Big Top by Rob Harrell for January 31, 2011

Breakfast Menu: Grilled cheese sandwich Fajita (Chicken or steak) patty melt Sloppy Joes hot dogs, or bratwurst sausages cocktail wieners. corn on the cob charbroiled steakburgers, or hamburgers oven fresh Pizza hot or cold Vegetable platter (Olives. celery sticks, carrot sticks, broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, asparagus, bell peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, Crackers, salami, cheese, potato chips, Choice of bean dip, guacamole dip hot or mild salsa dip,or sour cream and onion dip. Cinnamon rolls Beverages: Regular or Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha courtesy of Johanan Rakkav & Chris Alan milk, chocolate milk Asst. fruit juices and teas Soft drinks like Pepsi and other sodas Floats, or milkshakes Premium or imported beer Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot Bloody mary, margarita, martini and other cocktails. My Big Sister’s Berry Delightful breakfast smoothies bmonks cup of cheap mocha mint (Good to the last drop) V8 vegetable juice. Water DESSERT: Chocolate cake and Cheese cake

Wink! You’ll be sleepwalking to the fridge in no time.

Good Morning, Tribeandall!

Hello Big Sister and Big Brother :-)

Good Morning ♥Little Sister♥, Ooops! and ♠Lonewolf♠~

Wink, sounds like what I may do in the next day or two.

Great menu ♥Little Sister♥ - I’ll have 2 Sloppy Joes please.

I think writing in his journal is keeping Wink awake!

Little Sis I think I will sneak a cinnamon roll and a glass of milk and shuffle back to bed.

Nite Ooops, Lonewolf, Sojo, and probably Montana Lady and anyone else who is still awake

Good Little Sister dance!

Good Morning HopeandJoy♫ - Have a good sleep!

Little Sister, may I please have a grilled cheese sandwich,chicken fajita, corn on the cob, oven fresh Pizza (hot), celery sticks, carrot sticks, broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, asparagus, bell peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, cheese, ranch dressing, cinnamon rolls, Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee, Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha courtesy of Johanan Rakkav & Chris Alan, apple juice, Cherry Pepsi Bmonk’s Mocha Mint (made into a milkshake), My Big Sister’s Berry Delightful breakfast smoothies, Water

I don’t think I will have room for desert.

Good Morning, Montana Lady.

Li’l Sister, in the absence of huevos rancheros, may I please have two steak fajitas and a Pepsi?

All orders are ready. I hope you all enjoy them everybody. :-)

Good Morning, HopeandJoy♫, Li’l Sister, LuvH8 & Sojo

Hi, Guys,

Yes, HopeandJoy, I’m still awake. I, too, will Tippy Toe into the Breakfast Buffet and pick up some steak Fajitas and quacamole with chips. I’m in a Fiesta mood right now.

How does that go with CHOCOLATE cake????

Good Morning Montana Lady!

Thank you ♥Little Sister♥!

Montana Lady, add some brightly decorated frosting ribbon-like lines to the frosting. Then it is all celebratory and happy. Therefore, it must be a Fiesta Cake!

Good morning to all who are here or who will be here.

Breakfast menu looks so good I can’t decide. May I have a smoothie while I try to make up my mind.

Montana Lady EVERYTHING goes with chocolate cake.

Hi Little Sister It’s good to see you back.

Thank you, Li’l Sister.

Good Evening Little Sister, Lonewolf, HopeandJoy, Sojo, Montana Lady and other Peoples & Creatures of the Tribe!

Good night, HopeandJoy♫. Rest well!

Here you go serenasakitty :-)

Good Morning serenasakitty!

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good night everyone. :-)

Hello Serenasakitty!

Hi, Serena

Good Night, Sojo & Li’l Sister.

And with that I too will head to the horizontal position now.

Good Night, LuvH8, Serena & Montana Lady.

P&L

LITTLE SISTER don’t you run. LITTLE SISTER don’y you run. Kiss me once or twice Say that very nice And then you run. LITTLE SISTER don’t you do what your BIG SISTERdone. MORNING TRIBE! Actually I think she put a restraining order on me, but I don’t remember as that was in my past drinking days In honor of WINK, I will eat everything on the menu to help with my annual hibernation.

Good Morning, Tribe

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

Good Morning, Grog & Sir Lew.

Morning, people! How’s it going?

Morning, Rmom

You’re early today.

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,greyhame,ChukLitl

We are getting misty freezing drizzle. An hour away school’s are closing. So far streets look okay.

Hi, Grog - Yeah, I got up to see what the weather was doing, and decided to stay up. I may end up taking a nap later, or else drink lots of caffeine.

Kab - I hear the main problem is bridges, elevated roadways and windshields. I keep wondering what the weather will be like by the time I need to leave for school.

Rmom so far for here the bridges are okay. No slide offs. Not sure of later. Streets are okay.

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥

The cold front starts pushing through here tomorrow. But I don’t know for sure yet if we’ll see any of the white stuff or sleet. Hopefully not.

The news weatherman shows Wichita east is the border line. Heavy concentration for Tuesday. Weather shows will get heavy snow, further east higher amounts.

Just check the menu below your bed, Wink. Little Sister and the others will take care of your food needs for the WHOLE winter!

G’mornin’ Kab. Sounds like the weather system that slid through my area Friday night/Saturday has gotten down your way. Temperatures went from almost up to freezing, and tonight they’re predicting -33ºC for a low here. Add a bit of wind and we could have wind chill down in the -40s.

Time to run past the buffet for a grilled cheese sandwich and one of Big Sister’s Berry Delightful Smoothies, plus a flagon of orange juice, a cup of Earl Grey, and a glass of milk.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, it’s all delicious. Thanks, Little Sister!

Good Morning, Saskfan & Doctor Toon.

I see it was not a short work day for you today, Doc

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

good morning, Tribe!

Enjoyed that “Fiesta” Chocolate Cake last night!!!!

It got down to -10 during the night….brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Snow will probably stick around until the end of the week.

Y’all be careful driving……:)))

Good Morning Montana Lady!

Hi, Saskfan, Doc, Sojo & MontanaLady! Saskfan or Grog - I’d have to look up the Celcuis to Farenheit conversion formula, but off the top of my head, I think we’re supposed to have temps like that tomorrow or Wednesday here. Wednesday night actual temp is expected to get to -1°F, and then add in 20-30 mph winds, with gusts up to 40mph. I don’t think I want to figure out what that comes to for a wind chill!

Good Monring, Montana Lady & Sojourner

Good morning, Grog, Sojo, rmom, and Doc

Good Morning Rmom and Grog!

Good Morning and have a good snooze Doctor Toon!

Sojo - Did you get much ice? My trees aren’t coated in ice, so we didn’t get much. I do need to walk out to the mail box before the mail carrier comes, so I’ll get a closer observation then.

Sleep well, Doc

Rmom - I can only see a very small amount. May have freezing drizzle changing to snow later today. Hopefully won’t get much ice,

Hello all just a brief break. Gotta get busy. Streets look okay. Wichita to the east is borderline to how much snow we get. 4.3 now is predicted.

Good Morning ♥Kab♥!

Kab - I’m in that “east” section! Sojo - They did say there would be a lull today, supposed to start getting something this evening, I hope it is snow, instead of freezing drizzle or ice.

Greetings (I sound like Uncle Sam) Kab, Sojo, Rmom, Grog, Montana Lady

Made it out to walk at the Community Center without a problem…28° Mist, roads fine, railing have ice that wipes off at 11:40 a.m. cst I am astounded that they are now predicting our county to be in a narrow band that may get 19 to 21 inches of snow!!! I cannot imagine that with lows of -12. We are now in for the duration.

We are promised that this is not an Ice event Rmom Weather people are saying this kind of storm could close I-70. We are 15 miles south of I-70 and are not going anywhere anyway!

Good Morning HopeandJoy♫ - Sounds like your area hit the jackpot. Hope everythig goes okay there. I’ll be watching the news at noon to see what their saying. We’ll get some and with the high winds predected could get a lot of drifting but Witchita looks like it will just miss the heavy snow.

Unlike areas north of Kansas we don’t have some of the equipment to handle a lot of snow as we don’t get it very often.

Sojo It looks so narrow that if it goes 50 miles toward KC or drops further south and east, then we could get away with only 8-12.

Our schools are closing at noon as a precaution but I think they would be o.k. to stay open later except for the kids in the distant country getting home later

I’am grateful the Wichita folk are escaping the dumping.

Our NBC channel just said 13-17 for us with 10-13 for KC. At least that is an improvement….HaaaaaaHaaa-haa-aaaaaaah

Good Morning, HopeandJoy

It sounds like a good day to stay in bed.

HopeandJoy♫ - Every bit of good news helps. In a couple of days we can look back and see what happened. Too often when a lot was predicted nothing happened and when nothing was predicted a lot of snow came. I think the predictions are a lot better now, but it doesn’t take much change to move the heavy snowfall to a different area than it looked like.

Rmom I know you live east and little south. My lap top shows 25° but news shows 28°. I’m just happy roads are great shape. Radar shows border east of Wichita. ♪Hopeandjoy♫ I feel for you that’s too much snow. With all this bad weather schools closing make up time is coming. School districts should skip Jan and Feb and go through summer. Naw kids would forget what is learned. I will be leaving in 20 Min’s. I am feeling the difference on my hard to lose weight and sacrafices I am doing. I’m not starving my self I eat three light meals. Absolutly nothing at bed time. If too late after 7-7:39pm no way. This is day by day. If at restaurant I eat what I think is too much, I might have a fruit or do without. Have a great day everyone.

Have a good day also ♥Kab♥.

That is what I will do, Grog sleep in tomorrow and have breakfast in bed or something.

Kab Sounds like you have a good attitude about your weight loss and glad you are feeling a difference. Apples are always a good choice for a snack.

Kab - Have a great day! Hope&Joy - Sojo is right about the snow predictions. Just a little difference in where the band hits makes a big difference. I’m glad you don’t need to go anywhere for a few days! I just walked out to the mailbox and noticed that the van’s windshields have a thin coat of ice. Since my hubby took the car with all-wheel drive, I guess I’ll drive my old mini-van tonight, as it is also all-wheel drive. The other two vehicles don’t have it, but they’re stick shift, so aren’t as bad as automatics without it.

2” tonight. then tomorrow afternoon into Wed afternoon 12-18 and some paces 24” WooHoo!!!

Good Afternoon Plods with Beer - Hope you make out okay during your part of the storm!

From the looks of the weather map, a large section of the country is going to have a lot of snow!

Wink just how tired are you?

Good thing for global warming, just think how much worse it might be! :-)

Hello Steelblade!

Don’t worry, Wink. Simply help yourself to the Tribe breakfast menu posted daily just below your ‘toon.

Hello, PwB

I’m glad you are seemingly enjoying the weather.

Hello Saucy!

Hello Steelblade & Saucy

Afternoon all

Yep - that’s me. I’ll sit back and watch my grandson run the snowblower and shovels. Seriously tho. I’m from NH originally and this possible “record breaker” for Chicagoland is a normal nor’easter for me which we’d get 4 or 5 a year. So yeah, it’s phunnie to me.

BTW Good day TRIBEANDALL and…

Well as long as you get to enjoy watching someone else shoveling while relaxing with a cup of hot chocolate or what-ever, PwB

Good Afternoon!

Especially: Sojo, Grog, Steelblade, & Plods with Beer!!!

If I may–I’m getting tired of Funeral Luncheon food, although they were pretty good for the genre–I will request:

Fajita (Chicken) Melt corn on the cob Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Chardonnay (one glass) V8 vegetable juice.

DESSERT: none, thank you.

(I’m sure that Wink will eat whatever I don’t get to.)

The roads were pretty good–compacted snow runs between the wheel tracks, with only a bit of ground drifting. No ice, which can get ugly.

But it was -20°F according to the Funeral director’s car thermometer. (NOAA thinks it’s -9 °F (-23 °C) at the moment). In any case, it was a bit nippy at the graveside–so I cut it to the bare minimum and did most of it inside.

Meh. I’ve felt worse.

I did hear about the monster storm they’re predicting. Hope it decides to say down south where it’s nice and warm…

Good Afternoon bmonk - Keep warm!

Good afternoon, bmonk

Keeping warm is not a problem–as long as I stay inside…

New England is getting it’s share of white.

FIRST COMMANDMENT!

Thou shalt not get in a snowball fight with eighth graders

Hello Lewreader - LOL

Hey, Lewreader New England is covered with the white stuff and this storm will bring more your way. Don’t see how you go anywhere, including out to your street. (Maybe that’s why Plods chose that name. We just aren’t used to it here in such quantities (I’m speaking for my part of Missourionly) and the drifts that the wind will bring will be “Interesting”

My nephew from DC is changing his flight from Wednesday to Friday as they gave him a free option to do that….they probably can’t go East anyway.

@Lewreader–is this a problem for you?

As of an hour ago NWS out of chicago has changed from a blizzard watch to a warning. 3PM Tues to 3PM Wed 12-18” are likely thoughout the area with white out conditions. Sounds like a character builder. Looks like I’ll be staying home Wed. I’ll be here if we don’t lose power. Ya’ll stay safe out west of me.

Plods with Beer - Stay warm!

Is anyone ready for Spring yet?

I know I am!

Sir Lew, for a gentleman such as yourself the proper course of action is not to engage the enemy in a snowball fight. The first thing to do is to gain entry to a residence or location that is not your own. Then you are to don a mask of a political person, pick up your water balloons and fire from your superior position.

Just needed to see Spring tulips again…a repeat picture.

Yes, we are under blizzard warning from 6a.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday. Mercy

It’ll be nice to see something other than a picture - but it’ll do for the moment.

beautiful rose

Good evening, Tribesters!

Home from work and I’m thinking about staying home from pool league also. The warm house sure is nice compared to trekking out in the cold (23°, but feels like 8°)!

Good Evening ♠Lonewolf♠!

Hi, Sojo!

Hi, ♠Lonewolf♠. And here I thought you liked winter.

Have a good night Doctor Toon.

Hi, Grog & Doc.

Grog, I said I like Snow. I’m not all that crazy about the cold temps. LOL

Hi & bye, Doc

I would prefer the cold temps to the snow. It’s much easier to drive through or walk through. I just walked faster in Montreal when it was cold. It’s pretty hard to walk fast on snowy or icy surfaces though.

I guess I still haven’t lost the kid in me yet when it comes to snow. I like to watch it fall from the sky and see when the snow is first on the ground in the morning before it is walked or driven on. I like to play with my kids in the snow and to watch other kids playing in it, too. And driving or walking in it doesn’t phase me. Heck, I work on cars in the winter and have to push “dead” cars in and out of the shop when there is snow on the ground. I still like it. Cold “hurts” the body as you get older and no, I don’t like ice on the ground.

And the downtown streets were always a mess to get through after a storm.

I don’t go downtown to the big city of Chicago much at all. It’s not nearly as bad here in the smaller suburbs. They usually clean the walkways before it is all trampled into slush.

Whew! I got a little carried away on that one post! Sorry folks……

Hey, hey! Troy Palamalu won the Defensive player of the year award over Clay Matthews. I am glad it wasn’t a Green Bay player!

I don’t think much of any Steeler though.

Too bad. I think Maththews is a heck of a player. I think he’ll be even better than his old man.

Hi everyone :-) Do I care about either team in this years Superbowl…….No I don’t, but it still should be a good game.

You can bet I won’t be cheering for the Steelers this week-end.

Hi everyone. I had planned to spend the day getting some things done. Did I? Not a chance. One of these days I’m just going to have to settle down and do stuff. But tomorrow is one of the greatest time savers.

Hello ♥Little Sister♥ and serenasakitty!

I’ll be for Green Bay.

I would have to root for the Steelers even if I didn’t like them. Green Bay is to me what the Eagles, Giants and Deadskins are to you Grog!

My choice comes from childhood etc. and not from today’s teams.

Hi, Serena

When neither team matters to me, I always need to root for the NFC team.

Hi, ♥Little Sister♥ & serena

It is evil.

Good bitter evening everyone. We dodge sorta a freezing misty from this morning. Now blowing wind and snow but streets are cleared. *♫Hopeandjoy♪ thank you for a very nice flowers. Are those tulips? Nice reminder of what is forthcoming this spring. After being home for awhile and a surprise. Local police office came asking if we knew our neighbor next to us north had been robbed. I was surprised. I told the officer before I left close to 5:25 there was a mini dark blue van. A woman in the driver seat. I told him I thought it was business. Not so sure now. Both couples work and I didn’t know if the hubby was home or not. Imagine during the day time. Wow.

Well, my movie’s over and I am going to call it a night.

Gunite, Tribeandall

Good night, Grog.

Good Night Grog.

Hi, tribe! Just thought I’d pop in for a short visit. We had class tonight, thankfully, the roads weren’t bad - yet. We missed out on most of the ice, so I’m more hopeful about keeping power & internet. It will be interesting to see what happens overnight.

Kab,Yes, they are tulips. I just needed something lovely to look at….also, if you click on the beautiful rose post I made earlier, you will see one.

Where’s the PINK BUNNY we are to beware of??

Rmom - Glad the roads weren’t bad yet.

I’m fighting it with my insanity.

I won’t be on too long myself. Just finished another test for English. There is one for each unit of English terms. I think I might be okay for Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement. I’ve evan asked my daughter to help at times. We make a fairly good team. Plus I have asked a couple of ladies who knowns English. I do the work and they help me understand better. I wonder how ♥Little Sister♥ is doing on classes. For one paragraph I have asked instructor for Feburary there is a womens fair coming local convention. I will be helping at the booth for two days selling a product. I thought be good for describing the product and selling. Good night all.

I’m doing okay in class. It’s a little bit difficult at times, but I have help when I need it.

Good Night ♥Kab♥.

Lonewolf I was almost ready to end and try to study some on English. I am making headways until the final tests. Oh please I don’t want to take this class over. There I feel better. You were talking about how much fun you have in the snow. That is great. Playing in the snow with your children. I hope you also made snowmen, angels. For me though I would be freezing. You kinda gave me an idea if this comes up for an English topic not sure though. At least your topic is better then C&H did.

Wichita called off class for tomorrow. If I saw right. Also others schools are closing.

Hi, Kab & Rmom.

The snow has started falling here with BIG snow flakes. Very pretty. There talking up to 20 inches in some areas and as much as 24 around Lake Michigan. It’ll be snowing for the most part until wednesday!

Lonewolf Some of the most fun I had was when one of my brothers attached an old car seat( with metal on its underside) to the back of a lawn-type tractor and it was turned into a motorized sled for us. Chug-chug-Putt-putt

I remember when I was around 20 years old. A friend had a horse we tied a sled to with a rope. Had to hang on to the sled hard as the horse went from standing to a full gallop almost instantly. Stopping was a problem also as there was only about 5 feet of rope from the horse to the sled.

Sojo————————————————–

HopeandJoy♫, I have done things like that with my kids over the years. Great memories! :^)

“I hate the Energizer Bunny commercials, and I hate them with a passion. It’s driving me insane, and it is annoying. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who feels this way. You can’t fool me with your lame battery commercials on television. You want to drive innocent people like me insane and steal from our pockets. Okay fine! So you have plans on dominating the market and the economy, but that’s only a cover up for your real goal,( Total World Domination ) isn’t it. Deny it all you want, I’m through being brainwashed by you. I don’t care what the POCTSA (Prevention Of Cruelty To Stuffed Animals) says……….”

“DIE YOU EVIL STUFFED BUNNY FROM HELL, DIE! DIE!”

Funny thing, when the horse started running the sled and I were airborn for a while. When he stopped it was hard to keep my head from … ummm … nevermind.

(Looks around room at everyone staring)

Um! I’m innocent! This was justified.

Sojo, ummmmmm, I get the picture!

Unfortunately! ROFL

♥Little Sister♥ - Just be calm and think happy thoughts!

Little Sister I agree with you. KILL THE BUNNY.

I didn’t think anyone was here.

Now I know posts don’t disappear on their own………………………