12, 2021
Letter "G" -- Weekend Roundup and Reflections
The sixth issue this week of my 2021 WEEKEND ROUNDUP postings and ... (THE SEVENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES) - the Letter "G" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "G"; (B) "Green" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe.
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(E.1) A Lagniappe first: Granddaughter in Green and Mrs. Jim fitting nicely in the Mrs.'s "Big Chair".
(A) Starts with the Letter "G": Golf starts with "G". Every late winter, early February for our part of Texas, we start talking about playing Golf again. It's been five years since we moved away from our Golf Course home and we haven't played since.
But we probably won't play at the course above because it is in Phoenix, Arizona.
Mom didn't trust the automatic transmission in the car Dad had purchased as she couldn't tell what gear it was in and was afraid it might be choosing the wrong gear at times. This Mustang II and a hot rod Ford Torino were the only Fords that year with standard transmission. She said, "Yes, get it for me" of the little down-sized Mustang. That was the first year of downsizing for it. It was built on a Ford Pinto chassis (we had a yellow 1972 model Pinto for our driver car--it was lost in our 1979 flood along with two other cars and a motorcycle.). (Copied from my 2017 post, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2017/09/fridays-hunt-v411-k-is-for.html )
(B) "Green" (Tom's Choice): You may have seen my Green 1974 Mustang II Ghia, I was the original owner, buying it as a Ford employee lease car turn in. I bought it for my mom and she and my father immediately (two weeks later) came to Texas after it.
Mom died in 1999 and when Dad also died in 2007 the little Mustang II was returned to me. I promptly drove it back to Texas. It has a V6 engine, air conditioning, a manual opening top, and an eight track AM-FM radio.
Oh yes, original paint, new Whitehall tires, always was garaged, not driven in snow, and has 67,xxx miles mostly driven by a little old lady (a LOL).
(C) A Favorite: A giant's sling shot ready tree trunk. It is outside one of the Houston Methodist West facility where I got my second COVID-19 vaccine jab Tuesday this week. Down the road a few blocks yesterday I had cataract surgery.
(D) Reflections: Hard to tell but the Grass was Green around the pond in the background. This was taken last week during our walk, here was across the road from our home.
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(2) What is your favorite Word starting with "G"? Mine today will be "Grandkids". We have six grandchildren, four greatgrandmom, and two great-greats so far.
(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:
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- 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).
Labels: Birds, Cars, Family, Golf, Grandchildren, Mustang, Reflections, tree(s), Walk pictures, Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, November 29, 2019
The Letter "V" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
(THE TWENTY-SECOND LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "V" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "V"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "V" for '"V"ertical' (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections.
(A) Starts with the Letter "V": Valencia Oranges
(B) A Favorite: Candy for my Sweet Tooth, Christmas is approaching.
Where we live now according to deed restrictions I cannot erect any antenna attached to our property. This is hard on Ham Radio Operators (Amateur Radio), hard for making emergency communications also.
(D) Reflections: Mrs. Jim and I were outside the Pro Shop watching our granddaughter practice her putting in preparation for another Sunday afternoon kid's golf game. I just happened to look into the shop window and saw this pretty golf course being Reflected.
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My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. What has been your experience with Citrus Fruit? I cannot eat grapefruit because they interfere with taking Statins for my HIGH cholesterol situation..
2. What are your tastes in Candy? I like Chocolate the best..
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "V" word? "Victory", I like to win..
2. What are your experiences with Ham Radio Operators?" I am a Ham Radio Operator with an "Extra Class License." That is the highest class and had the most operating privileges', such as frequencies, power, ands modes of operation (example, Morse Code only on certain bands for some lower class ones.) Each succeeding higher class, four common ones, have harder tests than the one below. I started with the "Novice Class" which no longer exists back in 1960.
How to become a Ham Radio Operator link.
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The fine print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]- 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/ (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
Labels: Food, Golf course, Jim's Life, Reflections, Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, November 22, 2019
The Letter "U" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
(THE TWENTY-FIRST LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "U" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "U"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "U" for '"U"niform' (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections.
(A) Starts with the Letter "U": Ugli Fruit starts with "U". I've never seen one but they are supposed to be good eating. Read all about it here for google finds. Photo here.
And beware of Citrus Allergies (link)
(B) A Favorite: The start of a nice Chinese Restaurant Dinner, Hot and Sour Soup and, I call it, a Chinese Fried Cheese Puff.
(C) "U" for '"U"niform' (Tom's choice): The U.S. Army combat Uniform has gone Unisex (source ).
(D) Reflections: I like this Reflection but I'm not exactly what it is, I think perhaps taken from upstairs out to the parking lot at our church.
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My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. What has been your experience with Weird Fruit? I generally don't eat anything I don't know. I might taste it if it sounds good.
2. What are your tastes in Chinese Food? I like Sushi if the stuff in it is cooked. Nothing raw except vegetables if I can help it.
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "U" word? Unless.
2. What is your take on Wearing Army Clothes as a Civilian? I wish I had my old Field Jacket, I finagled a brand new one just before my discharge. But it went the way of "Lost Things."
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The fine print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]- 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/ (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
Labels: Eating, Food, Humor(?), Reflections, Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, November 15, 2019
The Letter "T" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
Our Oranges from the backyard tree had 87 edible oranges. Some were fairly ripe and some needed more time to ripen. earlier(1) (2)
We went ahead and picked everything, all 87 before the freeze came earlier this week (it is debatable if they would have been okay, the temp only got down to 29 F). We had eaten a very few before now and then and some also fell off that we discarded.
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The 46th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
(THE TWENTIETH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "T" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "T"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "T" for '"T"wo' (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections
(A) Starts with "T": "Tomatoes" starts with "T". On the above right, we in the South love our "Green Tomatoesl".
At right, seems leaving stems on the tomatoes makes them cheaper?
(B) A Favorite: This cast iron old 1920's Taxi Cab is small, about Tootsi Car size, but one of my favorites. I also have a 1:18 scale newer model, 1938 or so, cab that my oldest son gave me.
My sister Lois gave me this one. It had a note saying that Antiques Road Show had valued it in the lower $1000's. When I was small I had a 1:18 scale model Toy cast ironTaxi Cab but it was left outside and then it was run over by a tractor. Ruined.
(I have always thought the note was a joke. Lois and I have never talked about that, it was rolled up inside and I didn't notice it when she gave it to me.)
(C) "T" for '"T"wo' (Tom's choice): Two Riders is the rule for golf carts. KP, our youngest, ten years, granddaughter, played in a Golf Tournament last Sunday afternoon.
Here are Thirteen Golf Carts headed out for the kid's first Tee Boxes. Many of the carts were carrying three, two parents and a kid . At right is KP sizing up her putt.
(D) Reflections: Here is a picture of our kitchen, Reflections on the cabinets and around.
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My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. What has been your experience with Tomatoes? My colonoscopy doctor said to not eat seeds. So I take every one of them out of my tomatoes that I love out before I eat.
2. What do you grow with your Green or not-so Green Thumb? I am growing an Aloe Vera plant that is around fifty years old. My MIL had always kept it in her kitchen window above the sink.
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "T" word? Tomahawk is my favorite "T" word because I respect the American Indians very much.
2. What is your take on Oranges? I like my Oranges by the slice but juice is okay.
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The fine print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]- 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/ (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
Labels: Flowers-buds-plants, Golf, Golf course, Reflections, Toys, Weekend Roundup 04
Friday, November 08, 2019
The Letter "S" ~~ Weekend Roundup
(THE NINETEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "S" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "S"; (B) A Favorite;
(C) "S" for '"S"ingle' (Tom's choice); and (D) Reflections
(A.1) Starts with "S". Surprise starts with "S". When I was about a half mile down the road I was very surprised to see this fellow, a Gecko obviously from our front flower bed, clinging to the hood of my car.
It wouldn't get off until I finally shooed it off after I had stopped for gas. Far from its home it started a new one in a pretty flower bed beside the gas station.
The difference between Geckos and Salamanders (link, click here)
 Texas Gecko |
(A.2) Starts with "S". Strawberry starts with "S". I like my Strawberries best sliced and in it's own juice, started flowing with a bit of sugar, over Blue Bell Lite Homemade Vanilla ice cream. Next best to me is
Strawberry Preserves spread over a slice of a warm from the oven homemade flour biscuit.
(B) A Favorite: The letter opener tells it all. This kind of Navy Seals is in the 'unsealing business.'
It was in the goodie bag that my SIL received at a golf tournament. He tied for First place but was awarded the trophy for Second place as he lost to the other fellow in a "score card playoff."
(C) "S" for '"S"ingle' (Tom's choice): Single bananas at the grocery store produce isle.
My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you'd like):
1. What has been your experience with Geckos? .We have been overrun by them. Don't leave a door open for long or some will come inside.
2. What do you use to open letters? I use an old thing butcher knife that Mrs. Jim was throwing away. It has a wooden handle, real wood.
Bonus Questions:
1. What is your favorite "S" word? Samballat, he was a rabble rouser in the Bible when they were trying to rebuild the walls that had been destroyed. (click here, Reference link)
2. What is your take on Strawberries? I like my Stawberries out of the patch better than the two I wrote about above.
The fine print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]- 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/ (click here) for his Reflections Photos.
- Photos and Text Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
Labels: Driving Pictures, Food, Weekend Roundup 04
