Big Top by Rob Harrell for January 10, 2011

Good Morning TRIBEANDALL!!!

Breakfast in a bit.

Good Evening Sojo!

Oatmeal or Grits 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 Cheese Platter and Crackers ♠Lonewolf’s♠ Huevos Rancheros Grog’s Eggs (any way) with Sausage or Bacon Lewreader’s Pheasant Egg Omelet Little Sister’s Chicken Fried Steak & Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy Luv’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothie Kitty and Katrina’s Breakfast platter German Chocolate Cake Assorted Ice Cream and Sundies Assorted Pastries Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha Plain Milk or Chocolate milk Domestic or Import Beers Chablis, Chardonnay, Merlot or Zinandel Wine

Good Morning Ooops!

Sojo, may I have Luv’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothie for myself and Kitty’s Breakfast Platter for Kitty, please?  

Good Evening, Sojo and Ooops!…….

I’d like to try an assorted Pastrie………..only I’d like it to be a Cherry cheesecake with a smidge of a powdered surgar glaze, and a tank of Doc’s Coffee……please……

that will be for the morning, of course, but for tonight, just a refill on my glass of Merlot.

I don’t know about all you folks, but this football weekend just wiped me out. I was wrong on just about all the games.!!! Go Figure.

Ooops! - Here you are!

Good Morning Montana Lady - Here’s your Merlot, they rest will be ready for you in the morning.

Petey-boy I don’t think you’ll be able to talk your way out of this one successfully.

I’ll take a hamburger and some fries. and Katrina thanks you with a purr for her meal Sojo

Good Morning ♥Little Sister♥! - Here’s your order!

I wasn’t wrong on any of the games. I wasn’t around to watch any.

Well, Lil Sis it was too cold to go out today…..I don’t think it got to the double digits. it’s -4 right now, and supposed to get down to -6 during the nite…..brrr!!!

Thank you Sojo :-)

You are a masterful chef just like Grog and my Big Brother. Don’t tell them that I said that though, because they might get jealous. ;-)

Hello Montana Lady & Little Sister

Is Foo Ball, I don’t care! (unless there are no uniforms or I have some sort of convoluted or not convoluted relationship with one of the players)

Thank You Sojo!

That is downright chilly Montana Lady I hope that you stay warm and toasty inside.

Hello Big Sister What is Foo Ball? I don’t have time to watch any games or any TV for that matter.

I’ll be shutting off my internet later today. :-(

♥Little Sister♥ - How long until your back on?

No Internet?    

Will you be able to use alternate internet sources? Like taking your laptop for a walk or library computers?

I do not know for certain yet. Maybe by February. at the earliest.

And Yes Big Sister possibly or by going to my Aunts house to do things like babysit.

♥Little Sister♥ - It will be a long wait for us! Hope you can get on soon and show up as your able to!

I got to go to bed now. See you all later today sometime, before I shut my internet down.

Good night.

Good Night ♥Little Sister♥ - Sleep well!

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Night Little Sister, Luv You, Sleep Well

Good Night Sojo & Montana Lady

Luv & Happiness To Peoples

Morning TRIBE! My vet says my dog and 2 cats are fat. My doctor says I’m fat. I say my lady is ( looks around carefully) fat. YOU SAID virtual breakfast had no calories. Do these comments make me look fat? SOJO, just a DOC TOON’S WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE, please. Hold the cream and sugar.

Good Morning, Tribe

Good Morning, Sojourner, Ooops! Montana Lady, ♥Little Sister♥, Lewreader & ♠Lonewolf♠!

Well I was 2 for 2 in football picks yesterday and Oh for on Saturday.

Good Morning, Grog. 50% isn’t half bad. :^)

Good morning, lakesnake.

Montana Lady, I’ve had that problem all season long. Good Morning to all. Was going back to lurker status because of previous bleepage, however, I don’t like censorship. OK, maybe in a few more comics I’ll get off my soapbox. Two days ago I commented on “Animal Crackers”, got bleeped, next day, two comics had the same word in their comic strip, it isn’t even a BAD word. I need some Doctor Toon’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee, could you make it a double please? Sorry, and thanks for letting me vent. Happy Monday TRIBE. We have snow on the ground (central Missouri).

Good Morning, Lakesnake.

Hey, you’re psychic today, Grog.

Good Morning Lonewolf. The coffee is great, thanks Doc toon. Grog fill me in on your secret. My football season was so off this year. My Horns went from Rose Bowl to No Bowl. My Cowboys look like they might be getting better though. “Allways next year”.

Yes, I felt a presence in the force.

I am headed out to work. Hope it’s not a long day.

Have a great day everyone.

P&L

No secret, really lakesnake I will always go against any rival of the Cowboys which would be the Eagles, Giants and Dedskins. Then there’s the Steelers Jets & Seahawks. The latter 2 because I was trapped in areas were those teams were shown more often than not in regional markets.

The Cowbys are my favorite team, but I like - or at least do not detest the Bears, Packers, Saints, Raiders, Browns and Patriots.

Have a good one, ♠Lonewolf♠

Morning All!

Morning, Digital Frog.

Morning Grog. I will say this, coming from a transplanted Texan, I have learned to enjoy other teams playing. Used to, if the “boys or horns” weren’t playing, I wasn’t interested. Now I have many teams to root for. OK, some of them have ex-horns on their team.

I’m back.

There has been a change in the scheduling for my day. I will be here most of the day. Other than a few things to do out in the garage, I don’t need to be out in the cold today. I can handle that! :^)

Good morning, Lakesnake. You’ll find that the nannybot is very sensitive. It doesn’t even like the word that ones uses to describe mending a sock. The device beavers build to hold back water gets bleeped too, I think.

Let’s see: the first was bleeep, the second was a dam.

Okay, so holding water with a dam is safe to use. I wasn’t aware of that.

Good Morning, Saskfan

Good Morning, Saskfan.

Thanks Saskfan. I’m still learning. Also noticed that using @$#^% will usually work, just like a spam filter. Now if we could just stop the pop-ups.

Lakesnake another Texan. No matter where we live, we’re always Texan.

Good morning, Tribe

In case you didn’t hear, the SSBN Erehwon came into the Big Top docks late last night, breaking through the ice. Thankfully it wasn’t as thick as it was on Ice Station Zebra

Anyway, I”m home after nearly 2 hours on the road (20 minutes at Gerald’s getting a flat fixed). Got as far as the foot of the one bridge I cross and was among one of the first ones turned away. Sigh, so home I came. Called in and told my boss I’d try to get in later and was willing to stay later to input bookings, etc. Got my out of office and my voicemail set up and now I’m sitting here, reading comics, keeping an eye on the blockade where I was turned away. Once it’s gone and traffic moving I’ll make another go. But there was ice all over my car when I got back,including icecicles handing from the sideview mirrors.

Anyway, I’m here with the heater going, listening to the sleet plink on my windows. Back to the comics!!

Good Morning, Quaby.

Good Morning Quaby. My goodness, where are you? It is snowing here, but not bad yet. Looks like we finally have winter going on here. Time to head to Texas for a couple of weeks. Need some sand between my toes and the wonderful music of friends.

Good Morning ♠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

We did get snow here my guess 4” an onramp to a HWY motorist and trucker’s have gotten stuck. Northern part of KS up to CO school’s close. More snow for them.

Lakesnake, I’m in the armpit of the universe. I’ve never really stated where I live. I’m still a little paranoid about information out on the web. I did slip after about a year and it’s known I’m female, 56, with a hubby and grown son (living at home). If anyone ‘guesses’ where I”m at I’ll confirm it, otherwise I’ll just grin and boogie on.

ANyway, my bridge is still closed, the loop itself is deserted and I get the feeling it ain’t gonna open any time soon as it’s still below freezing here.

Good morning, Quaby

Big Sister you won’t have anyone to play with since ♥Little Sister♥ is getting closer to move. Our Internet wasn’t down that long. When we moved didn’t have weeks only two 1/2 days. We prepared ahead of getting boxes ready into storage.

And now for something I can’t do at work…..snoozle time!!

Good Morning, Kab.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Good Morning, Doc & Sojo

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥, Doctor Toon & Sojourner!

Quaby I use state and abrvaited version of town big area I never give out location. Like when I go to work, there are a few small bridges I just don’t give out location nor place of employment. I guess saying I work as a pt Office Specialist/Receptionist doesn’t give too much out and I use word dept only. I also work as a customer service representative sort of. Great people in general and vendor’s. For Rmom she sorta knows where I am located at I’m not quite sure the area Sojourner is at that location is hugh. On Facebook I have a picture of my hubby and I you are a year older then I.

Howdy folks. Little Sister, take care until we see you again. Sojo, it’s lunch time here so can I get 4 fried chickens and a Coke please?

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠, Grog, Doctor Toon and ♥Kab♥!

Good Morning MisngNOLA - Here’s your order, enjoy!

Good Monday Morning, ALL!

Especially: Grog, ♥Kab♥ , Quaby, ♠Lonewolf♠, DocT, Sojo, MisngNOLA

♥Little Sister♥ said, about 10 long times ago

Petey-boy I don’t think you’ll be able to talk your way out of this one successfully.

Yeah, he might have to resort to smoochies!

We’ll miss you–don’t be a stranger. (People always accuse me of being stranger. They won’t say stranger than what though…)

Hi, MisngNOLA.

Sorry Quaby, wasn’t trying to get too personal. I understand your concerns (and share them) about the “net”. Just curious since it is snowing here and I’m missing my Austin Texas roots (and family). Morning Kab. I’m off to my kitchen to make more HOT tamales. You can take me out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of me!

Good Morning bmonk and lakesnake!

WE had our snow over the weekend–starting late Saturday, about dusk, and going through midday Sunday, more or less. About 4 inches total, I’d guess. Now it’s just cold. And I hate to think what a bit of wind will do with all the nice, soft, fluffy stuff.

I only made it to the Sunday services at the home parish–one mission called it off; the other I called off. I could likely have gotten there, but maybe not–and it would have been no fun driving without being sure where the road was. And in the dark. And an evening meeting there was canceled too, so it wasn’t just my being a Nervous Nellie…

Good morning, Bmonk

Good Morning, MisngNOLA & bmonk

Hi, everyone! It is white outside here. Thankfully, I’m inside where it is warm & dry. I’ll take a walk later in the day after the mail’s been delivered, and maybe take some pictures.

Good Morning, Hopeandjoy♫

Good morning, Rmom & HopeandJoy♫.

Here I am again on a snowy Missouri day with at least 3 inches on ground. Have swept 3 times and shoveled once and the birds are going crazy eating seed/suet. (exercise)

Sending good wishes to Lonewolf, bmonk, Doc Toon, Lakesnake, Quaby, Sojo, MNola, Kab, Grog, and always to Little Sister and Ooops

Lakesnake, Quaby I inadvertently gave the town where I live yesterday…but I comfort myself with the knowledge no one knows my name or where exactly I live in the town so I think I am safe. Any thoughts on this????

Good Morning Rmom and HopeandJoy♫!

@♫Hopeandjoy♫, I decided a while back to pick another (larger) town to use as my “base”–having another place to think of helps keep the cover story straight.

And the use of pseudonyms/usernames does help–as long as nobody can access your email and trace back to you.

Edit: BTW, Good morning, Rmom and ♫Hopeandjoy♫!!

Hi, Hope&Joy! I haven’t measured our snowfall yet, but I’m guessing about 4 inches, however, it could be a few more.

Good Morning, Rmom

HopeandJoy, since we both are in Missouri, guess you’re getting snow too. My husband and I live on the Lake of the Ozarks and serve the best steaks & ritas in the county.

Lakesnake the food sounds good…not the snow…although at the moment nothing too serious and wind is nonexistent.

Doc Toon, bmonk I guess I won’t worry about it. It would be difficult to track me and the email address I use here is not my main email address. I am on facebook but have no names or towns there….If someone tries to find me there, they don’t even have my maiden name or first name etc.

Lakesnake Love the lake from Monday through Thursday. We are close enough.

Hi, bmonk, Doc, & Grog! I will admit to being SE of Wichita, but keep it rather vague after that. I do think having pseudonyms/usernames help prevent some problems, but nothing is 100% safe. Life is NOT risk-free.

Here weather man said we received 3.1” of snow looks like more. I am on facebook I use close to my name. I don’t give out my whole name here. I guess some like me take it for granted since same ones comment more then most people are safe to correspond with and we don’t know each other that well only information we give out. Lakesnake that is pretty country there. We had a former retired Pastor’s that retired out that way. One health is not that great. I need to close almost time for me to leave. Have a great day everyone. We are going to receive an artic blast here.

Sleep well, Doc!

Good night, err–day, umm…err–good NAP, DocT!

Lakesnake, my husband’s roots are in the Austin area, down towards Bastrop. Mine are in the Houston/Galveston area.

Okay Kab How about….the Mark Clark is icing over, the Don Holt bridge is closed along with other area bridges such as the Ravenel and there’s no way for me to get to the office on the ‘island’ which is actually just a peninsula.

Short answer is: The Armpit of the Universe (on a humid summer’s day).

Bye ♥Kab♥ and Doctor Toon.

@Quaby, I always thought that South Chicago-Gary was the armpit–it certainly smelled like it near the refineries and steel mills.

Hello Quaby - Have a nice day at home!

Rest well, Doc. At least you have off tonight!

Quaby - I just hope the “Armpit” smells better and is less hairy than my sons’!

Have a good day, Kab!

Rmom I’m not sure about the smell…but the armpit does have some nice spots like the Dragon and my friends.

I just talked to the Center Director (otherwise known as Office Boss). The bridge just reopened about 30 minutes ago, but he decided I should just stay at home as it is so late in the day. I think both he and my department boss appreciate I was trying to get in. Everyone needs every brownie point they can get these days, no matter how well they do the job, etc.

So I’ll probably just veg out a bit, maybe do some tidy up in the kitchen that I didn’t get to yesterday because I procrastinated.

I always thought Amarillo was the armpit of the Universe.

Sleep well, Doc

@Quaby, isn’t an unexpected free day–or even a few free hours–such a nice present?

Quaby - Sounds like you’ve got a decent boss. I would think that they’d realize the office location can present a few logistical problems in getting there. That’s one advantage we have here in the “flatlands” of KS, usually if one road is closed, there’s another route that will work.

Quaby - Good thinking on your boss’s ideas. Reminds me of what happened in high school once. The Board of Education here hated to call for a snow day and put off making a decision as late as possible. One day we had a lot of snow but they didn’t close the schools. Less than half the students and teachers were able to make it in so after school started they decided to close school. Those that didn’t come had the day off. To keep from having to make up the day those of us that made it there had to stay until noon!

We rarely got a snow day when I was in school. I ended up having more snow-shortened days at work though.

I know when I was attending WSU in the 80’s, they didn’t cancel classes when the weather was really bad. I would make the effort and show up, but then the next time the class met, the prof would cover the same material for the benefit of those who missed that class.

I vaguely remember the snow days when I was in grade school. We had a very bad snow storm in 1967 and it pretty much cripple the city of Chicago. We had several days off that year.

Rmom - LOL

That’s what upset those of us that showed up the day I mentioned. As most people weren’t at school, including teachers, there was nothing to do but we couldn’t leave.

♠Lonewolf♠ - Thanks, interesting link.

You’re welcome, Sojo. There was another one in the late 70s but not as bad and the city was more prepared for it.

Wolfie - That was interesting. My husband grew up in western PA during the 70’s, and they were in a weather pattern that brought a lot of snow when he was growing up. That’s one of the reasons he prefers KS - less snow to shovel. If we get more than 6”, it is pretty unusual. Some years we have several snowfalls, but most years, we’re lucky to get one that’s enough to go sledding.

Rmom, I really like the snow. I am surprised that driving in it hasn’t affected me yet. I thought by now I would not want to drive in it like everyone else my age.

Once in the 80’s we had a blizzard. Wind was over 50 MPH with snow. Even the snowplows were getting stuck and had to quit. I lived in the country outside of the city at the time. An emergency law was passed that made it illiegal for anyone to drive a vehicle in the county for three days. I couldn’t go to work (which was clossed anyway) so the only thing I did was watch TV and talk on the phone for three days. I had just bought 2 grocery sacks full of cupcakes, twinkies, ding-dongs, etc. at a bakery outlet to use them for lunch at work. I ended up eating all of them the three days off.

Now that’s what I call great planning, Sojo! LOL

Sojo - I’m trying to remember that blizzard. Do you know what year it was?

Ok everyone with snow-a-pults, trebuckets, etc. please call them off. Weve got about 30-40 cm of snow. Thats more than a foot and it was drifting as well. We just spent a good part of the day trying to shovel out our driveway. There are drifts higher than my waist. We got stuck twice just driving half a block.

Greetings TRIBE

It is rather nice to be on the other side of the ‘snow day’ workforce. Most of the time I”m able to make it in one way or tuther.

I am so hoping we’ll get the office space just west of the airport. I can get there w/o crossing a bridge if I have to do so. We’ll know soon, we have to be out of the Blackbaud building by 4/30

serena - We didn’t get enough extra to send to you from here. It has been too dry, so as soon as it warms up enough to melt off, the ground will soak it up. Although, it isn’t supposed to get above freezing until Thursday. It might melt some earlier, as tomorrow and Wednesday are supposed to be sunny. I’m guessing you need to blame someone who got snow earlier than us.

Hello serenasakitty - Don’t blame me, we’re getting more than predicted I think, Started to get heavery but I don’t think it will last much longer. Isn’t as cold or windy as predicted so we’re doing pretty good here, not like you.

Rmom - I don’t remember the year off hand but I think it was early to mid 80’s.

Just came in from shoveling again to keep ahead of it and not have much to move…Measured in 2 spots and have a measly 3 1/2 inches. Seems like 3 3/4 at least! *:^) It looks like 4 or more.

@♠Lonewolf♠, I remember the storm of ‘67–or at least walking to Church the next Sunday, going up and down the 3-foot banks of snow where the sidewalk used to be, with the cars going by just beneath us on the plowed road. Let’s see–the next big one was in ‘70–I remember delivering papers by sled in that one with my brother. Then ‘78 and 79, I think. After that, I moved away. I think ‘78 was the winter that got Jane Byrne in trouble…

Out here on the prairie, it only counts when the power goes down–especially for 24+ hours. In ‘83 was the longest, about 4 days, when it was an ice storm, and then stayed cold. We had a little one just a few years ago, only about 30 hours. No sweat.

No, really: if you sweat, it froze! LOL! (Well, I laughed…)

Loved the story of the 23 inch storm! Wow, Lonewolf

I have more ice storm stories but want to forget them.

Rmom - That year the wind was the problem. On east-west roads in the county they would have three foot drifts over them just 5-10 min. after being cleared I think.

@Hopeandjoy♫*, I’ll bet it doesn’t look an inch over 3”…

Sojo - It is still falling here. But at least it isn’t real windy, so the visibility is pretty good. I was in OKC for a couple winters ‘79-‘80 & ‘80-‘81, so I suppose it could have happened then. I know the summer of ‘80 was when we had a record breaking heat wave. Of course, my memory isn’t what it used to be, either. I guess I learned from my mom, but I prefer to keep the house well stocked with food & basic necessities. I don’t like planning daily menus, I’d rather cook whatever we are in the mood for, and have the time.

Rmom - Might of been ‘81.

Our snow usually only lasts a few days before it melts. If we get several snow storms a year it’s unusual. In the 70’s we had snow that didn’t melt off for three weeks, very rare here. We don’t get anything like those of you living further north of us.

bmonk (chuckle, chuckle) It is continuing to snow almost as rain would look during a heavy shower.

bmonk - I agree, the storms that cause long power outages are more memorable to me. That’s one reason I’m not complaining about this storm - it isn’t an ice storm, so the power & internet are working.

Sojo - If it was 1981, that would explain why I don’t remember it. I remember one winter (78 or 79) where it stayed so cold that the snow didn’t melt for a couple weeks or longer. At the time I was working downtown, so had to walk outside a few blocks to get to my car. I’ve learned since then how to dress for nippy weather - long underwear! Our snows here in KS do usually melt within a few days, so unless you’ve got a driveway that the shadow of your house blocks it from the sun, you can usually get by without shoveling, if you really don’t want to. Although, it is better to shovel when it is still unpacked snow, because once it turns to ice, then it is horrible to walk or drive on. Our driveway isn’t paved, and it is on the south side of the house, so we don’t bother to shovel anything other than the deck/porch, and not always that. Ours just melt, and soaks down through the rocks, instead of refreezing into ice like it does on pavement.

Not just ice is harder to shovel. Even just drifted snow gets plenty hard. Ad it breaks into blocks, which are not always easy to move aside. Fresh-fallen is much, much easier to move when and where you want.

Unless there’s a wind, in which case it’s time to go inside and break out the hot chocolate, and wonder what the place will look like when it calms down.

A local paper had a nasty letter to the editor about the snowplows and sand trucks–it seemed that, not only did they close up the guy’s driveway more than once this winter, but then a sand truck parked in the guy’s driveway, further smashing the plowed snowpile across his driveway into a rock-hard speed bump of impressive size. He was not a happy camper.

Hi, Serena & Bmonk.

Bmonk. Good memory! You are correct about all of the above, except with Jane Byrne. Mayor Bilandic before her messed up with snow removal and that is how she beat him for Mayor of Chicago in the election.

But I thought Byrne got into trouble too–which is why she was only a one-term mayor. Could be wrong–that’s about the time I was off to college…

Armpit Of The Universe

Earth St. Stephen Bordon Scranton New Jersey Shivonham Vogon ?????

Hello Ooops!

Hello, LuvH8.

Bmonk, no, Jane Byrne lost to the first African-American Mayor of Chicago.

Ooops Not quite. We’re still in a winter weather advisory until 11am tomorrow. It’s raining lightly, pity it’s not cold enough for snow. The armpit is in the LowCountry. Does that narrow it down?

Good evening everyone. Just got back from work.

Quaby, those were the various Armpits of the Universe according to the Urban Dictionary. I have known a few people that I wondered if there is a polite way to give the gift of anti-perspirant that might also qualify. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I did not know them well enough to help them with their unfortunate social dilemma. I understand in some cases a change in diet or …….

Not as quite as it was for awhile!

Oh! Wait! I blocked it out…. there was person who seemed to be happy about the effect on others.

Good Afternoon Quaby, Sojo, Lonewolf, Grog, Bmonk, LakeSnake, Little Sister, Sister Kab, Doc T, Rmom, Serenasakitty, HopeandJoy, Lurkers, Peekers, Drop Bys, Old & Young Tribe, Kitty, Katrina, and Others

Just stopped having falling frost. Some stations report total of 4” another 4.5”. No drifting here so will just be nice needed moisture. Will be cold for us though 2° to 8° tonight depending upon who you listen to.

GoComics has been being a PITA sandwich, with rotten tomatoes, limp lettuce, moldy cheese, green bologna, and raspberry jam today.

Really, Duckie One? I haven’t had a problem.

Good evening everyone. I’m headed out for Monday night 9ball league. Have a great evening everyone.

Should be back before turnover.

P&L

We have clear blue sky, just a little clouds on the horizon. No Snow! It is almost 40°. Very pleasant day. Tomorrow it is supposed to be rainy and around 37° though.

Have a good night ♠Lonewolf♠!

I’d change weather with you Ooops! if I could.

Good luck, ♠Lonewolf♠

Have a good evening, Doc

Yes! it kept kicking me here and there. It seems to being good now that I said a bad acronym. Yes, I had one of Monkey2’s friends trapped in the car with me and he agreed it was a good thing I don’t try to get revenge because my revenges would be so pathetically lame and I would feel bad.

I finally made myself get bundled up and went outside to get the mail. I took a ruler along, we’ve got 3.75 inches, but it was still snowing.

Good to hear from you Doctor Toon.

Good Luck Lonewolf!

Be wary of swinging stick thingies and flying balls!

I drove through snow last night. Before it started snowing we went from normal wet curvy roads, gravely wet curvy roads to foggy wet gravely curvy roads then add patches of clear and snow on road. Ot didn’t get much better. Fortunately, I have decided that driving the speed limit or even slower (especially with deep drops and teens in car) is amusing. I do hope the people following who probably had four wheel drive were equally amused.

Well this is it everybody. My last post for a while and I wanted to use it to say good bye for now, even though it is only temporary. :-)

Good luck with your move, ♥Little Sister♥

Best wishes ♥Little Sister♥! Hope everything goes fine and your back on regulary soon! We’ll miss you! :-)

Good Luck Little Sister, don’t forget nothing says mine like ……. oh, ummmm……. never mind that is really something your dogs will do for you.

Lots Of Luv

Hello all I guess I missed ♥Little Sister♥ on her move. Going in to work was not bad, after work I got a little paniciky my door froze shut, used a little liquid not hot and key finally got it done, got on the road, came upon one small truck slower then a car evan slower road wasn’t that bad, I didn’t pass anyone and traffic slowed down, One truck rear right wheel caught an icy patch. over all not to bad. I didn’t hurry slowed up before traffic light incase of red. Home and now relaxing.

Long day, ♥Kab♥?

Hello ♥Kab♥!

Anybody watching the BCS Championship game?

Grog - I’m not.

Sister Kab, days like these call for hot cocoa. I hope you have a nice cup of hot tea. I am glad you made it home safely. It can be very stressful driving out there. As one of the overly cautious. I reassure myself that at least those people who are way irritated with my driving are alive to be way irritated. (I kind of decided I might have used up most of my good luck)

Fermented Raspberry Jam!

apple butter cider!

What are we shouting about? Anyway we now have over 4 inches of the white stuff at least at 5:00 pm and still snowing.

I like the Oregon Ducks’ feet when they run in the football game….What a lively color!!!

Well, I’m going to watch the rest of the game from a more comfortable viewing position.

Gunite, Tribeandall!

Go Tigers!

Snow! Snow!! Snow!!!

 

Nite, Grog

Where are the Tigers going?

Good Night Grog

Hello HopeandJoy!

I was yelling because both my desktop and Fiend were being not very cooperative. I thought if I made the raspberry jam on my sandwich fermented it might make me feel better.

Ooops sounds like a plan (?) (!) If that doesn’t make you feel better, try some of my dark apple butter….yummmm!

Thanks for the jazzy snow people! I plan on making one tomorrow (small) I do little ones along my sidewalk. With the cold coming in, they should last a while!

Hello all about time for me to turn in. I did have a busy afternoon, a few new added assignment’s have to get working on files. Yes the dept insists on paper files, will not keep files in computer database like doctor’s office or insurance as example. Job security I guess.

Big Sister you got that right when I did finally get home from forever driving, I’m not mad at those other driver’s as there were others heading the other way doing the same thing driving slower. I did have hot tea, since hubby has been retired we have a nice warm meal to eat. I just hope my car door doesn’t freeze shut again. It’s 12° now. Time for bed for me. Getting closer to class time this coming Sunday. Good night all. I read all your comment’s.

By the way ones from KS do you remember that major ice storm 5 years ago. Evan parts of ICT was affected. Where my sister and hubby lived they too were without power. My BIL fixed up a battery I think to help them out. Poor mom no electricity for a week. Cousin was nice though brougth her some food and water.

I suppose I could plot…. ummm plan a breakfast menu. That might help. I really haven’t planned a menu ahead of time for quite some time…….

Good Night Grog and ♥Kab♥.

Hello HopeandJoy♫!

Ooops! - That would be nice to have a menu from you!

I would look forward to it Ooops

Have a good rest Kab Cold is hard to deal with isn’t it! So many different problems.

Guess I will start getting ready for a rest myself. Nite now.

Sojo, it is a new year. Do you think that I might be allowed to be a little creative again?

Yes, we’re ready! Nite Sojo and Ooops I can hardly wait to see the menu! The quicker I hush and get to sleep the quicker I will be ready to get up!

Ooops! - Creative is you! :-)

Have a good night HopeandJoy♫.

Good Night Sister Kab,

I find it really helps to have music I enjoy when I have to drive in frustrating situations. It also helps keep my mind from roaming off if it is too boring.

Good Night HopeandJoy & Kab

Good evening, Tribeandall

First week for 9ball and we won. I won my match though just barely. The guy I played was good!

Sorry I missed you Li’l Sister

Good luck with the move!

Ooops! - I too need to listen to music but haven’t listened to enough lately.

♠Lonewolf♠ - Congarts for pool tonight!

Hi, Sojo.

Thank you, sir!

Great finish to the game!

♠Lonewolf♠ - Who won?

Fungus Fudge!

I am just going to take my laptop (wonder if it wants a name?) and Fiend to the store and do the Ask a Geek thing. Which is their nice way of saying ask someone who isn’t totally lost when it comes to computers. Maybe they can even find me a Windows seven Version of the old flying through white dots. I like that screen saver. I don’t really like any of the Windows 7 screen savers. Bubbles is okay for a while but it gets Boring. Now if you could change it so bubbles were on a black background it might be good for zoning off.

I don’t know how to tell the laptop that yes it does have virus protection so get busy! So…. I guess. No laptop online until I get that straightened out. I could call…. I would really feel blond.

Sorry you’re having problems Ooops! :-(

Thank you Sojo. It will work out. With three devices capable of going online (even if one is 1/2 speed regular dial up) it would be stupid to take chances.