Friday, March 11, 2016
Friday’s Hunt v 1.11 -- "K" is for ...
Friday's Hunt for the week of March 11th: 1. Starts with "K"; 2. Week's Favorite; and 3. Flower
1. Starts with "K" -- Kick, KP, and Kansas.
1.a. I will choose KP first. KP is our youngest grandchild who lives about a half mile away since we moved. We walk with her to school, first grade when both her parents have to be at work fairly early.
KP also most always has us take her to gymnastic class because it is too early for either of the kids to take her. Then we eat at MacDonald's before we take her home. MacDonald's is close to our home also.
These pictures I took while we were shopping with her mom and Mrs. Jim. KP and I had found all we wanted to look at. She had found this stuffed dog and was sitting quietly in the chair until she saw me focusing the camera. I caught her just leaving, not posed.
You can see how ever many posts about KP as your browser will allow on one page by clicking on the "KP" link below.
The second picture she did let me take. I think that she wanted me to buy the dog for her but that didn't happen.
1. b. Kick is for the Eagles song, Kick 'em when theyre up, kick 'em when they're down. The real name is Dirty Laundry and is dedicated to Rupert Murdoch (Wikipedia Link). We don't watch the Fox TV channel except for the O'Reilly Factor and our local Fox Broadcast Channel 26 for non-network news.
2. Week's Favorite was our Sunday church service for Go Texan to help celebrate the beginning of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. We were supposed to dress Western, mine would have been jeans and a golf shirt, not really western. Mrs. Jim did dress Western.
The choir and singers and players were dressed very nicely. We had guitars, a harmonica (mouth harp), fiddles, a banjo, and a steel guitar besides the keyboard.
3.a. Flower -- I will have a bunch of flowers. The were Valentine Flowers waiting to be sold at a local Kroger store. Some Kroger stores have tents outside, they are good and affordable place to buy plants and flowers.
My Valentine doesn't get flowers, she gets a Valentine Card and a Box of Whitman Sampler candy. Every year for 43 years, I don't think we want to change now.
Besides, a Sunday school teacher, the preacher's wife, once told our class, "Candy's dandy but liquor is quicker." I think she wished she hadn't said that, we had no discussion on that remark. But I won't ever forget it, Bless her.
3.b. Flower - a Confederate Rose
In October 2013 we visited some cousins in Louisiana. One was Dorothy who moved from Houston.
One gave us this flower from her bush. She calls it a Confederate Rose. Mary took some blooms and also a couple of cuttings.
You may know more about Confederate Roses than they do. I don't think they are real roses. (Wikipedia says, "Hibiscus mutabilis, also known as the Confederate rose or the cotton rosemallow, is a plant noted for its flowers."
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The Fine Print:
- Teresa of Eden Hills is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. She has three alternatives for us to post about but this one, Alphabet series, will be the one I will try to follow and post about. - Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm, so you have plenty of time to enter."
- The Mr. Linky address here has a list of others who are participating if you would to read what these folk are doing for the Friday post
1.a. I will choose KP first. KP is our youngest grandchild who lives about a half mile away since we moved. We walk with her to school, first grade when both her parents have to be at work fairly early.
KP also most always has us take her to gymnastic class because it is too early for either of the kids to take her. Then we eat at MacDonald's before we take her home. MacDonald's is close to our home also.
You can see how ever many posts about KP as your browser will allow on one page by clicking on the "KP" link below.
The second picture she did let me take. I think that she wanted me to buy the dog for her but that didn't happen.
1. b. Kick is for the Eagles song, Kick 'em when theyre up, kick 'em when they're down. The real name is Dirty Laundry and is dedicated to Rupert Murdoch (Wikipedia Link). We don't watch the Fox TV channel except for the O'Reilly Factor and our local Fox Broadcast Channel 26 for non-network news.
The choir and singers and players were dressed very nicely. We had guitars, a harmonica (mouth harp), fiddles, a banjo, and a steel guitar besides the keyboard.
[click on map for larger view]
For perspective, the blue line from our house to our church is 1.5 miles. The green area on the map is the walking trail and green belt. Google says it is a three minute drive to church, a 28 minute walk.
3.a. Flower -- I will have a bunch of flowers. The were Valentine Flowers waiting to be sold at a local Kroger store. Some Kroger stores have tents outside, they are good and affordable place to buy plants and flowers.
Besides, a Sunday school teacher, the preacher's wife, once told our class, "Candy's dandy but liquor is quicker." I think she wished she hadn't said that, we had no discussion on that remark. But I won't ever forget it, Bless her.
3.b. Flower - a Confederate Rose
In October 2013 we visited some cousins in Louisiana. One was Dorothy who moved from Houston.One gave us this flower from her bush. She calls it a Confederate Rose. Mary took some blooms and also a couple of cuttings.
You may know more about Confederate Roses than they do. I don't think they are real roses. (Wikipedia says, "Hibiscus mutabilis, also known as the Confederate rose or the cotton rosemallow, is a plant noted for its flowers."
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The Fine Print:
- Teresa of Eden Hills is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. She has three alternatives for us to post about but this one, Alphabet series, will be the one I will try to follow and post about. - Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm, so you have plenty of time to enter."
- The Mr. Linky address here has a list of others who are participating if you would to read what these folk are doing for the Friday post
Labels: Church, Family, Flowers-buds-plants, Friday’s Hunt 2016, KP, Songs
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Things in My Yard -- Things in a Row -- Two Questions -- Please Identify
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These mushrooms came up in a crooked ROW after a nice rain. I tease Mrs. Jim about eating them but of course she says NO. Then I suggest making Tea from them. That doesn't work with her either.
Here they are up close. If anyone knows about eating these please let me know. Click on the picture to make them bigger.
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Adi (Adi in her younger day with Harry Husker picture) doesn't mind posing with them. But notice that she likes me to take profile shots of her. She is proud of her Beagle form.
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These flowers come from bulbs every spring. We don't know what they are but Mrs. Jim says that they have the word, "star," in their name.
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Click on them, you may know their name for us.
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She was given a plant several years ago and it just wasn't one to keep in our house forever. So she, we, or I, planted it in our flower bed on the right hand proper line.
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Every year there are more and the ROW gets longer and thicker. Growing in with these flowers are a lot of wild black berry vines. A friend cleared out most of them from this bed but skipped where the flowers are.
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When the flowers go away then we only see these large leaves. They grow to three to five feet tall! I don't know if bulbs are then when the flowers are, but I suppose so. I will check later on.
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When Google doesn't work, I ask Mrs. Jim. She knows a lot more than I ever did wor will but these two have her stumped.
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2. Do you like mushrooms? Do you or would you ever eat them from the wild?
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I love them! Salads, pizza, fried, gravey, mixed with cooked vegetables, and whold with a bit of salt are some of my favorites. Mrs. Jim likes them in certain ways, like pizza. But she really doesn't like them not cooked..
.These mushrooms came up in a crooked ROW after a nice rain. I tease Mrs. Jim about eating them but of course she says NO. Then I suggest making Tea from them. That doesn't work with her either.
Here they are up close. If anyone knows about eating these please let me know. Click on the picture to make them bigger..
Adi (Adi in her younger day with Harry Husker picture) doesn't mind posing with them. But notice that she likes me to take profile shots of her. She is proud of her Beagle form.
.These flowers come from bulbs every spring. We don't know what they are but Mrs. Jim says that they have the word, "star," in their name.
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Click on them, you may know their name for us.
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She was given a plant several years ago and it just wasn't one to keep in our house forever. So she, we, or I, planted it in our flower bed on the right hand proper line.
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Every year there are more and the ROW gets longer and thicker. Growing in with these flowers are a lot of wild black berry vines. A friend cleared out most of them from this bed but skipped where the flowers are.
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When the flowers go away then we only see these large leaves. They grow to three to five feet tall! I don't know if bulbs are then when the flowers are, but I suppose so. I will check later on.
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For more things in a row please visit Pat's Things in a Row post. You might like to post your own 'Things in a Row.'
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And now for my Thursday Two Questions: (See Thursday Two Questions by Self Sagacity for more reading. You could also make your own by checking in at this link.)
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Last week 's post was about my and your travel, economizing, and parallel parking. Answers very interesting, you can go back (May 10th) and check. Although I am 'dang good' at the parallel parking, some of you sound better. Others don't even try it.
My Two Questions for this week:
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1. What things growing around you that you don't know thier names but would like to know? After using Google, how should one go about finding out?
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And now for my Thursday Two Questions: (See Thursday Two Questions by Self Sagacity for more reading. You could also make your own by checking in at this link.)
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Last week 's post was about my and your travel, economizing, and parallel parking. Answers very interesting, you can go back (May 10th) and check. Although I am 'dang good' at the parallel parking, some of you sound better. Others don't even try it.
My Two Questions for this week:
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1. What things growing around you that you don't know thier names but would like to know? After using Google, how should one go about finding out?
When Google doesn't work, I ask Mrs. Jim. She knows a lot more than I ever did wor will but these two have her stumped.
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2. Do you like mushrooms? Do you or would you ever eat them from the wild?
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I love them! Salads, pizza, fried, gravey, mixed with cooked vegetables, and whold with a bit of salt are some of my favorites. Mrs. Jim likes them in certain ways, like pizza. But she really doesn't like them not cooked..
Bonus Question: Does your dog share your interests like my Adi?
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Adi is my best friend, right closely after Mrs. Jim. But we both are getting old and can't do a lot of the things we used to do.
Note: I would never let her eat mushrooms, onions, grapes, or raisins all of which I like. She likes most other food I eat from hot dogs to Granola bars?
Labels: Adi, Animals, Eating, Flowers-buds-plants, Things to know, Things-in-a-row, Thursday-Two-Questions
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Indigo — MidWeek Blues / My Alphabe-Thursday -- "I" -- Two Questions -- MidWeek Blues
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"I" is for "Indigo" -- Indigo, Google link
I found these little wild flowers while I was looking for my lost ball over in the sideline weeds. I don't know what kind of plant this was growing out there in the brush.
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There was a brighter side to golf than loosing balls, like this pretty green you see below that sits across the pond. I have also lost quite a few golf balls in this pond as you might imagine.
You can check out more Alphabe-Thursday 'I' assignments with Miss Jenny at the head of the class. You can find her here. You might even like to join us as we go through the alphabet, one letter per week.
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And now for my Thursday Two Questions: (See Thursday Two Questions by Self Sagacity for more reading. You could also make your own by checking in at this link.)
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Last week 's post was about Hush Puppies, either shoes or the fried kind to eat with fried fish. The responses were very interesting.
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My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):
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1. What is you favorite wild flowers? Tell us a bit about your experience with them.
Texas has a lot of wild flowers. The most common are blue bonnets, Indian paint brush, golden rod, and assorted yellow flowers.
2. What do you have that is indigo blue?
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We also have quite a bit of indigo blue pottery, glass vases, and food dishes.
Bonus Question: What is your favorite outside activity?
You probably guessed that mine is playing golf. Next would be going for long walks. Before I developed all these knee problems I would run. I liked running much better than golfing. And before I sold my motorcycle I like riding that bike a whole lot, even better than the running (faster speeds for one thing so I could cover more ground/territory).
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. Or do less. All she requires is a PICTURE WITH BLUE, you don't have to write.
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And now for my Thursday Two Questions: (See Thursday Two Questions by Self Sagacity for more reading. You could also make your own by checking in at this link.)
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Last week 's post was about Hush Puppies, either shoes or the fried kind to eat with fried fish. The responses were very interesting.
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My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):
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1. What is you favorite wild flowers? Tell us a bit about your experience with them.
Texas has a lot of wild flowers. The most common are blue bonnets, Indian paint brush, golden rod, and assorted yellow flowers.
2. What do you have that is indigo blue?
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We also have quite a bit of indigo blue pottery, glass vases, and food dishes.
Bonus Question: What is your favorite outside activity?
You probably guessed that mine is playing golf. Next would be going for long walks. Before I developed all these knee problems I would run. I liked running much better than golfing. And before I sold my motorcycle I like riding that bike a whole lot, even better than the running (faster speeds for one thing so I could cover more ground/territory).
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. Or do less. All she requires is a PICTURE WITH BLUE, you don't have to write.Labels: Alphabe-Thursday, Flowers-buds-plants, Golf, Midweek Blues, Thursday-Two-Questions
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Thursday Memes -- Things in a Row -- Two Questions -- Flags and Flowers
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Thirteen flags have flown over Texas. Here are replicas for them in a circle row. Each flag in this Conroe, Texas, mini park is explained in a plaque on a pedestal below the flag. We must remember that Texas was a part of the Louisiana Purchase and also had won it's freedom as a nation from the Republic of Mexico.
.Conroe is the county seat of our Montgomery County. Stands to reason then that the Montgomery Country Library System would have the Central Library in Conroe. I'm telling that because this little park is at the end of the parking lot for the library.
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This Freedom Fighter Texian is typical of the soldiers who fought in our Texas Revolution to be free from Mexican rule. You can read about that on the plaque. Just click on it a couple of times to make it large enough to read. .
The little hill leading up to the flags the flags are covered with Texas Blue Bonnets, our state flower. The picture on the lower left has a couple of Indian Paint Brush flowers which are also very common here, mingling in with the Blue Bonnets.
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For more things in a row please visit Pat's Things in a Row post. You might like to post your own 'Things in a Row.'
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And now for my Thursday Two Questions: (See Thursday Two Questions by Self Sagacity for more reading. You could also make your own by checking in at this link.)
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Last week we answered questions about using our pets and the feeding of them. The bonus question was about having your pets sleep in bed with you. Several did have these pets for guests while sleeping. Some of the pets left after an hour or so retiring to the floor. Seems cats like to cuddle and stay around.
My Two Questions for this week:
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1. Tell about a little park that you like to visit.
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2. Should cities close some of their parks due to poor economy and lack of funds for nice things like parks? Why or why not do you say this?
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My thinking is that when things are tight we need parks to relax and recreate where we can do that and help keep our own budget in line.
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Bonus Question: Do any of your parks make a display of your state flower? What is your state flower? Tell a bit your parks and flowers?
And now for my Thursday Two Questions: (See Thursday Two Questions by Self Sagacity for more reading. You could also make your own by checking in at this link.)
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Last week we answered questions about using our pets and the feeding of them. The bonus question was about having your pets sleep in bed with you. Several did have these pets for guests while sleeping. Some of the pets left after an hour or so retiring to the floor. Seems cats like to cuddle and stay around.
My Two Questions for this week:
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1. Tell about a little park that you like to visit.
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2. Should cities close some of their parks due to poor economy and lack of funds for nice things like parks? Why or why not do you say this?
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My thinking is that when things are tight we need parks to relax and recreate where we can do that and help keep our own budget in line.
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Bonus Question: Do any of your parks make a display of your state flower? What is your state flower? Tell a bit your parks and flowers?
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Mrs. Jim once gave me a Golden Rod plant which is the state flower of my birth state, Nebraska. It was to put in our flower bed as a display of wild flowers with a purpose. Those golden rods spread so fast that to this day they keep cropping up. The grow faster, easier, and better in Texas than they do in Nebraska.
Labels: Flowers-buds-plants, Texas, Things-in-a-row, Thursday-Two-Questions
Friday, April 15, 2011
Flashback Friday # 27 ~ Gardening in Jim's Early Life
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row
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That's part of what Linda has going today at her FlashBack Friday Headquarters. Click there at the right to see what Linda and others ended up doing today with a post about gardens at our homes when we were growing up.
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Do you have any memories of gardens from your growing-up years? Did your parents have a flower garden? Was landscaping important to them? Did they take care of the yard themselves or have someone else do it? What about a vegetable garden? Did your family have one and was it big or small? Any fruit trees? Did your mom (or anyone) "put up" (as we say in the South) or can the bounty from a garden? What involvement did you and any siblings have in planting? Was growing things encouraged, discouraged, or treated with ambivalence? What is your attitude, ability and involvement in gardening today?
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I have lots of memories of the garden we had at home. It was a family garden but Mom was in charge and we all called it Mom's garden. We also had a potato patch and sometimes a watermelon patch. Us kids would have a couple of pumpkin plants too.
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It was those potatoes that made it possible for me to be paid for when I was born. We were very poor but for some unexplained reason God wanted me paid for. A large crop of potatoes in that patch did it. In the midst of a terrible drought and all our potatoes exceeded all of Dad's previous harvests.
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There were enough for a very nice sale to the grocery store in town which completely paid the doctor bill for me being born. I was born at home in our old country house so there wasn't a hospital bill to be paid. My sister, Lois, was born there later as well.
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We raised all the common vegetables, like carrots, radishes, tomatoes, snap beans, green peas, strawberries, sweet corn, cabbage, onions, lettuce, asparagus, etc. My favorite eat-in-the-garden-fresh was carrots, followed by tomatoes, strawberries, and then the radishes. My favorite cooked vegetable was rhubarb pie. MOM MADE THE BEST!
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Mom would also plant a few rows of flowers too. (SIGH. SIGH, again.) It is sad to think about her and those really pretty flowers of hers. Mom was city girl who married the farm boy, my dad. Her life changed completely after that. No more being secretary for a state senator. No more walking down for an ice cream cone. No more walking to church. And all that city living stuff.
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We raised a lot more vegetables than we could eat. Mom would can everything there was an put in the storm cellar. We also put the potatoes there in a potato bin. One of the jobs I like was sprouting the potatoes (rubbing the sprouts off). Before I got to doing it all it was a family job. Just nice sitting down there by the cellar door working together and talking and thinking.
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We all had to hoe the gardens. That was to keep the soil soft and to cut the weeds out. I also helped hoe the corn. Back then it was unpatriotic and a sign of a sloppy farmer to have weeds sticking up above the crops. Now the farmers spray for weeds.
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We did not get to plant, that was for Mom and Dad to do. Dad plowed it with a farm implement type plow. First with horses, and then later he got a tractor in about 1938. That was the same year that we got electricity because REA finally put in power lines in our area.
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Unfortunately I did not inherit the green thumb. Mrs. Jim doesn't have one either so we aren't very pretty with flowers around here. Shrubs and azaleas, our flower red, and ornamental pear trees and a small redbud tree doing the flowering for us.
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By the way, we were far north to keep the fruit trees from freezing. I had a cherry tree, meaning it was my job to pick the cherries and prune it, which did fine for maybe ten years before the freeze got it. Our peach orchard really didn't get big enough for a nice crop of peaches before they all froze.
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Labels: Flashback Friday, Jim in his Younger Days
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Flowers of the earth are appearing, spring is here!
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Click on pictures for large size.
Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.
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Song of Solomon 2:12
(New International Version-link)
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Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.
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Song of Solomon 2:12
(New International Version-link)
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This is a redbud tree. We have a lot of them here in East Texas, I don't recall them being in West Texas, New Hampshire, or Nebraska.
This is a redbud tree. We have a lot of them here in East Texas, I don't recall them being in West Texas, New Hampshire, or Nebraska.
Those are the other places where I have lived.
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We have a small redbud tree in our backyard.
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The ornamental pear trees in the front yard are blooming too! I was a little late in getting their picture. Then too, they tried to bloom once before (link) and a frost set them back.
Adi likes this one better. First, it is more her size. Secondly, it has more blooms. Maybe the frost didn't get to it earlier.
Photos Religion and Philosophy Bible Quotes Bible Weather Spring global-warming Flowers Trees
Sunday, April 23, 2006
[click on picture to enlarge]
[picture by Jim, taken across the street from his house]
The grass withers, the flowers fade,
but the word of our God remains forever
From Isaiah 40, verses 6, 7, and 8
6 A voice was saying, "Cry out!"
Another said, "What should I cry out?"
"All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flowers fade
when the breath of the LORD blows on them;
indeed, the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flowers fade,
but the word of our God remains forever."
Friday, February 08, 2019
Weekend Letter "F" (Feet, Flowers, Fords, Followed, Free Cat ...)
The 5th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
the Letter "F". Prompts are:
(A) Starts with "F"; (B) A Favorite; (C) Free; and (D) Reflection(s).
(B) A Favorite: This is another of my Toys, a 1937 Ford Deluxe Two Door Convertible cast iron 1:18 scale model.
My school car would have been a 1937 Ford, Tudor model. It was very pretty, previlouslyi owned by a LOL (Little Old Lady) and had very low mileage. But Dad decided that with the mechanical brakes, Ford had not yet adopted hydrolic brakes, the car would not be safe for me. (note: the Ford on the right is a 1936)
So Dad trading my car in bought himself a new Ford pickup and I drove it to school for my last two years. Previously I had ridden a horse to a country two-room high school three miles from our house.
Favorite Flowers also starts with "F". These are winter flowers in front of our house. Notice the grass has stayed green this winter also. Kind of scraggly but green. For some reasons we like a part of global warming.
(C) Free: This one, Free Cat Food Coupon, came in the Mail a couple of days ago. We will use it and give the food to our neighbor. No the Cat isn't free, you can have anything at Alice's Restaurant except Alice.
"Free" pets don't stay Free long. My advice. This is Adi, our Beagle dog, in her retirement photo (read about it here). Adi and I and Mrs. Jim were Pet Therapy Dog Teams. Adi retired in 2012 and died in 2013. She was the nicest dog ever and we were buddy buddies.
(Adi came free to us, Karen paid about $250 for her as a registered Beagle but before a year she could no longer have a Beagle dog in her apartment. Dogs yes, but not a Beagle because some of them Howl. Discrimination!!!)
the Letter "F". Prompts are:
(A) Starts with "F"; (B) A Favorite; (C) Free; and (D) Reflection(s).
(A) Starts with "F": "Foot" starts with "F". [Then and Now Pictures]
My feet have had a great life. Chronology:
1. Born with two toes on RIGHT foot Webbed - Doctor told Mom it's okay but he would cut them apart if she wished
2. Broken metatarsal in LEFT foot during hazing in college, Pershing Rifles fraternity, University of Nebraska, due to "March Foot."
3. Army was drafting men with TWO flat feet
4. 1980 -- Walked all over the Holly Land, Athens, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and some Mediterranean Islands
5. Dropped a brick on LEFT large big toe, lost nail but it grew back
6. ________ (cannot remember the incident but my Podiatrist said he would rebuild my LEFT foot if I wanted it done. (Don't mess with my feet)
7. 2010 -- Neighbor ran over my right foot -- I hollered and she stopped on top of it.
Miscellaneous:
- They win the "Ugly Feet" contests that I run here. I'd have another if enough people want to enter theirs.
- They have walked in all 50 States and on Six Continents.
- They rebel at walking bare footed.
- Younger daughter Karen and I made a pact, "Our feet will always smell like strawberries no matter what."
1. Born with two toes on RIGHT foot Webbed - Doctor told Mom it's okay but he would cut them apart if she wished
2. Broken metatarsal in LEFT foot during hazing in college, Pershing Rifles fraternity, University of Nebraska, due to "March Foot."
3. Army was drafting men with TWO flat feet
4. 1980 -- Walked all over the Holly Land, Athens, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and some Mediterranean Islands
5. Dropped a brick on LEFT large big toe, lost nail but it grew back
6. ________ (cannot remember the incident but my Podiatrist said he would rebuild my LEFT foot if I wanted it done. (Don't mess with my feet)
7. 2010 -- Neighbor ran over my right foot -- I hollered and she stopped on top of it.
Miscellaneous:
- They win the "Ugly Feet" contests that I run here. I'd have another if enough people want to enter theirs.
- They have walked in all 50 States and on Six Continents.
- They rebel at walking bare footed.
- Younger daughter Karen and I made a pact, "Our feet will always smell like strawberries no matter what."
(B) A Favorite: This is another of my Toys, a 1937 Ford Deluxe Two Door Convertible cast iron 1:18 scale model.
So Dad trading my car in bought himself a new Ford pickup and I drove it to school for my last two years. Previously I had ridden a horse to a country two-room high school three miles from our house.
Favorite Flowers also starts with "F". These are winter flowers in front of our house. Notice the grass has stayed green this winter also. Kind of scraggly but green. For some reasons we like a part of global warming.
(C) Free: This one, Free Cat Food Coupon, came in the Mail a couple of days ago. We will use it and give the food to our neighbor. No the Cat isn't free, you can have anything at Alice's Restaurant except Alice.
"Free" pets don't stay Free long. My advice. This is Adi, our Beagle dog, in her retirement photo (read about it here). Adi and I and Mrs. Jim were Pet Therapy Dog Teams. Adi retired in 2012 and died in 2013. She was the nicest dog ever and we were buddy buddies. (Adi came free to us, Karen paid about $250 for her as a registered Beagle but before a year she could no longer have a Beagle dog in her apartment. Dogs yes, but not a Beagle because some of them Howl. Discrimination!!!)
(D) Reflection(s): "Followed"
"Followed" by Motor Cycle Gang
(Rear View Mirror Reflection)
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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 2019, All Rights Reserved
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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.
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Friday, May 29, 2020
The Letter "V" ~~ Weekend Roundup and Reflections
The twenty-second issue of Weekend Roundup for this year, 2020...
(THE TWENT-SECOND LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "V" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "V";
(B) "Violet" (Tom's choice);
(C) A Favorite; and
(D) Reflections.
_ _ _ _
(A.1) Starts with the Letter "V": Vehicle starts with the letter "V". We must now stay in our Vehicles to pick up the library books we have checked out on the phone. No entrance to the library yet.
But I had to go on-line to pay for my checked out book that I have list. Plus a five dollar "handling" charge. Had we been able to handle that book?
(A.2) Vehicles I have owned. Actually I should have said 'that "we" have owned' although five of them I bought while I was not married. See the list below. Or click here (it omits the Sears Vespa Motorscooter and the 1984 ford thunderbird).
(B) "Violet" (Tom's choice): We call this a "Lily of the Nile" but more appropriately it is an "Agapanthus". It's kind of Violet Blue.
My interest really is the little Bunny Rabbit behind and between the flowers. She was inspecting this hole which she had dug the day before.
We think she was preparing a place to have and keep her babies. But probably she has chosen another place due to the busier traffic in our backyard. Moving makes us happy as we have had four little bunnies die in our pool. Her "nest" picture above on the right.
(C) A Favorite: This is the Bunny Rabbit.
(D) Reflections: A beautiful sunset was mostly obscured by the houses on our street across from our house which faces West. We saw a part of it as Reflections in the upstairs windows of the house across and one house to the left from ours.
(E) A Lagniappe: The parts of the sunset that we could see from our driveway.
Reds don't come out with my Sony pocket camera as it tries to suppress it as red eye. There likely is a way to force it to not think redeye but I let it be.
_ _ _ _
My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you wish):
(1) What comes to mind when you think of "Violet"? I think of the first flowers that I picked. The Wild Violets grew all over the part of Eastern Nebraska where I grew up (out in the hill country West of the Missouri River about seven miles, between Herman and Tekamah), almost as common as the Dandelion. Probably I picked Dandelions first.
(2) Where was the last Rabbit Hole that you saw? Or the first one? I had never seen a Rabbit Hole before in all my long life. I had read of them, both in Nursery Rhymes and other literature.
Bonus Questions:
(1) What is your favorite "V" word? This time it will be Undecided. That is my official political viewpoint for poles but I'd rather call it Independent. I keep my blogs free of political talk, this is the closest I've come in the 15 years I've blogged. If there is a political comment I quickly remove it and slap the wrist of whoever left it.)
(2) When did you last list the vehicles that you have owned? How many do you think you have owned? I have kept a list on my Blog for several years.
_ _ _ _
Here are the cars and other vehicles in my life--listed in order of purchase: [should I blog on this as part of my memoirs? (Note: It is all about the Girls in my life]
My TOY 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coup was posted here last year.
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 click for 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 of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
(THE TWENT-SECOND LETTER FOR THIS SERIES)
- the Letter "V" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with the Letter "V";
(B) "Violet" (Tom's choice);
(C) A Favorite; and
(D) Reflections.
_ _ _ _
(A.1) Starts with the Letter "V": Vehicle starts with the letter "V". We must now stay in our Vehicles to pick up the library books we have checked out on the phone. No entrance to the library yet.
But I had to go on-line to pay for my checked out book that I have list. Plus a five dollar "handling" charge. Had we been able to handle that book?
(A.2) Vehicles I have owned. Actually I should have said 'that "we" have owned' although five of them I bought while I was not married. See the list below. Or click here (it omits the Sears Vespa Motorscooter and the 1984 ford thunderbird).
My interest really is the little Bunny Rabbit behind and between the flowers. She was inspecting this hole which she had dug the day before.
We think she was preparing a place to have and keep her babies. But probably she has chosen another place due to the busier traffic in our backyard. Moving makes us happy as we have had four little bunnies die in our pool. Her "nest" picture above on the right.
(C) A Favorite: This is the Bunny Rabbit.
(D) Reflections: A beautiful sunset was mostly obscured by the houses on our street across from our house which faces West. We saw a part of it as Reflections in the upstairs windows of the house across and one house to the left from ours.
Reds don't come out with my Sony pocket camera as it tries to suppress it as red eye. There likely is a way to force it to not think redeye but I let it be.
_ _ _ _
My Two Questions (you can answer just one if you wish):
(1) What comes to mind when you think of "Violet"? I think of the first flowers that I picked. The Wild Violets grew all over the part of Eastern Nebraska where I grew up (out in the hill country West of the Missouri River about seven miles, between Herman and Tekamah), almost as common as the Dandelion. Probably I picked Dandelions first.
(2) Where was the last Rabbit Hole that you saw? Or the first one? I had never seen a Rabbit Hole before in all my long life. I had read of them, both in Nursery Rhymes and other literature.
Bonus Questions:
(1) What is your favorite "V" word? This time it will be Undecided. That is my official political viewpoint for poles but I'd rather call it Independent. I keep my blogs free of political talk, this is the closest I've come in the 15 years I've blogged. If there is a political comment I quickly remove it and slap the wrist of whoever left it.)
(2) When did you last list the vehicles that you have owned? How many do you think you have owned? I have kept a list on my Blog for several years.
_ _ _ _
Here are the cars and other vehicles in my life--listed in order of purchase: [should I blog on this as part of my memoirs? (Note: It is all about the Girls in my life]
My TOY 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coup was posted here last year.
- 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coup (formerly owned by my High School Principal).
- 1952 Ford Tudor, I hopped it up very heavily before I sold it. It would outrun all 55 and 56 Chevys.
- 1956 Ford Sunliner Convertible (new)
- 1941 Chevy Two-door
- 1950 (Jimmy Dean) Mercury Two-door Coupe (ditched the '41 and '56 when I went into the Army)
- 1956 Sears Vespa Motorscooter (while I was stationed in El Paso, Texas, and used as a second car, weather permitting)
- 1951 Ford Tudor--a present from Dad while I was still in the Army, it was the folk's family car and had rolled over 100,000 miles.
- 1960 Rambler Two-door Custom station wagon
- 1953 Ford Tudor (second car)
- 1950 Ford Tudor (hobby car, sold in 1967)
- 1962 VW Bug--a work car
- 1956 Ford Customline Fordor-hardtop
- 1968 Ford station wagon (new)
- 1969 Ford Thunderbird***
- 1971 Honda CB450 motorcycle
- 1972 Ford Pinto***
- 1976 Ford Granada Tudor Coupe***
- 1976 Ford Granada Fordor
- 1972 Datsun pickup
- 1976 Chrysler Cordoba (picture link)
- 1977 Plymouth Volare station wagon
- 1982 Olds Cutlass Supreme two-door
- 1975 Datsun pickup
- 1984 Ford Thunderbird
- 1986 Olds 88 four-door
- 1988 Olds 88 four-door
- 1987 Chevy S-10 pickup
- 1992 Cadillac DeVille
- 1974 Mustang II Ghia (Mom's car after she died) (still owned)
- 1999 Cadillac DeVille
- 1999 Easy-Go Golf Car (new)
- 1998 Mustang GT Convertible (still owned)
- 1950 Ford Tudor (another collector car, sold August, 2015)
- 2006 Cadillac DTS
- 2011 Cadillac DTS (still owned)
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 click for 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 of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
Labels: Animals, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 05, Reflections
