Sunday, July 02, 2006
Misfits here? -- "be ye kind one to another"
."And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32 (King James Version).
first, verse 31, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:"
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The misfits here though, are those horse apples.
Horse apples aren't edible, they grow wild on the wild trees around here, and just aren't very pretty.**
Is there any purpose for them? God does not make mistakes.
Some people use them to keep away the roaches and other bugs around the house.
Horses may eat them, I don't know. I keep threatening to sneak a Horse Apple Pie recipe into the next edition of the Bentwater Ladies Golf Association (BLGA) cookbook.
And "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder."*** Horse+Apple Fruit Religion Food+and+Drink Life Humor Cooking Apple Beauty
** Horse Apple
[from Osage-Orange, Wikipedia (link)
The Osage orange (sometimes hyphenated) or Osage apple or simply Osage (Maclura pomifera) is an ornamental plant in the mulberry family Moraceae. It is also locally known as mock orange, "wild orange", hedge-apple, horse-apple, hedge ball, bois d'arc, bodark (or bowdark mainly in Oklahoma and Texas), bodart (in northwest Louisiana), bodock (mainly in Tennessee and Alabama), and bow wood. "Osage" derives from the Native American people inhabiting the valley of the river of the same name in Missouri. Slang terms for its inedible fruit include monkey brain, monkey ball, monkey orange, and brain fruit, due to its brain-like appearance. [more]
*** Beauty Notes:
1. "Twas Plato coined the phrase "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", and I have come to believe that this adage has been misinterpreted - rather than the "To each his own" interpretation, which to me seems a bit of a cop-out . . . (more)
2. Shakespeare poem, My Mistress' Eyes (source)
3. also modern Poem by Edwina Matthews
Beauty
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder
Beauty is in all things.
Beauty is in the sky.
Beauty is in the water ever so blue.
Beauty is the winter when trees are covered with snow.
Beauty is the summer when you smell and see the flowers grow.
Beauty is all things big and little.
Beauty is in all things,
Black and white.
Beauty is in all things, you and me.
Beauty is all around us...can't you see?
..Horse apple tree as seen from our back balcony
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Adi Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Choose her favorite color -- today it is gold -- Twelve/Two Days
Today is Karen and Billy's fourth wedding anniversary.
Happy Anniversary guys!
.Happy Anniversary guys!
Twelve Days of Christmas -- On the second day of Christmas?
Two Turtle Doves -- The offering Mary and Joseph brought when He was 40 days old.
[large picture] [super sized]This is another of our Thursday (remember that foggy day?) walk pictures. Adi was serious in determining her favorite color. Others are coming.
These are ripened horse apples someone had gathered together around this man hole.
Don't you think Adi is photogenic? She knows our routine. Now if I could just teach Katrin that.
Speaking of Katrin, she is getting some shots, one at a time. Yesterday was rabies. It's one at a time because Katrin supposedly is allergic to some of them. Texas law requires rabies shots of all pet dogs regardless of allergies. I think she lost some hair when here former owner had her for the shots.
Katrin also 'snorted' a bordetella shot. She didn't mind at all, I hope she isn't in the habit of snorting. [Dog Vaccination Info - Free Info and Simple Tips about Dog Vaccinations. Visit Today - www.PetWave.com]
Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Doctoring, Dogs, Jim Does, Katrin, Walk pictures
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Adi Can -- Be a working dog
Jim's Little Photo Place today:
Wordless Wednesday (still has a classic Morris Minor 1000
I found when traveling in the Isle of Man)
Today: National Punctuation Day (so do it write!)
Picture of the day:
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Yesterday Adi was a working dog. We visited residents who live at Hearthstone Assisted Living Center in Conroe, Texas. We have made several friends there, they like to visit with us. Adi sure gets a lot of loving and petting there!
We sign in at the front desk after visiting the residents who are sitting out front, either in wheel chairs or the rocking chairs always there. This is the South you know, even Mrs. Jim has a white wooden rocking chair on our porch.
After that we walk through the halls stopping at the parlors, game area, and puzzle place. Most times we stop in at the Harbor, a portion of the center especially reserved for Alzheimer afflicted residents. Today we ran out of time and couldn't.
We did have pretty long conversations with two of Adi's friends in particular, we look them up every time we come. The rest of the time was spent with shorter visits with so many I lost track. I'm sure Adi did too.
We are a certified Pet Therapy Team, certified by the Delta Society. We are trained, then have to pass both a written test and a two-part suitability test which shows Adi's training and her gentleness, and how well we handle ourselves in different simulated 'surprise' situations. [Delta Society link]
Adi and I belong to the Montgomery Pet Partners (link) which consists of teams, an animal and an owner/other, who assist in various situations where therapy animals are helpful. Our people visit hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living centers. Interested persons may also join our group but cannot participate with an animal until certified by the Delta Society (tests are passed).
The other aspect is reading, Adi is a reading dog as well. This involves tutoring a child where the child reads to the dog (and owner of course) and in weekly visits to the children's reading programs, mostly on Saturday mornings.
Now, all work and no play make Adi and Jim dull kids:
Our morning began with a nice walk back from the golf pro shop where Mrs. Jim dropped us off for her 8:40 tee time. She went golfing with her buds. Actually my day began with a Tuesday morning Bible study with about 15 other men at the club house. Then our walk. [super sized picture]
Too bad Adi isn't a counting dog, she could enjoy herself counting all these horse apples that the winds from Hurricane Ike blew off. Adi can count to two and six, one bite of graham cracker is never enough when I'm taking my medicine. She has one bite and then the second when I am on pill number six. [super sized picture]
We ended up down in the quiet area of the golf course. It is down from our house just a short walk away. The lake is up after our rains but it will be lowered soon for inspection of the dam. Hurricane Ike may have damaged it as did Hurricane Rita three years ago. That year the lake remained empty all next summer still while the dam was being repaired. [super sized picture]
Adi got tired, she is tiring more easily now in her older years. (My Autumn poem link)
In case you don't go to that link, here is the picture I have posted there:
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Word of the day:
Word History: The existence of the synonyms helpmeet and helpmate is the result of an error compounded. God's promise to Adam in Genesis 2:18, as rendered in the King James version of the Bible (1611), was to give him "an help [helper] meet [fit or suitable] for him." The poet John Dryden's 1673 use of the phrase "help-meet for man," with a hyphen between help and meet, was one step on the way toward the establishment of the phrase "help meet" as an independent word. Another was the use of "help meet" without "for man" to mean a suitable helper, usually a spouse, as Eve had been to Adam. Despite such usages, helpmeet was not usually thought of as a word in its own right until the 19th century. Nonetheless, the phrase "help meet" probably played a role in the creation of helpmate, from help and mate, first recorded in 1715
Plans for the day:
Yesterday:
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Ongoing Plans:
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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Dogs, Jim Does, Status Report, Update
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Fall is supposed to be harvest time -- yes, but
Today: October 9th is Moldy Cheese Day (newsletter)
Yesterday: People were getting tired of my little red truck picture
Picture of the day: Katrin's clip by Mrs. Jim. The last time (Sunday, October 5) we saw Katrin she was sitting on the hair clipper station between clipper or scissor cuts by Mrs. Jim
Please remember this is Mrs. Jim's first cutting attempt so she didn't want to cut very short. The groomers cut her much shorter but their clipping had to last five or six weeks. Mrs. Jim will do it again in a couple or three weeks.
Many of the pear trees are in bloom here right now. This is one of ours in the front yard.
I blame it on shock by Hurricane Ike, their system is messed up and they think they have to make blooms so late in the year.
Political speak: (source, Maureen Dowd, NY Times, October 7, 2008)
From an executive office seeking politician's lips: [I dare you to guess who voiced this]
XXX finally took questions on Tuesday from (possessive personal pronoun) traveling press corps on (possessive personal pronoun) campaign plane. Asked if (person) thought YYY was dishonest, XXX meandered:
“I’m not saying (personal pronoun)'s dishonest, but in terms of judgment, in terms of being able to answer a question forthrightly, it has two different parts to this. The judgment and the truthfulness and just being able to answer very candidly a simple question about when did you know (personal pronoun), how did you know (personal pronoun), is there still — has there been an association continued since ’02 or ’05, I know I’ve read a couple different stories. I think it’s relevant.”
Cartoons for Today:
Casper, friendly blogger? Retirement present that may last longer than a watch
No shirt, no shoes, no service -- we ate at a local seafood restaurant and across from us was a fellow wearing an "A-shirt" dirty white undershirt as his outer garment. Mrs. Jim asked the cashier (she was young) about their no shirt, not shoes, no service policy and mentioned the fellow who was in our line of sight. The young lady said she had never heard of a policy like that so she guessed he was OK.
Word of the Day: HEAVEN
The Devil's Dictionary: "n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own."
Free Online Dictionary : "2. Christianity
a. often Heaven The abode of God, the angels, and the souls of those who are granted salvation.
b. An eternal state of communion with God; everlasting bliss."
Urban Dictionary: "2. Somehow people have seemed to confuse heaven with an old 20's movie. Has nothing to do with harps or our ideal place. It is a place to spend eternity with our Creator. It is completely perfect and there will be no pain or suffering, but only a perfect existence.
No, I'm not [deleted]."
"Just for reference, hell sucks. In fact, it is a place of complete isolation with fire and crap. Somehow, people seem to think that
they will have mass orgies and parties. Who got owned now?"
Yesterday: People were getting tired of my little red truck picture
Picture of the day: Katrin's clip by Mrs. Jim. The last time (Sunday, October 5) we saw Katrin she was sitting on the hair clipper station between clipper or scissor cuts by Mrs. Jim
Please remember this is Mrs. Jim's first cutting attempt so she didn't want to cut very short. The groomers cut her much shorter but their clipping had to last five or six weeks. Mrs. Jim will do it again in a couple or three weeks.
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We call these things Horse Apples but their proper name is Osage Oranges. They grow on a lot of native trees around here and are generally called a nuisance.
The fruit can be used as insect repellent but it is hard to get into a spray bottle.
Left [large picture] [super sized] -- Here is the harvester man with his shovel. These Osage Oranges will end up in his little John Deere Gator truck to be hauled away.
Middle [large picture] [super sized] -- Do you suppose he will bring his shovel over here with these that have strayed from the tree or will he toss them back?
Right [large picture] [super sized] -- How far is he from the tree and his Gator?
We call these things Horse Apples but their proper name is Osage Oranges. They grow on a lot of native trees around here and are generally called a nuisance.
The fruit can be used as insect repellent but it is hard to get into a spray bottle.
Left [large picture] [super sized] -- Here is the harvester man with his shovel. These Osage Oranges will end up in his little John Deere Gator truck to be hauled away.
Middle [large picture] [super sized] -- Do you suppose he will bring his shovel over here with these that have strayed from the tree or will he toss them back?
Right [large picture] [super sized] -- How far is he from the tree and his Gator?
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The quiet fall pastoral setting. This lot is for sale.
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The quiet fall pastoral setting. This lot is for sale.
Many of the pear trees are in bloom here right now. This is one of ours in the front yard.
I blame it on shock by Hurricane Ike, their system is messed up and they think they have to make blooms so late in the year.
Political speak: (source, Maureen Dowd, NY Times, October 7, 2008)
From an executive office seeking politician's lips: [I dare you to guess who voiced this]
XXX finally took questions on Tuesday from (possessive personal pronoun) traveling press corps on (possessive personal pronoun) campaign plane. Asked if (person) thought YYY was dishonest, XXX meandered:
“I’m not saying (personal pronoun)'s dishonest, but in terms of judgment, in terms of being able to answer a question forthrightly, it has two different parts to this. The judgment and the truthfulness and just being able to answer very candidly a simple question about when did you know (personal pronoun), how did you know (personal pronoun), is there still — has there been an association continued since ’02 or ’05, I know I’ve read a couple different stories. I think it’s relevant.”
Cartoons for Today:
Word of the Day: HEAVEN
No, I'm not [deleted]."
Labels: Animals, Cartoons, Cats, Katrin, Walk pictures
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
We are fine after Hurricane Ike came through. Thank you for checking on us.
We evacuated to Karen and Billy's today because we have no electricity yet at our home. Their light's flickered a little and went out for a few minutes but didn't stay off.
Please note: Nothing blows down in this video, the strong wind is just steadily blowing from the west. You can see it blowing across the golf course. My feelings won't be hurt if you just watch a little of it because it is basically the same for the whole time.
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We evacuated to Karen and Billy's today because we have no electricity yet at our home. Their light's flickered a little and went out for a few minutes but didn't stay off.
Please note: Nothing blows down in this video, the strong wind is just steadily blowing from the west. You can see it blowing across the golf course. My feelings won't be hurt if you just watch a little of it because it is basically the same for the whole time.
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We had no damage to our home, not even a shingle was lost. The winds reached about 80 MPH for a couple of hours.
So many have lost so much more than just electricity and their food.
We did have a was wax myrtle bush to blow over. I cut part of it out and will try to straighten the rest up better when the flower bed dries up some.
Those garbage pails are full of the stuff mostly from our refrigerator and freezer that we had to out.
We had no damage to our home, not even a shingle was lost. The winds reached about 80 MPH for a couple of hours.
So many have lost so much more than just electricity and their food.
We did have a was wax myrtle bush to blow over. I cut part of it out and will try to straighten the rest up better when the flower bed dries up some.
Those garbage pails are full of the stuff mostly from our refrigerator and freezer that we had to out.
This pretty horse apple tree out back in the golf course lost one of its two trunks. And the wind blew most of the apples off onto the ground.
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Trees in the road were quite common. A few, like this one, were on our subdivision roads. The ones falling on the power lines cause the outages.
About one of ten gas stations are open, they run out of fuel quite often. Some limit to ten gallons, others to $20 or $50 to stretch it out further. Lines are fairly common, a half mile is common as well. Coming in to Houston from our end a lot of the evacuees from Dallas are running on empty. Some run out of gas waiting in line.
Yesterday we went to Willis and picked up four bags of ice that FEMA was giving out. For people who have transportation, this works pretty good. Buses are non-existent up where we live, taxis are few, so most of the ice went to people whose could drive. They were out of rations and we didn't need water.
FEMA was at three other locations in our county, and sixteen in Harris (for Houston) County. So far that is nineteen distribution places for four million people, lined up in single lane car lines. And they operate from 10 AM to 6 PM, not real good for working people. [Before posting this I saw on the news that the volunteers who are handing out the stuff for FEMA at one place figured out that two lines of cars could go through twice as fast as one. Of course they ran out of ice, water, and rations earlier.]
Just not good. I am sure we will hear all the good and bad about FEMA, but for sure they don't want the bad rap they got for Katrina and Rita.
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Trees in the road were quite common. A few, like this one, were on our subdivision roads. The ones falling on the power lines cause the outages.
About one of ten gas stations are open, they run out of fuel quite often. Some limit to ten gallons, others to $20 or $50 to stretch it out further. Lines are fairly common, a half mile is common as well. Coming in to Houston from our end a lot of the evacuees from Dallas are running on empty. Some run out of gas waiting in line.
Yesterday we went to Willis and picked up four bags of ice that FEMA was giving out. For people who have transportation, this works pretty good. Buses are non-existent up where we live, taxis are few, so most of the ice went to people whose could drive. They were out of rations and we didn't need water.
FEMA was at three other locations in our county, and sixteen in Harris (for Houston) County. So far that is nineteen distribution places for four million people, lined up in single lane car lines. And they operate from 10 AM to 6 PM, not real good for working people. [Before posting this I saw on the news that the volunteers who are handing out the stuff for FEMA at one place figured out that two lines of cars could go through twice as fast as one. Of course they ran out of ice, water, and rations earlier.]
Just not good. I am sure we will hear all the good and bad about FEMA, but for sure they don't want the bad rap they got for Katrina and Rita.
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Mrs. Jim has a tee time for Friday, we will come back if these guys have all the course ready. Fallen trees are left and right at this time. In the meantime we will play golf over here with Billy and Karen.
We probably will go to the grocery store just for the fun of it because they are open over here. Gas lines are shorter too.
Mrs. Jim has a tee time for Friday, we will come back if these guys have all the course ready. Fallen trees are left and right at this time. In the meantime we will play golf over here with Billy and Karen.
We probably will go to the grocery store just for the fun of it because they are open over here. Gas lines are shorter too.
Labels: Status Report, Things to know, YouTube
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