Sunday, May 28, 2006
Who is Jim Bunch?
Google Search (not the blog one) for Jim Bunch has put my Jim's Little Blog fourth of a long list of Google search returns. Try it!
Site Meter tells me when the visits happen, more than once a day.
Now I'll get a bunch more hits from search returns for Jim's Little Blog. I really think my site is more interesting than any of these others, but I'm not the person they started looking for. Some hang around to read, others click away back to Google.
Just who is this Jim Bunch? Not me, but I'll just put those first four on one page here, with my Number Four first, maybe you'll get to liking my site.
This was a part of my post for May 18, 2006:
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Imagine being Number 4 on a Google search (of Jim Bunch) out of "Results 1 - 10 of about 21,800,000 for Jim Bunch. (0.15 seconds)."
JUST FOR EATING AND TELLING ABOUT IT!
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1. About Jim Bunch site at http://www.jimbunch.com/about.html says:
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COACH AND SPEAKER"
"Full Name:
Mr. Jim Bunch
Date Registered: 05/17/2005
Company: COMAR, Inc.
Company Incorporated in West Virginia: Yes
Title/Position: COO of Health Care Division
Business Description: Business DescriptionMarketing/Publishing West Virginia Executive magazine"
Monday, January 14, 2008
A doggoned googleganger! A Jim Bunch interferance has surfaced!
Life can be the pits, can't it! Now this.
My Jim Bunch has honest to goodness googlegangers!
"Who, what, and where," you should ask.
Who: (who are the googlegangers?) Jim Bunch, that's who. Not one, but several. They can be pests but I suppose we should try to co-exist. That's the only Christian thing to do. The main three Jim B**ch's are detailed below:
1. The Jim Bunch Eats. (link) That's my eating group, consisting of my family and friends. Five of them are pictured above, with Mrs. Jim leading this pack.
Don't they look like they have just finished a hearty meal?
Yes, they did. Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class (it has over 120 members) small group ate yesterday in Jane and Dick's home. Nine of this Jim Bunch were there.
2. Think Rich Club members only for this one (link). Downside here is that I'm not a member and really don't want to be, so I don't know any more about this Jim B**ch.
I think he sells things, like books.
3. Then there's Jim B**ch of the Omidyar Network. (link) His activity has slowed down lately.
What: (what is a googleganger?)
A googleganger is another individual with the same name as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google yourself. Urban Dictionary definition link
Where: All over the Internet, that's where. Google Jim Bunch quickly. Lately this Number Two Jim B**ch has been showing up. I wonder how many books he sells?
Notes:
1. Doppleganger, Urban dictionary: A misspelling of the German, "doppelganger", roughly translates as "evil twin". (link)
2. Doppelgängeror: These guys look nothing like me, nobody would mistake us.
Wikipedia states "A doppelgängeror ... is the ghostly double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation. (link)
3. YouTube link to see the Jim Bunch eating.
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Don't you think my Jim Bunch Eating is the best, number one, numero uno?
Labels: Books, Church, Eating, Family, Friends, Humor, Jim Bunch, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim Does, Jim's Life, People, Status Report, YouTube
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
We say goodbye to Iowa. And goodbye to Jim and Lois. Next is hello to Nebraska. Then hello to Texas, our home sweet home
.Adi is posing with her aunt and uncle for a goodbye picture. We enjoyed staying with Lois and Jim (my sister and bro-in-law). You have seen most of our local tours.
I missed getting a picture for the Jim Bunch Eating again the night before we left. Jim grilled hamburgers and brats. I had one of each. Lois had made some nice cherry bars for dessert. Of course we had all the other goodies, like potato salad, beans, cottage cheese, and chips and pickles of all sorts.
You have already seen the Tekamah, Nebraska, evening. The Jim Bunch did eat there, all four "J" cousins. (link)
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Was Lois afraid Adi would fall off this rock? Both these pictures are taken with a partial view of their new home in Center Point, Iowa.
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On our last full day in Iowa, we visited the Amana Colonies again, at Amana, Iowa. We all voted (the three that got to vote, Adi couldn't, and Jim was nice and would go wherever we wanted) to do some antiquing.
The antique place would be Smokehouse Square Antiques showroom and sales. I enjoyed that almost as much as the ladies. No money was left at the store that day, but there were some desirables for each of us.
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After the antique shopping, we got an early start on lunch. Here are three of the four Jim Bunch Eats guys. The Ox Yoke Inn is Jim and Lois' fav. Lois and I had a plate of delicious ribs, Mrs. Jim had veal, and Jim (bro-in-law)had steak.
Our first course was cottage cheese and sauerkraut, complete with freshly baked bread. The entree was served with mashed potatoes with brown gravy and fresh corn, both served family style as was the previous cheese and kraut offering.
Dessert was pie, each of us had a different selection. Mrs. Jim had rhubarb, Jim (bro-in-law) had banana creme, Lois had lemon, and I had coconut creme. They were all excellent.
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After lunch, I went to the visitor center. It wasn't very exciting, but the climb to the top of the cupola had me puffing. The building had formerly been a granary.
The climb was well worth it, here is one of the pictures of the Amana Colonies I took from the windows up there. It wasn't raining, the picture was taken through a glass window its screen for the effects you see here.
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I was glad once more that I had gotten my worn-out foot toughened by walking around Europe this spring. The blocks were long and the temp was warm, in the mid 80s. This was taken from the corner across from the visitor center. The Ox Yoke is up the street on the left, beyond what you see.
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Now most guys get a little tired, emotionally, not physically, of all that shopping. Pretty soon one handicraft looks like another handicraft and we can't tell rhubarb wine from grape or gingham from suede.
There is a relief at Amana though. I don't remember this shop's name, its top floor, the attic, was turned into a farm room. They had sold out of John Deere "Bs" which was our first farm tractor in 1942. I have been looking for one; they show up on eBay, I just haven't bought one yet. (My last eBay purchase was a 1948 Ford Convertible, 1:18 scale.)
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You might think this was in the farm room but these toys are at Dad's nursing home. We stopped in to tell him goodbye. Lois had brought him some chocolate stars and we all indulged. Big Jim and Little Jim Bunch here eating another time, how about that?
Aren't those nice trucks? The Red Hat ladies and the Construction Guys (they gave Dad his hard hat)(July 24 posting) made toys for a fundraiser.
The residents helped too. The day before we had watched one of the men residents painting the trucks and the benches. He was doing a good job, I didn't know they would turn out this nice.
. Do you think Adi is sad because she is leaving Iowa?
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And now this from last night's Boston Legal:
"I have to represent him, I gave him my word."
"Oh please, we're lawyers" said Denny Crane to Alan Shore .
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Labels: Adi, Eating, Family, Feet, Foot, Humor, Jim Does, Toys, Travel
Friday, February 22, 2008
Magic Printing Machine -- Jim Bunch Eats
This is the magic machine that types large print. Did you ever know how it was done?
Get you an old typing machine and set it for font size 168. Then use the color tab and set letters to white and background to burnt red.
Use two fingers, one for each side of the keyboard and choose the letter or character you want to print.
Now, here is the tricky part. You can't just push that little button like you do on your lap top. Not the gentle stroking we have become accustomed to. No, you have to strike it rapidly and with some exertion. Briskly striking might be more understandable.
Here you see the finished product, my student learned well. She needs a reward. What say the Jim Bunch will eat?
[large picture] [super size]The Jim Bunch. From left to right, Karen, Billy, BP, and Mrs. Jim. I (Jim) was taking the picture. We were having our appetizers, waiting for our Tex Mex order to be prepared.
Labels: Eating, Family, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim's Life
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
We had a happy Sunday -- The Jim Bunch eats again, then we went to the City of Houston Herman Park for a while
[large picture] [super size]Son Tim e-mailed the Jim Bunch last week to have a get-together at Niko Niko's Greek Restaurant. Megan was coming home from Austin. She is graduating from the University of Texas this May with a Masters Degree in Accounting.
That is pretty good, she did it all in five years with extremely good grades. And never once did she change her major. [Her Grandpa Jim changed his three times at the University of Nebraska and three times at the University of Houston, just in getting his bachelor degree.]
At the end here, are Megan and her boy friend, James. We all like James.
[large picture] [super size]Here we have the Jim Bunch, mostly candid this time. Sorry guy, if you weren't looking at the camera.
Missing were grandkids, Tim and Renee (live out of town) and BP (she had other places to be), then kids Karen, Billy, Mitch, Carmen, and Mike. A couple of kids were working, three were playing golf.
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After lunch, Mrs. Jim and I drove over to the 445-acre (1.80 km²) Herman Park (link 01)(link 02).
Everyone is proud of the new Herman Park Train. We haven't ridden this one but sure did ride the other one, a lot. Kids and grandkids all liked it when they were young. Mrs. Jim and BP rode that old one just this winter.
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The Herman Park has a really nice Japanese Garden too! We didn't get to stay long there because it closes at 5:00 PM until summer time. (link)
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The bridge and pond above remind me of Monet's works at Giverny. Mrs. Jim and I want to go there before we get too old for things like that.
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That's General/President Sam Houston at the end of the reflection pool.
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We didn't rent a paddle boat but you do that.
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There is the Museum of Natural Science, the Cockrell Butterfly Center (link), a planetarium, and a very nice IMAX Theatre if you want to stay cool in the air conditioning.
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Walking to the Museum, we saw this orange flowering fruit tree in bloom (in the center of the picture).
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The steps here are in front of the Museum. They lead to a huge sun dial where there are always a bunch of kids playing something similar to hopscotch among the numbers.
What we didn't see were the 4500 animal Houston Zoo (at Herman Park)(you gotta see this link to the zoo and all other attractions at Herman Park, the Miller Outdoor Theatre, and the 18-hole Herman Park Golf Course (click here for a free round of golf).
All three of these are Houston Texas size, that means real big(!!). If you haven't been there, please visit the Wikipedia article, you will be impressed. Come visit us and I promise we can go there!
Labels: Eating, Family, Food, Golf course, Jim Bunch, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim Does, Jim's Life, Places, Sam Houston, Sunday, Texas, Things to know
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Eating with the Jim Bunch for a month
[Click on any picture for a large view, where available you can click the link for Jim's supper sized, super size if you'd rather.]
New Years Day
[click here super sized]New Years Day in the South means black eyed peas and cabbage. The peas are for wealth, the cabbage for health, during the next year and the future. And of course good Southern food is cushioned by made-from-scratch cornbread. The ham was from Thanksgiving day leftovers.
We don't believe in influencing luck by what we eat, but it is a Southern tradition we have followed for the 34 years we have been married.
Southern people eat black-eyed peas, most Northerners don't. When General Sherman went through the South burning everything, including the food supply, he didn't mess with the black-eyed peas. He thought they were food for the cattle, and his troops had already killed or eaten the cattle.
So, the people who survived boiled those beans and ate them. It was like they were rich, they had a lot of food. Only thing, it was all in the granary formerly food for the cattle.
I have no idea why they eat the cabbage, I'm sure it too was at some time they were lucky in health and had been eating cabbage.
[click here for super sized]For supper that night we would share this frozen Runza. It was the of last Runza's we brought back from Nebraska in early December.
[Runza information blog]
New Years Eve
[click here for super sized]Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class had their annual New Years Eve party at a member's new home. About half of the 120 or so were there. At that age a lot were baby sitting with the grandkids.
New Years Eve Day
[click here for super sized]We were eating 'light' to bone up our appetite for the New Years Eve party! These are all Thanksgiving leftovers except the banana and pineapple fruit salad. That pretty well cleaned up the left overs except for meat.
Texas Bowl Day at Reliant Stadium
[click here for super size]Before the game we visited the University of Houston Alumni tailgate area. Here we are eating a sausage tortilla. That was excellent, the guys got two links in theirs. BP, me, Karen, and Mrs. Jim were chomping down. Billy took our picture.
Right after I went looking for drinks. We all had water (bottled) and I had a 7 UP in as well. We had a hot dog and coke at the game later on.
Billy and I are alumni, Mrs. Jim was an adjunct field placement teacher for the School of Social Work. [Karen is Baylor, Mrs. Jim is LSU, Bailey is shopping around.] Anyway, the Houston Cougars didn't play good enough, TCU won by a touchdown. Not too bad, I guess, for playing without a coach.
We all enjoyed the Cougar Band playing at half-time. [click for super size]
Christmas Day
Karen, Billy, and BP came to eat with Mrs. Jim and me. I was taking the picture.
We had baked brie with crackers as appetizer. Mrs. Jim had cooked ham and roast beef, and she made dishes of green beans, mashed potatoes, beef gravy, sweet potatoes, made-from-scratch dinner rolls, a spinach and lettuce salad, and three kinds of pie. The pies were pecan, apple, and pumpkin.
Needless to say we had some leftovers.
Mrs. Jim's rule No. 01-112 says to take the Christmas tree down the day after New Year's. We did.
A couple of Saturday nights before Christmas we had our family Christmas gathering and dinner. Tim's friend, Terry, had all seventeen of us at her house.Here we have Mike's wife, Sharon, and Karen and Mrs. Jim.
Susie, Carmen, and Mitch having hors d'oeuvres.
The breakfast room and kitchen were favorite gathering places.
The big wedding
The reception was held here and in the colonial house across the driveway. The band was under this tent with us. Click here for the wedding post.
The snowy day in Tekamah, Nebraska
The Cliff Bunch and Jim Bunch both eat good! Click here for the blog story.
At the Blair (Nebraska) Bakery.
The last was the first in time for this series.
In the mornings we would have coffee and fresh baked rolls for breakfast at the bakery. That could get habit forming.
Just a small boast here, in the year 2007 I did not eat one single donut. We will see how it works in 2008, that was probably a silly thing, denying myself of the sweet goodies.
Labels: Eating, Family, Food, Friends, Holiday Posts, Humor, Jim Bunch, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim's Life, Status Report
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Jim Bunch Eats -- Ruby (Red) Tuesday -- at a zero-star restaurant
The RED LETTERS on that sign say "DOWN HOME COOKING."
The Jim Bunch went to eat in their old cars again last Thursday. We went to this little restaurant on US Hwy 190 out east of Huntsville, Texas, about eight miles.
You have to remember we are a Texas Bunch when you look at the pictures. Dress was "every day go to town" clothes.
The food was supposed to be good and people came all the way out from Huntsville to eat lunch. The place was crowded, but about a third were from our club. We had four of these long tables.
I said 'supposed to be good,' I really don't like brown gravy on my ribs. I am not sure they were even ribs as there weren't any rib bones. I had ribs with gravy (couldn't get them any other way), green beans, and cooked (still a little on the raw side) squash. And a piece of cornbread and a VERY SMALL side dish of raspberry cobbler for desert.
It wasn't the food that got the zero-star rating. The food was about a one and a half-star. It didn't make me sick but sure did fill me up, too full.
This was a (RED) sign to come. It says "Restrooms are out of order." Yet they were open and ready for use. There weren't any towels or T.P. I missed the sign and the tools and napkins to take in with me. I always wash, then when no towels I dry my hands on my jeans.
Uugh!
For sure a zero-star rating, nothing worked!
Some more of the Jim Bunch. Mrs. Jim couldn't come, she had a Canasta with the ladies thing on her schedule.
On the right are a few of the old Fords. More were on the side of the gravel parking lot. I took my '98 Mustang Convertible. I had the top down until after lunch. It got hot outside while we were inside.
Click the Ruby Tuesday button for Mary's Ruby Tuesday post list.Mary is in charge there, you can see more or post your own from there.
Labels: Cars, Driving Pictures, Eating, Jim Bunch Eats, Restroom Rating, Review, Ruby Tuesday, Star Awards
