Big Top by Rob Harrell for April 10, 2010

Good Morning Tribe! Eggs made to order Sausage links and patties, bacon and steaks Toast, bagels and English muffins with the fixings Tortillas, flour and corn Grits, oatmeal and cream of wheat Lattes, Pirate coffee, Nuclear coffee and CocoMocha All types of juices and teas Milk, plain, strawberry and chocolate. Salsa, pico de gallo and whatever condiment you like.

Good Morning/Late Evening Tribe

I’ll have some Chocolate milk. Thank you very much Carmy.

Good Morning TRIBE

See you all later.

I’d think dental was essential for their pursuits.

Carmy Scrambled with green peppers, jalapenos, onions and tabasco sauce, corn tortillas with sausage stuffed inside, Grapefruit juice, Earl Grey tea, and salsa. Not in my tea, in my tortilla! :-)

I love Wink in that last panel!

No dental is a deal breaker….

Good Morning and Good Night to all!

Hi Woodeye, Good night Woodeye! Me too!

See ya’ when I see ‘ya!

Good Morning Woodeye & Runar!

Good Morning Dry, runar and WoodEye! Dry, order up! No salsa in the tea. Goodnight WoodEye, did you get some breakfast?

not if I see you first! Goodnight Dry!

Sounds like a dental plan would be necessary for Wink after the initiation!

Wink, you need a “mental” plan. What are you thinking?!

Wink I still think that this is a bad idea, but I will support you no matter what you decide.

Good morning, ALL! Carmy, thanks for breakfast! I’ll have scrambled eggs and sausage wrapped up in a flour tortilla, and some English breakfast tea. I’ll take that to go, and say ‘goodnight’ now.

Good Night Marg! Rest well.

Breakfast to go for Marg! Goodnight to you too!

Spammer Flagged!

And with that I bid “Good Night to All”.

P&L

(Sorry I missed you, LuvH8)

Good Morning Tribe

Good Morning All. Can you believe this is the first opportunity that I have had to post since yesterday morning. I have been working and entertaining all day and night long. Some of our guests just left and the rest are getting ready for bed. I can not go to bed after such a social overload. I need to just sit down, have a cocktail and wind down. Which is what I am doing now.

Morning, cleo I went for a power snooze and ended up sleeping over 5 hours. A cocktal (or beer) sounds good though.!

Hi Grog. I am sitting here with a snifter of brandy and awaiting the onset of slumber. I don’t think that you can classify a sleep as a snooze if it lasts for 5 hours. LOL You must have been tired.

I think so. I was planning on snoozing 2 hours tops.

Well, you must be well rested and thinking what do I do now, everybody else is asleep?

Not really. Just making my posts while watching 3’s Company, I’ll probably be done in a little over an hour, then I’ll be ready to shut my eyes again.

I am getting close. A few more comics and I am history. With guests in the house, I like to be up before them.

I am ready for bed. Good night Grog and those lurking.

Good night, cleo

Good Morning Everyone

Good Morning, LuvH8

Hello Grog, I think I took a power nap also.

I hope I can take a more reasonable power nap in a few minutes or so. The latest I want to get up is 7AM. (3 hours from now)

Good Luck Grog, pleasant dreams

CARMY I’ll just take a Pirate and a Nuclear coffee please. I have to go back to bed to recover from my double session I had with the shrink yesterday after being beat up by you and LUVH8 in Birdbrains. No, a lobotomy is not in the near future, but he increased my meds. Does “As needed” mean I should refill the ‘script before I open the bottle?

Morning TRIBE! I think Wink should join a book club instead.

Good Morning, Lewreader & Doctor Toon

Yeah, I’ll have the usual: CocoMocha, spiked with Kahlua Mocha. I’ll take care of the rest: Weetabix.

Good Morning Tribe

Hello Doc, LuvH8, Johanan, Grog & Lewreader

Polish president and high up officials along with others were killed in a plane crash. How very tragic.

Rest well, Doc. See ya later!

Good Morning, Lonewolf, & Johanan! Good Night, Doc.

Hey there, Grog.

What’s up man?

Good Morning All. Another busy day today. Everyone except for LilG and I are still in bed, after a late night, but will be rising soon, so I probably will be scarce again today.

I just had a web black out. We were supposed to have a nice week-end, but a storm is rolling through the area. I got my errands done, but the rest of my morning plans are scrapped as I was going to apply some anti fungus product to my lawn.

Good morning again, cleo

Good Morning, Cleo

75° and super sunny here today, Grog. Great day if it doesn’t change!

It always seems to be perfect when I have to go to work, but when I’ve got an outdoor project on the week-end, it rains on my parade,

It does seem that way sometimes.

Lonewolf, I have a 4 day week-end coming next week-end, so hopefully one of those days will start off dry enough to make the application.

Grog–You’ll get a day to do it, I’m sure. I’ve got to get started on my lawn soon here, too.

Tomorrow, I have a car to repair. I think a master cylinder and an axle shaft on a Honda Accord from the symptoms they explained over the phone.

That’ll keep you busy, I’m sure.

Do you know if Harry Morgan is still alive? He was born on this day on 1915.

Last I knew he was still alive.

Whoa! Just checked wikipedia……………….95 years young!!

That’s why I asked. I knew he he would be 95 if still living.

Well, since today is going to be a wash out, I think I’ll cue up Ice Station Zebra on my VCR.

I’ll check in a little later.

Harry Morgan? Of MASH fame?

Good Morning Everyone!

Hi & Bye Lonewolf, Grog, and Johnnydoc5

What do you call a dinosaur that wears a cowboy hat and boots?

Lot’s of Luv, Have a Good Day!

Tyrannosaurus Tex

Hi Johnny. Yep, from MASH.

Well, I’m off for a busy day today. Catch y’all much later.

P&L

Hi LuvH8,

Have a great day!

Thanks for breakfast Carmy! I shouldn’t have eaten it at my desk though. I got oatmeal in my keyboard.

I loved MASH!

Just finished my tour of toonville, and now I’ve got to get this Saturday on a roll.

Hi johnny Long time we don’t connect. How’s school?

BBL

Good afternoon to any who are here.

I was only able to skim a bit, but I caught the well-wishes for Stormy. I thank you and she says mrroooooww

She’s not getting better but I didn’t expect that. The anti-nausea drug seems to help the most. Ohhh though she hates the medicine. The first time my hubby held her for dosing she fought. She doesn’t fight it now, like she knows it is making her feel more comfortable but ohhhhh I wish you could see her face and the way she does that ‘yuck eeech phoie motions with her mouth and tongue. Hubby boils her chicken breasts, which she has been eating somewhat better than her regular food.

As for the rest of my real life, I am officially on probation now at work, called PIP of all things, Personal Improvement Plan I have already shown improvement in most of the areas, my supervisor hated to do it, but it has to go in my file. Sigh At least it’s not a writeup on my temper…..and it’s only 60 days i/o the usual 90. So long as they don’t dump New York calls on us, or have us go back to bookings via phone I’ll be just fine.

I hope everyone is doing well and having fun. We’re celebrating our 33rd anniversary with Alice in Wonderland and dinner at Outback Steakhouse.

P&L

Hi, tribe! Can’t stay real long, but waiting on my hubby to wake up from his “beauty” sleep. Actually, the poor guy has been working so hard, and with having to be at work at 6am, he doesn’t get enough sleep during the week. Saturdays are the only day he can try to catch up on his sleep.

Good to see you last night hymenoxsis! Just checked this morning.

Hope everyone has a good day. It is sunny and cool today. Going outdoors now.

It’s officially afternoon, so

good afternoon, all

Just got back from a funeral for a church member - 97 years young he was. His daughter has spent her life literallly taking care of her parents - she’s in her 70s, never married, always at home. Saw her face as she was coming out after the funeral. She is absolutely devastated. I started to cry when I saw her. I mean - she finally can call her life her own and she’s in her 70s? Bless her - I hope she can cope.

Quaby, Shika and Rmom Good to see you.

celecca - Good to see you too! Not that anyone wants his parents to die young, but there is a certain liberating sense when they do pass on. Having lost my mom (85) this fall, and my dad (82) a few years ago, of course I miss them, but I’m looking forward to the freedom to not have to consider them in my plans. I can move further away, I can celebrate Mother’s Day the way I want, we can do holidays where & how we wish (hubby’s parents are in FL, so haven’t impacted our plans as often), etc.

Rmom Yeah - I know what you mean. When pastor and I were discussing what the daughter was going to do, I suggested that he congregation buy her a cruise ticket in about 6 months. She deserves it.

I was not blessed with kids (and at 50, if it happens, it would be a miracle for the Lutheran Church!) but I appreciated my parents more the older I got and the more mistakes I made. I’m blessed with a brother and sister who are parents and they are much closer to Mom & Dad that I will ever be because of that shared bond of parenthood.

Time for a nap. WIll check in later.

Sorry, Shika, had to get some work done. School is going well, but I have been really busy. How has life been treating you? I’ll have to catch the answer later as I am off to work.

Hi johnny. bye johnny! Have fun at work! LOL!

Is it just me, or does BT have a revolving door? LOL!

Hi! Bye! Hi! Bye!

Hi DRY!!

Bye johnny!

Hi celecca!

HAPPY 33RD ANNIVERSARY QUABY! Sounds like it will be a lovely day for you.

PIP! I hated those. I had them given to me too. Happens to us all, depending on the style of management and the bigwigs in HO!

Oh dear. I thought I was over that, LOL! Glad I’m out of a toxic work environment and now I am doing what I love, assuming there’s work for me when I finish school.

And assuming I am well enough to work too. I couldn’t work full time now, despite appearances. I need to sleep too often.

Sigh. This to shall pass.

((Shika)) My mom said that a lot: “This too, shall pass.” I’m thinking the same thing about my after-homeschooling career. I don’t think I’m up to working full-time like I did before kids came along. Thankfully, my hubby isn’t expecting me to, although we both agree I probably need to do something to bring in some extra money, once I have some spare time available.

Hi Shika, celecca and quaby! Bye Shika, celecca and quaby!

hi Dry, Shika, celecca, & Quaby! bye Dry, Shika, celecca, & Quaby! and also to Johnny

decided to tour first, today, since i missed yesterday. i see i missed an appearance from hymenoxis

Hi rmom and finally, HI YGUY!

((((Stormy))))

Hi dry and yyyguy

ByeDry and yyyguy

Hi, Dry!

Hi TRIBE. Bye TRIBE. Revolving doors are great things, aren’t they?

Happy anniversary Quaby

I’m just sitting here going thru paper files so I check in and out once in awhile.

he serena bye serena yes, they are, and it’s a good thing we have one here in the Big Top. makes it easier to fly by while doing puzzles and reading other strips. Happy Anniversary to Quaby & hubby i’m going to a birthday party tomorrow for my B-i-L.

right now, it’s 3:47 (EDT) and i must take my leave. fans of the original “the Day the Earth Stood Still” or the late 70’s band Klaatu can make what you will of the time. i have a poker game tonight. [but i go mainly for the food and the sociability. much the same reasons i come here.] (((Tribe)))

Hi yyyguy, serena, Rmom, Shika, FELLOW BABY & everyone else!

Happy 33rd, Quaby! yyyguy, one of my favorite SCI-FI’s! Dry, the mixture is mixed and the cauliflower is now cooling. Thanks, again, for the recipe.

Fellow Baby I hope you like it!* How much hot sauce/tabasco did you use?

A table spoon, Dry. By about this time tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be having it as an appetizer with a Bloody Caesar.

Dry, I have just finished off a store-bought version. Have you tried adding a little red bell pepper to it?

GrogNo I haveen’t been I do buy the store bought that has that in it. What brand do you buy, I’d be curious to see if any of our brands are down your way.

Dry, the brand I usually buy is Mezzetta. The product is “Hot Cauliflower”. Amomg the ingredients of course are cauliflower (obviously) and peppers. What they don’t say is that it includes jalapeno peppers and red bell peppers.

Doc Got a couple of totally spurious questions - do grocers believe that short people exist? And if they do, why aren’t there footstools in the aisles so short people can reach the top shelf items they need?

I’m back from the movie. Alice in Wonderland was good. Johnny Depp was amazing IMHO…though I’m sure a lot of that final dance was helped by CGI. And his eyes, WOW, they were something. The White Queen, though, didn’t seem to be able to put her hands down, they were almost always at shoulder level. IT like to drove me nuts.

Celecca We don’t talk religion here, but I gotta say it. A FELLOW LUTHERAN!!! Have you heard what Lutherans think of change?? ‘Change? CHANGE’ ‘What’s going to change!’ ‘I prefer the green book.’ ‘I like the red book better.’ ‘Bring back the blue book!!!!’ At least the cranberry book (the gasp new one) brought back the great Bach hymns.

Shika thanks for the encouragement about being in PIP. What annoys me most (and my supervisor sticks up for me) is the higher echelon thinks I was in Imports 1 month, maybe 6 weeks tops. It was 5.5 months! I wasn’t even in training anymore. I was handling my own ships, issuing my own invoices for charges, etc, etc without having to ask or be shown every little step. Sure, there were some things I needed help with, but I had the everyday basics down. After that calm pace I was dumped back in Exports because bookings had exploded and we were having to take New York rollover calls. Excuse me…when 60-75% of my queue calls are NYC, NYC is putting themselves on ‘not ready’ and dumping on us. It was also 6 people handling the overflow for 15 people. Not to mention phone-in bookings. Once that stopped things got better, but they expected 100% improvement the next day. It ain’t gonna happen that fast, guys (and my supervisor understood). Anyway, so long as they don’t much up with my duties I will be just fine.

Gotta get to the kitchen. Hope everyone else is ok. There’s leftover prime rib, Aussie Fries, bloomin’ onion and some carrot cake in the BT fridge. Help yourselves.

Doc That is a very good question. They should have some shopping carts lower but longer and put a stool underneath that they can pull out when needed. Even having just one per store, mebbe at the customer service counter, would be good. I feel for them when I see them climbing and jumping on TV.

Grog yes we have Marzetti here. What you don’t like jalapenos? Ya’ big sissy! :-D

Hello, Doctor Toon, celecca & Quaby

Doc, the Mezzetta products are all stored at a reachable levels in all the stores I’ve been to down here. I don’t think there’s much I buy that’s top shelf. Fortunately though, I am average height, if that ever did happen.

celecca, I’ve had height-challenged people ask me if I can get their product for them. Of course, I will gladly help them. Hopefully, if I’m having back problems at any time, the favor will be returned on bottom shelf items.

Dry, I have nothing against Jalapenos. But I use them more in cooking though, rather than eating them raw.

There is a cajun stuffed pork chop that calls for - among other things - green chiles. However I will substitute jalapenos, because I have a jar of pickled diced jalapenos on hand. I often like to top my burgers and dogs with them on those rare occasions when I have burgers or dogs.

So is that being sissy? :^{)

I’m of to start prepping supper for tonight tonight. I’m doing a poached cod.

Fellow Martinians, past and present Peace be wth you!

The cranberry isn’t so bad. But I miss the liturgy from the one I grew up with - which was BURGANDY! (Pre-ELCA)

Quaby - Alice in 3-D or regular? I really want to see it, but am worried about the the sense of movement. And Happy 33rd Aniversary!

re: grocery I do ask people to help, I have to. Usually though it’s the fellow shoppers who are willing to help. I understand about the liability though. Told you it was a spurious question!

Hey Grog

I think I’m having some trouble with my eyes today - I read a TV listing as Hamster Yoga (should have been Namaste) and I just read that Grog was fixing coached pod for dinner.

I’d better stop for the day.

LOL celecca

Hi everyone. Sorry that I couldn’t come on earlier. Thing is My dad and I have been busy with the Spring cleaning, and today we decided to shampoo the carpeted floor in our house. After that I decided to go out and have fun with some friends of mine, knowing that it would take about four hours or so for the floor to dry.

Hello Dry, Grog, Doc, Quaby and Celecca! Quaby, congrats on your anniversary and hugs for (((((Stormy))))) I’m 5 foot 5 and I’ve helped my fellow shoppers retrieve items from the top shelf. Using something from your own cart, like a roll of tin foil, works pretty well.

*No Grog! I take back calling you a “sissy”! LOL!

I often have to climb on the bottom shelf at the grocery store to reach an item on the top shelf because no ONE is around. And the reason is usually because they didn’t re-stock the shelf and what I want is clear in the back!

Isn’t it funny how we mimic our elders until we have some life under our belt? Then later we echo them sometimes without realizing it?

I’ve always been afraid that if I step on a lower shelf, I will get crushed when it falls over.

So I look for tall handsome men and just bat my eyelashes.

That always makes them run to get a stock person for me. LOL!

I wonder what coached pod tastes like?

My eyes are always playing tricks on me. Some of the things I write or red are hilarious.

Well, Friar Tuck has actually agreed to watch Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince with me on PPV. Rare, so am taking him up on it. Snuggle time! Bye!

Doc at my local store, I’m sure its “deface” the store. The way they slash open to cartons with their machetes, all the products are oozing their guts.

I just noticed that my bag of oatmeal was slashed at the bottom. No wonder Mua keeps licking the floor.

Quaby I meant to post this some time ago, congratulations on your anniversary. Seems today most marriages don’t last that long! And my heartfelt sympathy on Stormy. My last cat, before these,my sweet little Hannah Bee lived to be 16 years and passed 4 days before her 17th birthday..

I forgot to say

Need to put a bell on that revolving door! lol

Hi Carmy! Yes those rolls of plastic wrap, foil, etc. work well, if you have them in the cart at the time. Our stores are laid out that those are the last couple of rows, and usually what I’m reaching for is before that.

LOL Dry! Yes, same here.

But then, how many rolls can one buy? Surely not everytime we shop!

Hey Doc tell me something, why are the fruits, produce,bacon, and deli items at the beginning of the store? Until you get to the end of the store, they can be in your cart for awhile sometimes.

Doc You havae to run a looong way to help me! If I bat my eye lashes, will you feel the breeze where you live? LOL

And if you start at the opposite end, you have your milk, ice cream, yogurts, eggs, frozen items, and so on in the cart the same length of time.

Hi Shika! Dry, a box of spaghetti or something like that will work well too. Whatever is handy is my motto. LOL

I guess I need to get back to work. My typing is slipping, so it will be a long night.

BBL

Shika here.

Dry I save my perishables until last. But that only works when you know the layout of the store. Sometimes, I goof up.

Hi Carmy

Bye Carmy, Dry, Doc and whoever is left in the produce aisle.

Bye Shika, see you later! I think a lot of stores are laid out that way. I usually get the frozen items last and then it’s off to the check out.

I know the layout by heart, but it’s so big I don’t feel like running back and forth, and usually don’t have the time to do that, so I live with it, but always found it curious why they do that!

Good afternoon all!

Hi, Carmy

In addition to knowing the layout, speed shopping can also help, especially when you forget to pick up an item or two on your list or remember something you need that’s not on your list but at the other end of the store.

That usually only works in the early morning hours, when I do my shopping. I like to get out as fast as I got in.

The dinner bell sounds. BBL

Alice wasn’t in 3-D, my glasses are very thick and can’t see anything without them. I did have the headphones, though, so I can hear the soft bits as well as the LOUD BITS.

End of Time’ is on, getting ready for the next Doctor. I love it, it show the Doctor so……human*. He doesn’t want to regenerate because he won’t b the same, and for all that he as and wants to do that is the same as dying.

Hey Doc, who’s Gog? LOL!

Hey johnny!

Dinner was tasty, now for desert. A good stiff drink!

*Gog’s back!

Dry,I think you warned me back when I made the change to Grog that you might make a typo. I did not expect the Good Doctor to make the make the first booboo!

You all are making me laugh.

Now everyone will be doing it!

Hi LW18!

Grog, you shop like I do. I like to be quick too. If by chance I forget something, I abandon my cart and go back and get what I missed. It’s faster that way. zooooommm!

Hi, Gog! - Wait a minute, are you Gog of Magog from the Bible?

Carmy, as a guy, shopping is not a pleasure, but a necessity. No matter what’s on the list or where it’s to be bought, I know what I want and where I want it.

If I could, I would do all my shopping on the internet

Even worse, Rmom. My name is taken from a character on the B.C. cartoon strip.

Grog, if and when my husband goes with me shopping, he buys whatever he sees. He goes down the aisles saying, don’t we need this?He also thinks that everything costs about 50 cents. So I go solo and that’s fine with me.

You mean you aren’t a Pirate’s drink?

Gorg is one typo you forgot Doc. It’s for the dyslexic in me.

Everyone should try it.

mooShika

Oomakihs

Grog - I know, and Grog is probably my favorite character on B.C., although the snake & ants are right up there.

Twirl, and I’m gone. This revolving door is fun!

Are you leaving already, mooShika?

ymrac Not yet. I’m lost. I think I can out the way I came in, or vice versa.

I take you’re the one who deals with the family finances, Carmy.

My dad was the bill payer in the family and he went with mom to do the shopping when the situation allowed. He always checked the receipts for errors, too.

I, too, can be stingy when it matters, but I will pay more for the perceived quality on durable goods.

And I’m dizzy. I can not type.

Doc - It would be nice if the stores had those grabby arm thingys handy for shorter people to use. Of course, to keep them from disappearing, they’d probably have to have them on a long retractable cord or something. I wish they didn’t have such deep shelves, although I understand the reason for it. When the store hasn’t been “faced” for a while, I find myself up to my armpit trying to reach something. Sometimes my arm isn’t long enough, and I have to ask for help. I also will ask a fellow customer to help me, if an employee isn’t handy.

See you later, mooShika!

Well, I bid everyone goodnight. I can no loner resist the lure of my bed an pillows. Enjoy changeover.

P&L zzzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzz

Ycarm Where’s you go? You called me back. I have one more paper to write. Speaking of which:

Johnny I dono’t know how you work and study at the same time. I spend all mytime on homework and studying.

Enjoy you weekend anyways.

LOL, Shika! Grog, you are correct. I do take care of the finances. It’s not that I’m stingy, I just don’t see the need of buying something just for the sake of having it.

At least your not getting your mords wixed up, Shiba

Shika, the usual typo for my name is Camry (a Toyota model).

Nor I, Carmy

Goodnight Quaby! Shika, I didn’t go anywhere.

Good Night Quaby (byqua?)

Good Night momr

Gorg No, but I am GETting my syll-AB-les all wonKEY.

I never was very good with cars, Camaro

Shika, I hope you get it together so you can finish your last paper. Make sure you have your spell check on! Hee hee!!

I am often mistaken for someone else in my former company. Our names are not at all the same, but if you exchange each of our first names for a part of our last names, then I end up with his e-mail and he will end up with mine. That finally stopped when we severed the ties with my former company but it was a real P.I.T.A.

Grog, I still get stunned when I go to the store for a few things and the total is quite higher than I expected. I always think, “but I barely bought anything!”

Pita bread doesn’t sound so bad Gregorian

Not only is Grog’s name from B.C., I think that his picture is too. Shika, I don’t spend as much time on homework as I should, but I manage.

Corny My spell cheque works fin, if ewe no what eye mein.

I guess I’d better finish up be for it finishes me! See you later!

I know that feeling, Carmy, especially since I am normally buying for a family of 1.

Shika, that’s Pain In The A–

LOL Grog! I knew that. I was pulling your leg! P.I.T.A does look like pita if you read it really fast and ignore the periods.

Where’s that revolving door? I can’t find my essay!

Here essay, here essay!

Shika, you better stop that right now! How did you know that one of my childhood nicknames was “Corny”? Grog, I buy for a family of 6! We do get a break on being able to shop at the military grocery store. The prices are much less than the regular stores. We also don’t have to pay taxes on items that are normally taxable.

Hi Johnny!

About 15 Years ago when I was still working in Montreal, the plant Controller from our Millhaven plant knick-named me P.I.T.A, - which was a lot better than my predecessor ‘s. His knick-name was F.U.B.B.

He had a special name plate made up by the Controller: “Home of F.U.B.B.”

Grog, yeah, F.U.B.B. is definitely worse! LMBO!!

Well, Carmy, I’m glad I didn’t have to explain it to you! But, I’m sure there’s someone out there…

Grog, my husband is in the military, I’ve learned a lot of the acronyms. But, I’m sure there is someone out there too…

Grog, I went on the base to rent a car. The lady helping me was walking me to the car and told me it was in B.F.E. I’m looking around because all the buildings have letters and or numbers on them. She started to explain about the same time I figured it out. Duh!

I don’t think I want to know what the acronyms are…

Heheh!

Johnny, you’re better off not knowing. Like I said before, I wouldn’t know them myself, but I’m guilty by association.

Carmy, over the years, my friends and I have managed to create a few of our own for when we were in more polite company.

Grog, GOG, WHATEVER, ‘SPLAIN IT TO ME!

(JUST KIDDING!)

Grog, oh my! I can just imagine what you all have come up with.

Hola Dry!

Hey, FELLOW BABY!!!

Dry, tomorrow’s dinner will consist of sauerkraut, potatoes & onions boiled in beer & butter with grilled jalapeno & cheese sausage.

Wimpy - or not?

Wow, I hope you have a cast iron stomach!

Don’t mind me, Iv’e been watching the auto race that is on T.V.

Dry, where did you go?

Carmy, I just have to make sure that I take my Nexium! I don’t eat stuff like that all the time any more.

In my younger days, we used to have contents to see who could make the spiciest Bloody Caesars. Without even asking, the waitress brought the bottle of tobasco to our table. I used to win those contests, by the way.

Grog, I thought I was living dangerously by having chili cheesedogs!

Now chili is another thing…I like spice but I also like flavor.

If cleo wasn’t busy with guests, he’d be popping in about now to tell us what he had for dinner to make me go running for the snacks - but with the food talk starting to pick up, that may happen with - or without cleo

I like spicy, but I do not like hot. I mean, how much can you really taste after your taste buds have disintegrated?

Carmy, I admit to being young & foolish at one time, which is why I have some of the health problems I have now. Now I tend to spice more for flavor than heat. But I still like the green tabasco on my scrambled eggs.

Why is the tabasco green? Green chilies?

I had chili made with turkey burger for lunch today. BTW, someone ran his butt off today! I got in a 4 mile hike, he did 20!

Hi JFri! I bet he’s happy, but tired!

Carmy, yes it’s a milder, more flavorful tobasco.

Good Evening, JFri!

Howdy, Carmy & Grog! Carmy, I won’t take that bet! ;-)

I’m working on a tin can and string connection!

Grog, I don’t like any kind of tabasco. JFri, did your weather get better?

Oh, yeah! We had nearly 70 degrees and sunshine at the beach today! It was great!!

JFri, that sounds rather primitive.

Grog, it is! I am on the edge of cellular civilization!

Sounds great! What’s with the tin can and string?

In a way, I almost envy you, JFri!

Nevermind, I saw your answer to Grog.

Get rid of the ground phone line and I’d really be happy.

Carmy, see my last post! My reception drifts in & out!

I’m ok as long as I have my satellite connections to the internet & television.

Carmy, you almost envy me?

JFri, Grog, said that, not me.

LMBO! I’m watching “Monkey Business” and Hank Entwhistle is about to get scalped!

On tape/DVD Carmy?

Carmy, you’re right! Sorry, Grog! Grog, I have satellite for TV. Just watched the NASCAR race and now the Sharks game!

Grog, on tape. I’m not sure what other Cary Grant movies I have on this tape. I didn’t label it. I think Arsenic and Old Lace is next.

I am watching a TCM movie called Ship of Fools. It’s a ship headed toward Germany with passengers having much of attitudes prevalent in 1933 Germany. Very interesting so far.

Carmy, I have that one on DVD. One of my favorite Cary Grant movies.

Grog, Arsenic and Old Lace is next. I’m going to label the tape. I’m always forgetting what’s on there. I know I have Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The Bishop’s Wife and maybe more. I wish I had some of The Thin Man movies.

Carmy, I have the Thin Man movies on tape, but I’d like to upgrade to the DVD collection.

I have the Bachelor & the Bobby Soxer on tape and The Bishop’s Wife on DVD, but I consider the latter a Christmas movie and will watch it during that season.

Grog, I usually watch The Bishop’s Wife at Christmas time too.

For the night.

♪♫Oh Grog, Do I want to know what F.U.B.B stands for? Or will you get flagged for posting it?♫♪♪

You mished all the fun.

Corny will splain to you.

I’m psychic Corny that’s why.

Oh sure. Now you all leave! I saw the Bishop’s Wife last year I think. I enjoyed it.

I also liked Grant in more serious roles like North By Northwest & Notorious

Guess I’ll go back and proof read my text before I send it in.

I wonder who’s getting breakfast this morning?

Ha! I knew that would bring you back!

What’s new JFri?

Shika, I can get breakfast. You don’t want to know what F.U.B.B. means and yes, it will get flagged.

Have no fear, Gog is here!

Shika, I will let you figure out the first two words. The last two are Beyond Belief!

I’m roughing it smoothly at the beach!

You must be geo-caching JFri, or did I miss you telling us where you are?

Gog I’ve just written three sermons for my final project. If I guess the first too words, I’ll fail my course. LOL!

Catch you at the turnover.