Big Top by Rob Harrell for June 07, 2009

Mmm…spam

mornin

Hey dcguys, how did your day go?

Hey, D.C.! cleo, see my last post on yesterday’s comments.

Able to get more sun than I have in a long time…very nice! Sharing one of my favorite symbols of hope & strength for the tribe in my avatar. No idea where it was taken or when but I thought everyone would enjoy it.

Thanks for the scent of grilling steaks, JFri. Love that smell. My mouth is still watering. I like the idea of your grill, cleo. I don’t think I’ve seen one of those. I’ll have to check into it. Great way to enjoy most any cooked food!

OK, so it’s late for this old east-coaster as well. See everyone that’s up after the sun rises. P, L & H!

That’s how I felt about spam until I got onto gmail. They look after it for me! G’night, DCGuys Think we can have steak for breakfast, JFri and CLEO? That grill sounds great - will have to look into them when our old one dies.

Cleo, I love that avatar. Can we have Spam and eggs? Spam and spuds? Spam and french toast? A Spam and bacon sammich?

Well S H I T! I had a chance to get back on quick before I went to bed, and saw a new strip! Well, for me the 7th post ain’t bad!! And NO I’M NOT MAKING BREAKFAST!!! LONG WEEK!!! TOO TIRED!!!

As doc would say P & L

Night JFri!! :-D

JFri has some good steak to serve with eggs. I will do some potatoes grilled in olive oil

G’night, Le Tribe

I WAS NUMBER 7 AND NOBODY CAN THAT AWAY FROM ME!!!!!

“CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME”!!!

MORNING MARG, NITE MARG! And don’t you know Spam is NOT good for you, and I love it too!!!

And I am OUTTA here! Night Tribe!!!

Good night, Dry, sleep well.

Wow, Dry was up late 2 nights in a row!!!

So JFri, do you like your Genesis?

Morning everyone. I hope I’m not too late for some breakfast. I brought some ooey-gooey fresh baked cinnamon buns and of course some fruit juice.

Morning serenaskitty. I will gladly scarf up one of your cinnamon buns.

cleo yeah, I like it and it does a great job! And it has become “seasoned” over time but it’s hard to beat the taste you get from charcoal, in my opinion.

Sign me up for cinnamon buns!

I agree about the taste you get from charcoal JFri. I have never had a grill I like as well as the Performer. Even so, when I have owned gas grills I tended to use them more often than I do charcoal, just because of the ease.

So we are now

LE TRIBE ?

I Remember a few years back there was a CHAT community on AOL ”LA PUB”

It was very popular and the only place where so many people were posting that the screen was practically a constantly scrolling marquee board. That was the only place where typed text was so loud you couldn’t hear what you were trying to read.

This is so much better. HI GUYS!!!

I’ve been modifying sites, dealing with genealogy issues, various emails and daily business that I’ve not had time to pop in lately. I’m not ignoring anyone, just sevely busy.

I left several boxes of FAT PILLS (glazed donuts) for those who enjoy late morning /mid-day sugar rushes.

Did someone just say Sarenasakitty had cinnamon buns?

Gotta run!

Dropped in to say “HI” and share some of this sunshine & mid-70s weather. Hope everyone has a great day. I’ll drop back later. Warm cinnamon buns smell wonderful, serena, thank you.

Imagine Mind Games Dream On Hey Jude

DAAAAAAHHH Strip:

Spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, sausage and spam. spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam and spam

…….Could I have spam instead of baked beans?

Spam spam, spam, spamitty spam, spam, spam, spamitty spam

http://tinyurl.com/2zhf6h

Wink, I don’t like spam either.

Good Morning Le Tribe! YUM, cinnamon rolls, thanks serenaskitty! Have a good rest, Doc. BBL, making the rounds.

Good morning all,

Can I have the spam, eggs, sausage & spam?

Doc and the cat people, here’s a toon you might get a laugh out of: http://comics.com/monty/2009-06-07/

Mmmmm. Steak last night and cinnamon buns this morning. Diet, what diet?

Spamalot!

Bonjour Le Tribe!

Serena, Could I have a cinnamon bun? It smells heavenly.

I don’t know how long I can stay. I fell on a waxed floor this morning at choir practice, and my left arm is in a sling. It doesno’t feel too bad now I’ve iced it and took Advil, but if I disappear it is because the Advil is wearing off.

DRY and JFri: What happened last night?

DRY: There should be a prize for being number 7!

Doc. Toon: Have a good sleep.

dcguys: Love your avatar. I can see why you like it.

Radical Whose geneology? Your own, or do you help others? HI Cleo, Carmy, DawnAvril, Digital and EMET.

@ Digital: Like your kitty toon. Pirate cat, look out everyone: BEWARE OF NINJA CAT!

Wink: You attack you email the way I do when I see junk mail. Then there’s the mail the ISN’T junk that gets banned.

BBL

We have gotten to the point where there are too many accidents happening to Le Tribe. Be careful everyone. These accidents are not good.

Warning: Spamming on site may be hazardous to your health.

Thanks Risitas for a heathy dose of laughter, with spam, spam, spam and eggs on the side.

Cleo: I’m off to bed for a bit. Thanks for your concern. My back and head are hurting a little.

BBL

Hey Shika, did you see a doc? Especially if your head hurts. Could be a concussion. Take care.

Dawn, did you say that you live in Vancouver, BC. I went to art school in Vancouver and really enjoyed living there, but that was way back in 1969 to 71. I have lived in both Seattle and Vancouver and like that I can find my way around in both cities.

DawnAvril:

I didn’t hit my head. It hurt from the tension. My back may by a little wrenched. When I fell, I think that since I was going right back, I instinctively leaned forward to avoid hitting my head, and I hit my backside and crunched on my left elbow instead. I feel better after a nap, but I’m going to take a break right now and I’ll be back to BT later.

peace and love. : /

Hey, SPAM, the video game! Gotta be a hit!

Bon matin, le Tribe! Can’t stay long tho. :-(

Shika Ouch! And that’s gotta be real rough for you since you’re a lefty, to have your left arm injured.

Enough with the accidents folks. Here’s some of the positive thoughts & energy I used from the bank for those who need it. Also, here’s some sun if you need it.

☼ ∞ π ♪ ♫ ☼

Cleo we live on Vancouver Island near Nanaimo which is just across the strait from Vancouver but we go to Vancouver regularly. We also get down to Seattle quite often although customs is getting to be quite a pain because of the long line-ups. We love it here - retired a few years ago and moved out from Alberta. Don’t miss the cold - it snowed in Calgary yesterday and we had beautiful warm sunny weather. Shika sorry to hear you had sch a rough time, but I’m glad you didn’t concuss. That would not have been pleasant.

Dawn, I am very familiar with the Nanaimo area. In fact I almost ended up passing through there just before my birthday. We were going to go to the Tofino area for my birthday, but instead went to Silver Creek, BC.

Shika what happened to you??? i leave for two days and you get hurt. Dry good job on being number 7 go you. very proud of you… Cleo why did i not even have to guess that the naked pic was your icon? lol Rmom whos the baby? so cute. i hate spam mail also. never ate spam….

also im home did you miss me? lol

Chicken= 1 Gardens= 1

Tabby = 0

im just gettting to my mail and i have 71 spam. this sucks.

hello is anybody out there??? hello

I just wanted to say a quick hi to everyone. With over 500 comments to catch up on, I probably will skip that today and do a power skim tomorrow.

DocT, Cleo, RRAMom, love the new avatars. Have had a chance to notice if anyone else changed theirs.

Missed you all!!

WELCOME BACK AKENTA!!!! I missed you. :D :P

I havent gotten to the others just read todays. may do that all tomorrow about to get off for the night. my brother wants on. :(

tabby The baby is my youngest on the day he was born. (He’s 16 now.)

Okay guys i have to get off. not like any of you are here to talk to. :P but my brother wants the computer and if i want to watch my show tonight i have to give in and do what they want bc they out number me. so be around some time tomorrow hopefully. night peace and love.

NEMO IS PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO HAPPY BYE!!!

If I’m not on later tonight or tomorrow, it probably means we lost internet service due to lightning again. Our IP HQ is a couple hours away, so it takes longer to get things repaired. A severe t-storm is heading this way.

Hey all, Welcome back Akenta and Tabby Shika, goodness, you take it easy for a while. Rmom good luck with the storms.

Right now it looks like the storms will go about 10 miles north of us. The watch is until midnight, so it is hard to say if another line will develop or not.

Well, I am disappointed! I thought there would be a lot more activity tonight! Is this what we can expect for the summer months? :-(

doc, You got up without me?

#* :-P*

It seems I am forgetting my codes! That #* :-P* was supposed to be BIG!!

I have three comics pages to catch up on for this week, been a busy week and I have missed so much on here, and Daily Ink and comics. com! I guess I’ll just have to check my favorite ones and let the rest go! sigh!

Rmom does he know that you are using his pic? lol the oldest will probably laugh and the youngest be upset. lol he was a cute baby.

Dry im glad there was not a lot to catch up on here today… i still have sat and Fridays to read. but i have a headache and supper is on the way.

* getting back off. :(*

doc,

TOOT?

You know me better than that!!! It will be a full blown horn concert tomorrow since I missed today!! LOL!!

tabby I don’t think either son knows I’m using this pic. I don’t think it would bother him near as bad as the ones where he’s dressed like Cleo.

Hey Everyone!

Am I the only one who posts here? I leave you a few hours, and only 60 posts!

Welcome back Akenta and tabby. We missed you both.

RRAmom.

It’s not too bad since I don’t have to write, but after eating and doing the dishes and changing into nightwear, my arms is getting a little sore even with Advil. Sigh. I knew I should have taught the cat how to cook and do the dishes. All he’s good for is eating and dirtying dishes. But he makes up for it in affection and cuddles.

DRY I know how you feel. It’s lonely when the weather is sunny and warm on one coast and cloudy and cool here. How’s your day been so far? Haven’t talked to you yet today.

Who else is up?

HELLOOOOOOOO OUT THERE! ANYBODY HOME?

Shika I guess the cat’s happy as long as you pet him with your right hand.

RRAmom: I haven’t pet him much. when I move to the couch, i”ll brush him with my right hand.

How was your day RRAmom? Is there a big storm there?

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS SLING? i took it off to do the dishes, and it seems different now.

O joy. A party here with a loud bass. So much for getting good sleep.

Shika The storms seem to be going north of us for now. There’s another line a couple counties away that I’m watching on the radar that might get us, but at this point, we’re probably only talking high winds, small hail, torrential rain. They’re moving through pretty fast, so it won’t last too long. The areas closer to Kansas City is having worse weather than us.

I’ll check back in a few minutes Typing with one hand isn’t fun with no one to talk to. going to check the toons to see what i’ve missed.

RRAmom: Have you ever seen a tornado?

Shika Sorry, slings aren’t anything I’ve had to learn.

RRAmom; Me neither. I think it’s okay now, but feels different. My fingers started to feel numb, so i figured i shouldn’t rest that arm on the arm rest.

HEY! You all like my new avatar? It’s Lancelot Link. What ya gonna do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9Y0Qy0U20

Shika, sorry about your arm. (((Shika)))

Shika Not up close. Looked out our kitchen window several years ago, and saw one about 20 miles away. When one came much closer to where we used to live (within a mile) I was down in the basement, and didn’t have a view.

nice avatar CARMY! Lancelot link? Who’s he?

doct with a name like boots, “handy” isn’t what I’d call him!

Thanks Carmy.

RRAmom; I guess you wouldn’t exactly stay outside to watch one, would you?

Carmy Love your avatar!

DOC: Do you lock the bedroom now? Boots does seem “handy” when you put it that way. Ever heard of the book, THE CAT WHO WENT TO PARIS? Peter Gether’s cat Norton is the star. Funny—it hilarious!

CARMY: I watched the clip- Lance is one cool chimp.

Shika Not if you’re smart. But a lot of people like to go outside and watch. I’ve been to a couple of storm spotter classes, but I’ll leave that up to the pros. I don’t mind if it is several miles away, but if it is getting close, I’d rather be below ground. One of the problems watching is that you can be watching one direction, and it (or another one) can sneak up behind you. My cousin was driving across western KS last year, and got picked up by one. Thanks to the storm spotters reporting it immediately, he’s doing fine. Had a punctured lung, so it could have been fatal if no one had noticed.

RRAmom Sorry- I left to check my emails. Your cousin was lucky. I guess storm spotters are good for somethings.

RRAmom We have Tornadoes in Western Ontario, and I guess out west too. We’ve have some bad ones- for us- in the last several years.

Thanks RRAmom and Shika. Sorry Doc, didn’t mean to make you feel old.

Hello everyone! My day went completely different from planned. After church I usually read the comics then take a nap, but today I decided to nap first, then comics. Well, I napped, when I got up I worked on bills and such and had an online chat with some friends, at the end of which we decided to meet at the Green Dragon to gaze upon the new shipment of beading supplies, etc. Well, one thing lead to another….not to mention purchases, and before I know it I’m here, at 10:15 frantically trying to finish up before I go to bed. Sigh. But…here are two comments for today. Better next weekend.

Carmy To answer your query of Saturday, I lived in Brownsville, Texas. The great state of Texas! Can’t wait to get back to Texas. Retiring in the Hill Country….hopefully. I’ve been through Carla and Beuhla…two retired hurricanes. I nerviously watched Camilla and Allen. My memorys shot, I know it’s beem more major storms that that, but those were quite enough thank you. My family just got through Ike, and are still dealing with the $$$ fallout of that little rainstorm. That’s why I won’t live in a manditory evacuation zone.

Jfri just laid out the bayleaves. Spouse says it must work, after I laid it around my desk they went on the warpath his way. We shall see.

Bmonk the first thing I did was go back…but no luck there. Ah well….live and learn.

To all the tribe…have a good week and I’ll try to chime in on the weekend. At least I’ll bring some breakfast goodies Saturday morning.

OKay, trying edit mode to see if this will assist in multiple responses. I hope so. Have a great week!!!

Quaby! HOLY COW!!! I was born and raised in Brownsville, Texas!

Quaby, I went through Beulah and Allen too. I don’t remember Carla and Camilla. Were they in Corpus Christi?

Drats, I missed Quaby! Doc, I heard about the tornadoes in CO. Is that weird? I didn’t think tornadoes hit in those parts. I hope 2 Cows and a Chicken are okay! :)

There was a storm watch in Colarado?

Quaby: Sounds like a fun day1 No wonder you can’t stick around. Good to see you. Just hang the bayleaves on yourself, the cat and your spouse—and carpet the floor with them. That should do it!

When we had Stormy, or maybe it was Snowball, we went away for a few weeks with him to the cottage. When wwe got back home, we took one step on the carpet, and were covered in fleas up to our knees. UGH!! I’ve never been so creeped out in my life. Took a while to get them under control.

I hate to come and go like this, but my fingers are going numb again. I think I must be pinching a nerve or resting my left arm on the chair rest.

See you tomorrow. have a good night everyone.

Bon Nuit! (That’s Good night to all the Anglophones like me.)

Jfri: I converted your currency question on Andy Capp.

Rad: Hope you can visit longer nest time.

Night all!

TOOT!

The worse tornado I’ve seen the aftermath was about 15 years ago. It killed 14 people in Andover (just east of Wichita) and a few more in SE Wichita. It was categorized as a F-5, but they’ve changed the scale since then, so don’t know what it would be on the current scale. I think the path was at least a mile wide, and it stayed on the ground for several miles.

The one that hit Greensburg, KS a couple years ago about wiped out the whole town. I haven’t been through that town since then, but they’ve done a lot of rebuilding. (It is a couple hours or more away.) They say that if the tornadoes that hit Greensburg and surrounding areas had been centered on Wichita, it would have been really bad. Thankfully, most tornadoes in KS hit farmland, so not much damage.

Well, time to sign off for the night. We’re right on the edge of a storm here, plus time to go to bed.

doc I read that a mall in Aurora got hit by a tornado. Eastern Colorado is part of tornado alley, but the Denver area isn’t normal as far as I remember. But then, what’s normal anymore?

Shika, take it easy girl. I hope you feel better very soon. P&L

Dawn I can unfortunately confirm the postal weather: it rained, snowed, sleeted, and hailed here.

I’m on my second batch of tomato plants, the first were killed by the late frost we had in May. This batch I got covered in time, but the plants on the ends of the row took some minor damage.

We’ve actually had tornadoes hit central Alberta even - Had one a few years back that decimated a major campground - if you think tornado+trailer park=disaster, try tornado+camper trailers.

Doc I had a roomate once from Meeker, CO. We compared notes and figured it was very similar to where I grew up. I would love to be able to buy my parents place when they finally decide to give up the farm. They still live on the last remaining 1/4 section of my great grandfather’s homestead from the late 1800s. It’s an ideal spot, about 1 mile from town on a paved road, sitting on the edge of a coulee looking down into a creek bottom and an 18 hole golf course. All around the house and along the edge of the acerage are old growth trees planted by my grandfather and great grandfather. 100% irrigated land, and the water table is high enough there is an artesian well about 50 feet from the house that runs a 1/2 inch stream year round. During the winter, it’s often one of the only non-frozen water sources, so they get deer, pheasants, etc. through the backyard frequently. My dad likes to hunt (we eat what we kill, and even get the hides tanned which my dad and uncle then make into gloves and moccasins). He has a trout pond, and gardens that are the size of housing lots here in the city.

Doc, That’s a sad and great story all in one! Thanks for sharing! (((doc)))