Big Top by Rob Harrell for November 26, 2010

Breakfast Menu - Lonewolf’s Huevos Rancheros Grog’s scrambled eggs or eggs over easy with sausage or bacon.

buttermilk biscuits and gravy with chunks of sausage choice of regular or m&m pancakes or eggo waffles with syrup Tater tots, fried crispy potatoes or hashbrown casserole Cinnamon buns steak burgers, mushroom burgers, or smoked bacon cheddar burgers (Comes with French fries or onion rings) Breakfast burritos or tacos Waffle House Pecan Pie Kolaches recommended by Grog Salad bar now open Drinks include: 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 bmonk’s cup of cheap mint mocha Regular coffee, with creamer on request Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot. Bloody Mary Fountain Drinks or Ice Cream Floats American premium or Imported Beers Assorted Fruit Drinks or Teas Plain Milk or Chocolate Milk Ice Water Kitty’s and Katrina’s breakfast Meal and drinks. Dessert: Anything that you want

Marmaduke! Isn’t that a movie now based on the popular comic strip.

Good Morning Little Sister!

I’ll have buttermilk biscuits and gravy with chunks of sausage, m&m pancakes with syrup and hashbrown casserole please.

Sure thing Sojo here you go. :-)

Thank you Little Sister - This is a good way to finish the day!

Have all you want. I’m to full to eat.

That hit the spot, thanks again!

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

I’ll stay up for just a little bit longer.

Mmm…a Bloody Mary sounds right nice about now…

(sweep, sweep)

Here you go hymenoxis Happy Thanksgiving to you.

Though it was yesterday. :-)

Thankee, ma’am.

Thanksgiving Day was yesterday, but the giving of thanks never ends.

Thanks.

You’re welcome Hymenoxis :-)

(mop, swab)

You sure do such a wonderful job of cleaning the Big Top up hymenoxis.

It’s almost 11:00 P.M. my time so I guess I’ll turn in for the night,

Goodnight everyone. Have a great weekend. :-)

Paging Doctor Toon! I think your secret recipe for Nuclear Coffee has been revealed over at The Wizard of Id.

I can’t believe I stayed up this late. Back later for breakfast, I hope…

Good Morning Tribeandall!

I fell asleep early last night. I guess the body just had enough.

Good Morning, Little Sister, Sojourner, Hymenoxix, Johanan & Doctor Toon

I am not sick of Tur-Duc-Hen yet. As I type this, I am munching on some left-over cold turkey strips. Delish!

Good Morning, Doc & Grog

I am working today, so I must get moving. Wolfangil & my daughter are doing the Black Friday thing already.

Have a great day everyone.

P&L

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠

I was planning on going to Galveston this morning, but it is a miserable windy cold & wet morning here. The high is only supposed to into the mid-50’s Boy did my house cool off fast. Yesterday the temps were in the mid-80’s.

I think I’ll stay home, stay warm and eat more tur-duc-hen.

Doc, I struggled with the one dinner. I don’t know how anyone could manage 2.

Doc, I actually had to google Lefse. I’ve never heard of it before.

I just don’t eat as much as I did in my younger days. I really suffer for it when I try. I’m better off going with multiple snacks throughout the day.

I wouldn’t be surprised, Doc. You may even be able to work off both.

At least I can exercise my option to stay away from the stores today, which I will.

Good morning! I think I’m going to be like Grog and stay away from the stores today. My hubby is spending the day with an old friend from high school. I’m not invited, which is fine by me. So, I think I’ll putter around here, work on getting our Christmas cards & letters prepared, and snuggle up with my book.

Hi, Doc! I figured you’d be in bed by now. I got up earlier than I planned, because it was hard to go back to sleep with my hubby getting ready to leave for the day. I had hoped to be getting up about now.

Good Morning, Rmom

I knew there ws something I should be doing today, not that I really want to work on the Christmas cards. But I may as well get something done besides reading comics on this dreary day.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Sleep well, Doc

Good Morning, Sojourner

Today’s The Duplex was a real LOL.

Sleep well, Doc! Hi, Sojo! Good to see you! Grog - I didn’t send out my usual mailing last year, since I was swamped with handling my mom’s stuff. So I thought I ought to send mine out on the early side this year.

Good Morning Grog and Rmom!

Good idea, Rmom

Gorg - I’m sure you football fans could relate to Duplex. As a picky eater, I relate more to Cul de Sac.

Rmom, I can relate in some way. I do not eat everything I see - particularly from the desert tray.

Good Morning Lonewolf, Little Sister, LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, RwB, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, Woodeye, hopeandjoy2, Johanan Rakkav, Rmom , Digital Frog, The Sojourner,Bmonk, serenasakitty,Ladyhawk, greyhame

I hope everyones yesterday Thanksgiving was great. I guess my main family plans on one Sunday. My daughter’s guy is working today and Saturday, he works as a driver delivering parts to different customers, he and other workers were warned would not be busy but place he works at wants to service customers who need auto parts. Instructor is letting us have an extra credit assignment. I will be working on. Then try to fit another one. One is due by Dec 1st and use of internet with theme. Don’t know if I will pass this subject. I have no plans to go with the crowds. We draw names here my name has something simple yea.

And I will go only so far to eat healthy as well. There’s a fairly long list of vegetables I refuse to eat which include but are obviously not limited to green beans and peas.

I also am not a big fan of Mexican, French or Italian cooking.

Grog - Reminds me of my sons and myself. However, rice pudding wouldn’t be one of the things we’d take, we’d rather skip dessert entirely! Although, at a dessert buffet, we can usually find something to eat.

Good Morning, Kab

Hi, Kab! I’m glad I only have five people on my Christmas list, if you don’t count shopping for myself. My in-laws are easy - renew one subscription and give them a memory card with lots of pictures for their digital photo frame I gave them last year. One son is already working on his want list, I need to prod my hubby & the other son to work on theirs. That son never could come up with anything he wanted last year, so he got mostly cash. I did buy him a case of Oreos (vending size packages) from Sam’s, and he said that was the best gift! I do pick up a few stocking stuffers for myself when I see something I’d like, but I’ve told my hubby he still needs to buy some for me, as I like some surprises. Considering that some years he waits until Christmas Eve and goes to the tiny Family Dollar store to do his Christmas shopping (which is just for me, I handle the rest), if I didn’t help, I would have a very skinny stocking. I usually do the more expensive shopping on-line, and save the in-person shopping for stocking stuffers and normal household shopping.

Kab - Several years ago, my husband and I were shopping at Atwood’s (farm supply store) I think on our anniversary date. (Don’t laugh - it’s a family tradition! My parents’ anniversary was Dec. 12 and they always went Christmas shopping on their “date”.) Anyway, while we were there, I asked him to pick out items he’d like for stocking stuffers for himself. He did, and even put them in the shopping cart. I paid for them, and hid them away until I filled his stocking. When he pulled them out, he was the happiest I’ve ever seen him with any gift. He had completely forgotten he picked them out, and thought I had done a fantastic job of shopping that year.

Funny, Rmom. My Mom often forgot what she had wrapped for me.

Kab - So this year, we were shopping recently at the Big Tool Store in Derby, and I asked him to pick out his stocking stuffers again. Now I just have to start sorting out what I’ve bought already as gifts, and see who I need to buy more for.

Good Morning Kab!

Grog - I know the feeling, so I try to not wrap too early, or else make sure I have a system or notes to remember to keep them organized. When the kids were younger, so I was trying to keep them from doing too much snooping, I had a number of tricks “up my sleeve”. I made stickers of teddy bears that reminded me of each of my sons’ bears, to put on their packages instead of their names. I think last year, when I just wrapped the gifts in boxes closed with duct tape, I used different color of duct tape for each person. I’ve put bricks or other heavy objects in with the gifts to throw them off as well. My mom used to hide the real gift, and just wrap up a clue to put under the tree. We had to follow a series of her rhyming clues before we found our gifts. I’m just not as good of a poet as she was.

Good one, Rmom. Make you work for your gifts. My Mom and I were both the type who would do the Christmas shopping through the course of the year. I hated being in the Department stores during the Christmas rush. The only thing I bought last minute were the perishables.

My Mom would hide the gifts so well, she sometimes forgot where she hid them.

Hello everyone :-)

Thanksgiving is done now we prepare for Christmas. While everyone decorates their house and tree I’ll be rigging traps to try and catch Santa Clause.

“Bwaa- haa haa haa haaa!”

Hello Little Sister.

Hello Grog

Good luck with that, Lil’ Sis! The question is, if you trapped Santa Claus, what would you do with him? Sorta like if a dog caught a car he chased, what would he do with it?

Hello Little Sister!

I’ll catch him and shake all of the magical presents out of him.

mine, mine, mine!

Bwa-haa haa haa haa haaa!

And then I’ll share the presents with all of you.

I’ll give Santa a nice warm cooked meal and then send him on his way.

See I’m not evil.

Of course not.

(Snort)

Have a great weekend everyone See you later.

I’m off to watch the Iron Bowl.

See you later Little Sister and Grog.

Time to get some things done. Will try to stop by tomorrow.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Hi to the Tribe I need a rest, peoples!

My sweet Bibs is losing weight and we just came back from a visit to vet. Not sure what is happening….rats. Has good kidneys and Liver, no diabetes and no infection or parasites. Possible heart murmer and testing for Hyperthroid. He is 7 years old and a tamed former feral cat and now a loving friend. He has leveled out on the weight loss for the moment within 2 oz. Doc Toon you know how I am feeling, probably.

Hi all from BT. I read your posts. My brother-in-law did exactly as Rmom’s mom did to my sister, and their house is very small with a garage for storage and a work shop. It was amusing how he cleverly hid what he bought for her almost in plain site. Also when we wrap gifts we try to be sneaky more fun. All but our mom is limited on income. She just doesn’t spend all her SS money and it accumlates. I have told her Uncle Sam will want it back. And we get stuck with higher taxes. Me I’m not watching sports at all. Working on studies and extra credit. We here just draw names. Been doing this a long time. Then evening go and see what different neighbors spend on Christmas lighting.

For some of you who take pictures if you see some lights that would look great from your different states might be interesting viewing on BT. I might see if my daughter or son can do this and I can post. So far this hasn’t been done.

Kab - I’ll see if I can take some pictures of Christmas lights. Winfield has their park really lit up, unfortunately, they charge admission. Our internet went out for an hour or so this afternoon, and just came back on. I haven’t a clue as to why.

I know I can go we web sites to also see different Christmas lights. This might be cheaper then driving if people posted their own lights on web site like U-tube. Not sure about Photobucket.

Good afternoon, Tribesters!

Held off on lunch today, much to the dismay of the little woman who spends time with me. But I am done for the day now and I am nice and warm here in the casa!

WooHoo!!!

Good afternoon, ALL!

Time for leftovers, especially Flaming Turkey Wings!

(Unfortunately, the second half is another ad, totally unrelated).

Happy Leftover Day, Tribe.

Inside decorations are done. Will do the outside tomorrow after laundry. Have labels printed for cards, but haven’t done them yet.

Hi, Bmonk & Saucy.

How are you two doing?

Pumpkin pie is good at our house!! Kansas Grands have gone home with their parents. Enjoyed our time and pizza too.

Sure is quiet this evening. Spooky…………………………

Hello everyone but only for a short brief moment, as I get ready to go to yet another Dinner Party, and I’m still full from last night.

Hi, HopeandJoy, Luved One & Li’l Sister!

Good Evening Little Sister, Lonewolf & Doc T

Doc, bring back some of the Tillamook Peppermint Ice Cream, please?

Good evening, Grog & Doc

Have a good night at work, Doc. Catch you in the morrow!

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠

The Iron Bowl turned out to be the tale of two halves. ‘Bama was up 24-zip before Auburn got points on the board toward the end of the second half. A quick strike to start the 3rd made it a game again. When the dust settled, Auburn won 28-27. What a game!!!

I then had Thanksgiving all over again while watching The Ox-Bow Incident. Great Movie!

♠Lonewolf♠, I had a question or two for you at C-Kennel.

Sorry about that Grog. I was making some wav files for my Blackberry.

I answered you at C-Kennel.

Thanks, ♠Lonewolf♠. I don’t even recall seeing that over at the Hart web site.

Wow, today’s even quieter than yesterday.

Well I’m going to bed and we’re just a few comments from page 3.

I’m still working on wav files, but I am getting tired now.

Good Night, Grog. I’ll be up for a while yet.

I’m still awake. Uggh!

I’ll take care of breakfast.