Big Top by Rob Harrell for January 09, 2011

Breakfast menu:

M&M pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, or regular pancakes with syrup Sausage links or patties, and bacon Fried potatoes / hash browns Huevos Rancheros Eggs made the way you want them. Country fried steak and gravy Kolaches Breakfast Quiche Cheerios and other brand cereal Breakfast BLT Top Sirloin Steak (Cooked any way you want it) Barbecue Ribs and spicy buffalo wings Fish N’ Chips meal Bacon & Eggs (eggs made the way you want them) Sausage, biscuit and gravy Pancakes, or Belgium Waffles (covered in rich maple Syrup, with toast on the side) Shrimp and Fries Combo Meal Oven Fresh Pizza (Any topping) Chicken, steak, or beef burritos covered in Enchilada sauce and cheese (Comes with a side of refried beans and rice) Fried potatoes with onion and bell peppers in it. (Good stuff) Burgers to order - Turkey Burger, Double Delux Cheese burger, Mushroom Swiss burger, Angus burger, Smoked bacon cheddar burger, Tofu veggie Burger (All burgers come with a side order of Fries, onion rings, chicken tenders or spicy buffalo wings Hot dogs or corn dogs Docs world famous Nuclear Coffee Starbrights Divine Cocoa Mocha ( Courtesy of Chris Alan, Johanan Rakkav, and company) My Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies bmonks cup of cheap mocha mint. Premium or imported beer Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot sparkling wine (perfect for any occasion) Milk, chocolate milk Variety of Fruit juices, and tea Vegetable juice (V8) Water peach cobler, Apple pie, Lemon meringue, pumpkin pie, chocolate cream pie, Cheese cake Ice cream (All flavors available)

Comfort food! Oh geez where to begin.

Good Morning ♥Little Sister♥ - Great menu!

I’ll have M&M Pancakes, sausage, onion rings and a piece of chocolate cream pie.

Good choice. :-) Here you go Sojo

Anna Francis info is here.

Thank you ♥Little Sister♥ Looks good! :-)

As for breakfast…..I haven’t had Chicken Fried Steak in a LONG time.

May I please have that and two eggs over medium, and a sippy cup full of Doc’s famous coffee!!!!!

YUM!!!

I put two of my menus together into one big one.

Good Morning Montana Lady!

Little Sister,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Anne Francis episode…..YES!!!!

Aaahhh! :-)

Yes you may Montana Lady Here you go.

Well, my duty here is done… It was a lot of great fun… until I see the morning sun… Good night everyone.

Good Night ♥Little Sister♥.

Good night Everyone,

Time for me to hit the sack…:)))

Good Night Montana Lady.

Having watched “Cats” (a wonderful video), I’m now going to toddle off to my nest for the night.

Little Sister, I’d like pancakes and maple syrup, please, but I’ll wait until sunrise to pick them up.

Hello Saskfan!

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Morning, ♥Little Sister♥, Sojourner, Montana Lady & Saskfan.

♥Little Sister♥, I’ll grab myself a couple of sausage & jalapeno kolaches. Thanks.

The Twilight Zone Episode with Anne Francis was one of many memorable episodes.

The best comfort food for me is the St. Patricks Day fixins. Irish Lamb Stew and Corned Beef & Cabbage. It doesn’t get any better than that!

Grog! Remind me what city you live in again. I want to be upwind after that meal. Comfortable food for me right now is a piece of chicken and a salad. Hope everyone’s playing nice and stayin safe…. Gotta go… Pooph

hey grog doesn’t cooked cabbage have a reputation for making people “uncomfortable”?

Good Moring, Plods with Beer & ponytail56

Say what you will, but I love cabbage and sauerkraut. Keeps me regular….and I live in League City, TX….so you can stay away if you like.

Good Morning, Tribe

We won at pool yesterday. We have the second round next Saturday.

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Congrats.

It’s a miserable day here. We are socked in with clouds & storms and at 8AM it hardly feels like daylight.

Good Morning, Tribe!

Our snow started late yesterday afternoon–one mission called to cancel because you couldn’t get into the churchyard; I canceled the other this morning because with 2-4 inches of light fluffy stuff (and more still coming), and the sun not really rising until well after 7:00, I really didn’t want to drive blind for 15 miles…

At least for the home parish I don’t have to drive–and the parishioners can choose for themselves.

@♠Lonewolf♠, they have pool competitions? In what, synchronized swimming? Water Football?? Pool Croquet???

Apropos of that thought, todays 9CwL…

Good Morning, Doctor Toon & bmonk.

And comfort food: Chicken and dumplings. Strudel and potato knepfle soup. Toasted Cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.

And, for College students, Mac and Cheese.

Yes: Good morning especially to Grog and DocT.

Looks like just us out here in the snow…

Hi, Ooooops!

Bye, All!

Good Morning, Ooops

Good Morning, Grog, Bmonk, Doc & LuvH8.

At the other work place today. Sunday’s are slow at this store.

Thanks, Grog

No week-end off, ♠Lonewolf♠? That sucks.

No football either.

Grog - - But I have my laptop here and it is tethered to my new cell phone. I have internet and I can watch the games!

WooHoo!

Grog: It didn’t feel like daylight here at 8 a.m. in Darkest Saskatchewan, either. But that’s because the sun didn’t rise until 8:57. You being 2850 km south of me (by road) would mean, of course, that the sun rises earlier for you. I’m slightly envious of that, for another couple of months.

Good morning all. My, those pancakes smell good. Thanks, Little Sister!

Oh, then all is good. Hopefully, you’ll have time to watch them.

Good Morning, Saskfan.

I can relate. I lived in Edmonton for 2 and a half years. Hated the long winter nights but loved the long summer days. Though I might have loved them even more without the mosquitos.

Good Morning, Saskfan.

Grog, I can at least follow them and watch parts of the games from time to time. :^)

I hate ‘skeeters! With a passion!!!

Ah, yes; mosquitoes… And grasshoppers. Ew. Thank you Grog, for that reminder. Or not. :)

The only good part about winter is that grasshoppers and mosquitoes aren’t around. The only good thing about -40 for a week or two is that it kills grasshopper eggs; intense, prolonged cold snaps can also allow grain in large bins to cool sufficiently to kill some bug in the wheat. If the bins are large enough, y’see, the grain stays warm all winter. If the farmer stores it without properly drying it first, the grain can get warm enough to combust.

Too bad the intense cold didn’t kill the mosquito eggs. I don’t recall seeing much of grasshoppers though. Though we did seem to have an infestation of them one year in Montreal when I was young. You couldn’t go anywhere without stepping on one or getting them all over you. Ick!

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Congrats ♠Lonewolf♠!

Good Morning Doctor Toon, Grog and Saskfan!

Good Morning, Sojourner.

Bonjour, Sojourner and Doc Toon.

Good Morning, Sojo.

Thank you, Sojo. It wasn’t looking too good after the first two matches but we ended up winning 3-1 and didn’t need to play the fifth match. The team we play next week is a stronger team.

Hello to all here morning is almost gone heading to noon. ♠Lonewolf♠,♥♥ Little Sister♥♥, LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, Plodswbeer, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, ♪Hopeandjoy♫, Johanan Rakkav, Rmom , The Sojourner,Bmonk, serenasakitty,Ladyhawk, Saskfan,lakesnake ,Digital Frog,Lewreader;MisngNOLA,Woodeye,King_Wolf, Ponytale56

Very cold here snow so far is holding off. Weather/reporter’s keep saying we need snow for farmer’s I don’t like it have to be cauctious for driving. North from west to central part of KS will have higher snow mounts more toward’s KS and CO line.

Church is almost done here we attend early one mom doesn’t do Sunday school.

Good morning, Kab. Y’all better not be in church while you’re online; texting and praying don’t mix. y’know! :)

Be leaving later for mom’s as usual there is a lady in church her daughter is hosting a 90th birthday for her mom we will be attending. This soon 90th gets around real great use to play organ now her daughter does. I hope I can get around as well at 90 let along when time comes for 80. Our mom will be turning in April 86 and knows nothing about computers especially Internet. I think she was born the wrong time should have been 50 to 100 years earlier been her time frame. Me I like to learn new ways and electronics. When I found about how much fun those symbols are one at least will help me.

Saskfan and why not, reach out to others. Besides hubby and I don’t text that cost more our daughter text’s we have her on special plan, my sister text’s not in church. I don’t use my celephone only emergencies. For my part I used dept phone for three emergencies hubby had to come out. For church is annoying when someone celephone goes off.

♥Little Sister♥ has a little more time for freedom before her class starts. Mine starts this Thursday. Had hubby take car in to how tires are before snow does come, I had two or three surprise’s in past didn’t want any when so cold out. Result behind again on CC take a month to pay off had to get tire’s buy one and get one free. We paid for road hazzard and came in real handy for repairs. Place we went I wasn’t there didn’t know they were running specials. Found out also an expensive belt had to be replace runs battery and alternator. ♠Lonewolf♠ will know what it is I was told since not mechnical don’t remember. Later in year have to have brakes done.

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ and ♥Kab♥!

Sorry for so much comment. Wasn’t expecting changes on car.

Hello and good morning everyone. :-)

It’s pretty cloudy today, so I’m not sure what the weather has in store for me. I do have to get busy, and I have no time for football playoffs.

Good Morning, Li’l Sister& Kab!

Love the avatar, Li’l Sister. Can you send me the pic?

Good Night, Doc. Catch ya later!

Hi Big Brother :-)

Have a good sleep Doctor Toon.

Good Morning ♥Little Sister♥!

♥Little Sister♥ I thought your packing and moving is completed by now?

I wonder for those of you who watch your football on Internet or other shows does it stall on you? I am learning more people are hooking Internet to TV and not having cable or dish hooked up. If Internet stalls doesn’t that spoil the show one watches. I have high speed Internet from lap top doesn’t help with stalling.

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥ & ♥Little Sister♥

Sleep well, Doc.

It’s a gif. image on my photo bucket page Big Brother.

I’m almost done with the move Sister Kab just a few more loads to take over. I also have to buy furniture that I don’t have.

Thank you, Li’l Sister.

Oh ♥Little Sister♥ I hope you have money saved furniture is expensive. I wondered too about your icon very beautiful.

Good game so far.

Ravens led Chiefs 10 - 7 at the half. :-(

Chiefs should be ahead because Ravens have lost a couple of fumbles already!

Hopefully the Chiefs will pull ahead in the second half!

That was something! The Ravens intercepted a Chiefs pass but then fumbled it and the Chiefs recovered!

Hope it is a good afternoon where you are, Sojo, Lonewolf, Kab, Grog, bmonk, Saskan, Doc Toon And Little Sis and LuvH

I know the snow is coming and the Chiefs may not win but still lots of things to be thankful for….hang in there!!

Yes, Sojo hang in there!! I feel like we might pull this out it will depend on this set after the 4th down stop!

Gone again!!

Hi, HopeandJoy♫.

I’m rooting for the Chiefs too, but they are not capitalizing on the Raven mistakes.

Hello HopeandJoy♫!

Good Morning Peoples

Hi Doc, Grog, Bmonk, Lonewolf, and whoever else said hello before I went back to sleep

Hello, LuvH8!

Hello Ooops!

What’s with Matt Cassel???

Hello again Oops!. Hi, Hopeandjoy♫

I think MC is rushing and not being poised Panicking! Sad but they are a young team. This latest fumble by Cassel should be overturned and YES…an incomplete pass but still not good!

Where is Bowe????

It still looks like everything’s going the Ravens’ way.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing to me. It sets up 2 Divisional rivalry games in the AFC and I prefer the Ravens chances of knocking off the hated Steelers.

The only thing I can figure about Bowe, is that the illness that kept him out of practice, is still affecting him enough not to play.

Well I’d say the fat lady’s doing warm-ups now.

I responded to your comment @ Pickles, ♠Lonewolf♠

Grog - I hadn’t thought of her doing warm-ups but I think that’s true and a good way to put it. LOL

Kind of an ugly game for the Chiefs. Better match up for the Steelers, though.

I hear you over at Pickles, Grog.

OhhhYou Guys* Now I will have to check out Pickles which I read in the KC Star.

Ravens were an experienced team with good defence and played like it.

Offense not so bad either. *:^) Sorry we couldn’t have made a better showing.

The Packers/Eagles should be a good one!

I’ve got to shut down now as I am off work in about 20 minutes and I need to do a few paperwork chores before I get out of here.

I’ll be back on when I get home.

I guess I’ll switch between Packers/Eagles and Kansas U Basketball.

I’m starting to have falling frost now. Weatherman just said it wasn’t supposed to start until overnight!

Oh dear, how much are you predicted to get, Sojo?

It is Bowie!

David Bowie

We are COLD and predicted to be in low teens and below zero Tuesday night. Last I heard 3-5 but I doubt it.

Ooops You have a baby? : 0

Sojo our precip is suppose to start around 3 a.m. and continue through into Tuesday. Don’t think we will get a ton but who knows.

HopeandJoy♫ - I think 2-4 inches when it ends Monday night. Ground isn’t cold but air temps will get cold. I think there’s supposed to be some wind so jf it drifts it will also leave bare spots. I don’t think it will stay long.

The amount never seems what they predict. It seems to always lower or higher. They measure rhe snowfall amount with a ruler in an open field. If there’s a lot of wind with blowing snow an open field doesn’t show as much snowfall as actually occured. I remember in 1972 we had a lot of snow. According to the weather people we had I think 11 inches but most areas were 3 to 4 feet deep. There was a snow drift that actually went over the roof a neighbors house. Cars couldn’t get out for a few days but I was able to get out every day on my motorcycle be treading a path by foot and then riding through the path I made. Took a long time to go a mile the first day.

I love the way the Packers are getting to Vick. I hope they can keep it up.

What we get in Warrensburg is different than in KC usually…either less or more. It is amazing how the weather can change in a 50-60 mile radius. We had a 1/2 inch of rain that Kc didn’t get about 9 days ago. We had watered roses by hand because our sprinklers were winterized and the weather people had said “no significant rain”

I wouldn’t have liked to make a path like you did, but if it’s the only way out, then you go for it.

I believe our dope smokin’ hippy freak friend is back as Sonof TheBeach

14-0 Pack. I’m lovin’ it!

I’m home now and its time to watch the rest of the football game and relax.

Well, time for me to start prepping supper. I’m now shutting down for the evening.

Have a good evening, Tribeandall!

Good Night Grog.

Good night, Grog. Catch you in the morrow.

Goodnight Grog in case you are still around.

Duke is playing Maryland on Fox Sports so will check it out, of course.

No snow here.

I saw KU win. As they had a large led in the first half I quit watching. I tuned in and they were in the middle of overtime! Should of kept a closer watch.

That’s weird. Here, the football game is being carried by Fox. Must be area programming.

Poor choice for Michael Vick on that last throw.

It’s Da Bears and the Seahawks next week!

Fox carried our Eagles game too. Hope Da Bears hand it to those guys in the strange uniforms with white socks…I DO like the Hawk head, however.

I’m hoping so too, Hopeandjoy♫. Once again, I like your avatar. :^)

Thanks, Lonewolf Your avatars are always good. Back to Duke.

Hi, tribe!

That snow is coming our way, Doc.

Hi, Rmom & Doc.

Catch you on the flip side, Doc.

Hi, Wolfie! We got some snow here this afternoon. We’re not supposed to get as much as Sojo or Kab, and no one really knows until it is all over, how much. My hubby did decide he ought to drive to his trailer tonight, since it is supposed to get heavier as the night progresses. He said the road had some slick spots, but at least he’s there.

Glad he made it alright, Rmom.

Hello all so far not as bad on snow, hubby looking at radar shows a slowed down snow. One of my car problems and I have a question how long can a Serpentine belt last on a car? Place we took our car said it is cracking. We had it replaced not cheap as I don’t want it to break leaving me stranded.

Wolfie - Me too! He would have liked for me to go with him, but I wasn’t too eager about that idea. Highs in the 20’s, lows in the single digits make me want to stay home where it is warm!

I will watch the news for a little while waiting for hair to dry then turning in.

Rmom glad your hubby made it also. The Sojourner when you see this message I remember 1972 as well. I got out of school for awhile. When local tv station had this guy who did all types of jobs for station said then no snow and no accumulation. Didn’t care what other stations said no snow. Back to work large snowball in glass dish an he was too embarrassed to face viewers. That snow was deep.

Rmom does that trailer get cold your husband goes to?

Hi, Kab! I also remember that snowstorm. What was normally a 10 minute drive home from church took us 2 1/2 hours. We also had a couple families who got snowed in with us, who had been at our church that morning. One family who lived close to Wellington, drove into Wichita for church each week, and their friends from OKC were up to visit. Thankfully, my parents owned a rental house next door to ours, and the renters were on a temporary out-of-state assignment. So, the two families slept over there, and walked to our house for meals. It was a good thing that Mom always kept a lot of food in the house!

In 1972 I graduated from HS in 1975. I may have been in JR HS when this happened, then no school. Watching news now. So far 85 accidents in ICT looks like one car flipped over over at I235 looks like some schools are closing for Monday.

Have a safe drive to and from work Doctor Toon.

Hello Rmom!

I agree with you your parent’s were prepared and very nice to those families. Not sure if my parent’s would be. I’m about ready to turn in my hair is drying nicely For all the others who commented who snow affected them I feel for them just hope we don’t get that bad here. Good night all.

Rmom when is college start for you and your sons?

Good Night ♥Kab♥.

Kab - That’s the problem with a 5th wheel trailer, no skirting, so the floor is pretty cold. It gets expensive to run enough heat to keep it comfortable all day, so usually he just keeps it warm enough to prevent the pipes from freezing. Of course, if I was there, we’d spend the $ on running the heat. But when I’m there, I don’t stay in the trailer all the time. Not much of a kitchen, no dishwasher, washer, dryer or garage. It is fine for him, since he spends most of his time at work, but too boring for me to stay there the whole week.

Kab: What’s ICT, please?

I got home about 20 minutes ago from a meeting; a 3 km walk, with some sidewalks under 2 feet of White Stuff. Other sidewalks have been cleaned, and they’re still slick with packed snow and ice.

In summer, it’s a 30 minute walk for me. Tonight it took an hour. I hate winter.

Saskfan - ICT is the aviation identification for Wichita.

Oh, I wouldn’t have guessed that! Thanks.

Saskfan - I’m glad you have that snow and not us! :-)

Sojo: You’re welcome. I guess. :)

Hi, Sojo! Kab - My sister graduated from high school in 74, so you’re pretty close in age. She would have been a sophomore that year. The family who lived near Wellington were very old friends of my mom - she had known both the husband & wife since they were in 2nd or 3rd grade in a one-room school house. Mom & Dad were always very hospitable, but I don’t know that they would have trusted just anyone to stay in the renter’s house. They knew the other family before too, just not quite as well.

Hi, Saskfan! Kab - My sons’ first class is on the 20th. My first class is on the 24th.

I just looked at the clock - guess I ought to say good night!

Good Night, Rmom.

Hi Lonewolf and Sojo Goodnight Rmom and Saskfan

Duke won (a bit of a struggle!!) Snow is coming in around 6 a.m. they surmise. It is what it is and I am gone. Have a good rest everyone!!

Hello and good night, Rmom, Hopeandjoy.

And now it’s good night from me too.

Hello everyone :-)

Just peeked outside…phooey…something is blowing up the street and it is white…it is not 6 a.m. yet either.

Good Night Rmom and Saskfan.

Hello HopeandJoy♫ and ♥Little Sister♥!

Sojo How was your day? :-)

♥Little Sister♥ - It was a good day although it would of been better if the Chiefs won. However KU basketball and the Packers did win! Glad your almost finished moving.

Kansas City Chiefs lost! That seems kind of odd, as good a team as they are this year.

They sure didn’t do anything today!

Guess I’ll look forward to Da Bears as you guys put it.