Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 15, 2009

im going to bed Akenta is going to kill me for staying up so late. lol

poor wink he looks like hes having a hard time and still being polite. lol

Go Doc congrats

YEA DOC!!

Goodnight Tabby, I don’t want to get Akenta mad at me for keeping you up. Sweet dreams girlie!

lol carmy she wont be she’ll understand.

HAPPY WEND.

YUM! French toast. Thanks, Doc. I better hold off on the coffee because I got to go sleepers very soon here.

I’m going to make a quick run around the comics.

Where’s marg?

French toast? Hmmmmmm, made by docT? Hmmmmmmmmmm. Well, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Load me up docT! Pass the maple syrup. Uhhhhhh, there *IS* syrup, right?

JFRI: Here I am! Yum, french toast! You can tell that Doc is on vacation when he’s first post.

Good morning Tabby and Carmy

doctortoon- Load me up my friend. French toast for the toasted is a nice touch.

docT, is this you’re store after hours??? http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/80000/8000/800/288837/288837.full.gif

Ah….I’ve just sent the Dark-Eyed-Beauty (aka Wifey-Bits) off to Seattle to consult with others who manufacture aircraft whatnots, with two eggs, two strips of bacon, and a half-cup of overly-flavored coffee in her lovely belly…

…by the way….ear-worm of the day is “Every Picture Tells a Story” by Rod Stewart….”Shanghai Lil never used the pill…she said that it just weren’t natural…”….

(sips coffee, gazes around empty room)

You know, it’s unusual to have a dark-brown shag carpet in the middle of a room, and a beige berber under the couch…

…oh…wait….ew.

Good morning and Happy Wednesday!!

hymenoxis nice not to be the only here in the mornings :-)

(scrub, shampoo, vacuum)

shika putting a deposit into the bank for you.

carmy I haven’t had to put one in specifically for you in a while, but I lose track of the weeks, so I’ll add one for you too.

docT will add one for you lady friend and daughter, just in case last night’s dinner takes a while for it’s effects

And one more, just so I don’t miss anyone.

I show up and hymenoxis starts cleaning - should I be taking a hint there?

Morning, Akenta.

Sorry….didn’t see you there…(wipes brow)

I’m good at sneaking up on people - just ask around the office.

Wear squeaky shoes. That’s what the people I work with do. Hear ‘em coming a mile away.

Oh, my GOD….is that a Baby Ruth!?!

(chisel, scrape)

One good thing about where I work is they’ve gone to being casual dress except when visitors come. I get to wear sneakers every day. They might change it back one day, but I think we’ve all been spoiled.

I work in an industrial battery shop, so we wear boots, mostly. I work in the small office area, and the soles of the boots make a squinch-squinch noise. That’s how I keep from getting caught looking at comics during the day….sort of an audible alarm system.

And the floor around you is probably squeaky clean too.

(scrub, scrub)

(blinks)

Why would you say that?

Um, no reason, just trying to make some conversation while I do my rounds.

“…the women I’ve known, I wouldn’t let tie my shoe…”

So with the wife out of town, what do you have planned for yourself?

Adolescent behavior, mostly. I fully expect to have a conversation regarding the TV bill come the end of the month.

Guess we’ll just have to keep you partying here then (not cleaning, but partying)

I see gmartin is advertising for us again on Overboard - what a nice guy he is turning out to be :-)

tabby left you a message on real life adventures.

I better get ready for work. hymenoxis thanks for the company this morning

MMM The French toast smells wonderful, DocT. I’ll have some with the milk & juice I brought for everyone. Morning to anyone & everyone. Stopping by to make a deposit in the tribal bank for anyone -

Seey’all around toonville & have a marvey Wednesday.

Akenta-

De nada. It’s rare to have this time, and I’ve enjoyed your company as well.

Now, go forth and kill like a champion.

This isn’t shag…it’s…it’s…ALIVE…

(bombard, napalm)

Good morning everyone!

JFri, love your avatar!!

Now I must hurry! Stopped here to read the posts and now I will be late for work! Good thing my boss doesn’t care!! Have a great day, all! See ya later! Like probably as soon as I sit down at my work computer! :-)

Congrats on first, doc! See you do know how to cook! At least one thing LOL Very tasty! Thank you!

Morning all,

Brought whipped cream and strawberries for the french toast if you like.

Hymenoxis - you missed a spot over there……wait, it just moved??

Durn…

(stomp, stomp)

Good Morning All. hymenoxis, it is so good to have someone around who takes pride in keeping the place tidy.

Hymenoxis you know we love you and enjoy having you here, but you dont always have to clean while your here, this is supposed to be the place where you get away from the cleaning and relax. :0) by the way it looks great nice and shiny and bright. Hope you are having a great day so far.

akenta do i want to go see this comic? lol

Dry are you later for work?

doc now your making me hungry in real life also. lol

cleo good morning

marg right back at ya

Carmy hello and good morning to you.

Good morning all. French toast. YUMMMM. I like to use the Pepperidge Farm thick cut cinnamon bread. Dripping with butter and syrup is the only way to have it. Unless there’s fresh strawberries or peaches.

hi saucy

akenta i left you a comment on real live aventures as well as carmy

doc that is how i make mine also and the more butter the better it is.

well all i am leaving for the day again today. i need to fin getting ready its almost time to go.

peace and love all and have a wonderful day.

doc, left you a message at Citizen Dog!

Aw doc, why not? :-(

I forgot to mention, I love the expression on Winks face in that last panel!! ROFLMAO!!

doc, I’m glad you told me that! Oh what fun I shall have when I come to wake you up again! :-D Alright!!!

Oh gee doc, I don’t know!! (batting eyelids with a sweet innocent look!)

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE IS AWESOME!!!!!!!*

Just popped in, took yesterday off (HP Marathon at my friends’ home) and then saw the 12:01am (more like 12:40am showing in our auditorium)of Half-Blood Prince. I’m floored by how the kids have grown and how Snape has evolved. It is absolutely wonderful!!!

munches french toast….thanks Doc!!

Making extremely huge deposit into Karma bank, it is flowing over with good vibes and 5 hours sleep in the last 30 hours. Yeah, doesn’t sound like an ordeal, but I am past fifty and love my sleep.

Gotta run…got to pay for the tickets!! I’m going again on Saturday with my sweetie, I can’t wait!!!

Beautiful move - take ‘er from behind, render her (x-tra) senseless by screaming into ‘er ‘ear, proceed to fondle th’ squeezy bits & begin removal of extraneous clothing!

Expertly done - a real bear after my - errr, rather, her own parts!!!

Just popped in to say, Good Morning Tribe! BBL, lots of errands to do today.

Quaby, you must be a real kid at heart!! :-D

@Rmom, just catching up yestre’s posts and saw yours about the storm reminded me of Saturday evening, when there was a storm kind of following me as I drove South about 20 miles. Got there, and about an hour later it passed over, so I had a real good view of it. The east half had the rain, and a nice little rainbow: a sliver of a double, then a whole single rainbow, and later (once I got busier) a nice glimpse of a double rainbow again.

But the real interesting part was the west half of the cloud, which had some slight rotation, near as I could tell. Not enough to start descending or anything, but worth watching. Did get some impressive phone pics later of the clouds to the east of us lit by the setting sun. I do love watching dusk in the east, and sunrise in the west…

Morning Tribe!!!

Thanks for the yummy French toast Doc! I’m impressed, very impressed. and the nuclear coffee is perfect. Put a glow on me face anda glint in me eye, it did!

Hymenoxis- See what happens when you spend all your time cleaning after us? You own rug rebels and comes to life. I’m suprised it didn’t run away befroe this! LOL

I’ve noticed that gmartin hasn’t made it to SOTU to denounce them that it’s NOT A CHATROOM. (chicken)

Hi Rad!! Yeah, LOL!!!

doc, I know I am!

bmonk - We’ve been getting a fair amount of thunderstoms this year, which is pretty unusual, although it is nice to not have the high fire danger which comes with the brown crunchy vegetation we usually have in late summer. In fact, there are scattered thunderstorms rolling through right now, but nothing severe. My current avatar is a picture I took last week from our side yard. I thought the clouds looked like we’d have an extremely gorgous sunset, so I was outside watching the sun set. However, an unexpected t-storm showed up and blocked the sun. This t-storm really surprised people - baseball sized hail in several areas. I’ve noticed that the tornado watches have been more in your area of our country than mine lately.

Doc You shouldn’t have mentioned that. I have my camera loaded and ready for your wakeup call tomorrow!lol

Dry Doesn’t take you long to get to work and back to Big Top!

What’s Wink doing on Courtney’s back?

I don’t want to know, do I? LOL

@Radical, maybe he feels that it’s less likely to end with a flaming avalanche on his head here. Or he just likes us better, and wants to end the playfulness. Or maybe recognizes kindred souls and wants nothing to do with them…

Thanks for the extra deposits Akenta much appreciated.

BTW Did I tell people here that I think I’ve got that placement at a new church this fall? More details as they arrive.

Morning JFri. Red Baron, that is. I liked the cartoon. sound’s like my kitchen at night.

Morning Rad. gmartin is afraid of SOTU, but he knows we won’t hurt him.

Morning tabby! How are you after your late night?

RRAmom You’ll be glad when storm season is over. Neat photo you took!

Quaby You must be feeling much better to be running! Great to see you.

I see I missed Doc and Dry by three minutes. Story of my life.

Anyone still here? I have to get off in a few.

@Rmom, yes, the tornado that hit S. Dickinson last weekend, the locals said that the sirens didn’t sound until after the tornado was on the ground. We’ve had rain almost every day the last week or so, but now it looks clear for a week. After this afternoon’s 20% chance. That’s what they’re claiming at the moment anyway.

Of course, with all the rain the last month, we should be seeing clouds of mosquitoes as soon as it quits raining and heats up a bit. And the grass is waist high in plenty of places, and still green at mid-July. But when it starts drying out, we’ll have to worry about fires…

@Bmonk- When you guys get weather, you get WEATHER!

We usually get just weather. Except in the winter. Or maybe I just don’t notice the good stuff- big storms here.

BBL Too quiet here. I’m invisible again. :-(

This is one of those parts where they say, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait fifteen minutes.” But really, it’s not that bad, most days. And, unlike S. California, you at least know what season it is.

Congrats! Shika. I think Wink has a chance there - as long as he continues to hang in. Good morning everyone. Thanks DocT for the french toast and *DF* for the strawberries and whipped cream. Wonderful way to start the day!

Shika - I don’t know that “storm season” is ever really over in KS. It seems we just trade one type of storm for another. I much prefer the summer storms to the ones in the winter. Ice storms are no fun, especially because we have an all-electric house. We have a woodstove for emergencies, but it is a lot of work keeping the wood box full. Also, since we have well water, no water w/o electricity for the pumps. I don’t like going w/o electricity, but I can handle it in the summer better than I can in the winter. Plus, in the summer, the roads aren’t treacherous, so we can always drive to where there is electricity.

bmonk - If the grass is waist high, why aren’t they baling it?

@Rmom, they will, just as soon as they can cut it and expect it to dry before it rains again.

bmonk - Aaah. Forgot about that part. My dad used to grow alfalfa, but I’d forgotten about that detail. I learned to drive, by driving bale to bale while my dad & 3 brothers threw the bales in the back of the pickup.

Morning doc!

@Rmom, lots of kids learned to drive in the fields gathering bales. You only used one gear, never got over about 10 mph, and there was little you could hit to damage anything.

Edit: of course, with the big half-ton bales, you don’t just heave them into the truck anymore…

bmonk - I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to learned that way. I’m sure my brothers weren’t thrilled about the way they jerked back & forth whenever they hopped on for a ride. At least they stayed behind the truck, so unless I put it in reverse, they were safe.

bmonk - Yep, those huge bales need some machinery to lift them!

I didn’t learn to drive that way–just how to drive a stick! And two or three different patterns of trannies.

Thanks Dawn.

@ Doc– Witness protection? Who did you rat on?

RRAmom- Those ice storms can be killers in the winter.

Another comment on DAAHH Strip!

Wink- careful you don’t accidently apply the heimlich maneuver. I’d hate to see Courtney hurl!

My friend’s father just yesterday. He was barely retired. Prostate cancer, went to his back. He had open heart surgery about 5 years ago, and the cancer showed up the following year. He was a really super guy. Funny and caring too.

bmonk - I learned to drive on a stick shift - starting at age 7. I forget the mechanical term, but the gears were never in the exact same place, so I had to sort of feel my way with the shifter before I shifted into another gear. Came in handy when I bought my 1965 Mustang, as it had the same problem. The boy I bought it from was shocked that I could shift it w/o grinding the gears the first time I drove it. My brother called it a “theft-proof” car, because no thief would be able to make a quick getaway. It had a 351 Cleveland, so it was definitely a muscle car.

shika - I’m guessing the father passed away? (I think you left out a word or so.) Give your friend a hug from me. ((Shika’s friend))

RRAmom- That’s right. He died. I remember how it was with my Dad, so I know how she feels, as much as anyone knows how another one feels.

Thanks Doc. I’ll pass the voucher on.

And the hug too RRAmom.

And from me ((Friend)) Men - Get tested regularly

Thanks Dawn. Happens a lot. I knew a doctor who died the same way. He was a cancer specialist. Denial plays a part, no doubt.

Sorry to hear about your friend’s loss Shika

Thanks Digital. I knew he was in the hospital, but he was expected to live about 6 months. I was going to visit him next week. It’s hard for me to get out there.

Now I’ll be going to his funeral. His birthday was on Monday, same as Doc’s. I did send him a card.

I should get going. I have work and errands to do. Thanks for listening guys.

BBL

http://www.muttscomics.com/

for laughs

http://content.comicskingdom.net/Bizarro/Bizarro.20090616_large.gif

For Doc.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/comics?featuredate=2009-07-15&featureid=6Chix

Take your pick. I pick hymenoxis.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/comics?featuredate=2009-07-14&featureid=DennisTheMenace

Tribe

okay. I’ve pumped up the numbers enough. Your turn guys.

BBL

http://www.familycircus.com/

this is cleo as a boy.

http://www.dennisthemenace.com/

Tribe- hope it works.

http://www.cafepress.com/sixchix

cleaning up after our water fight.

I am officially in lust! Eating lunch in Sutherlin and the gal behind the counter is about 6’ tall, blonde, blue-eyed and will be a gentleman & forego any further description!

JFri, like I told Cleo last night, calm yourself man!

Bummer! I drive all the way down here & find a monitor with a bad O2 sensor & I don’t have the part to fix it. Manufacturer will send overnight but now I have to stop Friday on my way to CA!

Can’t they get ithe part sooner? Like overnight it today?

Look on the bright side, JFri you get to go back for lunch!

I’m back and forth - packing up to go home tomorrow. BBL

No. It’ll all work out, though. I’ll just need 10 minutes to repair & recalibrate.

Mother says don’t rush to do it! LOL

Good afternoon all! Phew what a day! We are really reaching to find work this week, and when we do get something, I screw up the packaging and it has to be done all over again. sigh… everyone makes mistakes, but it sucks when you fail. On the plus side, it did give us something to do for the rest of the day, and early tomorrow.

Hi johnny, I’m heading home now, so maybe I’ll see ya’ later!

Yes, Mutherrrrrrr!

**HELLO HELLO Hello (Echoing in the BT)

HELLO!

It is hard to do voices in writing.

And everyone is gone again…

Especially when you mess it up!

Mess up the voice? Hardly! The writing? Maybe. By the way, I just noticed your avatar, JFri, I LOVE Snoopy!!!

tabby I left you another message on real adventures.

I don’t blame gmartin of being afraid of SOTU. I know I am. Need to upgrade my armor and weapons before I try and take a peek in there. Though I did get a new helmet so I need to take a new picture.

I’ll be on and off (mostly lurking like I always do) for the next couple of hours.

I’m back. Had to make a quick run to the library to pick up a book for history. So you guys aren’t the only ones here.

Cripes! I am starting to get leery of SOTU. Just a really unfriendly place to be.

I very rarely go. Most at SOTU have their minds thoroughly set, and won’t be changed by disagreeing with them.

@Rmom, back in about ‘78, I already knew a Philosophy prof who refused to debate on abortion because very few on either side were willing to debate rationally. As you said of SOTU, most had their minds thoroughly set, and no argument would change their minds. He was willing to talk on it, and brilliantly, but not debate.

I doubt that the past 30 years has changed his policy on debate any at all.

I like reading some of the posters, because they have a lot of interesting points, but I might be the only one over there who actually considers both sides.

bmonk - I think on many issues, until one’s heart & worldview changes, they are unable or unwilling to switch positions on any controversial topic that they’ve got a firm position. I’ve switched sides on the abortion position, but it wasn’t because someone argued me into changing.

Rmom, I agree. And, if I recall the quote correctly, “Someone convinced against their will / is of the same opinion still.”

bmonk - THANKS for the quote!! A deceased friend of mine used to say it frequently, and I couldn’t remember it exactly, but I think you have.

I haven’t changed my view on abortion, and probably won’t, but I can see where the other side is going, but this is getting dangerously close to politics so I will leave it at that.

Hi johnmy! WISE MOVE!!

HELLO TRIBE!!

I’m back from work…. zzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ

drystyha I like to think I”m young at heart. And any story, be it youth fiction all the way to hard core adult, is good if the story is good. Harry Potter has one of the best story lines I’ve ever read….and the movie adaptations are wonderful, too, even if they leave out some favorite subplots and characters. This time, i/o reading all the books to refresh my memory, I watched the movies, to establish the MOVIE outline i/o the story outline.

Shikamoo sorry to hear about your friend’s father. Prostrate cancer is getting more and more treatable if you catch it soon enough…but most guys are in denial because they’re afraid. Or they hate to cough. Come on guys!!!! A finger and a cough is a heck of a lot better than the spreader us ladies endure once a year for Cervical Cancer. NOt to mention the annual Mash and Smash for breast cancer. I have been feeling better. Still have a little bit of a cough but creeping crud rot does linger for a few weeks just to annoy.

The bed is calling. I’m going to make my rounds and bug on off to dreamland.

Quaby, what did you think of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? I LOVED THEM!!!! And the LIon, the Witch and the Wardrobe! Never saw any of the Harry Potters or read the books. Don’t know why, but I thouhgt you were a he, LOL!

Good afternoon all. My chores are done unless my wife has other ideas. I read the Lord Of The Ring Trilogy while traveling around the US and Canada when I was 21. I was reading an adventure while having an adventure.

Dry I never really stated whether I was male or female, it’s now I lurk. But I guess the memories of pap smears and mammograms gives the game away.

I did love LotR, It was most excellent. I just like Potter better. Mebbe LotR makes you think a lot, and there’s almost constant battles of one type or another. Or at least that what I remember.

eyelids drifting shut……

I read the first Harry Potter book and saw the first movie, but neither really did it for me.

My sons have become LOTR fans, mostly because of the battle scenes, I think.

cleo, you read the LORTr but did you see the movies?

RRAMom, have you?

Dry - I saw the first 2 movie of the LOTR and really liked them. I eve saw them at the theatre, but I still haven’t seen the third and I do not know why.

You should, cleo, it is good also. First time I saw a squel of movies where each was equally as good or better. Except the Thin Man movies back in the day!

Just heard a brief news blurp, LA police are now saying Michael Jackson was murdered!

Dry - Do they suspect his doctor?

Yep, they are concentrating their efforts on his doctor. Propofol is what they believe killed him. Their were vials of it in his home. Bizarre end to a bizarre man.

Pardon the absence all. There was an incident. Unfortunately, mama woodchuck won’t be seeing little Woodie ever again. That is a most unfortunate shame.

Dry - I’ve sort of seen the LOTR movies. My sons have played them over and over again, and I’m usually around when they do that. Can’t say I’ve sat down and actually watched any from start to finish.

pookid made a comment at Dog Eat Doug. Her husband had a triple bypass today that seems to have gone well. She thanks us for our support. Just thought I would throw that out there.

cleo, I guess the original doctor that was in his house, that Murray guy. Yes, you are right, bizarre end to a bizarre man.* Quite sad really!* He was a very sexy black man with a lovely voice and a TON of talent. Who just went off the deep end in SO MANY WAYS! l

johnny what did you do to poor little woodie, or don’t we want to know?

Thanks for the update, cleo

I buried the poor guy. Unfortunately, he crossed paths with my dog who wasn’t as kind. :(

johnny, I guess we can’t stop nature! What kind of dog do you have?

I’ve just posted the recipe for Pulled Pork on ‘Pooch Cafe’ if any of you are interested in it.

:-)

Thanks marg!

German short haired pointer.

Oh I love those guys! And great hunting dogs, once you get your license!

Yeah, but the poor guy was stuck in the city for most of his life, and I am not sure how he will handle a backyard with no fence. He might wander away.

johnny, can you build a fence or put up a long leash line out and tie him out when he needs to be out? That’s what we did with our Lab/Beagle mix. But I will tell you this, we got her as a pup, had a long leash line for her in the backyard, but unitl she was about 2, my sons and I made many dog hunting trips in our neighborhood. If someone opened the front or back door and wasn’t paying attention, she would bolt out the door! Our neighborhood street gets busier every year with traffic because of new homes having been built out the road. There were times when we literally stood in the middle of the road to stop traffic because there she was in the middle of the road!

Not much going on here today, so I will have to say good night all. Peace and love!

Hi Johnny- sorry to miss you. You say that you may be the only one to see both sides. A wise person can see both sides and make up their own mind. I find it hard to debate sometimes because I see both sides. But I had an interesting course this year on post-modernity and some of the reflection papers we wrote helped me to argue my side more effectively and intelligently.

Which one rarely sees on SOTU.

Akenta- I sometimes play Mafia Wars for fun, but I wouldn’t even trust an armoured truck at SOTU! LOL A machine gun maybe!

I just went outside and took the picture that is my new avatar. What do you think?

Looks like I missed the boat again!

Dry- I thought Quaby was a man too at first. (sorry Quaby- names are ambiguous here). But the worst mistake (next to one I wont’ mention) is thinking pookid was a guy. I sometimes wonder if i said something to annoy her (I not paranoid, am I?) But sometime you say things that are just dumb.

cleo

I read the LOTR trilogy and the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. But I didn’t see any of the movies. I loved the books. A friend of mine was commissioned to do some calendars for the LOTR back in the day. He was an architectual(sp) artist, but his renditions of the Hobbits and Gandalf and Gollum were surreally wonderful.

rramom beautiful picture

And of course it’s late for me - seems to happen every night. For those of you who stay up to see the comics turn over, do you want to go say hi to gmartin at Overboard - with all the niceness that the tribe can offer? I don’t think it will change anything, but might be fun. I’ll add my hello tomorrow morning after he stops reading the comments.

Take care, all!!

Sorry to hear about Woodie and your dog johnnydoc. It’s natural to the dog, but hard to see.

The worst I saw, for some reason, was my friend’s dog catching a cat. We made him drop it, and thankfully it scampered away, but I was almost hysterical. It’s like cannibalism to me for some reason. He usually caught ground hogs, which I didn’t mind. Are groundhogs and wood chucks the same?

Thanks Akenta!

bmonk I’ll bet you say

“How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?” LOL

“How much ground could a ground hog hog- nah. That’s no good.

I like it too RRAmom! Gorgeous sunset!

Good night Akenta. Have a restful sleep.

shika, Quaby is a woman, read one of her earlier posts.

Shika - I’d have to “google it” to be sure, but I think woodchucks & groundhogs are the same, but they might just be closely related. Around here, some fundraisers on Ground Hog Day are a pancake & sausage (aka ground hog) supper.

Yes, I know- I did find that out quite a while ago- something about her husband. But I usually miss those obvious signals for some reason.

I like the smash and mash allusion. I’ve heard of a similar test for men’s sensitive parts- but likely it was just wishful thinking by someone. LOL

How was you day Dry?

Thanks Shika! The hardest part was trying to keep the sprinkles of rain off of the lens. It was just barely sprinkling (then - got a lot heavier since then), didn’t even need a jacket or an umbrella. Every time I tilted the camera up to get more sky & less ground, I had to hurry before the raindrops messed it up.

Thanks RRAmom. That may explain why we don’t call them wood chucks up here, if they are just “cousins.”

That would have made an ineresting photo though. Maybe not.

Where’d cleo get to? He said he was finished his chores, I thought.

Sorry Dry- I just read my post on Quaby. I corrected it! I thought Quaby was a MAN before, not a woman.

I copied this from an official Missouri site: “The woodchuck, or groundhog, is one of the best known wild mammals in Missouri, but few realize this rodent is a member of the Squirrel Family. Its common name, woodchuck, is an anglicized corruption of an Indian name for this species. The origin of its other name, groundhog, is obvious from the animal’s squat appearance, waddling gait and habit of living in the ground.”

I guess they aren’t just cousins - they’re the same animal. I rather thought so, but hated to state it as fact w/o checking first. I’ve been wrong before, and I’ll probably be wrong again, but no sense making a habit of it.

Heading off to bed. See ya tomorrow!

RRAmom I don’t mind being wrong. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t stick my foot in my mouth regularily.

Like the time I proclaimed loudly to someone at Animal Kingdom in Orlando,

“It’s obvious those bats are stuffed and not real. They’re not moving!” Duh! Of course not- they were asleep!

I think one of them flew at that moment to get away from the loudmouth brat. LOL I got a few funny looks too. (blush).

okay so i will read all tomorrow im going to be early tonight. just getting home from church and not going for a walk bc friend has a bad headache so pray for her pleaes well got to go nigh night all

Nighty night tabby I hope your friend feels better soon.

GoodnIght tabby, my dear girl!! :-D

((((((((((TABBY))))))))))))))))

Dinner is over and a movie is ahead. I will try to check back on occasion.

*cleo, see ya when I see ya” friend!

”Not if I see you first, from “Stand By Me”! One of the best movies ever! Did you see it?

guess he did Dry! I keep missing you sister, but I’m going to bed-this time for real. It’s been a hard day, but it won’t be a hard Day’s night for this tired kitten.

Good night and sleep tight all.

peas and hearts of lettuce.

Dry- Stand by me was indeed a good movie.

Cleo, Yes it was! I’ve seen it with my sons many times and by myself a few times too! LOVED IT!! I have the song on one of my cd mixes that I burned.

where is everybody?

well I guess* shika* really did go to bed this time! It’s been an hour!! And now I shall do the same! Don’t let gmartin be first again, but then he never comes back to re-check the posts, does he?? LOL

Peace and Love my friends!!

Goodnight to all who have gone off to dreamland.

Shika, I saw your post where you said that you stick your foot in your mouth regularly and I want to respond to that. We all occasionally “put a foot in our mouths.” We’re human and we are not perfect. It’s not nice when someone makes fun of someone else when they make a blunder. I know sometimes we playfully tease someone who errs, but we should never put others down in order to build ourselves up. That’s just mean. People who think they “know it all” are only fooling themselves.

Gee, Carmy! You mean I don’t know everything? i’m SHOCKED!!!

JFri, you can be the exception.