Friday, July 21, 2017
~~ Friday’s Hunt v.4.03 -- "C" is for ...
Friday Hunt for the week of July 21st:
(1) Starts with "C"; (2) Building; and (3) Something I wear
Alternative "C", Clocks in our House. The one above is an old English pendulum clock from the 1860's. We have some documentation on it. It is a gift to Mrs. Jim.
(2) Building: The Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. No, we didn't stay there, way too many $$$$Bucks for us. But we did go there for coffee one afternoon. Mrs. Jim and I opted for a nice Cappuccino. We were served in the hotel lobby.
This January we traveled with Karen's family to visit BP who is attending college there. While there we went on a campus tour and attended a play she had produced. Some of those pictures are on another post.
(3) Something I wear: Most year round I wear golf or sporting shirts and shorts. The color fitting me is blue. These socks I just washed, Iwash my own clothes. The small pair was for Adi so she wouldn't scratch the floors. But she would not wear them. But she didn't scratch the floors either.
I have twelve pair of the larger ones, always I can find a mate.
My most common shoe is a pair of sandals. Yes, winter too. My best ones are a pair of Dockers Gladiator sandals. They are made of leather and really were comfortable. But seems hardly anyone makes them of leather anymore, they all are plastic (man made materials).
Once in a while Mrs. Jim has me wearing longer pants. That would be for social events (not all) and church things. A small percentage do wear shorts to church, blue jeans are the leader but not nearly half wear those. This is a picture I took at church this week. We were sitting about half way up, on one of the second section's front row.
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The Fine Print: - Teresa of Eden Hills, (click)is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm."
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(1) Starts with "C"; (2) Building; and (3) Something I wear
(1) Starts with "C": These are not my Camel Bells (if I can find them/I couldn't). (Mine look a lot like these pictured only newer, bright brass color with engravings. I'll tag this post with a "Camel Bells "Label" here and with a post of mine to come later showing and telling of my Camel Bells. Click on this picture for larger viewing or you can see the ones on the right better by themselves at http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503692
I bought my Camel Bells from a street vendor in Egypt, probably Cairo, in our 1980. There to the Sphinx we did ride a camel up the hill to visit the largest pyramid. My pictures need to be scanned to show here.
I bought my Camel Bells from a street vendor in Egypt, probably Cairo, in our 1980. There to the Sphinx we did ride a camel up the hill to visit the largest pyramid. My pictures need to be scanned to show here.
Alternative "C", Clocks in our House. The one above is an old English pendulum clock from the 1860's. We have some documentation on it. It is a gift to Mrs. Jim.
Daily driver if I NEED to wake up before I wake up.
It used to be Karen's who needs an extra loud one.
Watches with history. One is my grandfather's who hocked it to get back
home to Nebraska from Arkansas where he couldn't make a living farming.
Another belonged to Mrs. Jim's father. She bought an uncle
a new watch to replace his in order to have this one.
Finally one has been 'willed' to me by Katrin's deceased owner.
Clocks on our built-in Book shelves:
Three carriage clocks, British I believe. Given to Mrs. Jim.
Three French clocks, we don't have them running. They
sit on a large secretary standing next to the stairs.Given to Mrs. Jim.
I also have a wall clock larger than these that hangs in my 'office'.
We also have my parents Kitchen clock, about 18 inches high, windup.
And an Emperor hall clock which we bought and I assembled.
(2) Building: The Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. No, we didn't stay there, way too many $$$$Bucks for us. But we did go there for coffee one afternoon. Mrs. Jim and I opted for a nice Cappuccino. We were served in the hotel lobby.
This January we traveled with Karen's family to visit BP who is attending college there. While there we went on a campus tour and attended a play she had produced. Some of those pictures are on another post.
(3) Something I wear: Most year round I wear golf or sporting shirts and shorts. The color fitting me is blue. These socks I just washed, Iwash my own clothes. The small pair was for Adi so she wouldn't scratch the floors. But she would not wear them. But she didn't scratch the floors either.
I have twelve pair of the larger ones, always I can find a mate.
My most common shoe is a pair of sandals. Yes, winter too. My best ones are a pair of Dockers Gladiator sandals. They are made of leather and really were comfortable. But seems hardly anyone makes them of leather anymore, they all are plastic (man made materials).Once in a while Mrs. Jim has me wearing longer pants. That would be for social events (not all) and church things. A small percentage do wear shorts to church, blue jeans are the leader but not nearly half wear those. This is a picture I took at church this week. We were sitting about half way up, on one of the second section's front row.
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The Fine Print: - Teresa of Eden Hills, (click)is running this meme, Friday's Hunt. Her rules are: "Welcome to linkup for Friday’s Hunt. It’s very simple. Anyone can participate. The link opens at 7pm Friday Central time and will close Sunday at 7pm."
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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Camel Bells, Friday’s Hunt # 04 - 2017, Jim Does, Katrin, Travel 7
Friday, January 19, 2024
Letter "C" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "C." A Favorite.
For Tom "C"loud.
Tom's "Cloud": Pretty Cloud Lining
For James Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
From left to right, my inherited watch, Mrs. Jim's father's clock, and my grandfather's pocket watch. Grandpa had hocked this clock when he needed to come back to Nebraska after having found the soil was for miserable farming soil, full of rocks as well.
A Favorite: Mrs. Jim has a nice Clock Collection for an amateur.
I have three clocks, an "atomic clock" still in a box, a Western Union rectangular wall clock pictured here, and the 'inherited watch' also above. Technically Grandpa's watch is mine as well as the kitchen clock in my growing up home. I inherited the wall clock. My parents, former owners, were married in 1932. The ones you are seeing are all in Mrs. Jim's collection.
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Starts with "C": Well, I 'have' a Corvette. Last week, the "B" post, I mentioned that a Corvette was on my Buckett List. Yes, I 'have' it, a toy, but it belongs to my younger daughter, a Barbie Doll Corvette. She left it here with most of her toys.
Mrs. Jim inherited these traveling clocks.
This clock was in the kitchen of our farmhouse growing up. My parents received it as a wedding present. Note in its location photo, left, is another clock in the upper right, possibly my grandparents.
Mrs. Jim inherited these three furniture top clocks as well.
Mrs. Jim inherited the antique clock on the left, the history is on the note behind the front door, see below. We purchased the newer Emperor clock on the right. I had to assemble it from mail order although they were also selling these models in kit form.
The note on the door on the bottom left above was pasted on.
It tells that the History a little of the Antique clock above to the left. The note reads,
- Thomas Whipp (maker), Rochdale Long case clocks, 1820-1842 (sources I found said "circa 1770")
- Rochdale is 10 miles North of Manchester
- Purchased in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 5 July 1965
I have three clocks, an "atomic clock" still in a box, a Western Union rectangular wall clock pictured here, and the 'inherited watch' also above. Technically Grandpa's watch is mine as well as the kitchen clock in my growing up home. I inherited the wall clock. My parents, former owners, were married in 1932. The ones you are seeing are all in Mrs. Jim's collection.
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| May your dark clouds have silver linings! (my, Jimmiehov, photo) |
Tom's "Cloud": Pretty Cloud Lining
James' Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures: Moody Garden's "South Atlantic" presentation in Galveston, Texas, courtesy of TV Channel 2, KPRC in Houston, Texas.
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The fine print
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Back
woods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linked 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.
- I am also linked 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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Labels: Antiques, Birds, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Reflections, SkyWatch Friday, Toys
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Some not original thoughts, with no comments added
I. Question: How long will the last minute of 2005 be?
Leap second to be introduced as new year arrives:
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has announced the introduction of a "time step" at the end of December to add a "leap second" as 2006 arrives.
Leap seconds are needed to keep clocks in step with Earth's rotation, which varies by several thousandths of a second per day. Slowing down the clocks every year or two keeps them in sync.
As 2005 transitions to 2006, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) will be retarded by 1.0 second. This essentially means that the last minute in 2005 will be 61 seconds long: December 31, 2005, 23:59:59; December 31, 2005, 23:59:60; January 1, 2006, 00:00:00.
This adjustment will affect UTC and all time scales based on UTC. Loran-C and GPS will not be adjusted physically, however. Times of Coincidence for LORAN-C are available on the Time Service Web Page.
For GPS, the leap second correction, contained within the UTC data of the navigation message transmitted by satellites, will change. After the leap second GPS will be ahead of UTC by 14 seconds.
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/05/1223/
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 24, No. 50
December 23, 2005
II. My yesterday’s e-mail from Joke of the Day:
http://www.cleanjokeoftheday.com (you can subscribe)
A lady lost her handbag in the bustle of Christmas shopping. It was found by an honest little boy and returned to her. Looking in her purse, she commented, "Hmmm.... That's funny. When I lost my bag there was a $20 bill in it. Now there are twenty $1 bills."
The boy quickly replied, "That's right, lady. The last time I found a lady's purse, she didn't have any change for a reward."
I. Question: How long will the last minute of 2005 be?
Leap second to be introduced as new year arrives:
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has announced the introduction of a "time step" at the end of December to add a "leap second" as 2006 arrives.
Leap seconds are needed to keep clocks in step with Earth's rotation, which varies by several thousandths of a second per day. Slowing down the clocks every year or two keeps them in sync.
As 2005 transitions to 2006, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) will be retarded by 1.0 second. This essentially means that the last minute in 2005 will be 61 seconds long: December 31, 2005, 23:59:59; December 31, 2005, 23:59:60; January 1, 2006, 00:00:00.
This adjustment will affect UTC and all time scales based on UTC. Loran-C and GPS will not be adjusted physically, however. Times of Coincidence for LORAN-C are available on the Time Service Web Page.
For GPS, the leap second correction, contained within the UTC data of the navigation message transmitted by satellites, will change. After the leap second GPS will be ahead of UTC by 14 seconds.
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/05/1223/
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 24, No. 50
December 23, 2005
II. My yesterday’s e-mail from Joke of the Day:
http://www.cleanjokeoftheday.com (you can subscribe)
A lady lost her handbag in the bustle of Christmas shopping. It was found by an honest little boy and returned to her. Looking in her purse, she commented, "Hmmm.... That's funny. When I lost my bag there was a $20 bill in it. Now there are twenty $1 bills."
The boy quickly replied, "That's right, lady. The last time I found a lady's purse, she didn't have any change for a reward."
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Pick a time, any time (2 through 8) -- Teacher says "Tell why"
A Time for Everything
1. There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2. a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3. a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4. a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5. a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6. a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7. a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8. a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV)
1. There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2. a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3. a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4. a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5. a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6. a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7. a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8. a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV)
I'd give you the time
clocks have stopped would if I could
if I had the time
Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same goes for my poetry attempts (don't know how, but I enjoy it!).
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Post for Saturday - Sunday - Monday (maybe)
Saturday:
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Yesterday (Saturday) I was on the computer a lot. First I had to finish my Sunday school lesson for tomorrow. It is all about Jacob and his trouble getting his wife, Rachel. Did you know that he had to marry her sister, Leah, first. After working for seven years for their uncle thinking it was to earn Rachel. So then he had to work seven more years to earn Rachel.
Did you have a problem with "their uncle?" Yes, that is correct, Jacob and his wives were cousins. Read all about it in Genesis 29-31, click here.
Mrs. Jim and our friend visiting from Maine were shopping. While they were out, I shopped too! On eBay. I spent a lot more than Mrs. Jim did.
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And Adi? She was my helper again. Both of us would rather have been down off the balcony and hitting our golf ball along with this fellow.
Before Mrs. Jim left, we read the paper. A couple of great items caught my attention. First was the 'joke of the day,' "He had a photographic memory that was never developed."
Second item, this cartoon (click) showing the artist's conception of blogging before the Al Gore had invented the Internet.
Sunday:
How about a church sign?
This sign reminded me of the little fellow who had loaves and fishes in his basket. It had been a long day, Jesus had been preaching longer than Billy Graham does that day. There was a huge crowd and everyone had gotten really hungry, but the only person with foresight to bring supper was this kid with his basket of loaves and fishes.
Jesus said to the kid, "Don't be greedy, pass your basket around!" That reminded me of theMethodist coffee house in Huntsville, Alabamah, I visited one day (in my hippy days a long time ago).
We all sat on the floor, around the room leaning on the walls. After a bit someone broke out a bottle of wine and they began passing them around till they were empty.
Those three bottles lasted us all night, somehow they never became empty. And there were twelve full bottles left over when we were ready to leave! Too bad we didn't have some pizza with anchovies in the basket also. That would have been good passed around going with the wine.
Oh well, just read about how Jesus did his thing to get enough bread and fish for the huge crowd, starting with just that one little basket. It's in Matthew 14:13-18
Monday, maybe:
I would like to go to Orange, Texas. There is a new garden over there sitting on 252 Texas-sized acres, called the Shangri Law Botanical Gardens. I see I can't do that, because it is open Tuesday through Sunday. Unless they are having a dress rehearsal Monday. That is a long way to drive to find out I couldn't get in. I'd better pay bills and clean up around here, and play a little golf in the afternoon.
Links:
About Shangri La
Picture galleries
Well, I'm off to bed now. Be sure to set your clock ahead an hour or you may be late for church tomorrow. It sure seems early to go to bed but we have set our clocks ahead early!
[large picture] [super size]Yesterday (Saturday) I was on the computer a lot. First I had to finish my Sunday school lesson for tomorrow. It is all about Jacob and his trouble getting his wife, Rachel. Did you know that he had to marry her sister, Leah, first. After working for seven years for their uncle thinking it was to earn Rachel. So then he had to work seven more years to earn Rachel.
Did you have a problem with "their uncle?" Yes, that is correct, Jacob and his wives were cousins. Read all about it in Genesis 29-31, click here.
Mrs. Jim and our friend visiting from Maine were shopping. While they were out, I shopped too! On eBay. I spent a lot more than Mrs. Jim did.
[large picture] [super size]And Adi? She was my helper again. Both of us would rather have been down off the balcony and hitting our golf ball along with this fellow.
Before Mrs. Jim left, we read the paper. A couple of great items caught my attention. First was the 'joke of the day,' "He had a photographic memory that was never developed."
Second item, this cartoon (click) showing the artist's conception of blogging before the Al Gore had invented the Internet.
Sunday:
How about a church sign?
This sign reminded me of the little fellow who had loaves and fishes in his basket. It had been a long day, Jesus had been preaching longer than Billy Graham does that day. There was a huge crowd and everyone had gotten really hungry, but the only person with foresight to bring supper was this kid with his basket of loaves and fishes.
Jesus said to the kid, "Don't be greedy, pass your basket around!" That reminded me of the
We all sat on the floor, around the room leaning on the walls. After a bit someone broke out a bottle of wine and they began passing them around till they were empty.
Those three bottles lasted us all night, somehow they never became empty. And there were twelve full bottles left over when we were ready to leave! Too bad we didn't have some pizza with anchovies in the basket also. That would have been good passed around going with the wine.
Oh well, just read about how Jesus did his thing to get enough bread and fish for the huge crowd, starting with just that one little basket. It's in Matthew 14:13-18
Monday, maybe:
I would like to go to Orange, Texas. There is a new garden over there sitting on 252 Texas-sized acres, called the Shangri Law Botanical Gardens. I see I can't do that, because it is open Tuesday through Sunday. Unless they are having a dress rehearsal Monday. That is a long way to drive to find out I couldn't get in. I'd better pay bills and clean up around here, and play a little golf in the afternoon.
Links:
About Shangri La
Picture galleries
Well, I'm off to bed now. Be sure to set your clock ahead an hour or you may be late for church tomorrow. It sure seems early to go to bed but we have set our clocks ahead early!
Labels: Adi, Bible, Church Signs, Family, Food, Friends, Golf course, Humor, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim's Life, Places, Tales, Things to know, Travel
Monday, January 03, 2011
It's National Sleep In Day -- Enjoy it!
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I'd give you the time
clocks have stopped would if I could
if I had the time
Poem and Picture Copyright
© 2009 Jimmiehov.
All Rights Reserved
National Sleep In Day is a good excuse for being late?
I'm late with this post!
I'd give you the time
clocks have stopped would if I could
if I had the time
Poem and Picture Copyright
© 2009 Jimmiehov.
All Rights Reserved
National Sleep In Day is a good excuse for being late?
I'm late with this post!
Labels: Days, Humor, Poem, Senryū
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
My Alphabe-Thursday (5th), the letter "Y" — Some places I've been starting with "Y"
"Y" is for some places, countries and cities starting with the letter "Y" where I have traveled:
- No Countries (Yemen is the only country beginning with "Y" and we haven't been there). No States at all begin with "Y".
- States
Yaroslavl, Russia -- We stopped off at Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, on our Moscow to St. Petersburg Viking River Cruise.
Yalta, Ukraine -- We visited Yalta in August, 2013, on our Venice to Istanbul to the Black Sea and back to Athens, Greece Pacific Princess Cruise (link). Yalta's city population is 80,500 but the metropolitan area population is about 139,500.
- We docked at Yalta in the morning of August 16, 2013. After breakfast we boarded a bus and headed for the Livadia Palace outside Yalta. We traveled a little over an hour to get there. It was there that the 1945 Yalta Conference was held by the big three leaders to discuss post warm WWII, plans to rebuild Europe.
Following are some pictures. On this cruise, our daughter, Karen, and our four-year-old grand-daughter, KP, came along with us. KP loved the kids' program that Princess had for them.
Mrs. Jim likes clocks, especially older ones. and has several in her collection. She liked this one. I am not sure if it was there for the Conference or if it was added later as room furniture.
Our ride back to Yalta was uneventful. We traveled down the coastal road and the scenery was beautiful. There were some old mansions along the highway and the road was great.
We took a short excursion ride through town and over to the ship where we had lunch before going out for the afternoon.
- No Countries (Yemen is the only country beginning with "Y" and we haven't been there). No States at all begin with "Y".
- States
Yaroslavl, Russia -- We stopped off at Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, on our Moscow to St. Petersburg Viking River Cruise.
Yalta, Ukraine -- We visited Yalta in August, 2013, on our Venice to Istanbul to the Black Sea and back to Athens, Greece Pacific Princess Cruise (link). Yalta's city population is 80,500 but the metropolitan area population is about 139,500.
- We docked at Yalta in the morning of August 16, 2013. After breakfast we boarded a bus and headed for the Livadia Palace outside Yalta. We traveled a little over an hour to get there. It was there that the 1945 Yalta Conference was held by the big three leaders to discuss post warm WWII, plans to rebuild Europe.
Following are some pictures. On this cruise, our daughter, Karen, and our four-year-old grand-daughter, KP, came along with us. KP loved the kids' program that Princess had for them.
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"The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea." (Read more)
Our ride back to Yalta was uneventful. We traveled down the coastal road and the scenery was beautiful. There were some old mansions along the highway and the road was great.
We took a short excursion ride through town and over to the ship where we had lunch before going out for the afternoon.
We had a little rain shower before we could reach the ship.
There wasn't any lightening so being under the tree was fine for us.
This was my favorite salad aboard the Pacific Princess.
It is a Scallop __? ? ?__ Salad
The Pacific Princess is going to Alaska for one trip this summer. Right now they are finishing filling it up with bargain fares. (Link to Princess) An interior room is going for $299 and a window will be $399.
The Pacific Princess is one of their two Small Ship cruise boats having a passenger capability of about 680. I think we knew about half of them by the end of our two-week cruise (from Venice, Italy, to Istanbul into the Black Sea and them back out to Athens, Greece).
The sister ship is the Ocean Princess. The original Pacific Princess was the Love Boat but this one has replaced it nicely.
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- Jenny is now on her tenth series of Alphabe Thursday. With 52 weeks in a year and 26 letters in the alphabet she is now in her fifth year. I am linked to her blog, GO HERE for more participants and their offerings.
Labels: 2013-Venice-to-Athens-via-the-Black-Sea, Alphabe-Thursday [5th], Jim Does, Jim's Life, Travel 2
