Wednesday, February 17, 2010
M R ducks — MidWeek Blues —
M R ducks
M R not ducks
O S, De R
M R not ducks
O S de R , C D wings
L I B, M R ducks
I hope you get the drift here. Mrs. Jim can tell this one better than I can. I may have left out a couple of letters and have too many words. But still you can get the drift.
It is supposed to be funny.
Adi and I were walking last week. We saw these two little ducks drifting along in the lake beside us. After they saw us they started swimming away.
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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 BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.
Labels: Jokes, Midweek Blues, Walk pictures
Monday, January 10, 2011
Ducks playing football?
Tuesday Morning Update:
The Oregon yellow socked Ducks lost last night to the Auburn War Eagles 19-22 when Auburn got a three point field goal in the last three seconds of the game.
M R ducks
M R not ducks
O S, De R
M R not ducks
O S de R , C Der yellow socks
L I B, M R Oregon ducks
The Oregon yellow socked Ducks lost last night to the Auburn War Eagles 19-22 when Auburn got a three point field goal in the last three seconds of the game.
M R ducks
M R not ducks
O S, De R
M R not ducks
O S de R , C Der yellow socks
L I B, M R Oregon ducks
I really do like the iridescent yellow socks the Oregon Ducks (University of Oregon players) are wearing tonight in the BCS Football national title game. They are playing Auburn (Alabama) University.
This post is adapted from an earlier February 2010 post. (Link)
Friday, February 19, 2016
Friday’s Hunt v1.8 -- "H" is for ...
Friday's Hunt for the week of February 19th, (1) Starts with H; (2) Week's Favorite; and (3) Family
(1a) Starts with H: Hibiscus -- We never had a hibiscus until we moved here to Katy (Texas) and it was here when we came. This one has several fresh orange flowers every day, just for us as the backyard is enclosed with a board fence. And just about every day we look out the breakfast room window and admire it. Sometimes aloud.
I can tell by this picture that it was taken before being fertilized. Now it is a luscious green and more bushy.
I can tell by this picture that it was taken before being fertilized. Now it is a luscious green and more bushy.
(1b) Starts with H: Hot Dog and Homemade -- This time it's a corn dog with leftover Homemade (Mrs. Jim's) potato salad. I usually put yellow mustard on my leftover potato salad but never on the fresh, first day, treat. I would never want to offend the cook and her/his choice of the way food should be.
[click on any picture for larger view -- click again, you might get full screen viewing]
(2) Week's Favorite: Thinking of being on Seven Mile Beach at Grand Cayman Island.
(3) Family: Mrs. Jim and I will celebrate, again, our 43rd wedding anniversary next Wednesday, the 24th. I say again because this cruise, on the Princess Caribbean, that we took from January 31 to February 7 was our official celebration. I think we will go out some place to eat but I don't know where yet. MacDonald's?
Some place I have a nice family picture, us, five kids, six grandkids, and two greats. But this one of us at the Seven Mile Beach will have to do.
(4) A lagniappe for you, a Poem for You: "The cows will come" (all is copyright, pictures and all, as on this blog. I previously posted it on my other blog, Jim's Little Photo and Poem Place [link]).
. . . . . . . . . The cows will come
. - The animal pictures were taken at the Vauxhall City Farm, at Vauxhall, Borough of Lambeth, London, U.K. (visit it here). Oh, yes, the top picture is on of the horses coming in from giving rides all day. The cows weren't receptive to picture taking. The resting Ducks were at a canal near Northampton.
. - We took KP to the farm, she loved it. A little scared of the geese, but even some adults are afraid of that. If you visit London with young ones, take them there. Also zoo at Regent's Park is very nice. Admittance is free, both places.
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The Fine Print:
The cows will come
at farmer's call
Into the barn
each knows her stall
Brownie comes last
she's boss of all
The pigs come too
crowding their trough
Roosters don't come
'til lights go off
I'm not a cow
pig or goat's gruff
Still I come when-
ever you call
Into the barn
each knows her stall
Brownie comes last
she's boss of all
The pigs come too
crowding their trough
Roosters don't come
'til lights go off
I'm not a cow
pig or goat's gruff
Still I come when-
ever you call
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. - The animal pictures were taken at the Vauxhall City Farm, at Vauxhall, Borough of Lambeth, London, U.K. (visit it here). Oh, yes, the top picture is on of the horses coming in from giving rides all day. The cows weren't receptive to picture taking. The resting Ducks were at a canal near Northampton.
. - We took KP to the farm, she loved it. A little scared of the geese, but even some adults are afraid of that. If you visit London with young ones, take them there. Also zoo at Regent's Park is very nice. Admittance is free, both places.
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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 - For the week of February 19, our assignment was to post on any or all of these ideas: (1) Starts with H, (2) Week’s Favorite, and (3)Family, and (4) another lagniappe poem for you.
- 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 - For the week of February 19, our assignment was to post on any or all of these ideas: (1) Starts with H, (2) Week’s Favorite, and (3)Family, and (4) another lagniappe poem for you.
Labels: 2016 Caribbean Cruise, Family, Food, Friday’s Hunt 2016, Jim Does, London Spring 2014, Poem, Travel 4
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Lunch with Bum Phillips — Two Picnics — MidWeek Blues —
Bum Phillips, former coach of the former Houston Oilers, came to eat with us Monday. Over 400 men attended a Men's Power Lunch for which Bum was our speaker.It was mostly a Question and Answer forum. My favorite question concerned keeping discipline of all the players on a professional football team. His answer was, 'well I have one son and five daughters, and up to 200 kids.' In other words, he was like a father to his team.
Bum Phillips: Link 1 (Bum Phillips web); Link 2 (Wikipedia); Link 3 (Google search)
I believe Bum told every one of these quotes that were on the Wikipedia site:
**"There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired."
**"I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches."
**"I've never seen a hammer and tong game like that one."
**"Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors." (Explaining why he wouldn't wear his cowboy hat in a domed stadium)
**"Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team."
**"I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...what for? Houston isn't on our schedule." (Source: The Book of Sports Lists)
**(To an official) "Hey, can I, can I tell you one thing? That's three holding penalties on one football team in a quarter and a half. (Pauses) That ain't funny."
**(To an official) "Now, you can't do that! If you do it, I'm telling you you'll have more hell over it than a little bit."
**(referring to Alabama head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, with whom Phillips worked as an assistant coach at Texas A&M) "He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n."
**(referring to Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon) "That boy could throw a football through a car wash and not get it wet."
**(when asked about Oilers RB Earl Campbell's inability to finish a 1 mile run in training camp) "When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him."
**(when asked by Bob Costas why he took his wife on all of the Oilers' road trips) "Because she's too ugly to kiss goodbye."
From left to right, Mike Barber (former tight end for the Houston Oilers), Bum Phillips, and our pastor, Dr. Mark Denison, First Baptist Conroe, Texas
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These pictures were a couple taken Sunday at our subdivision annual picnic. Yes, those little fellows are fishing with a dad. The girls had been throwing bread to the ducks.
We had a large crowd. Barbecue brisket and chicken, potato salad, beans, onions, pickles, bread were furnished by one of the larger building firms. The ladies each brought a salad, veggie, or desert. Shucks, I missed getting a picture of my plate.
We had a large crowd. Barbecue brisket and chicken, potato salad, beans, onions, pickles, bread were furnished by one of the larger building firms. The ladies each brought a salad, veggie, or desert. Shucks, I missed getting a picture of my plate.
Saturday had been Mrs. Jim's family reunion picnic held at Harold Miles Park in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Pictured on the left are Mrs. Jim with her first cousins. A couple were missing and a few more are deceased. Mema, Mrs. Jim's mother, was from a family of four girls and four boys. That was in back in the old days of large families.
Next is Sandra and Everett, third cousins of Mrs. Jim's (His dad and Mrs. Jim's mom were first cousins). They were celebrating their 28th wedding anniversary.
Finally is my pick of the many of beautiful Louisiana scene pictures I had taken at the park. They bayou water is clear in the background but is covered with green moss in the foreground.
If you think we have been on the run lately, you are right. The week of September 25 we met Sunday at Denver, Colorado, for a retreat at the Glen Eyrie Conference Center along with twenty-eight others from our church. Mrs. Jim came from Salt Lake City where she had been attending the National Conference for the Family Promise organization.
We returned home Friday but Saturday we attended Mrs. Jim's family reunion in Alexandria, Louisiana. That is a four hour drive each way, to and from our home. Sunday morning we attended our church and in the afternoon attended our Bentwater Subdivision Annual Picnic.
Pictured on the left are Mrs. Jim with her first cousins. A couple were missing and a few more are deceased. Mema, Mrs. Jim's mother, was from a family of four girls and four boys. That was in back in the old days of large families.
Next is Sandra and Everett, third cousins of Mrs. Jim's (His dad and Mrs. Jim's mom were first cousins). They were celebrating their 28th wedding anniversary.
Finally is my pick of the many of beautiful Louisiana scene pictures I had taken at the park. They bayou water is clear in the background but is covered with green moss in the foreground.
If you think we have been on the run lately, you are right. The week of September 25 we met Sunday at Denver, Colorado, for a retreat at the Glen Eyrie Conference Center along with twenty-eight others from our church. Mrs. Jim came from Salt Lake City where she had been attending the National Conference for the Family Promise organization.
We returned home Friday but Saturday we attended Mrs. Jim's family reunion in Alexandria, Louisiana. That is a four hour drive each way, to and from our home. Sunday morning we attended our church and in the afternoon attended our Bentwater Subdivision Annual Picnic.
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Six Word Saturday — A Random Five post [004], This and That —
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my Six Words:
Now start the 'this and that' which I ran Friday:
1. Spring has matured here.
I don't know what kind of flowers these are. Mrs. Jim planted them in our side yard several years back from a pot that we had been given. It might have been from a funeral, my dad's, her mom's, or a relative.
??? Neither of us can remember what they are or where they came from.
Our weather lady confirms a mature spring here. Tuesday's golf next week will be a high of 91 with a low of 73 in the morning. That means very pleasant again.
Update. My friend Dot, who reads my blog from my FaceBook post, told me that these are Ginger plants, the herb. I did some checking and yes, she is right, they are ginger plants. (link 1)(link 2)
2. The men from Mrs. Jim's Sundays school class played golf at Cape Royale on Tuesday this week. They always ask me to play.
This is a pretty course but not really fully developed. It borders on Lake Livingston on the north and is close to the town of Coldspring, Texas, on the South. The lawyer advertising on the # 10 tee box is from Pointblank, Texas.
You can barely see the lake in the distance in the picture below. And the little pond. It approaches the 9th green, and yes, I lost a ball in it. The ducks thought we might feed them.
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The drive home was nice, but a little warm for 'top-down' driving. I did turn around and go back to catch a picture of these miniature horses grazing in a pretty tree spotted pasture.
Then I got this picture of some Main Street businesses in Willis, Texas. I like to shop at this old-timey hardware store. They even have a deli and sell meat.
Since I had only eaten two no-fat saltine cracker peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, I made a nice brat dog to satisfy my hunger pangs. Lunch at the pro-shop snack bar was a special for the day, chicken salad sandwich. Probably that was healthier. The other $8.00 special was a cheeseburger, chips (crisps for the Brits), and a soda fountain drink.
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3. Yesterday [Thursday, May 23] was National Turtle Day. On this World Turtle Day, Jaymi looked at 11 Critically endangered turtle species.
This turtle was found by Adi on one of our walks through the subdivision. Since the turtle was close to the little pond I didn't take it back. I do that a lot when they stray away from the ponds, especially if they get onto the road.
Adi was a very good dog (link)
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4. On Wednesday last week Mrs. Jim had the book club meeting at our home. This was her hors d'oeuvre table, set in our breakfast room. The table was giving to my parents by Grandpa when they returned from their honeymoon.
So that was a good day for me to get a haircut. On my long way home I detoured over through Montgomery and visited a couple of antique stores.
This nice 1957 Triumph TR2 (could have been TR3, I can't remember) was parked in front of the real estate office. The owner was moving here from Oregon. He told me that is the only know TR2 remaining from a few made especially for road course track automobile racing.
The white building is one of our Montgomery County Museums. The building across the street from the car is one of the antique stores I visited. I did find a metal toy Triumph TR3 racing car for sale in a box of other stuff.
5. Finally, for the last, we visited out of town for the weekend.
When we go to Louisiana I like to eat Louisiana seafood. Granny's in Bastrop, Louisiana, was having their Saturday night all-you-can-eat seafood buffet.
My first helping here was a small bowl of seafood gumbo, a dish of fried oysters (some were missing as I had passed it around when we sat down), fried catfish, boiled shrimp, a stuffed crab, some breaded fried shrimp, a fried frog leg, and some white seafood pasta with white sauce.
We stayed with Mrs. Jim's sister, Velma and hubby. They have lived almost forever in Farmerville, La, north of Rustin. This is their house shown flying the Christian flag that was given to the members of their church.
==> I am linked up today with Nancy at A Rural Journal. She conducts her "A Random Five" blog hop there. Click that link to read other "A Random Five" posts or join in with your own.
==> Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using
just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's
blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is
the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to
participate.
my Six Words:
enjoying these Friday meme blog posts
[plus keeps family, relatives, freinds, up-to-date]
Now start the 'this and that' which I ran Friday:
1. Spring has matured here.
I don't know what kind of flowers these are. Mrs. Jim planted them in our side yard several years back from a pot that we had been given. It might have been from a funeral, my dad's, her mom's, or a relative. ??? Neither of us can remember what they are or where they came from.
Our weather lady confirms a mature spring here. Tuesday's golf next week will be a high of 91 with a low of 73 in the morning. That means very pleasant again.
Update. My friend Dot, who reads my blog from my FaceBook post, told me that these are Ginger plants, the herb. I did some checking and yes, she is right, they are ginger plants. (link 1)(link 2)
2. The men from Mrs. Jim's Sundays school class played golf at Cape Royale on Tuesday this week. They always ask me to play. This is a pretty course but not really fully developed. It borders on Lake Livingston on the north and is close to the town of Coldspring, Texas, on the South. The lawyer advertising on the # 10 tee box is from Pointblank, Texas.
You can barely see the lake in the distance in the picture below. And the little pond. It approaches the 9th green, and yes, I lost a ball in it. The ducks thought we might feed them.
.
.
.
.
The drive home was nice, but a little warm for 'top-down' driving. I did turn around and go back to catch a picture of these miniature horses grazing in a pretty tree spotted pasture. Then I got this picture of some Main Street businesses in Willis, Texas. I like to shop at this old-timey hardware store. They even have a deli and sell meat.
Since I had only eaten two no-fat saltine cracker peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, I made a nice brat dog to satisfy my hunger pangs. Lunch at the pro-shop snack bar was a special for the day, chicken salad sandwich. Probably that was healthier. The other $8.00 special was a cheeseburger, chips (crisps for the Brits), and a soda fountain drink.
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.
3. Yesterday [Thursday, May 23] was National Turtle Day. On this World Turtle Day, Jaymi looked at 11 Critically endangered turtle species.
This turtle was found by Adi on one of our walks through the subdivision. Since the turtle was close to the little pond I didn't take it back. I do that a lot when they stray away from the ponds, especially if they get onto the road.
Adi was a very good dog (link)
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.
4. On Wednesday last week Mrs. Jim had the book club meeting at our home. This was her hors d'oeuvre table, set in our breakfast room. The table was giving to my parents by Grandpa when they returned from their honeymoon.So that was a good day for me to get a haircut. On my long way home I detoured over through Montgomery and visited a couple of antique stores.
This nice 1957 Triumph TR2 (could have been TR3, I can't remember) was parked in front of the real estate office. The owner was moving here from Oregon. He told me that is the only know TR2 remaining from a few made especially for road course track automobile racing.
The white building is one of our Montgomery County Museums. The building across the street from the car is one of the antique stores I visited. I did find a metal toy Triumph TR3 racing car for sale in a box of other stuff.
5. Finally, for the last, we visited out of town for the weekend.
When we go to Louisiana I like to eat Louisiana seafood. Granny's in Bastrop, Louisiana, was having their Saturday night all-you-can-eat seafood buffet.
My first helping here was a small bowl of seafood gumbo, a dish of fried oysters (some were missing as I had passed it around when we sat down), fried catfish, boiled shrimp, a stuffed crab, some breaded fried shrimp, a fried frog leg, and some white seafood pasta with white sauce.
We stayed with Mrs. Jim's sister, Velma and hubby. They have lived almost forever in Farmerville, La, north of Rustin. This is their house shown flying the Christian flag that was given to the members of their church.
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Sorry (really??) about having to recycle this blog agin for
Saturday Six Words.
It worked good last week I may just keep doing it. But it is (good)
stuff to know about me?Does that make
things better?
==> Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using
just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's
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the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to
participate.Labels: A-Random-Five, Driving Pictures, Eating, Jim Does, Six Word Saturday, this-and-that
