Big Top by Rob Harrell for December 03, 2010

Good Morning Tribe!

Biscuts and Gravey Waffles or Pancakes with Honey or Syrup Omlettes made to order 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 ♠Lonewolf’s♠ Huevos Rancheros Grog’s Eggs (any way) with Sausage or Bacon Little Sister’s Chicken Fried Steak with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy Luv’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothie Kitty and Katrina’s Breakfast platter Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha Plain Milk or Chocolate milk Hot Fudge Brownies Assorted Ice Cream and Sundies Assorted Cream and Fruite Pies

Virtural servers are on duty - feel free to ask for anything!

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Morning, Tribe!

May I please have the Huevos rancheros, Beans & rice and Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee?

Good Morning and Thank you., Sojo!

How are you doing, Grog?

Good Morning, Sojourner & ♠Lonewolf♠

I’ll have some scrambled eggs & sausage, please.

Grog, it is so good to see you at this late hour! I lost at pool and we lost as a team. I am not doing goo right now!

An early a.m. greeting to you Sojo Lonewolf Grog and where is Little Sister and Montana Lady?

Guess I won’t sleep for a while afterall….hummmm Why not try a hot dog with some chili…that ought to keep me awake a little longer….on second thought Biscuits and gravy will do fine.

Hi, hopeandJoy!

How are doing, dear lady?

Good Morning, Hopeandjoy!

Better luck next time, ♠Lonewolf♠. Could it be a result of your really late night the other night?

Just finishing up an early morning toon tour, Lonewolf

Guess I will read a book now. Could you tell, LuvH8 to check out Loose Parts comic when she drops by? She might like it. See ya’

Very good possibility, Grog

HopeandJoy, very good to see you!

Well, I guess I am headed to the horizontal position now.

Good Night Everyone!

P&L

Yup me too.

See y’all on the flip side.

Hello everyone. :-)

I’ll have me some biscuits and gravy before bed time.

Dusty it’s best if you get out now. Trust me, you don’t want the trouble.

I’m guilty by way of a chocolate cheese cake.

Good night everyone.

Good Morning Tribe!

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Little Sister, who it appears we just missed last night.

Good Morning, Grog

Good Morning All! (Except OldestandWisest who apparently is neither)

Good Morning, Digital Frog (Agreed!)

Hi & Bye Doctor Toon.

Good morning, Tribeandall…..still haven’t recovered from that long drive from San Diego. That was one long trip. Ran into heavy snow from Pocatello all the way to southern Montana. Sooooo glad to be home!

Today is my kick back day. Yesterday was spent in the hospital for upper and lower GI scopes. Goody! So, today I can really rest.

Happy Friday, Everyone!

Good Morning Montana Lady. Enjoy your peaceful day.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Good morning all. Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. I just used some of our leftover turkey and some shrimp to make gumbo. Gumbo is comfort food for me.

Good Morning MisngNOLA - Glad you could put it to good use!

Good Morning, Sojo, MisngNOLA, Doc, DFrog & Grog(again)

Needed to step away to do a few things.

Good Morning, Sojourner & MisngNOLA….and again ♠Lonewolf♠

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ and Grog!

It is morning! Why? Why? Why???

Good Morning Everyone!

How is your week at work turning out, Grog?

What’s on your agenda today, Sojo?

Today I am taking it easy. No cars scheduled, maybe just some computer work.

Good Morning LuvH8!

♠Lonewolf♠ - Nothing special. Maybe pick up a few things at the store as it should be colder the next few days.

♠Lonewolf♠ - Glad your day sounds easy. You seem to need it!

Good Morning, LuvH8!

I agree, Sojo. Today I am a bum! lol

Another day to say Hello Lonewolf, Sojourner, LuvH8, Grog and MsNola

Glad Lonewolf (you are not a bum) and Montana Lady are having “Kick-back days” Say, I think I might join in. What fun!

Hello HopeandJoy - Have fun!

Good Morning(barely), HopeandJoy. I am soooo glad it is Friday! I am already planning my pizza night, too!

It’s so hard to believe that Ron Santo, Cubs baseball legend, has passed away. It seemed as if he would be with broadcasting Cubs games forever! :^(

Good Morning, LuvH8 & HopandJoy.

♠Lonewolf♠, the week is ending a little better than it began.

I’m happy to hear that, Grog. You sounded quite frustrated earlier in the week. That’s for sure!

Grog All IS well that end’s well afterall.

I hope Pizza night includes a crispy thin crust or two.

LUVH8 Check out Loose Parts if you haven’t already. I left you a message you will like as well. *: )

Good Morning Sojo, HopeandJoy, Lonewolf and Grog

Aaaaauuugh! Peoples are coming over!

Did I mention I am not a people person? Or fond of cleaning? Messy House!

♠Lonewolf♠, I remember when Santo & Banks were actually playing….and Jenkins was on the mound.

HopeandJoy, I am taking requests for pizza night and have added your request to the list. :^)

I guess I won’t ask you to clean my place, LuvH8

LuvH8, I think you will also like this one

And this too

Grog, I vaguely remember the ‘69 melt down by the cubs to the eventual Miracle Mets. And I remember when Santo played for the crosstown White Sox!

Funny links, Grog!

Well today is actually going so good, I think I’ll go out for lunch.

Thanks, ♠Lonewolf♠

Don’t forget todays Diamond Lil

Another good one, Sojo!

Also, good, Sojourner

I’m outa here. See y’all tonight.

Catch you later, Grog.

Good Afternoon, Tribe and All!

I see breakfast is still on the server, but it’s late, so I’ll just have some Nuclear Coffee–and it will come to the cup itself.

We’ve been getting falling heavy frost for several hours already, and it’s looking like 1-2 inches buildup so far. Made for an interesting funeral this morning, but pretty.

LuvH8 said, about 18 menu selections ago

Apparently it is a bad thing to prefer my own cooking to fast food most of the time.

I find it’s quite a bit cheaper, and often more to my taste–what little cooking I can do, that is. But unless I know a good place that’s close, I prefer to cook myself too.

HopeandJoy said, 9 minutes ago

HAAAAAAA, teeeeheeeee, giggle and shout! What a bunch of funny cartoons.. Grog the ‘shrunk in the wash shroud’ was wonderful…Lil and Strange Brew were good too….and for the third time, I think Loose Parts was funny.

LuvH8Cleaning is a bore..it really IS…I grumble a lot while I pick up, dust and polish etc. If you don’t like the peoples coming over, then that adds to the problem…..is it warm enough to sit outside????? A yard party or maybe a cleaning party inside would be fun….first one to find a chair can sit in it! Forgive me, I am getting carried away….see why in the next post. ———————————————–

My Colorado Daughter had 3 different serious problems with her right foot surgerically repaired today in Boulder. She has suffered with it “because it wasn’t convenient to get it done or to be off work $$$ etc” for a Lo-o-on-n-ng time. The surgeon said she was one tough lady to put up with the pain for so long but she will be fine now after fixing the different problems and I pray she will have the relief she deserves for years to come. Of course, more therapy.

I feel like Rory or a yearling horse and want to kick my heels up and dance around.

I think your button is stuck, HopeandJoy! :^)

Lonewolf It was worse. I wrote the LONG comment on the Diamond Lil toon when I went over to read it and I didn’t realize it soooo I have been trying to bring it back…I was stuck alright!! *: )

For our Chicago area, the forecast calls for a winter storm warning with 2-5 inches of snow beginning around midnight. Twould be our first other than a few flurries we had earlier this week. I am actually looking forward to it.

Hi bmonk are you going to build a frostyman in your two inches of heavy frost???

We will just have more cold and not too severe for the weekend. Kind of stuck in the upper teens to mid thirties.

No–I think it’s a bit too cold and dry for good frostman building.

But I may go back home to my rooms early if the frost keeps falling.

Hello bmonk and HopeandJoy.

Just got back from the store as the cold air should hit overnight and will be too cold for me to do much outside for a few days. :-)

Hi, Sojo. I felt the cold more over Thanksgiving, and a week or so earlier–it was too cold for November, especially all at once. Now, I’m getting acclimated.

Bmonk, you are getting falling frost? Hmmm…. We have falling rain, frozen rain, rain and snow mix, slush, hail, snow, acid rain, fog, mist…… but no falling frost. We often wake up to dew or frost on the surface of things but I am not sure how it gets there.

Doctor Toon - Good to hear from you. Hope it works out!

@LuvH8, it’s just that certain Tribe member tend to get, errr, umm, homicidal when they hear the S-word. And they know where the machetes are kept. So I call it frost rather than, well, you know.

DocT, I hope it does work for you. But we would miss you.

Unless we re-calibrate and -align the Snow-Trebuchet.

Happy Grim Reaper Dance!

 

@LuvH8, that reminds me of a song a niece used to listen to one summer when she was visiting here, probably mid-90s, about dancing in your bones…

Never could track down the song or group.

Lonewolf I have unstuck my Loose Parts button! (sigh)

*LuvH8 Look at those reapers shake and rattle!

Santa? Sled? Sale? Snowflake? Snuggle? Star? Snow?

We have machettes? Where are machetes? I want one!!!

Hello everyone. :-)

You already have a scythe–a machete would be redundant.

I think LuvH8 is getting hyper. Must of been the guests and house cleaning! :-)

Hello Little Sister!

Greetings TRIBE

Doc and Bmonk, I thought we were friends. So why are you pointing your snowapults my way? It’s snowing, chilly and an allround grey day. And I am definitely in hibernation mode. But in a way that suits my mood today.

I’m just feeling a little [ok, a lot] down today.We had to have our dog put down this morning. She had cancer and it was spreading fast. We really hated to do it, but we knew it was only going to get worse for her. But we were able to enjoy her for 15 years. For the first time in more that 25 years we have no cats or dogs in our family.

Sorry. I’ll leave now before I bring everybody’s day down. Thanks for letting me get that out of my system.

Ah! the weekend approaches.

I do have a machete. Never used it yet. Got it for the weeds in my backyard.

You can never have too many sharp objects. I might need the machette for cutting birthday cake or a ……. well something!

serenasakitty I would gladly take the snow away from your area, but I don’t know how, and I don’t have the equipment either.

Let’s see: Hi, ♠Lonewolf♠, HopeandJoy, (DocT), Little Sister & serenasakitty.

Not aiming at you, serenasakitty, at DocT! DocT!!

Snow!!!!!

I’m actually hoping for the 5 inches tonight!

Hello serenasakitty - That’s a very hard thing to have to do and go through. Hope you and your family are able to work through it okay.

Hi, Serena & Doc

I’m sorry about your dog, at least she isn’t suffering anymore.

(((Serena))), sorry to hear about your loss. I’ve had a few that have gone to that great big dog park in the sky and after all these years, I still miss them.

Quite a flurry of comments suddenly.

@serenasakitty, if you can’t share your woes with friends, who can you share them with?

Multiply your joys by sharing them, and divide your woes.

Hi, Li’l Sister

All I have is a decorative sword which hangs on a rack mounted on my wall. No machete.

Hi Big Brother, Sojo and everyone. :-)

Serenasakitty, I am sorry about your dog. Sometimes even knowing you did what was best doesn’t offer much comfort. I still sometimes think about my favotite dog when I was a kid. How it is that he got the center of my bed and I got to sleep around him I will never know. But at least now, I smile when I remember. Luv to you.

Hi Big Sister. Has your company left?

Yes I still miss Fritz (Best Dog…..EVER!)

There is sunshine and blue sky, I am very confuzzled. Maybe I need a nap. Yes, that must be it!

Serena….I also am sorry about your loss. My Queenie still brings back fond memories…… :))

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. They do mean a lot.

Sunshine? Blue sky? We’ve had no sight of sun, and gray/white sky all day. And freezing fog yesterday, so even the evergreens are frosted. Pretty, but it does make a rather monochrome picture.

The only clouds in our sky are near the sun.      

Serenasakitty It was so compassionate of you to help your dog and friend in this way and in so doing, bring her the healing of peace. We have also gone through this experience and I empathize with what you must be feeling.

LuvH8- Looks nice there!

Like that picture, Luv

Wow! Is bright, and scary! Hi Little Sister!

This is why Oregonians are supposed to take lots of Vitamin D in the Fall and Wintter and Spring. If any of you get the Winter Blues it is often caused by Vitamin D deficiency and you could benefit from a supplement. (look it up)

Nice picture, LuvH8.

The purple streaks are weird. Never tried to take a picture of the sun when it was too bright to look at before.

Nice picture Big Sister. :-)

Hello again, Little Sister Good to know you’re around.

Yeah! I’m here and there.

See you all later. I’m going out for awhile.

Hi, everyone! We made it safely to & from OKC without any difficulties. I was concerned because the tires on the trailer are more than 15 years old. Lots of wrecks though, we went by one shortly after the first cop arrived on the scene. The car did a 180 and hit the Jersey barrier on I-40. I saw the cop opening the door, just as we were driving slowly past. I’m positive the driver was seriously injured by the position and look on his face.

We were pleasantly surprised that the guy paid us 3 times as much as we asked for the trailer. Not too often that happens! But after he inspected it, I guess he found enough things salvageable that will make him a profit.

Condolences, (((Serena!))) Congratulations, Doc!

Will the new location be closer to where you live?

I think I’m wrapping up for the night. My internet speed is as slow as dial-up, my son’s probably hogging bandwith.

Good night!

Hello Rmom - Glad to hear your trip was safe and got more than you your asking. A rare thing indeed!

Good Night Rmom.

Good Evening, Tribe

My condolences, serena

Hi, Grog & Sojo

Hi & Bye Rmom!

I am watching Ghost Adventures and checking the Bulls BB game from time to time.

Hi, ♠Lonewolf♠. I’m watching DD&D. I’m glad I eat before I watch that show.

I would have thought you would be watching the Blackhawks game.

Grog, I’m watching the Blackhawks game on the ‘puter.

Hi again Grog and ♠Lonewolf♠ - Have figured out a lot of how to use my smart phone. Am going to try software to shut off my computer at night after I go to sleep. I’ve been leaving it on at night watching TV . In the morning it locks up and I have to force it off with the power switch. My cousin told me it was probably the memory being filled. I was using a nice screen saver display I liked and he said those don’t always release their memory. I stopped using it and has helped a lot but not fixed everything. This programe will force close all programs first (even gadgets) then shut off Windows. Hopefully shuting it down at night instead of waiting until morning will fix everthing.

Blackhawks play hockey like the Penguins? Do I want to know how my team is doing? I don’t want enough time to get bored with the sport.

Sojo, I am a firm believer in shutting down the computers before I go to bed. I have forgot to shut down this laptop at night and it is fine in the morning, but most of my previous computers reacted the same way yours does. It made it work much better once I started shutting them down at night.

I always shut down my computer at home, Sojourner. At the office I won’t shutdown until Friday (it takes too long to power up, log in etc., etc). But I will shut down all internet applications and close most of the files I’m working on. It’s made things run much smoother there….but we’re still victims of our network issues.

Hi, LuvH8.

Sojo, what kind of smart phone do you have? Why do they call them smart phones? Does it fly really good?

Hi LuvH8.

I hope you saw the links I left for you.

Thanks for the info. It helps me to have someting on to fall asleep (and having some light even though I wear that thing over my eyes to block out light). If I stay up until a litle after turnover I have no problem shuting it down. I’m hoping I can let it run a couple hours more. If that doesn’t work I’ll have to shut it down after turnover although if I fall asleep first that won’t help. LOL I used to reboot my desktop every day when I needed to have to leave it on all the time. I hope this program solves everthing then I won’t have to worry about falling asleep etc.

I liked the links, I did a Happy Dance!

I don’t think I would be laughing at death in a hoodie, but maybe he could have worn a pair of pants or different robe. Hmmm……

Hello Lonewolf, Grog and Sojo

LuvH8 - It’s an Android by Huawei (Ascend M860) for Cricket. A cheap phone but has all features. As new and better phones are coming out all the time and Cricket may go from a 3G to 4G I may upgrade later but this will last a while. Cricket is about 1/2 to 1/3 the monthly rate which adds up after a while.

I have to admit I felt like watching it fly a couple of times while figuring out some of the things about it! :-)

Do you think the insurance on Fiend covers crash landings?

It might, I don’t know. I didn’t get insurance as I could buy a new phone in less then two years of insurance.

Oh well….. unfortunately I didn’t have a choice in providers. At least if we wanted to be able to use our cell phones. We were also very limited on internet options.

Have you tried watching the youtube videos on your phone?

I haven’t tried youtube yet although it came with that app already on it. I have the wireless net on all the time and have no problem with battery life. I did figure out how to trasfer a ring tone from my old phone to this. You can make any sound file from music to something you record with your voice into a ring tone.

Oh, sorry. I meant the youtube videos about your phone. I guess they make a lot of those type things. When I googled your phone two popped up. I thought you might see if any are helpful.

I’m watching a movie on TCM they are calling a musical, however, there hasn’t been a whole lot of music yet. I think I saw it last year around this time I think. It was good! It’s called It Happened on 5th Avenue

Thanks LuvH8 - I’ll look at them this weekend.

A musical with out music? TCM doesn’t show post-modern movies do they?

I think I’m going to have to add it to my collection.

Soujourner, the release date shown for this movie is 1947. I just think they’ve categorized it wrong. It’s one of those feel-good comedies that’s probably perfect for the Holiday season.

Grog - Categorizing it wrong makes sense. I was sort of (although not too good) making a joke against post-modern ideas. I’ll see if that’s a movie I can check out of the libary or find somewhere else. Sounds interesting. :-)

I think you’ll like it, Sojourner, if you like classic movies.

A Christmas Carol. I guess that’s why it’s called a musical…..but it’s not!

Grog I like the older movies especially the Christmas ones. We watched the Cold Miner’s Daughter along with the Bulls game earlier, Lonewolf I hope Boozer comes along better over the next month from his injury.

HopeandJoy, I recommend this one, if you can find it. I’m starting to love it!

I hope I can find it at Amazon.com or the TCM Vault.

The rocking table bit was funny, Grog Of course, I started watching it a little late. Good cast.

I found it on Amazon from one of the dealers…same cast.

Hi, HopeandJoy. In these two games Boozer has played, the Bulls have been beat pretty bad.

Lonewolf I KNOW! I still think he can help when he gets going. The announcers are saying he has to come on slowly??????? I hope he can help.

Well the movie’s over and I have a case of the yawns.

I don’t think I’ll be up for turnover this time.

Gunite, Tribeandall!

Good Night Grog.

Big day of rehearsals and basketball coming up. Nite.

Goodnight Grog, Sojo, Lonewolf and everyone.

Good Night HopeandJoy.

Good Night HopeandJoy & Grog. Sleep well!

Almost turnover and all is well! :)

Hello Johanan!