Wednesday, September 08, 2021
Weekly Scribblings extended - Eating Free and A free Ball Game
Journaling (with amplified narratives) -- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
7/22/2021 ~~ Free Meal at Perry's Steakhouse & Grille ~~ Got invited to a Skeeter's baseball game
(Amplification) Today is the day I went for my four course lunch, for free at my favorite steakhouse, Perry's Steakhouse and Grille. It is on the Houston Top 12 Steakhouse List (link). Mrs. Jim and I are being courted by several 55+ senior living facilities. This one was being hosted by XYX.
There were five other prospects there today, Mrs. Jim couldn't come as her bridge group was playing today.
My meal began with crab bisque, followed by a delicious salad. My entrée was a rack of pork chops, the group of bones were standing tall, like soldiers ready for inspection. Delicious, I ate them all.
And after desert, I had a delicious no flour and frosted chocolate cake, Mrs. Jim and I were invited to a baseball game down at Sugarland.
9/7/2021 ~~ Baseball Game night ~~ Granddaughter's performance first.
(Amplification) This was the day for ball games. First was our granddaughter's junior high first football game this year. And her first for a public performance as a cheerleader. She performed to perfection, entering with a backwards somersault in the air without touching the ground. Scary for us who love her sooo very much.
9/7/2021 ~~ The baseball game ~~ We ate well
(Amplified) We left the football game a bit before it was over. Google had told us it was a 45 minute drive to Sugarland. It would have been but I got sort of lost before we got there .
My driving went bonkers today, I overshot the turnoff to the stadium and ended up on the south side of Highway 59. So we pulled into a Quick Stop and asked for directions. That was a waste they didn't know their surroundings there, I think they had just arrived from another country. To save the day, I had Mrs. Jim ask how we could get to Texas Highway 6.
When we reached the Hwy 6 exit there was a sign, Constellation Field to turn left. Eighteen Dollars$ for parking!!! Whoo, Whoo. I remember when parking at the Astrodome was only 5$. And to boot, only credit cards were accepted.
When we picked up our tickets at the Will Call window, they didn't ask for I.D, only their comment was "I doubt their is another last name like that!" Before we reached the ticket taker we were approached by Mrs. W. who was glad to see us come. I apologized for being late, she forgave, and mentioned how so very few of the 300 had showed.
After saying hellos to the other two ladies we knew and being introduced to two other XYZ employees we were escorted to the second floor box reserved for our group. There we were shown the make-it-yourself ingredients for hot dogs, hamburgers, and cheeseburgers. I had a nice loaded hot dog, Mrs. Jim had a plain hamburger with onions and mustard and no bread. Also beans, slaw, and Mac and Cheese. Later we had a frosted brownie cake and a Diet Coke.
We chose to sit outside to eat and watch the ballgame now at the second inning. There was no score, zero to zero. Our team, the Sugarland Skeeters, had a home run in the 4th inning to match the earlier run my the opponent, the Los Vegas Aviators. No more scores until in overtime, our Skeeters had a walk with the bases loaded to win by one to two.
The ride home was uneventful and we were in bed before midnight. Our daughter traces Mrs. Jim's cell phone and this morning called to see what time we had come in.
All in all it was a fun, fun evening.
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- Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved
- This is the whole story of the exert and amplification of our one evening activity posted for The Weekly Scribblings, I've posted that at . http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2021/09/weekly-scribblings-fun-night-out-page.html but this complete story has about 640 words and a few corrections needed.
Labels: Art, Food and Drink, Jim Bunch Eats, Jim does, Jim's Life
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Abbey Road Crossing snaps
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Our youngest grand-daughter is the little girl wearing
the red pants. They are all waving a hello to us.
The first is the best. Then the others were a part of the progression.
Labels: Family, Jim's Life, Update
Thursday, October 09, 2008
My cars #001 -- 1949 Ford Pickup -- With my broken foot, I didn't have a car until Dad loaned me his pickup
. In college I broke my foot during my last semester, third semester freshman, at Lincoln. It was initiation night at Pershing Rifles and we pledges had to march from six p.m. until midnight. After midnight the actives couldn't do a thing to us.
At midnight it was tradition for the pledges to de-pants the actives. The fellow my friend and I drew wanted to keep his pants on so he kicked. It knocked me backwards some. (Where is this going?)
About 1:30 or so I walked the mile to my rented room out on 13th Street. The next morning I couldn't walk on that foot. I took the bus that morning to the infirmary where they discovered I had broken my foot, a metatarsal, probably the second metatarsal, (Widipedia link) (it could have been the first) in the right foot.
My dad felt sorry for me as I couldn't walk that mile any more. The first week or so I was on crutches, then on a walking cast for six more. Dad offered the loan of his pickup, a black 1949 Ford. I sure did take him up on that, fast! Dad never did know the real way I broke that foot.
That January I dropped out of college. Of course I didn't tell my parents and for sure didn't give the pickup back. In about four months I was able to get a job at the Elgin Watch Factory in Lincoln. I still didn't give the pickup back but finally I did tell that I had dropped out of school and had the job.
Working was fun for me, I was tired of going to classes. Notice I didn't say tired of studying because I didn't ever study. I didn't in high school and I wasn't about to in college. Better to tell the truth, I didn't know how to study.
That pickup even went to the rodeo in Ames, Iowa, to the beach at Linoma Beach quite often, and on some (???descriptive?term????) dating. In fact I had a steady girl for the first time in my life, she worked at Elgin too.
In another month or so, Dad had it figured out. He told me that maybe I should be getting a car of my own, did I want to do that? You see in those days, at least in Nebraska, kids couldn't buy cars until they were twenty-one unless a parent signed.
My first car was a 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe that had belonged to Elmer Cells, my high school principal and chemistry teacher. He was Dad's good friend as well as Mr. Morrow's (Cliff's Dad--I think Cliff's family is related to the Cells). He had traded his Studebaker in on a new car and WE, Dad and I, got this one from the Ford dealer in Tekamah.
Studebakers aren't very tough cars, that one didn't take the abuse I wanted to give it, so it gave up. Wouldn't you know it, just about the time I was trading it in for my second car? It depreciated a whole $200 in one week because it wasn't running very good when I brought it back a week later to get my used 1952 Ford.
Labels: Cars, Humor, Jim's Life, My Cars
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Flowers in the wild -- no, not wild flowers
except for the white wild blackberry bush flowers in the first picture.
[Click pictures for large size]
The rest are our little red bud tree in bloom (first picture) and the azaleas in full bloom today in the second picture. Gone are the red bud flowers and the white blackberry bush blooms.
The wild, yes, because we have let this bed grow wild. As soon as people do that around here, those blackberries move in.
[Click pictures for large size]
The rest are our little red bud tree in bloom (first picture) and the azaleas in full bloom today in the second picture. Gone are the red bud flowers and the white blackberry bush blooms.
The wild, yes, because we have let this bed grow wild. As soon as people do that around here, those blackberries move in.
Labels: Jim's Life, Sunday
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The cars in my life (just those owned by me, there were other affairs also)
Here are the cars in my life: [should I blog on this as part of my memoirs?]
1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe
1952 Ford Tudor, I hopped it up very heavily before I sold it
1956 Ford Sunliner Convertible (new)
1941 Chevy Two-door (second car, a nice one-owner)
1950 (Jimmy Dean) Mercury Two-door Coupe (ditched the '56 when I went into the army)
1951 Ford Tudor--a present from Dad while I was still in the army
1960 Rambler Two-door Custom station wagon
1950 Ford Tudor
1962 VW Bug--my work car
1956 Ford Customline Fordor-hardtop
1968 Ford station wagon (new)
1969 Ford Thunderbird***
1971 Honda CB450 motorcycle
1972 Ford Pinto***
1976 Ford Granada Tudor Coupe***
1976 Ford Granada Fordor
1972 Datsun pickup
1976 Chrysler Cordoba
1977 Plymouth Volare station wagon
1982 Olds Cutlas Supreme two-door
1975 Datsun pickup
1986 Olds 88 four-door
1988 Olds 88 four-door
1987 Chevy S-10 pickup
1992 Cadilac DeVille
1974 Mustang II Ghia (Mom's car after she died) ***
1999 Cadillac DeVille
1999 Easy-Go Golf Car (new)
1998 Mustang GT Convertible
1950 Ford Tudor
2006 Cadillac DTS
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These are about in the order they were purchased. Most were pretty good cars, I just always get used cars, buying them mostly from individuals, LOLs (little old ladies) preferred.
*** These were Ford program cars owned by some of the executives where I worked (with Ford Aerospace at NASA, Houston)
Labels: Cars, Jim's Life
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
June Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No, it's April, 2008, Bug -- a JFK Airport "Pee Fly"
Give up?
These other pictures tell what the "Pee Fly" is about
Click on the Hints below to see:
Hint # 1
Hint # 2
Labels: Humor, Jim's Life, June Bug, Travel
