Big Top by Rob Harrell for December 13, 2010

Good Morning, Tribeandall

Good Morning Lonewolf

Good Morning, LuvH8

Breakfast menu:

Three egg omelets. Rib-eye steak & eggs, your choice Hash brown casserole Sausage patties or links Smoked bacon or Honey Ham Texas or wheat toast Blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries French toast w/strawberries & whipped cream Assorted pastries Pop Tarts Selected ice creams & ice cream floats! Cold KFC Root beer or PEPSI Assorted juices Bloody Marys COKEY COLA Johanan’s CocoMocha Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Chocolate/White milk Chocolate cake

Enjoy!

Lonewolf, may I have the fresh blueberry pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream and a cup of regular coffee (just in case)? Please?

Is the tree up? The house festive? You did make sure that the final count of broken ornaments was odd? That is very important. Don’t throw out the ugly ornaments save them in case you need to break them.

Ohhhhhhh, Lonewolf….you know the way to this girl’s heart……………….

Chocolate Cake!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Morning, Montana Lady.

Your orders are up ladies! Enjoy.

Good Morning Montana Lady

Thank you Lonewolf

Good morning LuvH8 and Lonewolf..

Your welcome, ladies.

Good Night Lonewolf & Montana Lady

Time to hit the horizontal position too.

Good Night LuvH8

P&L

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠, LuvH8 & Montana Lady.

I’ll just grab some cold KFC.

Good Morning everyone! It’s “Josh” now.

Good Morning, Tribe!

Good Morning, Josh & ♠Lonewolf♠

Good Morning, Grog & Josh

I wonder if the Bears game against the Vikings will be moved to another stadium.

Grog, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if they can fix it in due time.

I need to get a move on. I’ll catch y’all later.

Have a great day everyone!

P&L

I have to get moving, too.

Have a good day, everyone!

morning all!

Good Morning, ALL! Especially: *DFrog!* (Long time, no see!)

Anyone else here?

Are you having a good Lucy Day? Have you been offered a St. Lucy Bun??

A tray is on the sideboard. I’ll just have a couple of buns and some coffee.

Okay, bmonk…never heard of Lucy Day. Thought I knew all the Saint’s’ days……

But, I’ll try a St. Lucy Bun and coffee, though. Thanks

It’s big in Sweden–so if you have a Swedish colony nearby…

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have a three egg omelet and a St. Lucy Bun.

Happy Birthday Josh!

Hello Tribe

I’ll take a 3 egg omelet with peppers, bacon, cheese and onion. On the side I’ll have a couple of pounds of bacon, crisp, please.

First day of vacation. Got up about 9:30, might go back to sleep shortly.

For those who are ready for the mid-morning snack, home-made butterscotch pudding.

Butterscotch pudding? Hello Quaby - Thank you and have a good vacation!

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon!

Wow. 29 comments and not a single one about the comic.

Hello MrGromit! Welcome to the Big Top. Dusty sure comes up with some big ideas doesn’t he?

Oh! Daaaaaaaaaaaa STRIP!

Danny Bonaduce? No! Too freaky! Run Away! Flee in Panic!! Quiver in Terror!!!

Hello bmonk - We have a town near here, Lindsborg, KS That is a mostly Swedish community. Several years ago the King of Sweden visited it. They have a lot of nice Swedish items there.

Sojo, Morning!

Maybe next time you get there, you could send a Lussekatt to Montana Lady?

I have been there several times but doubt I’ll have to to get there soon. There may be some stores there that could mail things. I think the do send things to other places. They have a few craftsman that hand make some items that were made in Sweden years ago.

They used to have a 5-star restaurant (the only one in Kansas) that had Swedish dishes. Later they added a pastry shop to it with very good items! However they closed about 8 years ago I think.

@Sojo

:^(

Good Afternoon, Tribeandall

Happy Birthday, Josh

Good Afternoon Grog!

Good Afternoon, Sojourner

Good morning TRIBE. Ok afternoon. But it must still be morning somewhere in the world.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSH

Good afternoon, serena

Hello serenasakitty! - Yes it is!

Looks like it’s quiet under the Big Top. I’m gonna watch The Fourth Kind on HBO. Yeah, money’s tight, but would you believe if I drop HBO my ‘package’ will be a little more pricey? Weird. So I”m going to work on my jewelry.

Hi Quaby. I don’t get HBO. Sunday Ticket costs me enough and TCM is all I really need as part of my package.

Hello Quaby! - Hope you enjoy making your jewelry while watching your show.

That was one weird movie. I gotta do some research ‘cause it’s claiming it’s based on true events.

Hello? Quaby I just popped on for a minute and have not heard of the movie you watched…maybe that is a good thing???

I also don’t know who Danny Bonaduce is but I understand haunted houses.

Happy St. Lucy day from a Scots-English-French-German and no Scandinavian person.

Quaby - As a start I was checking www.imdb.com for info. Was it a Japan movie? You have me curious.

Hello HopeandJoy - Danny Bonaduce has done many things among them he was a child actor, probably you may know him as the small red haired kid on The Partridge Family. See here for more info on him if you want.

Thank you all for remembering my 51st birthday. That really means a lot to me. Again thank you and good evening.

Hello, HopeandJoy

Hi, bmonk and Sojo……

I Googled Lussekatt, and saw the picture of the “S” shaped pastry. Sure looked good.

I don’t think there’s a Swedish community here in Helena…..Irish maybe, but not Swedish.

Happy Birthday Josh

Have a good evening Josh - Hope your day has been good!

Hope to see you stop by more often!

Hello Montana Lady!

Quaby - If the movie review I’m reading is the right film it does look interesting. About something in Alaska?

Time for me to call it a night. See y’all tomorrow.

Have a good night Grog.

Happy Birthday, Josh! Good evening, tribe! Just got home after running errands today. While I appreciate the reason for the season, I’m not fond of the hustle and bustle of this time of year. Especially at Sam’s & Wal-Mart!!! I dread to think what those stores must be like on the weekends, considering how busy they were this afternoon. My sons’ semester grades were posted today, and it is time for Luv to put up a happy dance! The youngest got a C in his College Algebra class, which means he won’t have to retake it for any reason. I think the rest of the classes he has won’t be near as much of a struggle for him - or for me to help him. The best news is that my oldest son got straight A’s! He was carrying 9 hours, which is the most he’s ever carried before, so this was a real accomplishment for him. I will say that two of them were computer classes, so I expected him to do well in those, but wasn’t so sure about his technical writing class.

Hello Rmom - Great news! (Except for shopping crowds.)

Josh I DO hope that you are having a happy birthday.

Thanks Sojo for the input…I DO remember the Partridge family. I know what you mean Rmom about the stores. One more Christmas program for me, this time with the church choir…Had the last Community Chorus sing this afternoon. I love the music but afterwhile…..all the activity. LonewolfHow did *James sing go??

Grog Have a good game and a good night.

Happy for your sons, Rmom

Why didn’t we buy a frost-free Freezer 25 years ago? Maybe they didn’t make them???

Thought I would take advantage of this very cold day to defrost our freezer. (Sat the frozen foods outside) I will make my final trip to the garage to see if the coils at the top have finally released their ice. Lots of hot water in pans have done well on the other shelves. Good exercise at least.

Have a good evening Tribe

Happy Birthday Josh!

 

Good evening, Tribeandall

Done with work and now I am getting ready for pool.

Hi, Sojo & Hope&Joy! Hope&Joy - I know what you mean about all the extra activity. God didn’t give me the gift of rhythm or singing on key, but I do appreciate listening to talented people! The year our youngest was born, he played Baby Jesus for our church’s Christmas program, and my hubby & I played Joseph & Mary. Several rehearsals, and I think 3 performances to capacity crowds (1000+ each time). They wanted us to play Joseph & Mary again (they loved the fact my hubby has a real beard) and would have loaned us a newborn boy. (Son of friends who both sang in the choir). By that time, we had moved about 30 miles further away from the church, so decided it was too much for us to do again.

 Happy Straight A Dance!

   

  Happy Blechy Is Done Dance!

Hello LuvH8!

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠ - Have a good night at pool!

I’m outta here. Catch y’all later.

P&L

Hi, Sojo, LuvH8 & Rmom

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOSH!!

Thanks, Luv! - My sons (& I) enjoyed the happy dances!!

Hope&Joy - I find when I have to defrost a freezer, that a hair blow dryer & plastic turner helps a lot. I aim the dryer on the metal just above the ice, and use the turner to pry the ice loose once the surface of the ice against the metal has melted. I put the food in coolers while I work.

Hi, Wolfie! Have fun!!

Ha! Hadn’t thought of a hair dryer…have used a fan and a heater at a safe distance. I will get my hair dryer and depart just in case I need it. Thank you Rmom ( I put my food in ice chests and sat outside anyway)

Thanks for sharing your Christmas Story, RMOM

@LuvH8, don’t be bashful. Tell us how you REALLY feel!

;^)

Evening, HopeandJoy, LuvH8, ♠Lonewolf♠, Rmom, & Sojo.

Rmom–I hear you on all counts. The season sure does get hectic. But, if you remember its reason, it helps. And good art, music, drama helps us remember.

The local Christmas Concert will begin in about an hour–so I only have so long here…

I once defrosted the freezer compartment of an old refrigerator. The freezer compartment had the coolant lines exposed in the aluminum top and sides. I found out why using a screwdriver and hammer to break up the ice wasn’t a good idea.

bmonk - I hope the Christmas Concert goes well!

@Sojo, it almost always does.

You’re welcome, Hope&Joy! I have to do our chest freezer whenever we buy 1/2 of beef (about once every year or so). The freezing compartment in the trailer my hubby stays in, isn’t frostless either, which means I’ve had to do that a few times so far. The hair dryer never gets hot enough to damage the freezer, but if the dryer gets overheated, mine just quits until it cools down and then it is fine. bmonk - I’ve cut out a lot of the Christmas activities that I used to think were required, because they just wore me out. Now, the only Christmas decorations I have up is a Nativity set, but I can enjoy looking at other people’s decorations. Gift wrapping is at a minimum, since my guys think that’s a waste anyway. Cards & a newsy letter are about the only other thing I keep doing, because if I don’t send one out, then we lose touch with old friends. It is easier to focus on the reason we celebrate, if we’re not worn out. I’d probably add in a few other activities, but decided that if my family didn’t enjoy doing them too, those weren’t important enough to me to do them by myself or make my family endure them.

There’s a reason? Ummm…. wait….. don’t tell me.

Good Evening Everyone!

Hey! I liked Algebra,well for a while. But once it becomes both a subject you are unlikely to use and difficult it is

Blech! Blechy!! Blechy!!!

Sojo - Yes, there are times when brute force isn’t always the best method. I guess it was a good thing it was an old refrigerator.

I used the meat cleaver on Gma’s freezer. That was fun, but I did chip the finish.

Yes, LuvH8, there is a reason–but I can’t talk about it here…

Sojourner The Fourth Kind is supposedly based on some happenings in Nome, Alaska. It’s an ok flick, but it’s bogus. Nothing like that going on. If you get a chance to see it ‘free’, go ahead, but I wouldn’t pay $$ for it.

Luv - I guess I’ve preferred more practical math. I like geometry (although I didn’t have to write out proofs when I took it) because I could see where knowing the volume or surface area of a container could come in handy. (How much gift wrap do I need to cover this box?) Accounting wasn’t too bad, although it can get boring. At least I could see why that was important (fighting the IRS & winning helps), and companies need to make profits to stay in business, so they need to be able to have a “scoresheet” to see how they’re doing. Algebra is okay, if we’re solving for variables. But if there’s still a variable in the answer, I don’t feel like I’ve solved the puzzle.

Well, I must be going–or they will start without me!

BB tomorrow! G’nitey!

Have a good night bmonk.

bmonk - Enjoy & Rejoice!!

Enjoy you evening Bmonk!

Quaby, are you ever going to get a free photobucket account so you can put pictures of your work up for us to see sometimes? Oh…….. Sojo ate all the pudding. Do you have more?

I hope Quaby does, I’m still hungry. :-)

I have more pudding, butterscotch and chocolate. As for photobucket, I will eventually get there. I have to line up my stuff and prioritize it.

Hi LuvH8, Quaby, Sojo Bye gmonk..hope you sing “O Come Emanuel” It is one of my very favorites that we did this year. I remember hearing it at St. Margaret’s next to Westminister Abbey and near the Houses of Parliment at Christmastime service…such a lovely setting for music and words.

Rmom 15 minutes 15minutes after I blew the hairdryer, I had wiped out the moisture and began to restock. Fantastic. All it needed was a little more encouragement.

Hi, Quaby! - I was wishing I’d remembered to buy some pudding when I was shopping today. Thanks! Hope&Joy - I’m glad my advice was helpful. Once I get the chunks of frost loose, I scoop them up with my turner and put them in a bucket or something, so there is less moisture to wipe out.

Yes, I used a bucket too sitting close by to empty the chunks into so all that is left to do is wipe down the sides and racks with a paper towel….ours is an upright.

No more freezer talk…blechy Thanks for the happy dance.

Rejoice!!

Sojo! You are supposed to share the pudding!

Hope&Joy - I’d rather talk about work, than to have to do it.

LuvH8 - Okay, you can have this bit of chocolate pudding. Thank you Quaby!

RMom, buy pudding? Try mixing sugar, milk, eggs, vanilla and stirring it on a stove until it’s at a boil I’m still having thickness problems but it’s getting better.

Quaby - I buy it ready-made because I’m the only one in this household who likes pudding. Just a few ounces at a time is enough to satisfy my craving for it. The little cups to put in a kid’s lunch is what I usually buy. They have a long shelf life, and keep me from eating too much just because I hate to throw it away.

Okay, Rmom That makes sense. And there are some good ones in those little cups, too. S’mores and chocolate fudge come to mind.

Quaby - My favorites are banana and lemon. (Not together, though!)

I like pudding put on top of a baked crust and topped with whipped cream/cool whip….make it chocolate and you have a pie to celebrate.

Nite friends.

Good night, I need to head to bed too.

Good Night HopeandJoy and Rmom.

Won’t make it to turnover again.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡