JIM'S LITTLE BLOG

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I. A lot of people are talking about the weather (nobody does anything about it). Our Texas weather is a little different; though not in those temps you see below. They look pretty much like yours.

Mother Nature has a different plan for East Texas. The difference is that this will go on and on. On until sometime in September when we will have a Fall day or two interspersed. Gradually it will all be Fall with a couple of winter days mixed in once and a while.

We just stay hot all summer and there won't be any rain coming in from the north and west, not until September. There will be rain though.

In the summers our only rain is tropical rain. Last year parts of Texas did pretty good. It doesn't take a hurricane or even a tropical storm to get us some tropical rain.

Topical rain comes in when a tropical low (pressure) comes in from the Gulf. It turns counterclockwise and the east side brings moisture up from the warm Gulf. Sometimes so much rain falls that the area floods.

That little green blob out in the Gulf was a tropical rain. We had thunder, but no rain. It came close.

Most of those lows don't get north, but a few drift north and east. Then everyone has to watch out for our Gulf moisture falling, a lot sometimes, up and over there.

Dave Letterman said tonight on the Late Show that it was so hot that George W. Bush, while chomping on his baguette at the G8 Conference, told Al Roker to stop doing that (s**t bleeped out).

Today: Isolated T-storms High: 100°Low: 75°
Tuesday: Isolated T-storms High: 97°Low: 73°
Wednesday: PM T-storms High: 95°Low: 72°
Thursday: Isolated T-storms High: 91°Low: 72°
Friday: Isolated T-storms High: 92°Low: 72°
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II. The Pie Stuff (link)

It really wasn't a pie that Mrs. Jim made, it was a French Clafouti aux Cerises, or Cherry Custard Cake. The recipe was in one of her William Sanoma cookbooks.

She made the pie for her bridge group buds, the one of four including Mrs. Jim. They play once a week, everyone brings a sack lunch and the host makes dessert, drinks, and hors d'oeuvres.

What you saw was the left-over part that the ladies and I didn't eat for lunch. We had Blue Bell Vanilla ice cream every time we ate it.

The other pie was indeed a cow pie. It was huge and they were laying all around where we had our first Fourth of July party. I haven't blogged about that yet.

The host for it has some old Fords (a whole metal building garage overflows with them). He had invited his friends and our club for a Saturday night old fashioned Willie Nelson barbecue.

His cows were in several pastures, kept away from his yard area by cow barriers in the roads and lanes. This one was in the back, down by the bunk house. Bush Food+and+Drink Phil+Keoghan TV
He recently became single, but that didn't stop all his friends from coming. My guess would be around 300 or more guests. And he supplied all the meat, potato salad, slaw, and other barbecue fixings. Mrs. Jim brought some salad, others brought dessert.

That pie probably was dropped by one of his Texas Holsteins. (link1)(link2)

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III. Phil Keoghan is the host of my favorite TV program, The Amazing Race. He ends up in all kinds of places.

When you see him, what you see is what he is. He doesn't get much makeup at all, just a little powder on his face--that cuts down on the camera glare, we used it when we did instructional TV.

According to our Houston Chronicle TV news today (link), under the subtitle, Amazing travel solutions:

"he (Phil) said. "And I came up with a new way of dealing with the sweat problems I have. I found out that if you use sanitary pads under your armpits, they (do the job)."

Try it you [might] will like it.

# posted by Jim : 7/18/2006 12:10:00 AM  2 comments

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# posted by Jim : 6/02/2017 10:47:00 PM  9 comments

This guy says it all for today!




My Mustang does drink gasoline.






"On the Road Again!"

Our destination. Can you find our jail, the Hotel California San Francisco in Huehuetenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala? [Map courtesy of World 66 Travel Guide (link)]

We, Mrs. Jim is coming too, will be staying at the hotel when we aren't working at the orphanage. (link)

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A pumkin patch for you

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These are cow pumpkins. More jack-o-lanterns are made with cow pumpkins and are fed to cows. Cow pumpkins don't make very tasty pies either.

Pumpkin pie is my favorite vegetable!

Kroger also had a lot items for the trick-or-treaters.

Lest you think I'm partial to Kroger, here is what I found at WalMart. They are into the Halloween game too.

Bye for now. After I serve my time I will be blogging again. Try the first full week in November. I'll take pictures and surely will blog about it some.

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# posted by Jim : 10/30/2007 12:12:00 AM  15 comments

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Looking out from the porch are a couple of views, to the left first, then to the right, of the San Juan Mountains. The picture on the left is a deer we spotted on the road looking into the ranch. Every evening a group of deer would come down from the groves to graze. Also in the evenings, the doe would gather their young ones that had been 'parked' for the day. Isn't that cheap day care? And a nice and tender feast for a coyote! The elk would come in the early morning light to graze. During the day all wildlife was pretty scarce unless we went out to the hills and trees. But we didn't see anything but birds on our picnic hike to a neighboring ranch in the forest.

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You can see the 4-wheel vehicle we had traveled to Colorado in was no match for where we were headed. The original plan was to ride the horses over here. That was scrubbed because Roger had a lingering back ache. He thought the walk would do him and us good. We could have taken the Gator but those things are hard on backs as well. You can see the ladies (and Roger, well out of sight) had gotten ahead of me. I had stopped to take this cow pie picture. Please click on it to see how big, fresh, and juicy it was. We never did see the cows. Could it have been an elk pie?

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Finally we reached the top. Somehow I didn't get Mrs. Roger's picture taken. Perhaps she was pouring the wine and didn't want any kids to see that. Even Luke had a nice lunch, we all did. Didn't we have a wonderful view from this future home site! But better views were still to be had further up our hill. (All told, this was about a three mile hike.)

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. So off we went. Again, I was bringing up the rear, taking a record number of pictures. The wildflowers and crusted tree limbs were beautiful.

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You can see the Misses got tired trying to keep up with our leader, Roger. He was out of sight by this time. Probably he was already looking at his favorite view from his favorite vantage point.

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And off we go again, with Mrs. Jim in the new processional's lead. You can see Roger in the left picture sitting on the bench enjoying the sights. They all were up there already when I took the second picture, they sent Luke back to see if I needed his help. With Luke's help I made it. And shared the rest of my drinking water with him. Here Mrs. Jim and Luke are sitting on the bench also enjoying the hilltop view of the mountains across the hills and valley below.

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. It was worth the climb. We all rested and enjoyed. I think the ladies finished the wine while Luke and I finished my water.

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Roger asked me to take a picture of this 'worm fence.' Worm fence posts are not anchored in the ground. Instead the design of the fence with it zigzag pattern holds itself up. Also there are no nails or bolts used. Drilling into the rocky soil for fence posts can be done but it is really hard on the equipment. And because the rocks must be dodged, the fence won't be straight anyway. We approached the farmhouse. I didn't tell of some stops in between our hike and getting here, in general we were just enjoyed the aspens, hills, wildflowers, lakes, and the likes that Southwestern Colorado has to offer. Luke is happy, he can attain his position, on the lookout for deer, elk, coyotes, and birds. I suppose other creatures like chipmunks and ground squirrels would get his attention as well. All good things have to come to an end. Roger and Mrs. R. drove us to the airport in Montrose, the daily flight to Houston leaves at 11:30 AM and gets in at 2:30. We gained our lost hour back.

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. Doesn't Luke look sad to see us leave? He is a nice dog, he minds sooooo good. And he was really glad to see his long lost neighbors come for a visit with him. He showed off accordingly. Luke, we will see you in Montgomery come November. Of course, the Jim Bunch eats, wherever they may be, at home, in town, on the road, or like here, in the air.

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# posted by Jim : 7/30/2008 02:57:00 PM  10 comments