Big Top by Rob Harrell for February 13, 2011

Vowel movement…….Which way is the vathroom?

Haaa-haa-haa-haa-haaaaa!!!!!!!

FRIED PORK CHOPS, steak, and ribs

Bratwurst, or hotdogs

Fried or baked chicken

BACON WRAPPED SCALLOPS

MAC & CHEESE

CORN BREAD

BLACK EYE PEAS

CHILI BURRITOS

REGULAR OR SPICY RICE

JELLO SHOOTERS

BANANA PUDDING

COLE SLAW WITH RAISINS

PEACH OR BLACKBERRY COBBLER

CHEESE CAKE OR BLACK WALNUT POUND CAKE

Regular coffee or Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee

Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav

My Big Sister’s Berry delicious breakfast smoothies

bmonks cup of cheap mint mocha

milk, chocolate milk - regular or milkshakes

Asst. fruit juices and teas

Premium or imported beer

Bloody mary, margarita, martini

Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Merlot, Or sparkling wine of your choice,

V8 vegetable juice,

Sodas like pepsi, cherry pepsi ,cocoa cola, Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper etc.

Welcome everyone to the Bog Tip. Have we been wrong all this time?

Little Sister! Snapping turtles live in bogs…..

As the smells of the breakfast Little Sister * has set out the crew of the* SSBN Erehwon queue up and begin attacking the buffet with polite precision. The Captain found the officers standing in a circle around the chair. Captain, you need to eat. You’re but a shadow of your normal self.

The Captain nodded and stood, escorted to the front of the queue of crewmen and handed a plate that had the first item ready for consumption, a luscious pile of bacon cooked just right by the First Officer. At first the instinct was to protest the amount, however, a quick scan of the buffet noted a heaping platter added for the hungry mob, both ship’s crew and the denizens of the Big Top Shortly the feasting began, the crew and * Big Toppers *mingling amicably in the large, homey dining area.

So do frogs, I like frogs.    

And with that I sail toward my homeport, the bed. I had been working on a puzzle of a sunspot for 17 hours (over the last 6 days) and I was tired of staring at the mottled yellows. I just finished it, 20 hours and someodd minutes. Hurray! Tomorrow I start another.

Peace

Quaby I hope you and your crew enjoy the breakfast feast. :-)

Yes frogs are cool and fun to catch.

Good night everyone :-)

Captain Quaby, what a nice surprise to see you and your crew here so late/early. Have a good night.

Would a bog tip be leaving something from a bog on the table or at the hair stylists before you leave? ”That was an excellent dinner honey. Why don’t we leave them a chunk of moss, some frogs and cranberries?’

Good Night Little Sister

I think I will just have some peach and some blackberry cobbler. Yummy!

Good Morning, ♥Little Sister♥, Quaby & Ooops!

Let’s see….what to have for breakie. I think I I’ll have the pork chops, spicy rice and….

Cheesecake!

When I was a young boy, I loved frogs so much I would tie my fishhook to them as to cause no pain. However I don’t believe I felt any pain when that large mouth would stretch his big mouth around my frog happily swimming away. I would actually feel pretty good as I paraded, er walked my bass, er frog home. Ah, the look on Mom’s face when she realized I had just changed her dinner plans. Frogs legs, er I mean, baked bass. Ribbit. Ribbit. Ribbet. Someday I’ll tell you about tying a hook to my baby brother and trying to catch Gen Sherman at Mud Hole creek. It was a dark and stormy night.

Good Morning, Lewreader.

Are you going to stick around to tell us that story? It’s certainly a gripping opening line.

I loved today’s Hi & Lois

Check out Dagwood’s jammies. Are they Cheerios or donuts?

Lew dun gone ‘gater huntin’

Good Morning, Tribe!

32° and it’s only 9:06! The high will be 41°, too! WooHoo!

Good morning everyone :-)

It’s currently 45 °F this morning and it is only 7:33 A.M. here on the West coast it is supposed to reach 75 °F today.

Good Morning, Lil’ Sister

Good morning Big Brother. :-)

I’ll be away from the computer most of the day today. So I hope that everyone has fun.

Good morning Doc :-)

Good Morning, Doc.

Have a good day, Lil’ Sister

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll just have a hot dog.

Good Morning Doctor Toon - Have a good sleep and a good couple of days!

Good Morning, Sojo!

Take it easy Doc. Catch you later!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ - Hope you have a good day today!

Sojo, I’ve got to move one of my tool boxes to the shop. It is a professional bottom and top box set. Very heavy to say the least. The owner is letting me use the flatbed tow truck. Fun, fun, fun.

♠Lonewolf♠ - Hope it isn’t too hard. Good luck. :-)

Good afternoon all. Part of family wants to eat out. Be best to stay here and save money. Looks like I missed most again.

Sojo, one of the most difficult parts will be getting the flatbed backed into my driveway. The snow is piled so high at the corners of the driveway entrance and the flatbed is so long. Getting the toolbox up will be fine once I get it started on the lip at the end of the bed. Securing it safely will also be difficult.

Hello ♥Kab♥ - Hope your day is good!

Morning All!

A chilly start to the morning, but it’s already warmed up nicely. As much as I’d like to gloat, ♥Little Sister♥ has already one-upped me, but it’s supposed to be 70 today. Quite a nice change though from the freezing rain & temperatures of last week.

Hello Grog - Hope you enjoy the warm up!

Sojourner, I’ve already enjoyed some of it to a degree. I started out with a sweater & coat because my day started out about 32. I started peeling of layers after about an hour out there so it started warming up rather quickly.

Chicken fingers (baked and fried), potatoes (several ways) and a variety of dipping sauces (including velveeta cheese dip) are now available at the buffet courtesy of the officers and crew of the SSBN Erehwon.

Hello Quaby - Looks great, thank you!

Good afternoon, Grog, Kab & Quaby.

Up to 41° already. It hopefully is the start of warmer temps around here. Only drawback is what damage the melting of all of this snow might cause.

Good afternoon, ♠Lonewolf♠

Little Sister I am enjoying the Blackberry and peach cobblers which are two of my very, very favorites. thank you!

Grog Good afternoon to the only one posting in the last 2 hours! I think Dagwood’s pj’s are covered with donuts.

Snow is REALLY melting here in 50° heatwave….feels like mid 60°’s.

Hello HopeandJoy♫! 53° here and also melting a lot!

Hi, HopeandJoy♫. I think you’re right. I don’t think Dagwood is the type to eat a heart-healthy bowl of Cheerios.

Good afternoon Tribe After a nice snoozle I’m doing laundry and making hamburger patties in barbecue sauce. Once that’s done and it’s later in the afternoon (or early evening, omg it’s past 4pm) I’ll be working on mylunches for work. I think I”m doing tuna helper just to avoid cooking any more than I have to.

Thank you for the buffet eariler Quaby.

Quaby sounds good to me…the hamburger patties are making me hungry!!

Hi Sojo Guess your temps are higher because you are further south??

Grog That’s true. Dagwood is a robust eater. Have you ever wondered about his name?

Buffet? I must look more carefully, Quaby

HopeandJoy♫ - Probably due to further west. Hays which is north of here (maby close to same latitude as you) but further west is 70° now.

Yes, HopeandJoy♫. I’ve never met or heard of a living Dagwood.

Sojo Tru-o…hadn’t thought of that. Good old Hayes the half-way point when driving to Longmont to see our daughter. Sometimes we drive there with other family and share a holiday weekend on the spur of the moment.

Grog Dagwood and Oz are two wonderful names in fiction…along with Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) and Falstaff of Shakespeare fame are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

Funny Bog Tip today.

Quaby I found your buffet and had a small snack of chicken fingers…(glad it wasn’t feet)

Time for me to start dinner.

I may or may not be back later, for those who are here on this quiet posting day.

Later, Tribe

Homemade chicken and dumplings (Southern style thin). Help yourselves.

Hello Saucy - Thank you. Looks snd smells great!

♥Little Sister♥ said, about 17 signs (of the apocalypse) ago

Welcome everyone to the Bog Tip. Have we been wrong all this time?

Ooops! said, about 17 ripostes ago

Little Sister! Snapping turtles live in bogs…..

But who lives in the tips of bogs?? (And do I really want to know?)

It could be worser: it could be a Bug Tap…

Good Afghan, Everybody!     (somebody stop that Spellcheck!)

This warm weather is playing havoc with the slush on the streets–but the snowpiles are still shrugging it off. And it’s really treacherous walking on the ice when the wind gusts. Walking west, I think I slid back one step for every two I took.

Chicken and dumplings are good–I’ve had a Bavarian cook (mom) do them, but never Southern style.

Hello bmonk - Hope your day has been good. Don’t fall!

@Sojo, so far, so good–but I still have a trip to make tonight.

Saucy1121 you do such a good job on the food nice and comforting and very delicious:)

Good evening everyone. I have been working hard on English. My writing lab is nearing the end then the final test.hmmmm not sure of that.

Yea!!!! the snow is melting fast here still 53° here. My daugher and her guy dogs have been out. When hubby and I came back from my mom’s they acted like they as usual haven’t seen us and guess they jumped on me got my clothes messed up with pets love.

Saucy1121 you do such a good job on the food nice and comforting and very delicious:)

Good for you, ♥Kab♥!

Our snow might be melting fast–but it sure doesn’t show much on 6 foot and higher piles!

Good evening Tribe

Got my tool box moved and situated at the shop. Had some difficulty, but James helped me and a couple of the tow truck drivers were at the shop to help me get it off the flatbed.

Good evening, Bmonk, Kab & Sojo!

Saucy ummmm your yummy chicken and dumplings sounds just right.

Hello ♥Kab♥ - Hope you’ve had a good day.

♠Lonewolf♠ - I bet your glad that’s done! Glad to hear it went okay even though it was hard.

*♠Lonewolf♠ *glad your son was able to help out and now you are home.

Sojo, I am glad it is over, but I think James was even happier. Even with the precautions I took in securing the box down, it was moving more than I wanted it to and James was worried it would fall over from being so tall.

♠Lonewolf♠ does this mean your not working on cars at home and shop is your permenant job?

Hi, HopeandJoy♫.

Kab, I work for a shop full time, but still have my business at the house. I do mostly evening & weekends at the house.

♠Lonewolf♠ Oh! I read where you worked at the shop. I wondered how this fit with working on different types of cars/trucks. And with you pool you are very busy man.

Kab - - Anything that requires a lift, I do at the shop. I am always doing something, too. :^)

Oh and I forgot he is a handyman and does work on cars when broken down.

Good night, Kab. Enjoy your evening & rest well!

♠Lonewolf♠ your almost like my brother-in-law. He works 30 mins away from home at some company. He is also a welder and has a trucking licence. Then he has a 2nd type of job family one on a food product which he makes at his parent’s country farm home. They just worked all weekend at a civic center for the Home Show. Next week he will be at a Pavillion north of Wichita, while my sister will be at the same civic enter for womens show selling the same product and I will be helping her.

With this has been nice visiting with everyone, I need to shower, let my short hair dry, catch a show, and then turn in. So with this I bid everyone a good night.

♥Kab♥ - Have a good night, nice to hear from you.

Good evening, Sojourner & ♠Lonewolf♠

Good Evening Grog - Now that dinner is over, any movies?

Sojourner, now that football season is over, Sunday night reverts back to Star Trek night. A disk of Enterprise and an episode of original Trek, which I am watching now.

Sounds good.

Have a good night HopeandJoy♫ - Glad to hear Duke won!

Hello again HopeandJoy♫

Well, Duke won and I will do some reading. Cheerio, Sojo, Grog, Lonewolf, and all

Darn!

Will my comment appear before yours again? Good evening, ♠Lonewolf♠

I don’t believe it. You made your comment a full 4 minutes ahead of me. This problem is actually getting worse!

Good evening, Grog.

And yet again.

100!!!

This is 101, I think.

No fair! YOU CHEATED!!!

Who cheated? I don’t know what you are talking about. :^)

I saw you change your post from 101 to 100.

BUSTED!!!

I wish I could have said that in even bigger print.

Boys, do I need to send you both to your rooms?

Hi, Rmom!

Is Ooops! the only one allowed to have a little fun?

Hi, Grog! Sure, just as long as everyone is having fun! (Gotta use my “mom card” every so often, you know.)

I suddenly have the urge to borrow her grape jelly gun.

LOL!

Sounds like I might need to duck for cover.

No need. I just lost the urge.

Although there are times I’d like to replace the grape jelly with Raspberry!

Like you said the other day, that gives “blowing raspberries” a whole new meaning!

Hello Rmom - Hope you’ve enjoyed your day!

LOL! Oh, you remembered that???

As much as I’d love to stay here and chat, I need to get off for the night. Need to get that hubby to bed, as 4 am comes too soon.

Good night all!

Hi, Sojo! A pretty typical Sunday, so enjoyable, but not out of the ordinary. Worse part is that the dishwasher part that arrived Friday didn’t fix the dishwasher, so I’m starting the 4th week of doing dishes by hand. We made homemade pizzas for dinner, so dirtied a lot of pans. My hubby’s blood sugar has been too high, so he’s going back on the Atkins diet. He had a “crustless” pizza, the rest of us wanted crust.

Hi, Rmom! Yeah, we get to have some fun, too!

Is it still Christmas? TCM had Miracle on 34th Street playing and now Going My Way is on. Love both - but especially the latter.

Good night, Rmom

Good night, Rmom.

Strange for Miracle on 34th Street to be on in February, Grog.

I even watch The Bells Of St. Mary’s during the Christmas season.

For both really, ♠Lonewolf♠. I’ve always played Going My Way at Christmas since I bought the movie. Of course, before I bought the movie, I saw it during the Christmas season.

Good Night Rmom.

I have always watched those movies with the kids during Christmas season.

The Bishop’s Wife is on tomorrow afternoon - another Christmas movie.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

When the Choir kids are singing I almost want Bing to shut up.

Good Night, Sojourner

I love the kids doing The Mule

Grog I think they are running every movie known to man that has an academy award nomination of some sort. Hence, The Miracle on 34th street etc. It does seem strange to have the C’mas movies now. I need to see the Bells of St. Mary’s.

Good night all. I feel sorry for Rmomand all those pans

Thanks, HopeandJoy! That certainly explains it. There were some awesome Christmas movies pumped out back then, But then, I can watch a movie like Going My Way any time of the year.

Good night to you and ♠Lonewolf♠. The movie is nearly over and I’m going to watch the finale and start sawing some logs after the movie’s done.

Shika Move to say I didn’t realize that The Bells Of St. Mary’s was actually the sequel to Going My Way. I should have known based on the similarity of the problems involved.

hello everyone. :-)