Big Top by Rob Harrell for November 14, 2009

Good Morning Marg!

I caught your post on yesterday’s last page. LOL

I wish I had thought that far ahead.

Congratulations Tribe on getting immortalized on “Birdbrains” and thanks Thom for recognizing this great group of people!

I just made grilled ham and cheese – anyone who wants to join me is welcome!

Good Morning Tribe!

Additional menu items:

1) Eggs, your choice. 2) Sausage patties or links. 3) Smoked Bacon. 4) Hash Browns with onions and peppers. 5) Asst teas and juices. 6) Decaf, regular or Doc’s Coffee 7) Rolaids or Tums

Enjoy Tribe!

You too Bargrove, dig in!

HI, TERRY!

That’s quite a different breakfast from the one you deleted Bargrove!

Steve, I’ll have a ham and cheese, and I try one of bargrove’s omlettes!

‘Night, all.

I’m outta here also. See you all in the later AM.

Good Night Marg, JP Steve & Bargrove!

Good Night All

Peace & Love Tribe!

Morning, Tribe!

Another alternative or two:

1) Rakkav’s Megaton Mocha (how I start my mornings) 2) The Frugal Gourmet’s Hot Chocolate to Die For (in the words of a friend, “I’m getting a buzz from the fumes alone!”)

Sorry. While listing my breakfast, my computer got all “jammed” up. How do we find the Frugal Gourmet’s hot cchocolate? Hasn’t he been in Jail a while? I’m a Spiced Tea, also known as Russian Tea. fan.

Oops, Sorry. Frugal Gourmet died in 2004. He never went to jail. Settled out of court.

D I eat, go back to bed, or ask the girl of my dreams over? Better sleep on this.

I miss the Frugal Gourmet - despite his deplorable behavior - it was a fun cooking show.

Good Morning all!

Recipe By : The Frugal Gourmet Serving Size : 1

Amount Measure Ingredient – Preparation Method ——– ———— ——————————– 2 or 3 Ounces Milk Chocolate 1 Teaspoon Butter 1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla 1 Cup Half And Half – or Cream

For each cup, in a double boiler combine the milk chocolate,butter and

vanilla. Stir together until completely melted and smooth.Then add the half and half or cream slowly, incorporating it gradually as it heats; do not boil. Serve over a handful of minature marshmallows and garnish with a dash of nutmeg. Makes 1 serving. Source: The Frugal Gourmet

Actually Just Plain Steve, I’ll have a grilled cheese sandwich, haven’t had one in a long time!

Morning everyone!

Yes, the Frugal Gourmet was a great cooking show! Too bad he was a dirty old goat!

MoPar

I’M UP, UNFORTUNATELY!

Good Morning all. It’s tough not to get excited when a young lady says yes!

I actually met Jeff Smith at the Pike Place Market. He had a church near the market in Seattle. Yes, I liked his show too. Never would have guessed the other stuff.

Howdy MoPar. Since hanging out with you guys, I have started missing not having TV. I love football and would like to be sharing the action with you all. But, when we went to Virginia and I suddenly had TV to watch, after being away from it for so long, the commercials were even more aggravating than I remembered. Way to many and way to often. The good thing is we were able to watch Ken Burns documentary on the National Parks.

Doc - I guess that you are not referring to wildcheetah when you are talking about your laptop. I figure that you are pretty familiar with her by now. snerk

Doc - Yep, when life is good, life is good.

Tabby said last night not to wake her early, but let’s do it anyway! SNERK!

If anybody deserves to sleep in it is Tabby.

Good Morning Tribe!

It’s a new day people. 65 & sunny here today! No rain until tonight. Just beautiful!

Good Morning Mopar, Dry, Cleo & Doc!

We have the same ones every morning with only a few changes from weekday to weekend. Guess you can tell who the addicted ones are! LOL

Good morning TRIBE *(((((((((tribe)))))))

I’ve left some krispy kreams on the buffet table. Enjoy.

I’m also withdrawing some Karma from the bank. I am taking some jewelry in to sell for the gold in them. Sigh gotta pay car insurance somehow, someway. Not to mention everyone else. But like Dave Ramsey says: Shelter, Utilities, Food, Transportation…..then everyone else.

But at least I have a job. My spouse is still looking. They gave him a 13 week extension 6 weeks ago, but before you could say hey howdy the monies stopped. El Presidente has extended my state for the additional 14 weeks as well, but my spouse’s stops. Some days you just can’t win…..

(((Quaby))) - Good luck. I have made a deposit in the Tribal bank.

Good Morning Quaby!

We had some hail that still coats the ground from last night. We also had thunder and lightening.

(((((Quaby & Family)))))

Is anybody else not getting some of the comics? I see the comic name on some but that is it.

Cleo, you’re not running the snowblower yet, are you? LOL

Are you referring to BB, Cleo?

My question was answered when I saw all the comments at Birdbrains. Yenny didn’t appear either.

Cleo, I saw that at Yenny also.

I had to clean out my email folders! Geez.

I need to start getting ready for pool soon. Still trying for that top player trophy!

Kind of peaceful here this morning. Weird!

Ahh, we’re happy for ya Petey! It’s always good to hear that first “yes”…and the subsequent ones as well. Mid-50s and cloudy but nothing dropping from the sky right now. Hopefully it will stay that way long enough to accomplish a few things. Mmmm, thanks for the recipe celecca. I’ll have a cup with one of JPS’s grilled cheese sammiches! Nice brunch on a cool, gray day.

(((((Mr. & Mrs. MoParMitch))))

Peace, strength, and positive energy coming your way!

Good Morning Dcguys!

Good idea with the sandwich. I think I’ll have one before pool league!

Thank you again JP Steve

Where are you at Mopar?

Good morning all! Looks to be a nice day here, too bad it will be overshadowed by Michigan getting their tails handed to them today. I think Wisconsin remembers last year…

Good Morning Johnny

You never know with Michigan. Now Illinois on the other hand……………………they s_ck!

Not since they played us!

Good Morning dcguys & johnnyd

hi dcguys and johnny and quaby

What’s up Cleo?

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Hi Dry!

Terry - Absolutely nothing, but I want to share this with you all.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKAVyXi0J4&feature=player_embedded#

Still nothing at Birdbrains or Yenny.

Cleo, that is so cool! Thank you. I appreciate it.

Howdy Doc. Kicked out huh. LOL

Where did Dry get off to? I keep missing her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Glad you made it home Doc!

With me in that situation it was always

LOL

Hi Terry, I’ve been looking for something, haven’t found it yet.

I’m back, these toon tours take some time now.

Dry–That’s been MY problem for years now!

Thanks cleo - nice way to keep honoring our vets. And Dry…thanks for the Looking Glass memories last night! One of my faves!

dc guys you’re welcome/

Well maybe doc and johnny and terry, you should get them EMAILED TO YOU, so you can see them WHEN OTHERS CAN’T! :-P :-P! snerk!

You can do everything you can here, and you take your time to read them, unless you just HAVE to comment!

Terry

Penn State is losing!

The thing with the Home Page is after you leave the strip comment it is delayed slightly when you go back to the home page.

Dry

I know about PSU! I hope they don’t lose two weeks in a row!

I like to read the comments too. I don’t read enough comics to warrant getting a genius badge.

TERRY

I do!

And you’re right, there is a delay which can be annoying, but it helps me because I can read at my leisure if necessary and keep them in my inbox.

I’ve got to get going as I am running late for pool. I’ll see ya’all later this evening. Wish me luck!

P&L TRIBE!

Good luck Terry!* Long pool match!

good luck Terry on your pool match! hope it goes well. missed last night, because i had to get up early and go to work this morning (inventory) but it went smoothly and i’m back for a while now. Hi, also, to Dry, johnny, DocT, &dcguys.

dcguys thanked Dry for “looking glass” last night. if it’s Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) it’s one of my faves as well. If it isn’t, reference the quote from Emily Litella. *dc* also mentioned it was mid fifties and cloudy, and my first thought was that it sounded a lot like me.

Hello yyyguy!

almost forgot i wanted to send along special hugs for Quaby & spouse and for Mrs. MoPar for their respective job searches. in my experience, the only thing worse than having a job to gripe about is NOT having one to gripe about. best of luck to you all. (((Quaby & family))) & (((Mrs. MoPar)))

i’m popping back and forth while i check the toons out. a note to Dry. i heard on the radio, while i drove home, that PSU was trailing and the first thought that went through my head was, “That oughta make Dry happy.”

and Cleo (if you’re still around, or when you get back) i was watching that same series on the National Parks on PBS. I especially liked the part of it where they described Grand Canyon, Zion and the other one in Southern Utah whose name escapes me for the moment. My next longer vacation is planned to be to Canada’s Maritimes but, having seen that show, a trip to those three is now on my “bucket list” as well.

yyyguy that be the song, by Looking Glass. And yes, I’m dleighted JoePa is trailing! (Ducking flying objects thrown by Happy Valley fans!)

yyyguy figured out how to get me linked to Picassa?

That’s me under the leaves!

http://comics.com/Ben/

Penn State is winning now.

Good luck Terry.

the photos are posted on picassa 3 with public access allowed. if you need my name or email to link to it (i don’t know how it works, exactly, i only posted them) Terry can provide you with my email address and the name is on my “album” which is called “Finger Lakes Trip 2009 Best” i just went in to the site, and apparently if i have your email i can invite you to share the album. i’ll be hanging around for a bit if you want to do it that way. i know you don’t want to leave email addresses hanging around in public and i don’t blame you for hold ing an attitude i agree with.

johnny, OH POOH!

Hello to you *johnnyd & yyyguy.

I love the maritime provinces. I could easily be happy living on Prince Edward Island.

Hi Cleo

i posted photos from my trip to Washington, DC on picasa as well. if anyone cares to look.

yyyguy - I love traveling through Canada. The scenery is so beautiful. Did you mention that you lived in Ontario?

yep. on the northwest edge of Toronto, hard by the airport.

hey Dry in case you wondered, the avatar is my photo of Taughannock Falls, though it doesn’t show that well at such a small size.

Well dagblast it. I can not use picasa because my IMac does not have an intel processor.

Your avatar is cool. Nice photo yyyguy.

Time for lunch. BBL

Cleo i’m on face book as well if you don’t mind that. i’m a friend of Terry’s on there if that helps. are there any photo sharing sites you access with an IMac? (as you may have guessed, i’m not the most computer literate person in the Solar System.)

yyyguy, 56 pictures?

no, there were only 56 photos that i thought were worth sharing. of course i was only there for three days. yes, that would be the one.

Found it! Nice, very nice! Thank you! Anymore of Ithaca in the “reject” pile?

when i get around to posting my shots of my 2008 trip through Northern Ontario, the Prairies, and the Rockies, it will probably be at least 70 or more. (i forget how many are on my face book page.)

yyyguy I recognize # 9, took that road many a time! Good shot!

a few more from the 5th floor of the Art Museum that show the Cornell Campus and some of the art works, and a few more of Buttermilk Falls and Taughannock Falls that all pretty much look the same (more or less) as what’s posted. plus a bunch more of gliders in the National Soaring Museum in Harris Hill outside of Elmira. I also have a couple of ‘road shots’ that don’t show a whole lot but i was driving towards Horseheads in the rain while the sun was shining and tried to capture the effect.

Just a driveby Howdy All!

Just a drive by Howdy All!

i was looking for the covered bridge at Newfield and couldn’t find it at first. the shot is where the main street meets Rte 13 again on the edge of town, and i cropped it a little to lose the road signs which encraoched on either side.

hi DigiFrog

the stained glass windows and the chapel were in Auburn, just a bit up the street from the hotel where i stayed. design is all Louis Comfort Tiffany (as in the son of the NYC jewellery store maven) and the only one of it’s kind.

Howdy DF*. *yyyguy, I have a facebook account although I have almost never used it. LOL

you sound like my old high school buddy. he claims to do the same. his last two posts that i’ve seen were a friend request to me, and a friend link up to someone else. if you want to check out my face book page, you can ask Terry for my email (if you have his, i just realized i might be making an unwarranted assumption that the tribal elders have each others emails).

i’ll be around for another half hour or so, (it seems to be catch up day for me). if you want my real name to link up via face book, ask via comment here and i will provide it.

What camera do you use?

i have two. a digital ‘snapshot’ type camera which i got gratis (7.2 megapixel, 3 X optical zoom - which is equal to about a 35mm to 50mm zoom lens in my experience with it) and a film SLR (Canon EOS Elan 7) with two zoom lenses - 28mm to 90mm and 100mm to 300mm. good for whatever i want to shoot, so far.

yyyguy I didn’t need to invade your privacy, but then I recognized the places so I found your album easily. You can too Cleo, I’m sure!

Dry i don’t mind. i just finished emailing Terry to let him know i don’t mind him passing my email to Tribe folks who ask, and that Cleo was going to be asking. apparently Picasa doesn’t work on his computer so it will need to be face book for him. now i better make sure thase photos are on there (i’m pretty sure they are).

just to confirm the Finger Lakes photos are on my face book page.

Right. Are your DC photos just on picasa?

I retired from photography a few years ago and only have a nikon coolpix right now, which I do not like.

My other cameras are a 35mm nikon and a 4x5 field camera.

I am off for a bike ride. BBL

yes, but there are only 20 and i’ve been meaning to put them on face book any way. hope you enjoy your ride.

cleo i have posted DC photos on my face book page for your enjoyment. they’re taken on the Mall and on Pennsylvania Ave. between White House and Capitol.

and now, it’s approaching 4:44 pm EST, and it’s about time i did some RL activities. sayonara, folks. (& for them that needs)

((((Tribe))))

Helloooo, helloooo, anyone in the Big Top but me. Hey you know, since we are in the Big Top, I am glad that we didn’t come up with a collective name of the Clowns, but it may have fit.

Hi Cleo!

Hi Cleo and Johnny! I saw that Chief Thom Thom accepted the honorary Chief position. YEA!

Hi Carmy, I would be fair, now that he has immortalized us in the “print”.

yyy - I wasn’t pointing fingers with the mid-50s comment but I definitely relate to the cloudy part. And my thank you to Dry was referring to “Brandi.” I didn’t recognize your other reference so am off to search…

Very cool avatar, Carmy. Also, I owe you and others - who know who you are -

((☺))

… - just cuz.

Johnny, I need to print those out so I can laminate them. They are so cool!

Hi dcguys! Thanks!!

Howdy johnnyd, dcguys & Carmy - It has been a slow Saturday around the Big Top. Wiley has been raising a ruckus around Non Sequitur today. I am glad that he does. I am getting to the point that I do not read the comments at certain comics because I am trying to escape the realities of this world.

Hi ya cleo. You didn’t get hailed on while biking did you? I may have missed an update but the last I remember reading was about some hail last night. Let me also just say thank you - - - cuz that’s the closest I come to exercise after all the virtual victuals under the Big Top.

Hi dcguys! Cleo, I saw that too. I think it is a good thing, because people are getting too carried away with the politics there.

Here’s another memory - ♫ ♪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmbHGwMcCo

Off to RL now…BBL>

You are welcome dcguys. johnnyd- I swear some people can make a political reference to absolutely everything. I could say the sky is blue and they would respond that it represents the negativity hanging over us because of the blue state democrats. Sheesh.

LOL they would too!

So johnnyd are you studying to become a doctor? If you have said what is your major in the past, i am sorry, I missed it.

Thanks for the tune dcguys! That was a good one. I saw the Carpenters way back in the super 70’s. cleo, I’ve stopped reading a lot of comments due to the negative posts. I still read comics though.

hi all im up! :0D

Hi Tabby!

Hello Carmy - How is life down in nice warm Florida? It got to a high of 41 here today. Yes, I love Doonesbury, but do not read the comments much anymore. It is not worth it. The thing is, you are never going to change somebody’s opinion so why try, when you aren’t even in the same room with them.

Hello sweet Tabby. How is our overworked and underpaid member of the Tribe?

HI Carmy

trust me i did not just get up and as for doc and Dry what time was it when you were making all that noise, could you both be the reason the dogs were barking alot? my father walked in the house at 11am after running errons and said in a mean mean voice “DON’T YOU THINK ITS TIME TO GET UP KIDO’S!?” so we had to get up. sucks. i got up washed his truck and trailer and “my” car played with ana had my Godchild and unborn Godchild and buddy here for a while. good day with them but the washing was no fun at all

Hi Cleo, we’re at about 67 right now with a tomorrow high about 78. I agree with you, don’t bother trying to change someone’s opinion here. I learned that the hard way!

Cleo doing good just in a lot of pain but good

back again, briefly, after checking out yesterday’s comments to find the link to the song Dry left (Brandy, by Looking Glass) and then spending two hours lost in you tube clips of oldies but goodies like Gordon Lightfoot, ELO, and the Stampeders to name just a few. Great fun, but now the hockey game starts in 5 minutes and i still haven’t made any supper! My own fault, and i know it (so no raspberries, please). I did a quick listen to the Carpenters link, too. I’ve always loved Karen’s voice, the world lost her way too soon.

((((Tabby))))

and now a definite goodbye from this yyyguy

(((Tribe)))

be well.

Yguy thanks friend.

*Carmy - you and your 67. Mind if I camp on your front porch. A nude man lying on your front porch pretty much puts an end to solicitors.

Tabby - We need to wrap you up in bubble wrap to keep you safe.

Tabby, Yesterday I had a doctor appt and it was across town. I left my house a little after 9am and got home about noon. I did make 2 quick stops after the doctor appt. I got busy here in the house and after dinner i went to bed. It was about 8pm and I slept until around 9:30 this morning. I have some antibiotics to take 4 times a day on an empty stomach. That’s going to be hard to figure out, LOL!

yyyguy - Nice talking to you buddy.

Cleo, a nude man on my porch? You’ll blend right in dude! LOLS!!! yyyguy, that happens to me when I get on youtube also. I hope you have a good evening and that you team wins!

CARMY (((((((((HUGS))))))))) are you okay? i cant figure out how to take med on an empty stomach… i guess when you first wake up would be one time but the other 3 your on your own. Im glad you got some sleep you needed it more then i do.

Cleo my back hurts from washing the trucks and the weather changing makes all my sores form before, the bike wreck and the ankles hurt its cold one day and hot the next im in shorts and a muscle shirt today. blue jeans and a jacket and long sleeved shirt yesterday crazy. i need to be wraped in bubble wrap it would be so SO SO cool

Carmy - Sounds like your porch is a happening place. That or you are on a nude beach. :-)

Tabby, I’m okay sweetie. YOU need to take care of yourself girlie! Cleo, do you know where to get that bubble wrap for Tabby? Cleo, my porch is neither a “happening place” or by a nude beach. It’s actually on the side of the house. No one would even notice you unless they came to the side of the house. We enter our house from the garage. So, if you want to be unseen, use the porch. If you want to be seen, you can lay out on the driveway, hee hee hee! Hey, when we lived in WA, we had a view of Mt Ranier from our front porch.

Sorry I disappeared there, Cleo, I am majoring in biology in the hopes of becoming a Physician’s Assistant. Hi Tabby and Carmy!

hi Tabby & Lynn!

Hi Johnny! I’m sure you’ll be a great P.A. I think P.A.s are in great demand, and so are R.N.s.

bbs

yyyguy I just noticed an earlier post of yours, I feel I need to correct a misconception. Terry (Lonewolf) is not an elder. The elders are Joy, me, JFri, Tabby, johnny, Carmy, Marg, Cleo, Akenta, doc, and at one time Rad and Owlsly. We were the original group who have been together a long while now and have found some new friends who have stayed and bcome part of our group, you included.

Carmy - With all the ordering my wife has been doing online. Believe you me I have a source for bubble wrap.

johnnyd - Good for you. You can take care of us old fogies as we gradually reach our expiration dates.

Well, I can assure you Carmy, Mt. Rainier is covered with a fresh pile of new snow.

Thank you Carmy, I am hoping that is true. Looking back now though, I wish I’d have gone to Michigan State, they actually have a better program than Michigan… I would get killed there though, I could never root for them.

So Ana just fell down Three stairs and hit her right eye well above it on a brick and now has a black and blue eye. and a brused elbo. poor bab girl. Shes okay i had ice on it and held her and loved on her.

Cleo, that will be fine, my goal is to end up as a family practitioner, and I hope to use some connections of mine to secure a job back home in Grand Rapids in the not to distant future.

Cleo i love bubble wrap order me some

Hola Dry! Cleo, okay, now we have to figure out how to bubble wrap Tabby, BTW, Rainier was the first ship the hubby was on too. Johnny, can’t you switch to MI State and pretend you don’t hate rooting for them?

(((((((Poor ANA!))))))) Don’t let her fall asleep Tabby.

No point now, Carmy, I am too far along. I might as well finish here. Going to MSU now would mean that the past three and a half years were a complete waste of time. That is just something I should have done, fortunately, grad school is only supposed to be two or three years.

Terry’s not an elder? Hmm, I thought he was. So me and Tabby are the younger elders? Or the junior Seniors?

Johnny, stay where you are then. I’m sure all will be well for you, especially when you get set up back home.

That’s the goal, and I think that you’ve made a good move for your team, even though I’ve never heard of the guy you just put in…

I was just thinking that Johnny and Tabby were very young elders.

How about some Edison Lighthouse? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33kyqdNhk9k ♫ ♪ ☼

You johnny and tabby, are the younger and probably smartest elders! LOL! With the world by a string! Make the best of it!

we are some young elders why do i have to be so young?

johnnyd - you and Tabby are definitely the youngest elders. And you can also say that you are the oldest younger elders.

time to eat pizza here.

Tabby - I will trade, you can be good old me and I will be good young you.

Johnny, I never heard of him either, he looks okay though. Tabby, I’m eating pizza too!

Tribe thank you for the hugs and well wishes. Regretfully most of my jewelry was costume jewelry (I suspected so). $51. Sigh. Well, any little bit helps.

(((((((((((ANA)))))))))) It’s been said, but I’ll repeat it. Do not let her fall asleep. Also try to check her eyes, if one pupil is noticably larger than the other get thee to an ER pronto Hmmmm what else…oh yeah, disorientation as well as not being able to wake her up should she drift off to sleep are also good reasons to get thee to the ER.

Well, I have to go off. Got too much to do. I have arranged another delivery of Krispy Kreams around the time of changeover. At least imaginary donuts are affordable :-)

dcguys - Talk about a blast from a distant and shelved away past. I had totally and completely forgotten about them.

How about something a bit more recent — DMB — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8hmVIGKcM

Alright, I am heading out for the night. Peace and love all!

Alright dcguys how about a band that met and formed in my hometown at WWU. Also, friends of my wife’s daughter.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JB2ETgatI#

Good night * johnnyd*. Have a good time.

Watch out *Doc *, I am in your blind spot.

Cleo GREAT song! Are they still around?

dcguys you can never go wrong with DMB! Even the kids today are into DMB!

dcguys Love Goes Where My Rosemary Grows? Oh good lord! That’s like “Tip Toe thru the Tulips”! :-D

Hi Doc, thought you left!

Quaby i just checked her eyes thanks i didnt think about that. They are the normal size her eyes are so dark its hard to see. but they are fine and she is walking around all happy and playing she said “i have a headache dont touch it.” shes not acting like she is sleepy or dizzy she is acting normal thanks for the help. she had me worried big time that child is my life

**Dry- Yes, they are still a big ticket item. What I like about Death Cab For Cutie, is that they do not release a CD until it is good. The time between their last CD and current one made me think , one hit wonder, but that indeed wasn’t the case.

Carmy, Dry got me wanting pizza yesterday so i had to get some. lol and in the words of Ana ”pizza make me all better” love it.

(((((((Quaby))))))) been there, done that. I’m praying for you and your family. Have fun, Johnny! dcguys, they played “Rosemary” at the end of Shallow Hal. Hola Dry and Doc! Tabby, I’m glad Ana is okay.

Yes Tabby, it is good that all is well. I did not even think to clue you in to possible problems, thank goodness their are people here that are more alert. than I.

Off to dinner. See you alll later.

Hey I didn’t PINCH NOTHING TONIGHT! D A R N IT!

Tabby sorry I missed what happened with Ana, but I gather all is well?

Oh and HI CARMY!!!!!

Dry, I missed the hiney pinching too!

Carmy, you did? Oh Tabby, for shame girl! LOL!

OH AND ONE LAST SHOT

DOC, LIKE SHE ISN’T GOING TO SEE THEM? ROFLMAO!!!

Remember, Carmy and I had nothing to do with it this time!

That’s right, Doc! Dry and I are I N N O C E N T!!!

DRY look on pg 4 she fell down some steps and hit her face on a brick. my poor baby. she cried i cried we all cried. i had a sore back b4 and i jumped out the shed about 3ft high and jared it. hurt bad but didnt notice it at first. then i scoped up a 40 something pound kid and handed her to her mom up the stairs ran up them and took her bc she was screeming for me insted. then i carried her into the house and put ice on her face. my poor thing. shes going to have a shiner tomorrow.

Yes Carmy, for ONCE we are I N N O C E N T!!!

Tabby as long as she is okay, kids get shiners all the time! As a mother of two, I know! Eventually you learn the signs, and when you become a mom., you will already be partly trained. I wasn’t, but I learned!

Bite your tongue, DOC!!

Since when have the women of the Tribe ever been innocent..

Et Tu, Cleo?

Innocent? Not me. Never have been and never want to be.

uh i am have way innocent till i post this next comment at least. Dry thanks i know what you mean. i am learning a lot with her

I am getting to be realy freeken P i s s e d off with my fathers freeken s h i t i am about d a m n tired of this i mean it. i am about to scream. this is major s h i t i sware

forgive me for cursing i am at my wits end here now.

i am about to get off of here and get this bleeep done and go to bed i cant get anything to respond nothing wants to open or close or move or do anything trying to print out pics for dads business guess what it wont move its beng so stupid its not even funny grr

(((((((Tabby))))))) you need to cool off girl. When you’re mad and trying to do something, everything goes wrong.

I’m old too Tabby, and MoPar and Carmy are right. Wish my kids would believe me!

((((TABBY!))))

That said…breathe, girl, breathe! You’re above all of that! Thanks for the vid Doc! Good stuff, as always! I seem to remember someone committing on one of my early visits under the Big Top that they enjoy instrumental music?!? How’s this? It played almost every weekend through my teen years. My parents both really enjoyed listening to a stack of LPs while we all talked about our day, did homework, ate dinner, and just generally enjoyed each other’s company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPq2HSzgWR4

or maybe something more like… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYC3as3rwLk&NR=1

HI TRIBE!

I have popped in to see you guys, although I confess that I haven’t read the comments, so if you’ve been talking about me-

hope you had fun! I’ll never know.

I finished one paper. One to go- tomorrow.

I had a good day though.

Hi Shika! No i don’t think you were mentioned. Not much happening today.

okay sorry the whole computer went crazy.

thanks guys, MoPar i would love for you to come deal with HIM. Carmy you telling me i was so mad i could think straight went take a shower and it helped some, Dry i listen to you all. Dcguys hi thanks all

so wanna know what happened? I will tell u all if so.

(sweep, sweep)

(scrub, polish)

(dust, vacuum)

HYMENOXIS!!! hey how have you been its been a while i missed you

No problem. Just got back from vacation, thought I’d check in. Only six pizza boxes this week….I’m impressed.

HI HY! how are you doing sir? Long time no see!

we haven’t made too big a mess, as MoPar said, it’s been a quiet day!

Hy, vacation where if I may ask? Hope you had a good time!

Lovely Wife and I have been touring central Texas. We’re home safe and sound, and TCU beat Utah. All is well.

(buff, dust)

Two nights in Austin, and two in San Antonio, thank you very much. The food was good, the weather wonderful, wish you were nearby.

Hi Hymenoxis!

Sorry guys, I wandered off to read my emails and now….

Okay so MoPar and others

My father has been ticking me off all day, well week. I aksed to go house sit for a week, thanksgiving week and come home for supper every night and go back there it is 8 mins away. i will be with many dogs and two cats all dogs are big black labs and golden retrievers. He has not given me an answer this was wend. (i think) he walked in the other day and as soon as he walked in the door he started yelling and fussing and curssing at my brother and myself. been doing that every day now, and im tired of it. i have too much hw to be able to do everything around this dang gum house. today i told him last night that my friend and my godchild was coming visit i have not seen them in a while, well she calls when they are on the way and dad tells me “well you and your brother are to wash my truck and trailer today” not can u are will u, but u will thats c r a p. so while they were here i spent most of the time washing the truck and trailer. well they left i get fussed at for not putting HIS coffee on he comes out side and says “Tabby, well Kiss my A* too” then he goes back in the shop. later on Ana falls out of the shop with HIM, her Mom and me in there he turns to me when we get her off the groud (when i say we i mean I) and says to me “why the F weren’t holding her F*ing Hand!” well she ran out i could do nothing. then later on my walking buddy called and i get up and go to my room because i would like to talk to here and tell her what happend with ana and i like to not have him in my convo. well i come back up front when im done and he yells at me about it. so i was just done there. well he starts fussing saying that the computer is for the business not for our personal use. so if i dont get the pictures printed out i was not allowed on the computer anymore. and he fusses about the hall and how it has bags of clothes i got from a friend in the hall and how the house is not up to HIS standards and this and that. well i have had one heck of a bad week and this day has pushed it over the end and thats why i curse and went crazy. will be repenting later on. sorry about blowing up. love you all

Howdy, Shika. Lovely to see you again, my friend.

(Apologies to the Moody Blues)

♪♫♫♪♪I see by the clock on the wall, That it’s time to bid you, ONE AND ALL……♫♪♪♫

Any Canadians lurking here can finish the sinature sign off from Wayne and Shuster! I loved that show.

Good Night!

Love,

Shika Hi sis DRY hi lovely

hymenoxis - Where have you been man, this place has become a pig sty in your absence. By the way, there is dust behind the door.

Hy, did you do the Riverwalk? Is it as nice as it looks?

Dry…in fact we did, It’s a lovely, well manicured, over-priced string of eating and drinking establishments arranged in more-or-less a circle centered on a bit of brackish water that smells bad. Worth the effort, all-in-all.

Tabby - You need a break sweetie. I really wish that the Tribe could help you out, but we can not. i think that you have got to just concentrate on doing what you can, being a positive individual and rolling with the situations at hand. Man, i wish that I could give you better advice, but I can’t. For the time being you just have to roll with the punches.

If you choose to make the trip, I recommend centering your day on Dick’s Last Resort, where the wait-staff are annoying and irreverent, and taking a trip to Casbeer’s Church.

Cleo…well said.

Hy I hear it’s a tourist trap, but the pictures look lovely, and I have been around enough to know the tourist trap businesses, but all in all, it looks like a lovely area to just be in and walk through. Of course, I would have to buy ONE souvenir from there just because! :-)

Cleo You say you wish you could help, you all do. The tribe is my family that i love and WANT to be around. you guys always know what to say at the right time. Thank you for loving me and letting me a part of this family. it means alot to me

Terry left a message on birdbrains for you, well Thom agreeing with you check it out.

Tabby - I think that you just have to not cross him. Do what you need to do to get him to leave you alone. I think that you probably have this process down by now, out of necessity. I really wish that I could give you a solution that would make your life easier, but as long as you are at home you have to pretty much follow the game plan. I am sorry sweetie.

i am thinking about finding a way to get an apartment or something next sem. DRY i know i know you have been telling me to do this. :oP

Dry-

A tourist trap of the highest order, frankly. I’m a cynical old bastard, but they got my money, and loads of it. We met a waiter at Dick’s,and he had a table of old people, aged sixty-seventy. He asked them if they knew the difference between jam and jelly…they didn’t. He said “well, I can’t JELLY my d1ck up your a$$”…a pause of about three seconds while the shock settled in…and they all laughed uproariously.

I knew I’d found a home away from home. He turned us on to some good out-of-the-way restaurants and some good local music…so I’d have to say it was worth the trip.

MoPar my best friend walking buddy i tell everything to, when i get to see her. she lives next door but he is trying to keep us apart. he scares all my friends off. But walking buddy only tries to keep me out of trouble she is still here for me anytime i need her. she loves me shes like a mom to me. he told me also today that he dosent like how she looks at him when he talks to her, i thought to myself yea because she is always wondering and telling me, “how can a butt like him have such a wonderful daughter and not know it?” i wonder some times also. its just crazy.

thanks it helps to talk about it.

Tabby yes I have! And at least you should be able to move into a dorm room. Honey, you need to do this. You need to spread your wings a bit, you are old enough now. REMEMBER what we’ve told you, your Tribal moms! Love you girl!

(sweep, swab)

DRY i new that would get you talking to me. I just found out that i have a pell grant and im getting money from them for room and board and travel exp. and books. whats with that? why did i not know that? im going to talk to walking buddy and have her look over the paper work and see if im right if so, im going to have to see about it. want to get this job of house sitting to see how it goes. i need this chance. i need to know if i can live on my own.

Thanks Mopar

(((((MoPar))))) i do belive you have earned the place of another “tribe dad” of mine. :0)

I am glad that you have walking buddy. As I see it, you need to placate your dad and live your life without crossing him. You are soon going to be at that age when you will be on your own. It , to me, sounds like you know what you need to do to get by. Just know, we, the TRIBE, love you, always know that you can talk to us. Unfortunately, we can only listen and are not able to step in and talk to your dad.

(((((Tabby)))))

Hello All!

The yapping is picking up a bit here I see.

Take it easy

Tabby

Don’t get so stressed! It never helps the matters at hand!

Hey there

Cleo

Terry how went the pool game?

Terry - How was your pool tournament?

Thanks guys. Cleo i know what you mean i wish sometimes you all could step in as the tribe and show him not to mess with your youngest. lol it would be scary for him. :D

Terry

could be bc i brought in the fire. lol thanks buddy. im taking it easy i feel better now hes gone to bed and i have had a shower and ICE CREAM!

I won against a very good player. He didn’t play as well as I have seen him play but today I don’t think it would have made a difference. When I got there I was not feeling well and by the time my match came up I was worse. The good thing about it is when I am feeling sick, I always shoot better. I think I concentrate more. Anyhoo I won!

Terry congrats on the game!!! are you feeling better now? (((Terry)))

GREAT NEWS!! I GOT MY PAPER DOWN TO TWO PAGES SHE WILL TAKE IT NOW! AND IT STILL SOUNDS GOOD!

I know

Tabby

NO!

Hello Dry, Cleo, Tabby, Mopar and Hymenoxis!

I don’t know who else is out there, but I’ll catch you as I see you!

Just read last night’s posts to see what you are talking about.

((((((((((((((TABBY))))))))))))))

Hope things get better for you.

Hymenoxis Sorry I wasn’t around to catch your reply to me. It’s good to see you back. We missed you.

cleo, behave yourself. Hymenoxisis is gracious enough to clean up after us, you don’t need to berate him for some dust behind the door. I’ll bet you put it there!

;-P

And now that I am cross-eyed from all this reading and writing, I’m off to Laa-laa land. Although I may be there now…

No one can drive me crazy- I’m already there!

peace and love, hee-hee.