Big Top by Rob Harrell for February 08, 2011

Wow! I’m liking this Christmas tale already. :-)

Stucco is awesome.

BREAKFAST MENU

rib eye steak with eggs done your way, hashbrowns, biscuit & gravy. Chicken Fried Steak with fries, and Canadian Bacon Linguisa Sausage with fried potatoes and sauteed mushrooms Belgium waffles with rich Maple Syrup and toast BLT’s and other breakfast sandwiches Muffins, croissants, and other pastries. Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha (Courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav) My Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies bmonks cup of cheap mocha mint Regular coffee, with creamer on request Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot sparkling wine (perfect for any occasion) Fountain Drinks or Ice Cream Floats American premium or Imported Beers Assorted Fruit Drinks or Teas Plain Milk or Chocolate Milk Ice Water V8 Vegetable juice Pepsi, Cherry Pepsi, Cocoa Cola, Mountain Dew, 7up in a can etc.

Good Evening Little Sister

May I please have a BLT and Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothie?

Scaring Children? Little Sister, this story does have potential!

Little Sister,

I don’t know what works with Grandma, but extreme exageration usually helped me to help people get through things they didn’t like. That and blatant compliments and intermittent bribery. It has to be big enough they know you are exagerating though.

Here you go Big Sister :-)

I got to hit the sack now, so I hope everyone has a good day and stays safe regardless of the weather.

Good night everyone.

Thank you Little Sister, Good Night :-)

Oh Mendasock, Hit The Sack, out come the

Snakes!!!

Now I’m going to have nightmares.

Luv you Little Sister :-|

Good Morning, ♥Little Sister♥ & Ooops!

Why did you have to say snakes, Ooops!?

Good morning, Tribesters!

Hi, Grog, LuvH8, Li’l Sister, Doc & all

Heading out early again. Have a great Tuesday everyone!

P&L

Have a good day, ♠Lonewolf♠

Good Morning, Doctor Toon

LITTLE SISTER I’m late, late, late. Are you still serving? I need a cup of DOC TOON’S INVIGORATING BREW* before I can even look at the menu.

Morning TRIBE*

DOG FOR SALE

Low maintenance dog just lies there. Good with rugs.

CAT FOR SALE

original fangs and claws

Morning all!

Good Morning, Lewreader

I think I’ll pass on the pet sale.

Good Morning, Digital Frog

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠,♥♥ Little Sister♥♥, LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, Plodswbeer, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, ♪Hopeandjoy♫,, Rmom,Bmon,Ladyhawk,,lakesnake ,Digital Frog,Lewreader;MisngNOLA,Woodeye,King_Wolf, Ponytale56,greyhame,ChukLitl

We are getting huge snow flakes here locally. Streets so far drivable not sure of later. Oh dear.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have linguisa Sausage with fried potatoes and sauteed mushrooms

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥ & Sojourner

Good Morning Grog and Doctor Toon!

Snowing good right now. Supposed to continue through tomorrow morning with 4-6 inches forcast now.

Greetings TRIBE

I don’t usually like coffe but today I want the biggest cup possible of *Doc’s nuclear coffee. As long as it is

HOT.

It’s about -25C here and our furnace cannot be fixed. Does one of the super powers granted by the coffee include not freezing?

Hello serenasakitty - Sorry to hear your furnace went out and it is so cold there. When my furnance went out it was the begining of cold weather but we had a warm spell at that time and it was fixed before getting to cold. I can’t immagine what it must be like for you. I pray that things will work out okay for you.

Hi serena. If it can’t be fixed, I hope you can get a new one soon.

Good Morning, Tribe and All!

Santa can get Stucco to help him all he wants–as long as Stucco stays far away from me!

@serena, I feel for you. Unfortunately, it looks like your superpower of the day from the Nuclear Coffee is the ability to superfreeze anything… :^(

I hope they can come to do something for you soon!

Do you at least have a working stove? It’s a lifesaver for us when the electricity goes out–at least we can cook pasta and beans and other such hot foods.

The layered look is in. Don’t pay attention to those fashion mags. What do they know in LA?

Good Morning, bmonk

Hello all we are getting slammed by snow. The route I take there are no elevated roads.

Good morning, Grog and Sojo.

Are you over your football withdrawal yet, Grog? (From your avatar, it looks like you are off skiing.)

♥Kab♥, the solution, if at all possible: stay home!

Of course, this gets progressively less attractive after the third snowfall…

Hello bmonk and ♥Kab♥!

Hi, friends! I just heard on the radio that they’ve upped the forecast for Wichita to up to a foot of snow. My web sources are still saying 5”-9”. And to think they thought we’d only get about 4”-6” before this snowfall started.

I can’t stay in I just need to be careful. I don’t need to travel elevated roads. I will look for tire tracks that stay on the road or I will drive middle of road if necessary.

You’all are more than welcome to come North, where “Many are cold, but few are frozen”–and the next snow is predicted only late Thursday.

bmonk, I may have to watch The Cowboys 10 greatest games that I have on DVD to get me through February. But I think I’ll be OK once we get into March. Once into March, the temperatures will be rising into the 70’s & low 80’s and I can start enjoy doing some outdoor stuff on those Sunday afternoons..

Hello Rmom! - It may take a while for this to melt due to the cold (snow is a good insulator). It’s 10° F now. TV weather I’m watching just said they have up’ed the total to 8” to 10”. Just have to see what happens.

Hi, Rmom

Good Day, Everyone,

Went to bed exhausted yesterday, and still have a bunch of clean up to do from our Super Bowl party. I love giving parties, but there’s so much to put away after wards. Wish I had one of these Big Top Virtual Cleaner-uppers!

We had 6 inches of snow Sunday night and Monday. It was quite a bit chilly too, 1 degree this a.m. We have the best neighbor in the world….he plowed our driveway this a.m. so we can get out. :))

bmonk , you should be getting this snow today or tomorrow.

Hi, Montana Lady

We may be a little cold and windy for my liking, but at least we are snow and ice-free….for the moment anyway.

Hello Montana Lady - Glad I don’t have to clean up after the game!

Hi, Grog and Sojo…..

Hi, Sojo, Grog & MontanaLady! Now that the local schools, etc. have announced closings, it looks like (to me anyway) that the snow is moving up north a bit, so maybe our area won’t get as much as they were afraid. Back to the 5”-9” forecast. Still, with as cold as it is, it won’t melt fast.

Looks like the kids are going to end up with a longer school year, Rmom, if the keep handing out days off like that.

Grog - I haven’t read what the Wichita Public Schools are going to do, they’re already out of snow days. There’s always Spring Break they could shorten. In KS, they’re required to have so many days per year (at least 180, maybe more, I’d have to read the law again). I don’t think the colleges are required to make up the days, so it doesn’t affect us. My prof had us bring flash drives to load the files we needed to do our work, so if we need to miss class, we could do it at home (if we have the right software) or go to the computer lab at school.

In many states they have only a couple of built-in snow days, with a few more they can make up–like not getting off Easter Monday or other holidays, or adding days at the end of the year. More than that, and the governor (or someone) has to “forgive” the excess lost days.

Grog - Looks like a little excitement close to you… “A series of explosions triggered a massive fire at Enterprise Products Mont Belvieu, Texas” News article

Good afternoon Tribe

I’m working at a shop and I still don’t eat lunch at a decent time! lol

bmonk - Just read the story on the Wichita’s district. They had 5 snow days figured in, but they used those up before this week. I don’t think the governor has the power to exempt them for the law. However, the article said there are still several options. Adding days at the end of the year, extending the length of the day (law is written in days or hours), and supposedly they have other options, but the article didn’t state what they are.

Hi, Wolfie! - I suppose you have to cover while all the others take their lunch breaks?

It’s the first I’ve heard of it, Rmom. Before I left for work, I saw a story about a raging fire outside of Dallas. Forget exactly where though.. But I saw footage in tthe dark. Massive fire, seemingly no fire vehicles around at that time, which was just after 5:30

Well I just looked outside and I didn’t see anything in the air so it can’t be that close to me, although highway 146 isn’t too far away.

Grog - I would think your local news outlets would have better coverage than what I happened to read.

I’m sure it they would, Rmom. I located it on a map and it’s way up there on Highway 146, northeast of Houston. It looks like a rather small town.

Well, I think I’ll get ready to head home.

Grog - I didn’t bother to look up on the map where it was, since I’m not that familar with the Houston area. I’m glad it isn’t where you work!

Rmom, if it was, we certainly would have heard something - even if only the emergency vehicles.

Hello all. I made it okay to work and back. Parts of the road are clear and some with snow depends on tree line. I also talked to a lady who has worked with Wichita Public school district and spring break is already schedule, what officials are not sure if extend the school year or add an another hour. My brother-in-law measured snow in his back yard they live further north of Wichita and received 13”. They have to go to Wichita Wednesday evening for the home show fo their product they sell.

Hi, ♥Kab♥. Glad you’re safe.

Hello ♥Kab♥ - Good to hear your home okay.

Kab - Glad you made it home okay. I heard Newton could get a foot of snow, but hadn’t heard the forecast for any of the other towns north of ICT. It tapered off here, but it isn’t over yet, either.

Well, I’ve got a VHS movie the next 2 nights so I’ll be shutting down early both nights. And Thursday nights I take off all together from the computer.

Gunite, Tribeandall

Good Night Grog.

I will not yell at the old person. I will not yell at the old person. I will not yell at the old person.

Even if………….. No, no, no……. No yelling at the old person!

Hello Ooops!

Oh My Gosh!!! Serenasakitty!

That is just horrible! Wear a warm hat or even a shirt tied over your head. It really does help with the body heat. But find a way to be warm. Check in and let us know how you are if you can. Luv and Prayers for a Heat Wave (something over freezing?)

Hello Sojo!

Did you know that my Gma hates when her eggs are not super runny? Hmmm………… I be good!

Add water?

I will not accidently overcook her eggs to a normal person’s doneness?

Hello and good evening everyone :-)

Hello ♥Little Sister♥!

I must study (Groan!)

Be back later.

That’s good to hear Big Sister.

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon - Have a good night!

Right now we have 3.5” to 5” snow here but 20 miles to our north they have 17”. Lucked out on this storm. Two men robbed a bank here today. Once again the police followed their footprints in the snow to find and arrest them.

The Sojourner that is what I call dumb criminal acts. I saw that and laughed myself silly. Reminds me years ago we had snow and a guy robbed a bank west of Wichita, yea there was snow, he rode a bike, they followed the bike tracks to apartment where he lived, yea they got him. another dumb criminial act. My brother-in-law measured snow in his back yard of Newton 13” plus not including snow drifts and its still snowing.

Okay now I need to go and read on adjectives and more school work. I have started my next paragraph this time a little hard for twelve lines.

Have a good evening ♥Kab♥.

Sojo a sad, funny story about the stupidity of some criminals….but it made me laugh.

Hi ♥kab♥, Sojo, and all of you out there in the coldOh I am feeling for you guys in the snow!! We still have mounds of it but are missing out this time!! Maybe an inch? Take care of yourselves and try to keep warm! The cold around here with the windchill of -13 about did me in. I must be getting puny or something in my aging years.

Hello HopeandJoy♫ - 5° F now, shoud get below 0° tonight. Not anything like serenasakitty has to deal with though!

Just a brief stop. Just found out no school for Wichita for Wednesday. What a lot of missed time. I just love dumb criminial acts. I watch Cops on Saturdays and some of things people do and get caught. On simple traffic violations turn major.

Sernasakitty I feel helpless!! You with an unfixable furnace in those kind of temps! What will you do?

(sweep, scrub)

(vacuum, scrape)

(scrape, sweep)

(sweep, vacuum)

-25 Celcius equals -13 F to give us an idea of COLD.

Ew…duck droppings…

(dons mask)

Just heard on news Newton, KS has 17” snow.

Hello hymenoxis!

(waves dosimeter)

Hokay…I don’t know what you’ve been feeding these ducks, but there’s a high background radiation reading. I suggest you all shower in hot water and discard your clothing. And get rid of the ducks.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Thanks for cleaning Hymenoxis I’m gone. zzzzzzzzz Happy dreams!

    Hy!!!!!

It’s good to see you again hymenoxis.

Good Night Sleeping Peoples!

Hy, they are Bmonk’s ducks and one of my other personalities is a rubber duckie. No way! Somebody else is going to have to make the man in the dress cry.

I hope everything is going okay Hy, have you considered adopting some of the ducks for your swimming pool? I am sure your shark would enjoy the company.

Lonewolf says Hi! Hi! Hi! Where you been? We miss you! How is the missus? Did you go Trick-Or-Treating for New Years again? How about them Yankees? Can you believe they won the Super Bowels?

It’s a duckies world. Not sure if they like snow though.

We don’t have snow…… I hope everyone is okay. Errands to run. Little Sister, I know you don’t usually read it but check out For Heaven’s Sake (and of course my comments). Back later.

Luv-ed it Big Sister Your comments made it worth reading.