Big Top by Rob Harrell for January 30, 2011

Good Morning TRIBEANDALL!!!

Biscuts and Gravey Waffles or Pancakes with Honey or Syrup Assorted Muffins Assorted Omlettes Hash Browns or Potato Cakes Sausage Patties or Links, Baccon or Ham Hamburgers or Hot Dogs Steaks Cooked to Order French Fries or Potato Cakes Oatmeal or Grits ♠Lonewolf’s♠ Huevos Rancheros Grog’s Eggs (any way) with Sausage or Bacon Lewreader’s Pheasant Egg Omelet Digital Frog’s Cold Pizza (any toppings) Sojo’s Chocolate Pancake Pie Little Sister’s Chicken Fried Steak w/ Mashed Potatoes & Gravy Luv’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothie DDFENCE EMET’s Steak and shake slaw dog German Chocolate Cake Assorted Ice Cream and Sundies Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha Assorted Fruit Drinks Assorted Teas and Flavored Teas Assorted Coffees and Flavored Coffees Plain Milk or Chocolate milk

Virtual servers are on duty - Ask for anything, specials orders are no problem.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

 Good Morning Peoples!!!

SOJO From the days of my youth (Pre-microwave era) I have never outgrown cold pizza Sunday morning breakfast. Fortunately I have outgrown half full, warm flat bottles of beer found in every room of the house. Aw youth, the older I get, the better I was. No Dear, I don’t think this is the time nor place to tell that story.

Good Morning, Sojourner, Ooops! & Lewreader.

Your a liittle late - or very early for Halloween Ooops! - depending on how you look at it.

Good Morning, Doctor Toon

Good morning, Tribeandall

Long day yesterday. Just relaxing today. I’m bushed!

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠

I hate it when people clog up the sink with their unwashed dishes hoping someone else will clean them. But but I’d really hate to be blamed for what Cooper is being blamed for, given I don’t even drink coffee.

Sojourner, I’ll have scrambled eggs with green tobasco, sausage and hash browns please.

And a Pepsi!

Sojo, I’ll take some huevos rancheros, beans, rice & flour tortillas. Thank you!

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Sleep well, Doc

Good Morning, Sojouner.

Good afternoon * ♠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,greyhame,ChukLitl*

Hello Grog and ♥Kab♥!

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥

Hi, Sojo & Kab

Good Afternoon, Tribe

Still a bit froggy and coughing. Didn’t go to church, no sense in croaking out ‘Be Still My Soul’ and getting everyone sick in two ways ;-)

Hope everyone’s favorite team wins. Next week is the commercial bowl…..er…Superbowl. I’ll be watching that.

Donuts do sound good with a nice warm cup of coffee.

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠, Quaby and Steelblade.

Good Morning, Quaby & Steeleblade

Good Morning, Quaby & Steelblade.

My sister tells me I’m passive/aggressive. Does that mean I should always get the donuts with sprinkles?

Good morning TRIBE

Hello serenasakitty- Sounds good to me.

Hello serena

Hi, Serena!

Hi everyone :-) I’m back with Internet at my new house.

Hello ♥Little Sister♥ - Good news to hear!!!

Yes indeed. I like staying in touch with you all :-)

Hi, Li’l Sister! That’s the best news so far today!

Hi Big Brother I missed you too. :-)

Now the chore I dread the most……..Reading tons and tons of email.

I missed everybody here.

We missed you also!

Li’l Sister, I’ve sent you a few emails, too.

Hi, ♥Little Sister♥ Good to see you again.

So What do you all have planned for today?

Thanks for emails Big Brother I’ve read some of them already and got a good laugh out of them :-))

Boring household stuff. Done about half of it already. I wish I were done.

Relaxing today and getting mentally ready for another week of work. :^(

I’m waiting for my dad to come over.

Some household chores. Watching a lecture series and TV, also doing some reading. Nice weather last two days, today is cooling off with ice, snow and very cold next few days.

Yikes! Hi to you Sojourner, Lonewolf, Grog

Good to see you Little Sis and glad you are settled in.

BBL! I hope!

Hi and Bye HopeandJoy♫!

Hi, HopeandJoy♫. Have a great day!

Good to see you again as well Hopeandjoy♫ :-)

Good afternoon, Everyone,

Internet was VERY slow last night, so I’m finally doing my Toon Tour.

We’re getting our FIRST snow of the new year!!!! It’s actually really nice to see it, however, the temperature is pretty cold…1 degree right now!!!!! brrrrr… So, I guess we’re back to winter again, after 3 weeks of “spring”

Hi Montana Lady :-)

Hello Montana Lady - It’s coming my way!

Hi, Montana Lady.

It’s warmed up to 32 and we even had some drizzle earlier.

Hi HopeandJoy♫ (and bye) and Montana Lady.

Good afternoon, Tribe.

There is a big pot of homemade vegetable beef soup on the stove. Help yourselves.

I don’t know what the temperature is. All I’ll say is that it is cold outside.

Hi, Saucy

Hello Saucy - Thank you, it smells great!

It’s 40° now, high tomorrow to be 32°, Tuesday high to be 13°.

Why is my Meebo bar black? Does any one else have a black Meebo bar?

Well time for me to wrap it up for the day.

See y’all tomorrow.

See you then Grog.

Have a good evening, Grog.

Hi, Saucy.

Li’l Sister, my Meebo bar is the same as it always has been.

Have a good rest of the day Grog.

My Meebo bar isn’t black but the show and hide balloon is.

Sojo my tab to show and hide is there too.

Hi, peoples!

Hi, Rmom!!! How are you doing, lady?

Hope&Joy - No need to continue envying the Wichita area weather, because here is our (abbreviated) forecast:

… areas of light freezing drizzle will begin late tonight

Monday - snow accumulations… of 6 to 8 inches (including Wichita), 9 to 14 inches SE KS (Where my hubby works)

…Ice accumulations… around 1/4”

…Winds between 20 & 30 mph w/gusts to around 40 mph on Tuesday. (Can you imagine the wind chills with highs in the teens, and lows almost to zero?)

I exited out, now my Meebo bar is the standard color, but it was weird for a moment.

Hi Rmom :-)

Hello Rmom - Ready for the next few days?

MMmmmmm, vegetable beef soup. Just the ticket for the Frog Lady. Mmmmmmmm

Hi, Lil’ Sis & Quaby! Hi, Wolfie! - Doing fine. Just trying to get the pages printed out I need for class tomorrow night, in case we lose power. How are you doing? Hi, Sojo! - Never! However, I’ve got buckets of water and firewood. I’m trying to think of what else I need to do to be ready.

Okay Stan Lee You out did yourself. NHL Guardians (Fascinating really) What will happen next in this NHL all star game.

Hi Quaby (Missed you earlier)

Hope you don’t lose power down there around Wichita.

Hi Rmom, Quaby, Sojo, Little Sis, Lonewolf and anyone here recently that I missed.

Rmom and Sojo The weather people don’t know what to do about our area yet…but I will hear soon whether we get a small amount or 8 or 9 inches. Quite cold today with “biting wind” Our forecast is similar to yours as what you get may be coming our way in one forecast with wind etc.

I keep hoping we will luck out with a small amount being between KC and Sedalia. They often get worse than we do or else we get worse than they do. We will know all too soon……Smiles *: (

NOOOOOOO Now they are saying 12-18 inches for us!!!! Surely not!

Come join me and we will eat some Barbecue, Pizza or Pancakes!

Hope&Joy - Looking at the map, I don’t think you’re going to luck out. If you click on your county, you can get the NOAA statements for your area.

Hello HopeandJoy♫ - Hope it doesn’t get too bad for you!

HopeandJoy♫ - Yummm! All of the above sound good. (Although, I’m not too sure about having pancakes in the same meal as BBQ or pizza…)

Good Afternoon, ALL! Especially: Quaby, Rmom, ♥Li’l Sis♥, Hopeandjoy♫, & bmonk!

The weekend nears its end, only one extra liturgy to go–and Clergy night has been postponed, so I even have a few unexpected hours off. WHEW!

or is that: CALLOU-CALLAY!

Ooops! said, 1 holiday ago

No…… these are the people who go to church almost every week, pretty much ignore the service (or perhaps are somewhere else for that part) and mainly just socialize. They will pretty much go to any church as long as they know people there. (you know the people dozing, texting, intently reading the book they are hiding, passing notes, whispering, etc)

We don’t have many like that in our Churches–but they do sound like many students I have known in class…

By the way: No trick-or-treat for you! Not even if it’s a cute gif.

Can I have a purple sprinkle doughnut, or has Wink eaten them all?

Quaby said, about 5 quarters ago

Hope everyone’s favorite team wins. Next week is the commercial bowl…..er…Superbowl. I’ll be watching that.

I’d be more apt to watch the Superbowl–if they wouldn’t keep cutting away from the commercials to keep showing some football game.

If Montana Lady wants some fresh–or not so fresh–new year snow, we have plenty we could send her.

In nice, round, trebuchet-size balls.

Not saying that Wichita couldn’t lose power due to an ice storm, because it has happened, but I’m more at risk than they, because we’re at the end of the line. We’ve been told that they work on the lines that affect the most people first, which I can understand. Our internet comes via an antenna with a direct sight line to the tower about 3 miles away. Whenever our antenna ices up, we lose our internet. The tower can also have weather-related problems.

@Rmom, I remember one ice storm when I was in DC–we learned that the Abbey & its school where I was staying got power from three directions. They restored the power to the school first, so the school could open and the kids get back to work–but then they had to restore it to the abbey buildings too, because that’s where the boilers to heat the school were. Otherwise, we’d probably have had to wait at least a few more days for the power.

Hi, bmonk! - You may have to do like I do, and watch YouTube afterwards to see any memorable commercials.

@Rmom, that’s what I usually do–if I hear of any really good ones I missed.

Bmonk - I presume steam heat, since you said boilers? My husband’s childhood home had steam heat, but I don’t think any buildings around here have it, or at least not any more. Most owners put in central heat & a/c when building or remodeling, since it gets so brutally hot here in the summer.

bmonk - Since we don’t have cable, satellite or broadcast TV, internet is our only option, unless we’re watching someone else’s.

Gotta go! Might BBL?

It was steam heat–but I think gas. The power was to run the pumps, etc, to get the heat over to the school.

bmonk - Yes, the electricity is needed for blowers, etc. That’s one of the things I try to keep in mind when I look at buying a house - is there an alternate heat source that will work without electricity? I can survive without a/c, at least in the summer, there’s usually a breeze if you open windows. But the power outages in the winter are harder to tough out without some form of heat.

See you later, bmonk!

My Mother stopped by and stayed for awhile.

Rmom, I’m doing pretty well that last few days. I hope it stays this way for the time being.

Hi and Bye bmonk - Sorry I missed you.

My internet went down for about an hour and just came back on.

Wolfie - I understand! My migraines are averaging about 5 @ month now, which isn’t great, but a lot better than it was there for awhile. I think much of my “fuzzy brain” problems was due to them, as I haven’t had as much problems in that area, either.

Don’t know why, had just called them and while going through there menu it came back on. Hope it stays on durning the upcoming week.

Happy to hear that you’re doing much better, Rmom. :^)

I hope you stay connected, Sojo.

It could of been a car accident or a fluke that caused it. Weather doesn’t usually cause problems but with this storm it might. I hope not!

Good evening all ♠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,greyhame,ChukLitl

I’m not looking to driving next two days.

Hello ♥Kab♥ - Tomorrow may be okay, depends on when it starts. Last I saw was freezing rain tomorrow night (hopfully not sooner). Tuesday and Wednesday look bad though.

I remember one year long before that most recent ice storm came. We lived in a small town. Middle of winter. Two towns lost power. Driver slid on ice hit a power line knocked tow towns out of power. Every place dark. All could done go to bed early. More recent one major towns went out of power. Like this system coming massive.

  Give Candy!!!   Please?

According to local forecast Suppose to start sometime tonight. I hope it waits. Location I live at is emergency roads. I have been very surprise how well the emergency route and hwy stays clean.

Okay Big Sister I’ll see if I can find candy for your sweet tooth. You just want chocolate? We here have been doing fruit smoothies. This also helps since I need to get rid of lot of body fat. I hope I’m on the verge of shedding another hard to get rid of pound.

Good evening, Kab & LuvH8

If freezing rain starts before you get home tomorrow that would cause problems. Hope it waits long enough that Monday is okay for you ♥Kab♥.

Hello Ooops! - Sorry, not much here!

It’s raining.

You member that last freezing rain that came? I left work at 5pm and the light rain was starting then. I almost didn’t get my door open. Pancky! I had a drink in thermos use this and poored over top of door then used key to remove the ice. I also like others I notice didn’t rush getting in. After 5:30 closer to 5:45 just glazed over.

Wolfie - I’m glad too! I don’t know if changing the dose of my meds fixed it, or whether it went away on its own, but I’m glad to be able to function.

Time to feed my ever so hyperactive chihuahuas.

Hi, Kab! - It is supposed to start around midnight here. I hope you have some de-icer to use if you need it. My hubby may drive back tonight, to get there before the ice hits. Not looking forward to this!

Big Sister how’s this for your sweet tooth and for anyone else. Enjoy!!

Rmom I’m not either. I have brand new tires. Since we have a hwy not far from us. Look see how driver’s handle ice. Bridge to with the hwy.

Hi, ♥Kab♥, Rmom, Oooooops!!! & Sojo!

No good, Ooooooops!!!, I seem to be all out of candy.

I have some nice orange quarters if you want. Blood Oranges, or regular.

I was going to say: I’ve sung for my supper, and then had the supper, and now I’m back. For a while at least.

I may be mixed up on my time. Now that I’ve been thinking about it, the freezing starts tonight and then has a calm period tomorrow (afternoon?) and then the snow is Monday night through Tuesday. I guess I’ll find out soon enough.

Up on the tundra, we will avoid the rain/freezing rain by cleverly staying below zero temp until Wed. Of course, with 100% chance of snow this afternoon and evening (up from 20% predicted Friday), and 70% tomorrow, we will get the regularly scheduled installment of snow for the week.

I’d rather have this weather than freezing rain and ice, so I feel for you guys, Rmom and Sojo. (Oh, and ♥Kab♥ too!)

Who has been messing with the weather? 2 days ago was springlike and nice and warm, yesterday was much cooler and today is very cold, windy and snowing. BOOO. It is supposed to warm up by the middle of the week. I HOPE SO.

@serena, some folk around here agree. They thought after this last week that Winter was about over. (Yeah, RIGHT!) They know better now.

Little Sister I missed you nice see you back again. Another busy week for you.

That is the my understanding. AM rough going for traffic. After getting spoiled on nice warm weather, I just hope driver’s remember. I guess early this morning, not sure exact time, on HWY 235 little N of 25th, a car hit a railing and flipped on top. Tow truck already there, also state troupers. I know nothing of the driver. Roads at the time were dry.

Maybe the weather is acting up because Ooops! hasn’t gotten her candy fix.

She could be eatting what I provided if the right type, hmmm!

@Sojo, maybe that’s it! (I sure hope not!) ROFL!

If that’s the case, I may even be willing to drive to the nearest store for some candy for her.

On second thought, not even that will get me out tonight.

By all means, give Oooops all the candy she wants. As for me I want to hibernate until this weather smartens up and stays warm. Summer can’t come any too soon.

What happen to Big Sister anyway? I thought I helped her on that sweet tooth.

Kab - I didn’t see that wreck on the news. They don’t update their internet sites as much on the weekends, so it will probably be up tomorrow.

I’m just glad Kab found some virtual candy to give to Ooops! I’d love to hibernate for the next several days, but unless they cancel tomorrow night’s class, I may have to get out in this nasty stuff. Wouldn’t you know, we forgot to buy milk when we were in town today? Good thing the boys are old enough where it won’t hurt them to go a few days without it.

I have forgotten Rmom what subject’s are you taking. I have my daughter helping me a little. Soon I hope be done with rough parts and on to what I know more of. When I did the pretest, I wished I had passed all, there are some I don’t have to repeat.

Rmom where you live at isn’t there a place close enough to get milk?

The medicine perscription the doctor assigned me, I beleive is helping, my nasal is easing.

Everyone help yourself. Wonder what happened to Big Sister sorry I mean Oooops!*

Pretty much every day of the week is busy for me, but I’m still going to make time for everyone.

Anybody know if there was a song called Steam Heat? Not sure if it referred to the heat registers or not……but the title sounds familiar somehow.

Kab - My guys insist on Braums milk. There are a couple convenience stores plus a tiny grocery store about 3 miles away, but no Braums. I’m taking a class on Microsoft Office.

Thanks Kab for the lovely table full of candy. We had better get a net ready to “catch” Ooops as she dashes by on some mission-or-other. so she won’t miss the candy.

Rmom thanks for NOAA map but NO thanks for the message on our county…even my town is listed in the 8-12 …of course that is better than 12-18! *: )

Hope&Joy - I can understand! I like the map, but I’m not thrilled with the NOAA reports we’re getting either.

That is a fun class Microsoft Office Rmom. I will be having in the future computer class. I’m also thinking of Medical Transcription. This will be a very difficult class. Not sure if Medical Encoding is needed much. Doctors can electronic send to medical insurance. And with medical insurance provider’s raising their rates not sure if public will afford this. No jobs no insurance coverage.

For some the snow won’t matter. My mom has been worried about because of mail. She doesn’t need to work just inside the house. This system the national weather showed is huge covering several states including OK. from part of west to east .

The place I work at the Admin Assist has a radio and during spring time I don’t look forward to this when a system comes, alarms start sounding. I got caught there a few times, hubby preferred I wait until the storm moved on. One did damage at a property nearby. Could see the path one tornado took.

I like the NOAA site too–but I keep thinking I should find a site with better forecasts!

;^j

I agree with you on that, bmonk for now.

Were you the one talking about radiators used for heating with steam? I found them to be a wonderful invention when we lived in London for a fall-winter semester. Quiet and clean and the air wasn’t dry.

Kab - I can’t say I like the spring storms, but in a way, I prefer them to the ice storms. At least those are over quickly, and your actual odds of being impacted are pretty small.

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon.

Remember we are still in winter;( Feburary is coming.

True. Place we used to live we were sandwich a lot. Storm was either south of us in Sumner county going east or north of 400 to 21st street moving east. When storms were by Kingman area then we did start worring.

bmonk where I work at wish that could be done, but can’t, there is a lot of static charges. I touch doors to help but I still get shocked. Well I think I hogged this site a little too long. Let you all have your visit. I need to clean up and read while hair dry’s.

Hopeandjoy♫, it might well have been me.

The old cast-iron radiators worked well even when they got the air dry–just fill a pot or bowl with water and perch it on the top as a make-shift humidifier.

Hope&Joy - Your memory’s right!

bmonk - I have very dry skin, so I have to do something to add moisture in the winter. I’ve got a humidifier, because having a pot of water on the stove is more expensive. I do remember my in-laws’ house seemed to have condensation on the inside of the windows almost all the time. It might have been at least partially due to having single pane windows, we’ve always had storm windows or double pane.

Kab - Even the weather people have noticed that the storms tend to take about the same path. I’ve heard the explanation, but forgot it.

Now with this artic system coming OK and our location will see that icy rain then snow.

We used to know someone few years ago. The lady told me place they lived there was a barn. When the weather turned bad a tonado would come and tear the barn down. They rebuilt that barn same place. Years later another tonado came same results. This time they change location of that barn. The barn was speared but saw that path the tornado took. Now Haysville has been the center of tornado hits. So has Goddard. Depends on the way the system is heading. Towards OK and KS by Medicine Lodge/Attica, then Harper, sure bet will miss us north of K42.

I just read that Chicago is to get 20+ inches, so sounds like Wolfie will have more than we get, at least he likes snow.

What a winter! Kab we are supposed to start getting the drizzle on Monday morning after “rush hour” It may be coming from the North (?) down to you but not sure.

Rmom I don’t remember the music to the song or even if I heard it but it makes a clever subject. My brother hangs a kettle filled with water in his large fireplace. Have no idea if it humidifys or not. It IS at the entrance area. How about that bmonk

Take care, KAB I will check in tomorrow as we are staying put.

Don’t you all just love the winter.

Last night around midnight several of the roads in my area were closed off. Possibly as a result of a crash, or maybe the police were trying to catch some weekend warrior drinkers.

Rmom I am glad LoneW likes snow because he will have plenty to share!

I like snow when it is falling as long as we are safe and if someone takes care of the shoveling but ice is just BAD!

HummmLittle Sis our messages are hopscotching again. Were the roads o.k. or was it the people on them as you suggested?

♪Hopeandjoy♫ I believe, yuk, ice will start early Monday, I guess depends on that sibrian express coming. I dread the next few days. Little Sister that made we want to know to? Some times if a vehicle hits a power line we don’t know, we think a squirrel or some animal got to it and shorted the system out.

These comments feel like the weather channel on its own. Most of us will let all know.

“Nothing we can do about the weather,” some “wise” soul observed, so guess we will do our best. At least I don’t have to work a night shift at the hospital anymore!

I am looking forward to the snow that is headed our way. But like you all, I totally have no nice words for ice in the winter!

For my part and I say this happily. I’m am having no pain in my right shoulder or arm. When the first system came through I believe in November I did have a hurting on my right arm deep in the muscle that then moved to my neck. Since these other systems came and went I feel okay. So that surgery on the rotor cuff helped. I will be finishing the muscle meds this spring. Then finished with the pain specialist in July I hope. With this, talk on. I’m almost ready to turn in. I can’t do anything about what is coming. Just nestle down in a nice warm comfortable bed.

I am not sure because their was a lot of police cars with flashing lights.

Me too, Kab Happy dreams.

Good night ♥Kab♥.

The NFC is stomping all over the AFC in the Pro Bowl. 55-28

Good Night, Kab.

The pro bowl was on! Oh well I think watching the NHL All-Star Game was enough for me today.

It looks like the artic weather is currently in the Dakotas and Minnesota. It’s getting into Nebraska & Iowa, so it is heading this way, but we’ve got a few more hours before it gets really nasty here.

I just hope that everything will be okay for you and your family Rmom.

Lil’ Sis - At least my hubby drove to his trailer tonight, instead of waiting until 4 am like he normally does on Mondays, and he’s safely there now. He has propane if his electricity goes out, so he’s in good shape for a power outage. We’ve gone through power outages during ice storms here more than once before, so even though it isn’t fun, I know we can handle it.

That’s a relief. I’m glad to hear that your hubby is safe. and that he is prepared for any outages.

Lil’ Sis - That is one advantage with it being a 5th wheel trailer. They are designed for camping, so they can get by without needing to be plugged in. He might need to go buy a snow shovel, unless he took one from here.

 Candy! Candy!! Candy!!! Thank you for candy! Especially Kab Sister!

(Yes, call me Big Sister)

Hi Big Sister :-)

Oh! Oh! Oh! Hi Little Sister!

Hi, LuvH8.

Hi, Li’l Sister. Have you got breakfast tonight?

Hi Lonewolf!