Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 04, 2009

FIRST!

In honour of the Fourth of July, I’m making a few dishes- grits, biscuits and gravy, eggs any way you want, back bacon, pancakes and elderberry or syrup of your choice, juice, orange or grapefruit, and toast and honey,( just for Quaby!)

Wink, Dusty said he googled you, not olgled you! That’s Doc’s job!

cleo You did that on purpose.

(Thanks for the company.)

Well, you behaved yourself, so have a good breakfast and enjoy your holiday!

See you all later- told you so!

For red white and blue, I have blue berries, raspberries and whip cream on waffles.

I blame tabby’s video for waking me up again. Yawn!

Morning, Shika! What a wonderful breakfast! I’ll have the red, white, and blue special.

Shika, thank you for the nice comment. :-D

Whizzzzzzz BOOM!!! Happy 4th of July!

Hey Marg- You’re welcome. I was just touring toonville, making some first comments! A first for me!

Like your fireworks.

No doubt you are back on rounds or something. I’m going to bed for real.

BBML

Goodnight, sleep well.

Hi, everybody!

Happy 4th, everyone!. As I’m posting this, the 40th annual Peachtree Road Race is underway. Any one reading this in and around the ATL area wish the runners good luck.

Happy 4th everyone and please be safe when using those fun things like, fireworks :)

Good morning and Happy Fourth of July (for those in Canada, Happy Saturday)!!

I’m watching the Peachtree Road Race on TV. Still don’t see anyone I know but looks like everyone is having a good time.

HAPPY JULY 4th EVERYONE.

Another beautiful day on the lake. We are doing a typical picnic fare today and I will be doing a chicken on the grill with a dry rub & mop.

Anybody have special plans for the day?

We’re having some friends over today. BBQ brisket, bacon explosion, brats, & burgers. I’ll make some chocolate chip cookies, but our guests will bring some food too. Hopefully it will be good weather tonight to shoot off our fireworks - it has been raining this morning, but looks like it is moving out of the area. At least that should cut down the risk of grassfires! Since everyone has at least 5 acres out here, a lot of our neighbors also shoot off fireworks, so it is quite the show around here. We’re also going to do some target practice with one family before the rest of the guests show up, since it is legal to fire guns out here, too. I’ve not been able to spend much time on-line this week - for several days our internet service was down, and I’ve had to spend time cleaning and rearranging furniture so there would be room for everyone to eat indoors. (Figured it would be too hot, too windy or too buggy for people to want to eat outdoors.) We do have a nice big deck, but not any shade in the afternoon. Happy Independence Day! (back to cleaning & cooking now…)

Good morning everyone and happy July 4 to all our American friends. I brought some homemade donuts to share. i’m a little miffed. I had planned to stay awake long enough today to watch the Calgary Stampede Parade but it was yesterday. AND i MISSED IT!!!!!!! I dont seem to be having good luck catching the few things I meant to watch on tv this year. I also missed all three races of the triple crown. I guess I’ll just go back to watching my movies.

Morning again everyone. Just a pop in and out again.

Doc- That doesn’t surprise me! ☺

Hi JFri! Nice to see you. Happy 4th of July!

Hi Akenta, enjoy your day too.

serenasakitty RL has a sneaky habit of slipping by sometimes, and other times it wallops you in the face. At least you can catch the highlights on T.V.

Hi Josh!

Hi RRAmom: I miss seeing you around here. I’m glad you dropped in. Enjoy the holiday, once you finish cleaning and cooking.

Hi to everyone who shows up. Enjoy the breakfast. I may pop in later tonight.

BBML

I usually don’t watch tv except for my dvds, but sometimes I like to catch the odd special, like the parade. Oh well, I guess the world won’t end just because I miss something on the tube, but it does bug me. Ok, I promise, no more about the tv.

I’ll just have a large glass of juice please and then I think I’ll head for bed for awhile. I’m spending nearly as much time correcting mistakes as I am trying to write this. I’ll try to pop back in later before I go to work. Peace, love and joy to all.

Celebrating Independance Day with Bar-B-Que and Beer.

Happy July 4th everyone!

HAPPY 4TH TO EVERYONE IN THE USA!!!!

Shikamoo Thanks for the toast and honey! It has been ages since I had any…Lordy, I think I was still in Houston when I last had it!

Tabbylynn That video you posted yesterday was wonderful!! Cats are something else when they get in a playful mood.

Not many plans today, feeling better, a bit more energy. Making sloppy joes for lunch/supper, it’ll be on the table in about 45 minutes with toasted buns, cheese and chips. Enjoy!

I’ve been cleaning out the pantry. I found some boxes and cans that expired in 2006!! I’m trying to arrange things so I have better visibility and access. But 2006/2007 was a year of little energy, my left knee was on it’s last scrap of cartilage and grinding down (ended up losing about 1” of bone) Started recovering in 2008 then got blood septacemia from a bladder infection. It’s hard to bounce back from a double whammy like that but I’m finally feeling like I might be getting back to a more normal activity level. At least the knee is fixed and my right knee is improving now that the stress is off of it.

Gotta scoot. I’ll try to check in here and there. Ya’ll take care and have fun!

I read this story,laughed so hard,I just had to share….

A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this:

Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for A little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse- sized tazer. The effects of the tazer Were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety….??

WAY TOO COOL!

Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two AAA batteries in the bleeep thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time;

I’d get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.

AWESOME!!!

Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.

Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad With only two triple-A batteries, right? There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the Directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect Herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong?

So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately y on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer Than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.

All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5” long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and (loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’ What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best. .?

I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, ‘don’t do it dipshit,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it.. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and…..HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION … WHAT THE HELL!!!

I’m pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs? The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.

Note: If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a tazer, one note of caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor… A three second burst would be considered conservative?

IT HURT LIKE HELL!!!

A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling.

Apparently I pooped on myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I’m still looking for my nuts and I’m offering a significant reward for their safe return!

DAAAAAAAHH Strip:

“Googling” is actually kind of boring…..highly addictive, yet VERY boring.

A Very Merry Un-Birthday to you all……Oh, and a HAPPY JULY 4th to all those in the US of A!

An idea - quaint, but *still a GOOD idea - for something to do, to celebrate:

http://tinyurl.com/666u9p

doc, Left you a message at Red Meat and the Dinette Set.

Hi Rad and Owlsly!

Hi Quaby!

Risistas, Thanks for the blast from the past!!

Owlsey Thanks for the great laugh! It sounds so plausible!

Thanks for the breakfast, Shika.

Quaby glad you’re feeling better

Happy Independence Day

to all our American friends!

Tabby, thanks for the laugh! That video was great!

doc, if you didn’t check out Tabby’s cat video link from yesterday, do, It’s hilarious! It’s on page 4, I think.

Good morning dawn!

Googling? Who has time for Googling? I spend all my computer time trying to catch up on what the Yappy Nuts from the Tribe have said!

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU ALL!

Going kayaking & trout fishing on Mt Hood today.

Well, FINE! I show up & eveeyone leaves!

:-(

I am going to be scarce for much of the day. Just to d@rn much stuff to do and we have company coming over again today.

Everyone be safe and sane. Don’t take that with to much thought. After all the Tribe is made of NUTS.

Hi Y’ALL! In honour of those from the deep south.

FJri You showed up earlier and then disappeared. What did you expect?

Hi RAD- Happy 4th to you. Barbeque and beer sounds great. I’ll have to go out and see if I can crash someone’s barbeque party today. Shouldn’t be too hard.

cleo- I left a comment at 2 cows for you.

I may have left comments for others here and there, I was too tired to take note last night.

Dang, missed him again!!! :-(

I saved the cat video- too funny! My cat sleeps like that on too. But he’d never fit in a fish bowl, although he would try to I’m sure.

That story about the Tazar was funny too. It does sound plausable, although unlikely. I wouldn’t want a gift like that. Someone sold me a personal alarm with flashing lights and a siren. I forgot it was hanging next to my bed. The cat jumped off the bed one night and hit it- I awoke to red and blue flashing lights and a really loud siren- and now idea how to turn it off! I threw it under two pillows to muffle it and then wondered how I would sleep while the batteries ran down. Then I firured out that it had a pin like a grenade, and so I had to find that and re-install it- under the pillow so as not to wake up my neighbours………………

not a fun night!

Sounds like everyone is busy celebrating the longweekend, so I will say bye for now, and

BBL

Have a good rest

doc!

I just woke up to take the dog out so I thought I wouldpop in to say hi until I got sleepy again. You’re right Doc, it is scary out there. I find I’m spending a lot of time just trying to keep up with the Yappy Nuts Tribe. Wouldn’t have it any other way. I watched Tabby’s video. My cat used to do many of those things when she was a kitten. I sure miss her even after all this time.

Happy 4th all. I celebrated this morning by vanquishing the grass. Steaks on the grill and baked taters for all. Ice cream to follow.

Hi everyone again. For those of you who saw the women match at Wimbleton on TV, Serena beat her little sister Venus today.

It is a scary world out there. I live on a lake and every neighbor has guests. I looked at the load of fireworks a group of weekenders brought into their cabin this morning. About a third of a pickup load, plus beer and ice. My neighbor brought me a little paper parachute that he found in my yard. Apparently, someone was out on the lake firing off these rounds that eject paper umbrellas with a fireworks attached. It is always windy on the lake, so they were all sailing in my direction and some were still burning.

Lots of people having fun though and that is good. People are going to the park across the lake and having to park a mile away.

It is nice living in a spot that people want to getaway to. But it is scary. Especially as dry as it has been.

That is scary, Cleo! I hope there’s a fire station nearby. IT has been very dry in the Pacific northwest this year. Have you put the sprinklers on to we everything down, just in case?

I hope you enjoy your company and have a great Fourth of July. Maybe you should arm your guests with water pistols and balloons. Do you want the Tribe to come and help?

Great idea Dawn! Have a water fight on cleo’s lawn. all in the name of saving it from firecrackers of course.

Unfortunately, I have to shower and eat first, but I’ll be back later. Nice to see you Dawn!

hey doc be careful with those fireworks! LOL!

I hope your ladyfriends granddaughter enjoys them! Did you get any of those little tanks? They are so neat! My boys always enjoyed those!

Just came in from ouside! The sky is now a BEAUTIFUL pink color!! Never saw anything like it in all my years! Quite unusual!

Hi Dry! That sounds beautiful! Isn’t it wonderful that nature never ceases to amaze us?

Doc Your Honey’s granddaugher will love the fireworks- better than MacDonalds for her too! (Although I had their McNuggets yesterday, I confess.)

I love the name “Papa Doc”! Maybe that’s your new name now!

Me again. Quickie post. Fireworks are going off around my complex, mebbe the closest is about 1/2 mile away. My Sweet Stormy is in her usual perch when I’m in the living room on the computer, in the hallway on a box yet unpacked, serenely waiting for me to decide to go to bed.

This is a lot better than 2 years ago, when the were in the freakin’ parking lot in front of my bullding. She’d tear upstairs for the crackers on ground level, then the misfired low level roman candels would scare her back down until….well, you get it. Let’s not even talk about the fireworks show at the community center about 3/4 mile down the road from us…. Poor kitty.

Anywho…I’ve stuck some leftover sloppy joe in the Tribal Refrigerator. I’m still not quite ready to ‘give’ my bad karma to the Tribal Bank, but my withdrawal needs are smaller and fewer. Tahnks to all!!

closing the flaps on the waterproof shelter in case a waterfight breaks out in abstentia

Hi Quaby- I doubt there will be a water fight tonight- not enough people. But better to be safe than sorry. Poor Stormy! I don’t think fireworks bother Mua. Only vacuum cleaners!

Now that everyone is mentioning their cats and the fireworks, mine haven’t budged an inch! They seem oblivious to the whole thing! And they are going off all around my place! We used to set them off here when the kids were small, we made quite a ritual out of it! Our local town fireworks were last night, not a bad display for a little town! My youngest just got his drivers license two days ago, and he is driving two friends over to the college campus 30 miles away to see the big shabang over there. Mom’s not too happy, they have a mountain to go over and come back, but I was outvoted, so…

What a great place to kayak! Lake in the foreground, Mt. Hood in the background! Had a momma duck with her babies come right up to my kayak! Yes, I have pix! (Spring was VERY late on the mountain. This lake was still snowed in & frozen over Memorial Day weekend!). Caught NO fish :-(

JFri, yeah yeah, what a great place to kayak!! :-P Justice is served! Caught no fish!! :-D

Hello Everyone!

A big cloud of smoke is sitting on my neighborhood. Fireworks going off everywhere. Wish I had a gas mask!

Hey carmy, and how was your 4th? other than the cloud of smoke!

Hey Dry, it was lazy. I slept late and then took a nap later.

Dry, when is the Dad’s b-day?

Hehehe, googling someone does sound kinda nasty.

carmy, it was today, but he wanted to celebrate tomorrow. He is set in his routine, and since he is always here on Sunday, that’s what he wanted to do. I’m making one of his favorites, ham, green beans and potatoes. Not exactly July 4th fare, but good on any occasion, especially the way I make it, if I do say so myself!

carmy, try googling yourself! I was shocked when I googled me!

Dry, don’t forget I sent a big kiss for the b-day boy! What did you google, your real name or user name?

Carmy, I didn’t forget! He’ll be tickled,but I’ll just say a friend of mine sent him a big kiss! He would never understand this set up here!

I googled my real name! I googled my user name back when, you remember, and that was sureal!

I’m going to try the google thing right now.

Dry and Carmy I googled my real name just now and WOW! I’ll have to try my user name…

Hey! I’m famous!!! Or at least my username is. And I didn’t even know it.

Maybe I’d better change my username…. Nah - tee, hee

Okay, that was really crazy. My user name is very common, pages and pages of it. My real name, same thing, pages and pages.

Hi Dawn! having a nice evening?

BB in a few, loading washer and dryer.

JFri- It sounds llike you were in a perfect spot. those nature spots are great, especially when it comes right up to you. The fish are likely off celebrating July 4th! =D

Googling sounds funny. Have you ever heard “all googly-eyed?” Not sure what it means, but it sounds funny. I think that is what the “googly-eyes” on the Google web site is all about.

Now I’m going to google myself and see what’s there.

carmy

Get that laundry done!

hi Shika! Have fun googling!

Yes, thanks, a very pleasant evening with family. Had a chance to get to a computer for a few minutes but will have to go soon. Hope I can get back on tomorrow. BTW, My Dad’s 92 is tomorrow! Strange coincidence?

Dawn, I’m glad you are having a nice time with your family. Hope your Dad has a wonderful b-day, give him a big kiss from me!

Dawn, my dad was 96 today!

Dry- Tell your Dad Happy Birthday from Shika. Or Shikamoo.

I like your dinner menu. Sounds like home to me. We always had meat, potato and vegetables, and ham, string beans and potato or scalloped potatoes (au gratin) were a favorite too.

LOL! I googled both Shikamoo and shika. turns out I’ve been pronouncing it wrong. It’s Sheek-a-mow, not Sheek-a-moo! It is Swahili, (which I knew) but It means literally “I hold your feet”. A term of respect to an elder in Africa eg Tanzania. It is only said to an elder.

Shika is more interesting, but I’ll leave that for you to find out. It is Asian.

LOL1 I googled both Shikamoo and shika. turns out I’ve been pronouncing it wrong. It’s Sheek-a-mow, not Sheek-a-moo! It is Swahili, (which I knew) but It means literally “I hold your feet”. A term of respect to an elder in

LOL1 I googled both Shikamoo and shika. turns out I’ve been pronouncing it wrong. It’s Sheek-a-mow, not Sheek-a-moo! It is Swahili, (which I knew) but It means literally “I hold your feet”. A term of respect to an elder in -

Why can’t I cancel this comment? It posted partially here. Oh well, read it twice then.

Bed time. Church tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of the night my friends.

See you tomorrow.

Hey Dry- Last post, I promise! I googled your name and spelled it Drystha by mistake. There’s a post I wrote to you on Winnie the Pooh with the same mis-spelling.

You don’t want to know what the right spelling gets.

Last post- I don’t like what I found when I added two letters after my screen name. Too weird.

Shika, be careful with the google, you can get lost in there.

Goodnight all! Happy 4th!

Goodnight Everyone. I’m off to watch a movie. I might check in later if I don’t fall asleep watching the movie. I’m famous here for that! LOLS!