The Weekend Roundup "G"
Green, Ghost and Giant
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GREEN and favorite
My daughter sent me this adorable angel, she made it for me a few weeks ago. She uses chunky yarn and knits them with her fingers! She's never crocheted with a hook or knitted with needles, so it was easy for her to learn.
if I was knitting.
Things that are GIANT
A saguaro cactus is GIANT!
Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, Clermont, KY
I posted the newest GIANT at Bernheim last week, before I knew this week letter G was going to be Giant! LOL!
Really good G's, Dawn. I had never seen a troll before. But have read about them in Nursery Rhyme books. The trolls are named Mama Loumari, Little Elina, and Little Nis. I like your Cactus find also. Although everything is bigger and better in Texas we don't have the large kind.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I stopped eating donuts in 2014. I do eat apple fritters though, sharing one every Sunday morning at church.
DeleteHi Jim, thank you! There is a Thomas Dambo giant troll in Texas. I don't know what city you are near, but the troll is at Pease Park in Austin. She's 18 feet tall and her name Malin. Check her out!
DeleteThe trolls in KY are less than ten miles from where I live. They are Mama Loumari, Little Elina, and Little Nis. I have posted all three of them in "The Weekend Roundup" in the last year or so. If I get back to NH & CT this summer I would like to stop along the way and visit 2 of them in Charleston, RI. It's not from Mystic, CT.
If I ever get to Austin I will check it out. We live just west of Houston down fairly close to Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico. My two new parents, youngest two children don't think I should drive that far just because of my age, 91.
DeleteThese are a couple of blurbs I left for you last week. If you wish I won't mind if you destroy them after reading. Here goes:
DeleteHigh Dawn. The tracking station is about 8 to 12 miles to the west. We lived on Lois Street when the house was just built. When you first get on Lois at the bottom of the hill our house is the first on the on the right, on the bend going up. A few years ago they took us through. I lived in New Hampshire with my first wife, we married exceedingly young, our three sons were born at the Army hospital . Susie was born in a civilian El Paso hospital.
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JimSun Aug 10, 02:08:00 PM 2025
I like going through factories and car museums. I have two licensed Antique Autos, a 1974 Mustang II Ghia and the car in this post, a 1998 Mustang GT 4.6 Convertible. It drives but I have to drive in the mornings for the not so hot if I want the top down. Can hardly wait for Fall to cool things off under the sun.
The reason I like factories is that I worked in the Elgin National Watch factory three years before I was drafted into the Army. There I was a setup man taking care of things for 15 to 20 ladies to keep things going on an upstairs line. Bragging, I was the youngest setup man Elgin's had for five floors. I was promoted to that job.
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Hi Jim, I didn't see this post on my blog last week, I just looked. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to send it here, it's a nice and interesting post that you wrote. I do wish that I still had some of the older cars that I had. The first car I bought was a 1970 Barracuda it was a coupe with slant 6 engine. I'd give anything to have that now. My cousin who bought his first car in I think 1971 or 72 was a Plum crazy, Dodge charger and he still has it!!
Delete...Dawn the saguaro cactus sure is GIANT! The GIANT maple donut looks like an Amish lady made it. Until a couple of weeks I haven't had since before Covid, then they cost 85 cents, now they are a $1. Inflation hasn't hit the Amish. And you saw a GIANT redbud in flower at Bernheim!
ReplyDeleteTom, thank you! I don't eat many donuts, since they've always been a weakness of mine. So now, it's a real treat when I do have one. This one was at the Sandwich Fair in NH. It's always been my favorite fall fair to visit.
DeleteYes, the redbuds are very common here and Bernheim has plenty of them. They're beautiful.
Would love a bite of that giant donut. 😀
ReplyDeleteI love anything maple, but especially a donut! 😋
DeleteDawn Well done for finding such wonderful "giant" shots. I hope you have a lovely week ahead
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