Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 10, 2011

Da Eats *Eggs, made to order or egg beatersSausage, pepper bacon, Canadian bacon and/or ham (pork or turkey)Huevos Rancherospan fried potatoes, hash brownsKemah Boardwalk Brick Oven Pizzas grits, oatmeal & Honey Nut Cheerios!Bush’s baked beanstoast (white bread or wheat), bagels & cream cheese, jams & jelliesassorted kolachesfresh fruitPop Tarts*_♥Little Sister♥’s_ Special Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, or the classic steak and eggs meal with a biscuit Blues Brothers special: Jake’s 4 Fried Chickens and a coke and Elwood’s dry white toastKFCKitty’s Breakfast platter (limited to Kitty only)BeveragesDoc Toon’s WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE (small, medium, large & fill your own tub)Alain’s Starbright’s Divine CocoMochaassorted juices & teasassorted soft drinks, especially PEPSI!selected premium beersBloody Mary or CaesarSweetsSelected ice creams & ice cream floats!New York Style CheesecakeRoot beer, PEPSI & other floatsAnything and everything Chocolate for LuvH8 and other chocoholicsEat Hearty, Tribe!

Do they tip well?

Good Morning Grog!I’ll have a chocolate cake, a chocolate milkshake, a chocolate eclair and plain milk please.

I already had mocha cappuchino and it’s keeping me awake. More chocolate in the morning, probably. See you then…

Good Morning, LuvH8 & Alain.

MONTANA LADY Happy 28th birthday!. If you continue to live on only BIG TOP food, you will look as lovely at 29. No joke, I’m almost 29 and I look better than Jack Benny at 39.I’d offer to spank you but young folk like us don’t remember such traditions.Hey GROG is there a shortage of DTWFNC or what?

Good Morning, Lewreader & Doctor Toon

Congrats, Doc!

Just took my morning walk. No surprise that it’s already 80 out there.

No it’s time to go get my other car washed. It’s been a while.

Almost ready to leave for church. Good morning Doctor Toon.

Good morning and Happy Birthday Montana Lady :-)

How is everyone?

Fantastic. In the world of debates My answers are starting to impress people.

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥ & ♥Little Sister♥

Hi Grog :-)

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have Huevos Rancheros, chocolate cake and DWFNC, thanks Grog.

Congrats Doc!!!

Giraffe knotting? Sounds like fun! :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONTANA LADY….

Good Morning, Sojo & lutherg1

GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE

Thanks to Lew, Grog, Doc, Kab,and Little Sis for your warm Birthday wishes…….Lew, I think I passed 29 a LLLLOOOONNNNNGGGGG time ago! And, what a cake, Kab……soooooooo pretty!

Good Morning lutherg1 and Doc.

Good Morning Grog and Montana Lady!

Good Morning, Montana Lady

Wow, thanks to more folks………Sojo and Lutherg1 ……I Love Birthdays!

Good question, Doc…….it really would be better to “stay stuck” at that magical 39, but…….think of all the neat stuff we get to do when we get older!

Reminds me of that Red Dwarf episode called Backwards where everyone literally went through life backwards.

Just think of all those things we do – good and bad – being done backwards.

Sleep well Doc

Have a good nap Doc.

Good Afternoon ♥Kab♥!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MONTANA LADY!!!!!!!

I am at work and doing this on my phone so I hope it works. Just had to give you a Happy Birthday wish.

Good afternoon, Tribe!

It worked!

Good AFternoon, *♠Lonewolf♠

Good Afternoon ♠Lonewolf♠!

Hi, Grog & Sojo. This is difficult from my phone. LOL

I know what you mean ♠Lonewolf♠.

I always wondered how people could possibly text from their phone. I have enough problems with typos without using something so small.

I think if we were gong back through time, we’d also be antimatter. As I recall, someone won a Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating something consistent with such a thing (the positron’s path is the same as an electron’s would be if the electron were going back through time).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MONTANA LADY!!

Bad dog, Dusty

Hello Alain and Saucy!

Hello, Saucy & Night-Gaunt

MONTANA LADY I began claiming 39 at 30. People would say, “You look good for your age.” They no longer say that.

Hi, Saucy, Night-Gaunt49 & Sir Lew.

I’m actually getting used to it, Grog. And my phone has swype, so it makes it somewhat easier, too.

It’s time for me to wrap it up for the day.

Good Day, Tribeandall

Have a good rest of your day Grog.

Hello serena!

Hi, Serena!

Good afternoon, Tribe. Home for the duration now. Another work day in the books.

Now the relaxing starts ♠Lonewolf♠.

Hi, Sojo! You’ve got that right, sir!

Good to hear from you Doc.

Good evening all. I plan on watching that prime time with Diane Sawyer about the young girl who was kidnapped and law enforcement failed her. Should be interesting why the system failed a young lady.

We got to 111° today.

We were supposed to have rain today and it was supposed to last everyday til Thursday. No rain today and tomorrow’s new forecast is dry also. Now we are looking at possibly one day with precipitation.

Reached into the nineties today and it was humid and muggy!

No rain prdicted here, just high temps.

……..and I will have a CHOCOLATE CAKE!!! 

Hmmmm….. Forgot about resizing the picture, guess I just got too excited about my chocolate cake.  Hello Peoples!Our high today was 78°, it isn’t too bad after those temperatures way up in the mid-eighties (I guess).

I am beginning to think you people are all nutz with your poisonous snakes, high temperatures above 90°, low temperatures below 20°, tornados, hurricanes, avalanches, earthquakes, big craters, six lane freeways, etc.

Hi, LuvH8, ♥Kab♥ & Doc

Wow Lonewolf! You are closing in on 40,000 comments, but you better watch your tail Grog talks a lot more than I realized.

Hello LuvH8!

Hi Sojo,I hope you are keeping cool and hydrated. Me…. I wpuld probably make sure my insurance covered water damage and spend my time in the bathtub with a computer across my lap. (shhh! don’t tell)

p=o

LuvH8 – Using an electric applience in the bathtub? Sounds like something you would do (at least once). :-)

LuvH8: Weren’t you listening to the Bronx Zoo’s Cobra twitter site? Snakes are Venomous, not poisonous. C’mon, get it right! :) Here in Darkest Saskatchewan, it’s not too hot today, but it is windy, with what Youngest son refers to as spit and run showers. No venomous snakes where I live, but in the Grasslands National Park south of me, there are rattle snakes. We also get the occasional tornado, and the temperature can range from 105ºF in summer to -48ºF in winter.

Happy 29th birthday, Montana Lady! You look every bit as lovely as you did last year.

Hey! It doesn’t have to be plugged in….. maybe if I figure out where or how to get the keyboard up on the screen? I know how to do it with my dad’s desktop. Then I can do the whole computer by remote mouse.

Hello Saskfan!

Wow! I am being blown away with all your good wishes!

Big Thank You’s go to LoneWolf, Alain, Sir Lew, LuvH8, ans Saskfan!!! Big hugs to all of you!!!! (now My Mountain Man can “trade” me in for a 33 and a 34!)

We got up to 81 today……absolutely gorgeous! Took my walk early so it would get too hot, and now, My Mountain Man is getting the BBQ ready for a very nice thick juicy steak…..yum!!!

Then, a very special bottle of wine and S’mores around the campfire should round out the evening!!

Venomous? Poisonous? What does it matter?!?!?Either way it is a Very Painful Death by a very slithery, icky, creature! I’d rather die by spider bite.. One of my daughter’s friends asked me why I was so afraid of snakes. I told her it was because God said all females are supposed to be afraid of snakes……. (they laughed at me)

Hi again. I hope your big day was the best ever Montana LadyLuvH8 I thought that picture of the kitten was just toooo cute. [Does that get me a cookie even if it isn’t my birthday?]Hi to Saskfan, Lonewolf, Sojourner, Doc and everyone else.

Serenasakitty, I just pulled some chocolate chip cookies out of the oven. Would you like one with ice cream on top?

Hi, Serena!

Montana Lady, glad YOUR day is going so well! You deserve it!

Luv – We don’t have hurricanes or avalanches (unless you count what happens when I open the refrigerator…) here in KS. Really rare to get an earthquake, and the only one I felt shook the house less than a windy day. We don’t have too many big craters, I’m not sure we’ve got any, but I’d have to google that. Thankfully the copperhead isn’t aggressive, but I do know I’d better look where I walk. They are usually more apt to hide under a rock, so just don’t pick up rocks without thick, long leather gloves. There is a reason cowboys wear tall leather boots, you know. I’m not crazy about the weather, but it always gives someone something to talk about, and keeps life from being boring.

Like I just found out that today’s temp of 111°F was a record high for Wichita for July 10th. Wichita has never (since 1888) been hotter than 114°F, but the summer isn’t over yet. 1980 was a brutally hot year, and today’s temp broke the record set that year. At least this time, we’ve got central a/c. In 1980, I didn’t even have a window a/c in my apartment. (Thankfully, I worked noon to 9pm in an air conditioned office.) 1936 was another unusually hot year.

Good Evening Rmom!

Rmom – I hope you and your family are all doing fine!

Aren’t you going to tell us how you handled the temperature in 1936 with no air conditioning?

slither slither sneaky little snakey

Okay……. no one is as old as Sir Lew

I got back from shoping Friday at 9:00 a.m. and watered my flowers in front of my porch early this morning so I haven’t had to be out in the heat.

I did remember to water the tomato plants this morning before we left for church. Guess I’d better make a note so I don’t forget tomorrow morning.

At least the neighbors at my hubby’s trailer are “adopting” his tomato plants when he’s not around. He had asked a co-worker, but I think the neighbors do a better job, and it is less inconvenient for them.

Well, I think I need to get ready for bed. Good night!

Good Night Rmom.

Good Night Rmom,I know here at least they suggest watering things around sundown or a little later if you can, I guess it gives shallow rooted plants more time to absorb water. Of course, I don’t like mowing the lawn, so I don’t water it. Doesn’t work with grass or kids, they just keep growing.

Had a LOVELY BBQ for B’day dinner…….and a nice rib eye steak……..haven’t allowed myself the pleasure in years!!!!!

Wow, again, you folks make me feel so good…..thanks to Serena and R Mom. and, thanks to Luv for the cookie for desert…..wow….it was one of those really big ones, too. :))))

Glad you had a good day Montana Lady!

Your welcome Montana Lady, turns out you wouldn’t have liked the chocolate cake. It tasted like someone switched the salt and the sugar.

Good night everyone about time for bed. Montana Lady glad you enjoyed your birthday today. Hope it turned everything you dreamed of. I do not like snakes myself.Just finished watching sad Dugard story of her kidnapping and enduring while so many enept law enforcement failed.

Good Night ♥Kab♥.

Good Night, Rmom & Kab

Good Night Kab Sister Now why do I have the urge to go outside make myself a fire and burn some marshmallows?

The really bad part is I can see myself in a marshmallow flinging for distance contest with the kids. Probably a good thing I don’t have any kids tonight.

LuvH8 – Diamond Lil has a good answer to any squirel problems you might have.

Sojo, you are up late. I hope the heat isn’t making it hard to sleep.

No, I took my laptop to bed but I don’t know how soon I’ll fall asleep.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Night Sojo!