Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Hellen Garriot pottery -- Ruby (Red) Tuesday -- My most used red book
Sorry I am late. I had an appointment with my cardiologist today.
Nuclear stress test and sonogram of my abdominal and kidney arteries.
I'll be needing a stent in my artery to the left kidney.
Congratulations to daughter, Karen!
She completed in Sunday's Houston Marathon Half Marathon race.
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Nuclear stress test and sonogram of my abdominal and kidney arteries.
I'll be needing a stent in my artery to the left kidney.
Congratulations to daughter, Karen!
She completed in Sunday's Houston Marathon Half Marathon race.
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Last week I missed out on the homework of posting red books that we use in our homes. (Mary please this one time accept my late homework.) This is the one that I use most, The Teacher's Bible Commentary Edited by H. Franklin Paschall and Herschel H. Hobbs. It mentions every verse and chapter in the Bible, giving insight for Sunday school teachers.
It is fairly well used by a friend of mine, Sam L, who died this Fall. He had given it to me when they moved from their house to a multi-level-care facility. It is copyright in 1972. Sam was a man of love, I never heard him talk bad about anyone and whoever he was with at any time he treated as this person had the greatest value to him.
This Sun Jar, as we call it, was made by my friends wife, Helen Garriott. She had a little studio and kiln in Seabrook, Texas (link). We also have several of her Moon Jars--See picture below (link to Garriott family post).
Helen's husband was Astronaut Owen Garriott, a SkyLab astronaut. I did a lot of training with Owen for his first space mission when I was working at NASA in Houston as a Simulation and Training Engineer. He was a heads up-asking questions-fast learner.
Owen once came to deliver a speech at our Phi Beta Lambda (national college business club fraternity) state leadership conference. At that time and several years around I was the 'club' sponsor. That also involved taking students to the National Leadership Conference where they competed in competition about business subject areas with colleges all over the U.S. We took home many prizes and were always a top scoring 'club.'
Owen and Harriet's son, Richard also went into space to visit the Space Station as a paying cosmonaut on the Russian shuttle transport. (link, same as above). Later I had his daughter in one of my business classes. It's a small world.
Click the Ruby Tuesday button for Mary's Ruby Tuesday post list
of other interesting RED finds today.
Mary is in charge there, you can see more or post your own from there.
The Moon Jar:
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Labels: Art, Books, Ruby Tuesday, space
Friday, April 19, 2019
Letter "P" ~~ Weekend Roundup
From http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-in-space-pioneer-astronaut-owen-garriott-w5lfl-sk :
"04/15/2019
The US astronaut who pioneered the use of Amateur Radio to make contacts from space — Owen K. Garriott, W5LFL — died April 15 at his home in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 88. Garriott’s ham radio activity ushered in the formal establishment of Amateur Radio in space, first as SAREX — the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, and later as ARISS — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.
“Owen Garriott was a good friend and an incredible astronaut,” fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin tweeted. “I have a great sadness as I learn of his passing today. Godspeed Owen.”
An Oklahoma native, Garriott — an electrical engineer — spent 2 months aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 during a 1983 Space Shuttle Columbia mission. It was during the latter mission that Garriott thrilled radio amateurs around the world by making the first contacts from space. Thousands of hams listened on 2-meter FM, hoping to hear him or to make a contact. Garriott ended up working stations around the globe, among them such notables as the late King Hussein, JY1, of Jordan, and the late US Senator Barry Goldwater, K7UGA. He also made the first CW contact from space. Garriott called hamming from space “a pleasant pastime"...(more at the link above)”
We have a couple of pottery pieces designed and crafted by the now deceased former Mrs. Garriott, a "Moon Jar" and a "Sun Jar" that we proudly display at our home. You can see them here on my older blog post.
Additionally, their daughter was in one of my college classes, taking it for dual credit, college and high school. We did discuss her brother who later also traveled to the Space Station as a civilian.
I am a Ham Radio licensee but never did make contact with any of the Garriott's via Ham Radio.
Passing starts with "G". Please read above of the passing this week of a work friend, Astronaut Owen Garriott. We didn't see each other after I left the space program to teach Business courses at the community college.
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The 16th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
- the Letter "P" Prompts are:
(A) Starts with "P"; (B) A Favorite; (C) Pile; and (D) Reflection(s).
(A) Starts with "P": "Passing" starts with "P", my work friend at NASA Passed away this week (posted above).
(B) A Favorite: Mrs. Jim's Potato Salad is the BEST, my favorite!!
(C) Pile: A "Pile" of brush by the road.
(D) Reflection(s): An inside window decoration found in the foyer at church this afternoon. An artist came last week to give of his talent.
Mrs. Jim and I also served at church this noon service. I was a greeter for those coming in and we both helped with baptism. Seven were baptized today, we have three more services this weekend, tomorrow evening and two Sunday morning.
We also plan to help with baptism tomorrow evening and I will help again with the service. We attend Second Baptist Church of Houston, the Highway 1463 Campus of the town of Fulshear, Texas (link). There are five other campuses scattered around the Houston, Texas, area.
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, https://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/ for my Reflections Photo.
- Photos and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved - Click on most any picture to make it "full screen" sized. Click on your "Back" button to get back here.
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Labels: Celebrities, Food, Friends, Jim's Life, Reflections, Things to know, Weekend Roundup 03
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Astronaut Owen Garriott, Amateur Radio W5LFL/SK
From http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-in-space-pioneer-astronaut-owen-garriott-w5lfl-sk :
"04/15/2019
The US astronaut who pioneered the use of Amateur Radio to make contacts from space — Owen K. Garriott, W5LFL — died April 15 at his home in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 88. Garriott’s ham radio activity ushered in the formal establishment of Amateur Radio in space, first as SAREX — the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, and later as ARISS — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.
“Owen Garriott was a good friend and an incredible astronaut,” fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin tweeted. “I have a great sadness as I learn of his passing today. Godspeed Owen.”
An Oklahoma native, Garriott — an electrical engineer — spent 2 months aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 during a 1983 Space Shuttle Columbia mission. It was during the latter mission that Garriott thrilled radio amateurs around the world by making the first contacts from space. Thousands of hams listened on 2-meter FM, hoping to hear him or to make a contact. Garriott ended up working stations around the globe, among them such notables as the late King Hussein, JY1, of Jordan, and the late US Senator Barry Goldwater, K7UGA. He also made the first CW contact from space. Garriott called hamming from space “a pleasant pastime"...(more at the link above)”
We have a couple of pottery pieces designed and crafted by the now deceased former Mrs. Garriott, a "Moon Jar" and a "Sun Jar" that we proudly display at our home. You can see them here on my older blog post.
Additionally, their daughter was in one of my college classes, taking it for dual credit, college and high school. We did discuss her brother who later also traveled to the Space Station as a civilian.
I am a Ham Radio licensee but never did make contact with any of the Garriott's via Ham Radio.
Labels: Celebrities, Jim's Life, space, Work
Thursday, November 20, 2008
"Houston we have a problem" -- My efforts to help the space program: found, a tool box lost from space; helped in training astronauts
"Honey I had a little problem while I was doing powder puff work on the vehicle."
"O my gosh [OMG], what now? You cause more problems than you fix. I wished I'd never have encouraged you to take those courses."
"Nothing's bad with the it. Some other guys got it back in order."
"Well?"
"I lost our tool box, that's all."
"How could loose that tool box, it's big and heavy?"
"It just floated away. I had it tied on to me but it got away anyway. Gone into space."
"Oh boy, do you know what that cost us? A hundred thousand bucks. I can't earn that in several years!"
"That part is alright, the Government is going to bail us out on this one."
"O my gosh [OMG], what now? You cause more problems than you fix. I wished I'd never have encouraged you to take those courses."
"Nothing's bad with the it. Some other guys got it back in order."
"Well?"
"I lost our tool box, that's all."
"How could loose that tool box, it's big and heavy?"
"It just floated away. I had it tied on to me but it got away anyway. Gone into space."
"Oh boy, do you know what that cost us? A hundred thousand bucks. I can't earn that in several years!"
"That part is alright, the Government is going to bail us out on this one."
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Some comments now.
First, Adi and I found that toolbox out in our driveway this morning, it must have landed here. I am hoping to get it autographed.
Secondly, that woman loves those granny knots. We learned in Boy Scouts to tie square knots. For added security I always do another on top making it a double square knot. Those never give way.
Some comments now.
First, Adi and I found that toolbox out in our driveway this morning, it must have landed here. I am hoping to get it autographed.
Secondly, that woman loves those granny knots. We learned in Boy Scouts to tie square knots. For added security I always do another on top making it a double square knot. Those never give way.
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What does this photo have do with the post today? That jar sits in a prominent place in our home, it was made by an astronaut's wife and astronaut's mother. She was an artist, we like her Moon Jars--this one, the lid has the earth, the jar is the Moon, both are sculpted in relief.
[The cougar behind is a print by Charles Fracé, a nature painting artist. Mine is autographed by him, "To: Jim", and represents my college, The University of Houston, and its athletes, the Houston Cougars. Mrs. Jim gave me the picture after having it so nicely framed.]
How can that be? She is Mrs. Garriott, mother of Richard Garriott who is son of NASA Skylab veteran astronaut Owen Garriott.
And? I was active at the beginning Owen's flight training. I gave the senior Garriott his first indoctrination lesson to the Skylab vehicle in the Skylab mock-up simulator for which I was on the design team and helped to build.
That was back when I was a senior aerospace engineer with Ford Aerospace at NASA. I did a lot of other work with him while I was a flight control simulation and training person there. Note also that during Skylab missions (training was completed) I monitored and advised on either the Electrical Power Console or the Environmental Control Console.
And? I know that Dr. Garriott would have trained his son Richard better than that as to not lose a toolbox. Unfortunately Richard Garriott returned to safely to earth earlier last month in the Soyuz capsule along with two cosmonauts landing in north-central Kazakhstan (link). Or he could have done the job without losing the toolbox, I am sure of that.
One more item here, I was fortunate enough to have the Garriott's daughter as a student in my Introduction to Business class at San Jacinto College. At that time she was concerned for her brother who had quit college and was just 'playing with' his computer closed in the closet. He has come a long way and is one of the biggest producers of computer games now (read about his game career here).
More space things later
What does this photo have do with the post today? That jar sits in a prominent place in our home, it was made by an astronaut's wife and astronaut's mother. She was an artist, we like her Moon Jars--this one, the lid has the earth, the jar is the Moon, both are sculpted in relief.
[The cougar behind is a print by Charles Fracé, a nature painting artist. Mine is autographed by him, "To: Jim", and represents my college, The University of Houston, and its athletes, the Houston Cougars. Mrs. Jim gave me the picture after having it so nicely framed.]
How can that be? She is Mrs. Garriott, mother of Richard Garriott who is son of NASA Skylab veteran astronaut Owen Garriott.
And? I was active at the beginning Owen's flight training. I gave the senior Garriott his first indoctrination lesson to the Skylab vehicle in the Skylab mock-up simulator for which I was on the design team and helped to build.
That was back when I was a senior aerospace engineer with Ford Aerospace at NASA. I did a lot of other work with him while I was a flight control simulation and training person there. Note also that during Skylab missions (training was completed) I monitored and advised on either the Electrical Power Console or the Environmental Control Console.
And? I know that Dr. Garriott would have trained his son Richard better than that as to not lose a toolbox. Unfortunately Richard Garriott returned to safely to earth earlier last month in the Soyuz capsule along with two cosmonauts landing in north-central Kazakhstan (link). Or he could have done the job without losing the toolbox, I am sure of that.
One more item here, I was fortunate enough to have the Garriott's daughter as a student in my Introduction to Business class at San Jacinto College. At that time she was concerned for her brother who had quit college and was just 'playing with' his computer closed in the closet. He has come a long way and is one of the biggest producers of computer games now (read about his game career here).
More space things later
Labels: Humor, Jim's Life, space, Stories, Work
Friday, March 05, 2021
Letter "J" -- Weekend Roundup
THE TENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES) - the Letter "J" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "J"; (B) "Jam" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) A Lagniappe.
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[A cute Thank You card]
(A) Starts with the Letter "J": Just starts with "J". Just is an overworked little four letter adverb telling when or how, often meaning recently or exactly. Like just in time or just what I needed.
Also as an adjective meaning fair, as the judge delivered a just opinion.
I found these cute kittens on the Thank You card saying "Just wanted to thank you." The card was in our World Market here in Katy on Fry Road near Hwy 99 yesterday afternoon. I found some more photo op items also.
[Courtesy of Houston NBC TV station K P R C Ch 2]
Just fine, our Houston area weather for next week. Like we had it before the snow and power problems.
(B) "Jam" (Tom's Choice); Lots of imported Jam over in the food section of our World Market.
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(C) A Favorite: I like Peach Apricot Jam, these are from Scotland. But I like Seedless Blackberry better, it is one of my Favorites. Blueberry also but I'm not sure with the pomegranate as I've never tasted pomegranate.
(D.1) A Lagniappe: Jelly Beans should have to fit in here but we will have to make do with Jelly Bellies because I couldn't find any Jelly Beans at the World Market.
[Photo tribute to ABC News Network]
(D.2) Another Lagniappe: This "J" Word is Jump. With the technology at this moment we might could take a spaceship to the Moon or to Mars. But on the return when your spaceship first hits the ground you'd best Jump out real fast!! Really fast!!! The only three spacecraft tried out so far have burst into flames and lifted again from the launching/landing pad in a ball of fire.
Come on Baby, Light my Fire
Written and sung by Rock Singer, Jim Morrison. Born in the U.S.A, Jim died young at age 27 and is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. (Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison )
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Bonus Questions:
(1) Tell about your craving for Jam and if there is some experience you'd like to share that would be just fine. We I am fickle to my Favorite, Seedless Blackberry, that I stated above. I equally like Home Made Fig Preserves.
A story about those . We had a friend who lived in Galveston and whom we helped when we could. I will call her Flo. Flo liked Ms. Jim's homemade fig preserves and always asked us to bring some. If we were eating then with her we would watch as she ate about half a jar and all the fig pieces in the jar. She also would do that at our house with our fig preserves. Flo died the same year that my dad and Mrs. Jim's mom died, she was fairly old.
(2) What is your favorite Word starting with "J"? Mine today will be "Jim, James, Jimmy, Jimmie". Because that is my name. My Birth Certificate says James Vernon, my Dad's name was Charles Vernon. But they called him Jim when around, or Vernon when it was more formal. He liked C. Vernon. Anyway, so I became 'Little Jim' to those around me. I'm not that anymore though, Dad died in 2007 at age 97. And I had several nicknames, none of which stuck into adulthood. Oh yes, Grandpa H was Charles or Charley."
(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:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I did not link this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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[Intro]
[Verse 1]
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
[Verse 2]
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Yeah...
[Verse 1]
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
[Verse 2]
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Yeah...
[Verse 2]
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Yeah
[Verse 1]
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Yeah
[Verse 1]
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
[Chorus]
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Labels: Cats, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 06, Music, Reflections, Science, Songs, YouTube
