Friday, May 19, 2023
Letter "T" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "T"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "T"errific.
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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All these start with "T"???
A hint: Besides "Terrific" though they are.
The couple you see in these pictures were our Texas
next-door neighbor until they moved to Colorado.
First we went to Mountain Village where we parked our car. Then we would have lunch at the Peaks Resort & Golden Door Spa, Hotel Telluride. Below is the outdoor patio eating area, as we had Luke with us this day, we would go to the patio for eating.
Lunch was excellent, every one of us had different orders.
Mine was the best! But now I couldn't take bites or chew
it up. Take care of your teeth!! I did but I have outlived
my uppers.
Our drinks were Arnold Palmers and water.
The Arnold Palmer is becoming quite popular,
it consists of unsweetened ice tea and lemonade,
half and half.
Luke would be good in France. He just stayed nearby
or under the table while we ate.
That wouldn't work right now for Adi and Katrin,
they stand looking at us with big eyes and drooling!
Isn't the view from our table fabulous!
Next summer we might bring golf clubs.
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Mrs. Jim caught the first car, but they wouldn't let dogs on this one.
She was waiting for us on a bench when we got to the top.
At the top, we entered another cable lift to go down
to Telluride at the bottom on the other side of the mountain.
This is the view from the top,
looking back over Mountain Village where we departed.
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| And looking down at the old city of Telluride. |
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| Downtown Telluride [click picture for a larger view] |
Starts with "T": The Town of Telluride, Colorado starts with a "T".
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| Can you believe there was an airport in Telluride on the side of one of the hills, straight down |
A Favorite: The view down and out was my Favorite scenery there around Telluride.
Tom's suggestion, "Terrific": Luke was a Terric dog but was a little apprehensive going up the mountain side in the cable car.
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| "But Officer, I ... " - photo taken in Sorento, Italy - Copyright 2006, Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved |
James' request, Street Photos/Candid Captures: The street in Sorento, Italy. There are a lot of Motor Scooters in Italy with it's cooperative warm winter weather.
Something "Light": Kids Advice on Love and Marriage
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HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY;">You got to find somebody who likes what you like. Like you both like Hershey Candy Kisses. Or like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming.
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The Fine Print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.]
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Traveler" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Traveler" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
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Labels: Colorado, Colorado 2011, Colorado Holiday, Dogs, Eating, First Times, Friends, kids-1
Friday, December 30, 2022
Letter "Z" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "Z"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Z".
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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Happy New Year !!!
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Photo is of the Cover of the magazine, M a t u r e F o c u s, December 2022 issue. |
Picture is the Artwork of
Angela Trotta Thomas
titled "Loading the Truck"
(more is on the picture at the
side, click on it for larger size).
This old Packard pickup? I am
guessing it is from1938 to 1940.
I've not seen one, they are rather
Tom's suggestion, A Lagniappe: The Day After Christmas; Sales and putting things in order for 2023, read above. I previously posted this in my "jim's little Christmas tree farm" blog on December 26. 
Has a "Z": Zombie tree. I wrote "a poem" about a tree like this last year, https://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2021/08/weekly-scribblings-tree-of-different.html?m=1
A Favorite: My first real post on this blog, December 04, 2005:
"I liked best the article about the human yardstick and I’ll relate a little.
SMOOTS - A Boston Tradition
If you have walked along the Harvard Bridge that connects Boston and Cambridge, no doubt you have encountered the Smoot markings along the way. These markings have helped millions of area residents and tourists measure their progress along the bridge as they walk or bike to their destination.
Question:
How long is the bridge in Smoots?
Answer: 364.4 Smoots plus 1 ear
That makes the bridge over a half mile (roughly 2763.37 feet) that these poof college students had to cross to get to their campus. That was in 1958. Of course these that was only half the walk I had back in 1951 at Lincoln, having to walk a mile to classes from my rental room. Up hill, sometimes in the rain and snow. Dad did loan me his pickup when I broke my foot-another whole story.
SMOOTS - A Boston Tradition
If you have walked along the Harvard Bridge that connects Boston and Cambridge, no doubt you have encountered the Smoot markings along the way. These markings have helped millions of area residents and tourists measure their progress along the bridge as they walk or bike to their destination.
Question:
How long is the bridge in Smoots?
Answer: 364.4 Smoots plus 1 ear
That makes the bridge over a half mile (roughly 2763.37 feet) that these poof college students had to cross to get to their campus. That was in 1958. Of course these that was only half the walk I had back in 1951 at Lincoln, having to walk a mile to classes from my rental room. Up hill, sometimes in the rain and snow. Dad did loan me his pickup when I broke my foot-another whole story.
The students decided "in a unique way to tell how much bridge they had left to cross. So they decided to make the pledges use one of their own to measure the bridge." Smoot was the shortest, 5'7", so his measure would produce the highest number.
Oliver Smoot is now 65 (in 2005) and ready for retirement. He had been on the board and vice president of the American National Standards Institute. Right up his alley from college days. The bridge has also become known as The Smoot Bridge."
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A Notice: Now that Christmas has past, I am slowing on posting, th next post is planned for New Year's Day, my Christmas Trees on my Christmas Tree Farm blog. See it at
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Cars, First Times, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, trees
Friday, May 06, 2022
Letter "R" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
The "R" Week's prompts: Starts with "R"; A Favorite; and "R"oof.
Lagniappe # 1:
Reflections and/or Street Captures: These are my finding at the Ends of the Rainbow!!
Lagniappe # 2: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "M", I left off at "L" in February, through "R" (I've been to at least 76 countries):
Starts with "R": "Rainbow" starts with "R". This display was for St. Patrick's Day, March 18, on our trans-Atlantic cruise. Mrs. Jim came down with the COVID-19 on the 17th, I was Positive on the 22nd.
That 17th, the 6th day ruined the rest of our 16 Day cruise. Mrs. Jim was "isolated" in the 'isolation ward' for the rest of the time, plus another day at the Holiday Inn Express in Portsmouth in the U.K. I had to spend the entire week there (so we both stayed, but Mrs. Jim could walk around outside).
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Rainbows, the sign of the covenant between God and the earth (the Bible, Gensis 9:14-17 [link])
...[large picture] [super sized]
A Favorite: The Real Thing, a Real Rainbow. Our back yard from 1999 until 2015, the Green for Hole # 11 on the Weiskopf. I could see that it had dropped down into a sand trap on #15.
(Copyright 2007, first posted here)(Other Rainbow posts here)
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"Roof", Tom's word choice: The Red Roofed houses and buildings of Dubrovnik, Croatia. (More Croatia and Dubrovnik Here)
Lagniappe # 1:This one's our daughter Karen's Race Car, it's
a 1982 or so Pine Wood Derby Racer, we still have it
.Karen did most of the work, Mrs. Jim and I were consultants for her.
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She won first place. Of course technology has improved since then so it probably couldn't keep up with the modern cars. Dad (me) was the chief speed advisor, he drives fast too (160mph on the German Autobahn,) for her project. Mrs. Jim did the fashion painting advice. Karen did [most of] the work.
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Please enlarge the picture by clicking on it so you can see the driver pretty good. The driver is a piece of lead fishing weight, carved to precision weight with the car weighing 1 ounce less than the maximum.
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The paint is acrylic blue with a red, green, and blue butterfly on the hood. There's a rainbow at the rear, and some green growth with a flower on the deck lid. If we were smart, we could have sensed a tree-hugger growing up here with us.
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Weight distribution is 63% in the rear wheels, 37% up front. The uplift in the back functioned better than a spoiler in keeping the car hugging the track surface. Many cars tipped and fell off or tumbled, hers went straight down the slotted hill track.
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Also compare it with Cliff's grandson's car (link for enlargement, link for Tuesday, April 24, blog post with the picture and write up). His car did good too!
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It would be interesting to race these two cars now, '82 model vs. '07. Twenty-five years difference!
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Where First Times
Maldives 2020
Mauritius 2020
Mexico 1956
Monaco 2007
Mozambique 2020
Netherlands—Aruba(yes), Curaçao(yes), the Netherlands and Saint Maarten(yes)—are constituent countries , we've not been to "The Kingdom of The Netherlands"(no) Island Country itself.
New Zealand 2014
Norway 2009
Oman 2020
Panama 2003
Peru 2015
Poland 2003
Portugal 2005
Romania 2013
Russia. 2006
- Click Here for all countries I've visited.
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The 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 am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Croatia, First Times, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, Rainbow, Reflections
Friday, June 22, 2018
Weekend Roundup -- 25-18 (for letter "Y")
The 25th issue of Weekend Roundup for this year...
The week's prompts:
(1) Starts with "Y"; (2) A Favorite; and (3) Yellow
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When I was young my cousin John gave me a four door 1:16 scale model (about eight inches long) cast iron four "Yellow Cab." more like the one at the bottom of the page.
But I left it outside at our farmstead and Dad smashed it to bits by accidently running over it with his tractor. John had two of these given to him by our great aunt. I don't know if a relative still has it or not. John died a couple of years ago.
Lois lives in Iowa, we both were born at home in the family farm house in Nebraska. I am the older by five years.
(2) A Favorite: Our youngest granddaughter has been to 4th and 5th grade church camp this week. KP is starting the 4th grade this Fall.
Here she is claiming her sleeping bag and appeasing her grandfather by a nice picture. There were three 36 passenger busses going to a rural setting north of Houston, it was about a three hour ride.
This was her first time to go off camping with other kids. She liked it, said she sure would want to go again next summer.
(3) Yellow: Popular Electronics Magazine cover partially (shown August 1961) used both Yellow type and then a yellow banner to announce lead articles. (magazine link) The magazine ran from October 1954 until December, 1982.
A popular option was the Novice Amateur Radio Station of the Month. My ex and I had our station pictured and featured in 1963. It was down in the basement of our New Hampshire home. We both passed the exams for Novice Class and then within the allotted year for General Class.
You can read any of the back issues of Popular Electronics here at the link below, just click on a check mark for your desired issue.
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm
The end, that's all for tonight.
The fine print: - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link to Weekend Review)
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The end, that's all for tonight.
The fine print: - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link to Weekend Review)
- The pictures are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Family, First Times, Jim Does, KP, Lois, Toys, Weekend Roundup 01
