Thursday, September 09, 2021

Letter "K" -- -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections

THE ELEVENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "K" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "K"; (B) "Kind" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe. 

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(A) Starts with the Letter "K":   Killarney  starts with "K".  This was our nice B&B find in Killarney.  We stayed there two times. It was on a hill with a wonderful view from our front bedroom window.  We could also walk from there to downtown without driving and parking woes. (link to Muckross Drive House) .  https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=Killarney


(B) "Kind" (Tom's Choice):  "Be ye kind one to another" was my mother-in-law's favorite Bible quotation (Ephesians 4:32).  Everyone in her preschool Sunday morning Bible class had that one memorized.  

One morning when she came in two boys were quarreling and the whole class was in pandemonium.  She, upon entering, said, "Have you not forgotten Ephesians 4:32?"  Of which one of the fighting boys quickly replied, "No Ma'am, we just ain't doing it." (About Mema #1) (About Mema #2) (more Meme postings) 
Mema died January 16, 2007.


(C) A Favorite:  We were in box seats Tuesday night at the Sugarland Skeeters versus the Los Angeles's baseball game.  It was all free for us, paid by a group soliciting, for us to live in their apartments as seniors.  Read all about it here.


(D) Street/Reflections:  l am posed sitting across the sidewalk of this Katy clothing store window.   I waited for the white car's Reflection and mine to be outlined on the driver's door to snap this one.  


(E) A Lagniappe:  the city of Katy, Texas  is ready to remember the fallen on 9/11.

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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 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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# posted by Jim : 9/09/2021 04:07:00 PM  3 comments

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!! A four-leaf clover for you

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In the year 2007 I actually did find a four-leaf clover.
It was in Ireland of all places!
The following is a part from one my annual St. Patrick's day posts (link):

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I picked this clump of clovers beside the sidewalk leading to downtown Killarney, Ireland.

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There was only one with four leaves. You will have to find it, I did not pick it. Isn't picking four-leaf clovers bad luck? Later in Scotland I was able to find another four-leafed one.

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Our nice B&B in Killarney. This one was on a hill with a wonderful view from our front bedroom window. (link to Muckross Drive House)

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Here is the one I found in Scotland. It was on the grounds at the Drummond Castle and Gardens (link).
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Friday, March 12, 2021

Letter "K" -- Weekend Roundup

THE ELEVENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES) - the Letter "K" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "Kooky"; (B) "Kooky" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D.1 & D.2) A Reflection/Street Scene and Lagniappe. 
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[ The Blarney Stone is a part of the structure in the top passage inside this tower outside Killarney. ]

(A) Starts with the Letter "K":  Killarny, Ireland, starts with the letter "K".  I have Kissed the Blarney Stone on two different visits. (Read more) 
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Our nice B&B in Killarney, we stayed there three different years. (Read More)  I found a four leaf clover beside the sidewalk while walking down into the town.  

Remember to wear Green next Wednesday for St. Patrick's Day. 

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(Down pictures, Kooky town of Luckenbach, Texas).

  
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First picture is the 'food to go' kitchen. Next is the inside of the men's room. Last on the right is the outside of this building. Mrs. Jim said the women's room had stalls with curtains for doors.


 

Here, at Luckenbach,  Texas (google link), the action is starting. We were there from about 6:00 PM to around 7:15 and this fellow was playing and singing on the stage the whole time.

Mrs. Jim was waiting for me to come back from the men's room. The last picture says the singer is taking a break and that 'all that's left is us chickens.' Happy picnicking with your food on those tables. Shoo the chickens off first.  at 
(B) "Kooky" (Tom's Choice):  Isn't Luckenbach a Kooky little town?  Fun to visit but don't stay, people don't live there.
Question, Which came first, the Kook or being Kooky?  Like which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Answer, if you believe the Bible is true, the chicken.  Genesis says that God created the fowls, it doesn't say that he made eggs.   He made chickens so that the chicken could make her eggs.

Now, also the Kook or Kooky as both being words.  Please see google's answer in "D" below. 


(C) A Favorite:   Keeping with Texas Spring Tradition, this Redbud Tree that we found on our Wednesday's walk decided to bloom.  Note the brown grass due to our recent cold, very cold.  But the Redbud Tree stood ready to bloom.

(D.1) A Lagniappe:  Kook or Kooky?  


Now you know.  


(D.2) Street Photo and another  Lagniappe:  Where I broke my Kneecap, at Powerscourt Garden, Ireland.  I fell on these steps going down the hill into the garden, the Young Lady sitting there and another fellow helped me get up.   They overcame my objections, I didn't want to get up, rather just lay there and misserate. (Read More)
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Bonus Questions: 
 
(1)  Tell about your accident or other some other unusual experience away from home that you'd like to share.  Besides breaking my kneecap, I would tell about backing our rental SUV in Italy into a bruiser monster truck double parked behind me.  Several witnesses told me to hurry and leave before the owner came back.  Fearing an altercation by judging the frenzied motioning we did leave, quickly.  The rental people passed this damage on as I had noted previous damage there at the time we picked it up.  

(2) What is your favorite Word starting with "K"?  Mine today will be  "King", because at my age people have started treating me like a "King". 

(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/ (seldom newly posted)

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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 am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (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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Monday, March 17, 2008

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!! A four-leaf clover for you

A scripture for Sunday also, I'm skipping right over that day this week (please do remember it's Palm Sunday the 16th!).
"All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee" (Psalm 145:10 KJV)


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I thought too, I'd skip right over the Ides of March on the 15th. On this date in 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated. That day always scares me. Why, I don't know.



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I picked this clump of clovers beside the sidewalk leading to downtown Killarney, Ireland.

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There was only one with four leaves. You will have to find it, I did not pick it. Isn't picking four-leaf clovers bad luck? Later in Scotland I was able to find another four-leafed one.

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Our nice B&B in Killarney. This one was on a hill with a wonderful view from our front bedroom window. (link to Muckross Drive House)

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Here is the one I found in Scotland. It was on the grounds at the Drummond Castle and Gardens (link).
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Friday, September 17, 2021

Letter "L" -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections

 Lucky Little Cat named Sugar Bear 


THE TWELTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "L" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "L"; (B) "Landscape" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe. 

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(A) Starts with the Letter "L":  Little Leprechaun 

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We caught him! This is the mean Little Leprechaun who pushed me down the stairs while we were visiting in Ireland.  I ended up falling down a few very hard stairs. The fall knocked a finger out of joint and broke my right kneecap. I'm still recovering.  Read about that nasty incident (click here)  

This is from BP's Snow Globe collection (click here).  I'm wondering if she still has that collection.  Now she has graduated with Bachelor's and Master's degrees and has a very good job, seventeen years later.  The little June Bug leprechaun was found hiding out in a gift shop in Killarney.
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(B) "Landscape" (Tom's Choice):   The beautiful (not) Landscape viewed from the rear window of the overhead railway train going from C Terminal over to B Terminal ar the Houston Bush International Airport.


(C) A Favorite:   This Lucky Little Cat is named Sugar Bear.   She was a stray and my BIL took her in when she was a stray who was camping in the back yard.


(D) Street/Reflections:   College students waiting for (___you name it___).  Taken while driving by the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee. 


(E.1) A Lagniappe.   Lucius apples in bins for sale at our Kroger Grocery Store. 

(E.2) A Lagniappe.  A Leading cause 

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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 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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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

June Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes, It's June Bug (2007)

Click here for my Wordless Wednesday post today.
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We caught him! This is the mean little leprechaun who pushed me down the stairs while we were visiting in Ireland.

I ended up falling down a few very hard stairs. The fall knocked a finger out of joint and broke my right kneecap. I'm still recovering.

Read about that nasty incident (click here) on my May 26, 2007, blog.

The little June Bug leprechaun was found hiding out in a gift shop in Killarney.

We knew right away we could capture this little guy, kidnap him back to the states, and give him to our youngest granddaughter (GC#4 link). Then she would keep him locked forever with her collection.
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Isn't her collection nice? I counted 25 here, there are a couple of duplicates.
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She looks pleased, doesn't she? When her relatives travel, her first request for souvenirs is to bring her back snow globes from where we visited. We brought her six this time, five were from some of the states we had visited going and coming, then of course the captured leprechaun.

Here are the places she has in her collection:

Snow globe list
1. St. Petersburg
2. Paris
3. Seattle
4. Calgary Canada
5. Ireland
6. Tower Bridge London
7. Minnesota
8. Denver
9. Buckingham Palace
10. Whistler
11. Alabama
12. Chicago
13. Traverse City Michigan
14. Ohio
15. Arizona
16. San Francisco
17. Virginia
18. Iowa
19. Calgary Canada
20. New York
21. MGM Las Vegas
22. Kentucky
23. Pennsylvania


Her immediate goal is to be able to get them from every state in the Union. Later on she will concentrate more on the different countries and perhaps some logical collector themes.

Just in case you have one around that is collecting dust, you could mail it down to Texas. It would be most appreciated by this little lady!

Note: Click on these links for a huge version of each picture. Click on each picture for a full screen size.
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Middle picture link
Bottom picture link

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day — MidWeek Blues Greens — Things not on my shopping list

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None of the stuff on these shelves was on my list. Some looked good, others I had never even heard of. But if one came looking for Irish things to help celebrate St. Patrick's Day there wouldn't be any problem finding them.

An odd thing though, there is only one of most of these items on the display. Do you suppose ... ?

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This is my shopping list. No, I did not have any green shamrock sugar cookies on my list.

Did I buy one then? No, I did not buy any green shamrock sugar cookies.

This Kroger in-the-store-baked cookie was free, a gift for the customers.

What WAS on my list? Only four items, cooking sherry, a cantaloupe or some canned chunk pineapple, a box of plastic wrap, and some half and half for coffee. We were to entertain at our home for Gourmet Dining, an activity planned by the ladies' organization.





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This is the Killarney Castle (Ireland) where I kissed the Blarney Stone on two different holiday vacations. For some more words about me kissing the Blarney Stone, please click here. The last one has an explanation in case you haven't read it before or want to review.

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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.

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Cuisine Kathleen is having a sharing of the green party. She likes to post about eating, food, dishes, and stuff but has invited all kinds of greenery posts to link today. I think she would like to eat with our Jim Bunch Eats too.

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