Big Top by Rob Harrell for May 01, 2009

JFrisch419 says:

marg what brand is your kayak? Looks like a Perception or Old Town or maybe a Necky? 10 footer?

~ It’s a Perception. It’s name is ‘Fred’, after our old Springer Spaniel who loved to swim with me.

Good morning all, and happy May Day. Johnny, there’s orange juice for you in th refridgerator, and fres bagels are on the table. Coffee is plugged in, and the timer is set. In honor of it being May, I’ve made some lucious lemon bars.

May day? Oh, bleeep my rent is due! Thanks for the OJ Marg, and happy May Day to you and everyone else also.

EDIT: They bleep out C R A P?

Ah Wink is now a hipster.

Good morning margueritem and johnnydoc. I too like to kayak. I have an easy rider. I used to take a weeklong kayaking trip every year with a group of friends. Now it gets used mainly on our lake.

Don’t know when I’ll be back. The day will be beautiful, and I’ll be spending most of it outside. :-)

Thank you margueritem. I am going to take a wee nap, but I shall indulge myself in a glass of your fine OJ first. Sayonara, until later.

Cleo: We have a small lake here that is set in the middle of some billion year old granite boulders, perfect for kayaking.

You wouldn’t be in the Prescott area would you margueritem? My best friend lives their and I’ve seen some cool little lakes near town.

But actually, I guess the rock around Prescott probably isn’t granite.

My lake is nestled in the foothills about 3 miles west of a bay just off Puget Sound, in Washington state.

Cleo: Yes indeed, Watson Lake. And that rock is granite.

Wilson Lake is a pretty lake. my friend is a massage therapist in Prescott. I try to get down to visit him once a year. I haven’t done any kayaking there, but a bit of hiking.

I’d like to see those photos. We have kokanee in our lake. There are a lot of Russian immigrants in this area and I see some fishing here nearly everyday. Well, my eyes are heavy. Have a good one margueritem. Nice talking with you.

I like how the bear is wiggling in the second panel.

Happy Friday everyone!! And Happy May Day. And I think it’s also Labor Day in some parts of the world. Any reason for a holiday, I’ll take :-)

RadK, thanks for the mile markers yesterday. Made it easier to me to find my spot trying to keep up with everyone.

Today is my day to actually go out and treat myself to some breakfast. I’ll bring back French toast, eggs, and of course grits. I’ll bring some back for everyone.

good morning all had to take care of mypets last eve…3 ferrets,2 beta fish 3 hermit crabs 1 bichon and a short furry persian cat,,,they happily took up all my tyme the it was tyme for bed…peaches and cream in the middle ring at the Big Top for all the Tribe

Akenta I love grits…thanx I will have a large bowl myselfe…lots o butter pleeze…and help yourselfe to the peaches

Good Morning All! Thanks for the coffee and goodies. Happy May day, Friday and Pay Day!! Whoo Hoo!

Doc, Whoo hoo for your night off AND for your evening plans (winky winky). I’m off to run errands too. BBL

Morning, Guys. Marg, Johnny, Cleokaya, JFri, Akenta, Owlsley, Doctoon, Carmy, and everyone else who shows up later… Stopped by Shipley and got a crate of mixed and filled donuts. Enjoy! . I knew it! Wink is pulling Dusty’s chain!

Dusty, you should never fool around with something when you don’t know what you’re doing!

Morning all! Won’t be on here much until 7 or so, unless we get back earlier, so in case I forget, everybody have a good day!

&&Say I will give you all something to ponder while I’m away.** Anyone know how to fix their e-mail (yea, Joy). Here’s the problem, this happened once before and verizon, after it was fixed, sent me an e-mail on what to do in case it happened again! Apparently, I deleted it! I think I need to re-configure soemthing, but before I have to get on the phone and go online and talk to a very accented Indian person, can someone help me? You got all day to come up with something!

yea Johnny they bleep out C R A P. Also D A R N! Go figure!

Good morning all. I am refreshed by my (nap) and ready for a new, and further sunny day. Our sunny string of days is supposed to end today, so I guarantee I am going to spend as much of it outside as possible.

May 1st already. As a small boy a day seemed to last the equivalent of about 7 days now. LOL

Good morning all!

Cleokaya - I have a theory on the time perception thing. I think the reason time seems to go by faster now than it did when we were little is proportions. When you are 10 years old, 1 year represents 10% of your lifespan (even more of your cognizant, since most don’t remember first 2 years). When you are 40, a year only represents 2.5% so it appears to be shorter when compared to the rest of your life experience. There, that’s my philisophical stretch for the day, can I go back to sleep now?

@DigitalFrog, I also realized that way of looking at how fast life goes back about 60% of my life ago…

Yeah!! It is sunny here again, we got JFri’s rain from earlier in the week. Hope it stays sunny. Will be back later have a good day!

DigitalFrog says;I have a theory on the time perception thing. I think the reason time seems to go by faster now than it did when we were little is proportions. When you are 10 years old, 1 year represents 10% of your lifespan (even more of your cognizant, since most don’t remember first 2 years). When you are 40, a year only represents 2.5% so it appears to be shorter when compared to the rest of your life experience. Do I know you!?!?! That sounds so much like stuff I’ve been saying for years. That is why when a parent says I’ll be there in 5 mins it’s an eternity to a child! So I’m much more patient. I’m glad to find someone who thinks like me!

No way! I wanna see the ball game tonight.

okays no time to even read. im just poping in to tell you not to send a search party for me. i am being fussed at for doing my hw and not my grad stuff. Lord i cant win for loseing. anyways i am off to do that. i am probley going to turn off the internet so i cant get on. sigh any ways i will talk with yuo all when i can. bye for now.

Dead Wings?!?!?!?! Ooooh thems fightin’ words where I come from!

Tabby good luck with your HW and grad stuff. JFri, I think everyone is out enjoying the nice weather that Michigan isn’t having.

Hossa just knew where to come to win the cup. Is that how you think they play dirty or is there another reason?

DigitalFrog, your theory makes perfect sense to me. In a way it’s kind of like visiting a room, that when you were a child, seemed so large. Only to find out it’s quite small, as an adult. doctortoon will appreciate this, when I was an infant, my grandparents had several house cats. I always remember that they, seemed taller, very hairy and quite intimidating.

JFri, I hate to tell you this, but it is another beautiful day here 66 degrees at 11:30AM. Today is supposed to be the last day for several days, so I am intending to spend as much of it outdoors as possible. I know margueritem planned to be out and about today as well.

Cleo: You’ll have to let me know when you’re in town!

I had to come inside because the sweat was starting to run into my eyes while I was spreading some mulch. I love the weather here, don’t miss the Midwest weather at all. Got my 4th bike ride for the week in this morning, so that’s a little over 60 miles total. Now i can eat ice cream and not feel too guilty. ;-)

JFri: I want to see your kayak fish pictures.

Dry, did you try this?

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/4964

though it looks kind of old :-(

marg, I will definitely let you know when I plan on being in your area. It will not be for a while I suspect as my friend is coming up in June. He has one of those certificates from the Universal Church and he’s coming back up here to do the wedding of another old friend of his.

JFri, I am glad that you have had some nice weather. How’s the injury healing?

JFri: That is a great picture!

hello guys. hope you all had a great day. mine was fine till i got home. but yea whatever. Joy get well soon. Dry hurry home. and hello Jfri, Akenta, cleo, Carmy and who ever else is on wish you all well.

Carmy from last night (i think) yes, i would love to see his stiches. i think they are cool. when Ana fell and busted her head open for easter, she had to get stiches. once i new she was okay and i held here and loved on her, i looked at them and my fasanation begun. lol im crazy. if i have boys later, much later in the future, i will be okay with the bload, “guts”, and what ever is to come.

Hi Tabbylynn, welcome back.

JFri, gosh to bad about the fishing trip. I was so looking forward to fresh seafood. Lately, I have been having a real urge for Black Cod.

Cleo thanks. missed this place. about to walk next door once my father leavs and may not be on for a while again.

okay new pic. up. so i will have to leave this one up till joy comes back? i will just bc i have love for her. okay guys be back soon. maybe.

JFri, just saw your pizza recipe on Fox Trot. Now that’s a pizza I would like. I also love raw oysters. Taylor Shellfish Farms are about ten miles down the road from here. Three if I were a seagull.

Poor Wink! It’s un-bear-able1

Gee. Where are you guys? We have Muskoka up here for canoeing- not many kayaks, unless you go really north!

so who’s in the pic this time Tabby?

Now I have to head over to “Love Is…” and see what’s going on there. It better not be like SOTU.

”I’m baaack” If anybody cares! Thanks, Akenta Tried it it didn’t work! I think that’s what the verizon guy did the last time, had to give him access to my ccomputer. This time it didn’t work! I’m going to try later to re-boot and see what happens. Then I’ll call India again LOL. Then I am seriously considering switching to Comcast! I am sick of this sh**. Usually our e-mails are trivial stuff, but with my son getting set up for college, we can’t afford to miss anything!

* I left an earlier post about 9:30 this am giving everybody the whole day to come with something to help! *THANKS AKENTA, NOW I KNOW WHO MY FRIENDS ARE! LOL - just kidding , the rest of you, well kinda sorta! *

Akenta haven’t been over to anywhere else yet, but how could “Love is” turn into SOTU!? LORD HELP US ALL!! :-)

I just didn’t know what to expect with “Love Is…” never read it and based on today’s I doubt it could win me over.

I checked out pook’s comment and it just seemed like it was trying to be funny - I didn’t see anything offensive about it.

Dry, I don’t know if I would try Comcast. I don’t anyone who is happy with their customer service. I do have a comic about that - have to see if the link still works though.

Thanks pookid You’re a lot of help!! :-D

and yes, the link is still there

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/signe/SigneWilkinsonCartoonArchiveWeekof_January142008.html

Hmm, it’s not posting the link right :-(

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/signe/

The comic is dated 1-18-08.

M.B. I live in Washington on the Puget Sound in a very outdoor oriented community. Kayaks, canoes, shells are all big up here. Lots of ocean kayaking and white water.

Akenta what am I looking for? The cartoon is about planting a tree!

JFri, you may know Black Cod by the name of Sablefish. It is different from Ling Cod, but both are bottom fish.

Akenta I didn’t finish reading the last line of your post. I found it! Reminds of verizon except they don’t speak good english!

You’ll have to forgive me! It has BEEN A LONG DAY!!!

Welcome new psoters!

It has been a long day, but it’s almost over. I still have to finish reading through my comics, but I’ll pop back here and check out the comments

JFrhit me up with a couple of doubles!

Akenta Rebooted the computer and there was the e-mails!

rebooting was pook’s idea - not useless at all :-)

I sat on our deck looking at the lake come alive with people pretending that it is summer. I smoked a cigar, which I do about once a month in the summer. Yes, it is cocktail hour. Come on over it you’d like, I have a full bar, just bring your mix of choice, or let me know and I will join you all at another spot and while the way the hours shooting the breeze. I also have a nice big fire pit that is situated where we can catch the last sun of the day.

One thing that I like about our yard, aside from my wife’s garden work that makes our home look like a park, is that we have three patios and three decks, so outdoor seating areas are plentiful for conversation and meandering. We just finished a little walk around seeing what new growth has opened today. We had a rough winter, so it is nice to see that some plants we thought were lost come to life. Good luck Dry, I have no advice because I am a lost cause when it comes to anything technical.

okay so im back, what did i miss?

i went to “Love is…” i visit it often, today i may have put my foot in my mouth, but i commented on the comment made. if you want to check it out, go for it. lol

Akenta sorry girl. This is one of my teachers. :) whats new. lol but anyways this is K. Moberley. aka Moberster. his hair is always sticking up and crazy like that. its so him. love it. he has these crazy sayings like “i hope you get hit by a bus.” “i hope you die, and thank God you will” but see if yuo know im it is him just being him and all in good fun. he is a great guy. and the funny looking girl on the side is me. glad you are all enjoying this. so am i. :)

Tabbylynn, am enjoying your prom pics. It is so nice that you have such a great relationship with your teachers.

*night all! * long day, very tired!

Nigth Dry sleep well. i know what you mean by long day, trust me. cried alot and have a head ache form it. but also have an Ana in my bed right now so it will be a long night.

Cleo i love being so close to my teachers. they have made such an impact in my life. they are like my best friends. one of them is.

well all my internt is Cruding out, so i must go. it keeps crashing. ugh. night all.

Good night Dry and Tabbylynn. I am off to watch a movie, but will be back. It feels lonely around here.

it is lonely around here. whear is everybody?

Thanks Pook sweet dreams hey we are at 100. its been slow today. we must have people missing.

wow i was first for once. go me. lol

okay all, goodnight. it is late and Ana just went home so my bed is now open. lol sleep well i will have the rug rat all weekend. fun so not sure how much i will be on here. good night. sleep well. peace and love all. :D

Well, I’ve been watching a movie and have only made it past halfway and I too am ready for bed. We’re a bunch of lightweights tonight, except for you JFri. Sorry to be a party pooper, but adios to you all. See you over coffee in the morning.