Big Top by Rob Harrell for April 17, 2010

Good Morning Tribe! Eggs benedict and smoked salmon Steak and eggs fried potatoes flour tortillas and toast Bagels, waffles and English muffins with the fixings Grits, oatmeal and cream of wheat Fresh fruit and yogurt Assorted teas and juices Pirate coffee, Nuclear coffee and Lattes Milk, plain, strawberry or chocolate CocoMocha

Ah, back to “normal”, Wink! Just the way we like you.

I guess we’ll stick with one breakfast today. Nice breakfast to be sure, but I am literally having a cocomocha at the present time.

Good Morning/Late Evening, Tribe!

(Monkey 2 decided to attend a sleep over with some of the other girls.)

See I knew that this would happen Wink.

Good morning fellow TRIBE MEMBERS See you all Sunday.

Good deal, LuvH8. Does that mean I now get to do a Happy Dance?

Was that old Wink ever really there, or is that more “kidding yourself”?

Let’s face it, you’re a teddy bear. A sometimes very surly one, but a teddy bear all the same.

G’Morning, Johanan.

One should always feel free to:

Good Morning, Johanan, what planet is you new avatar?

Good Morning, Carmy, Lonewolf, LuvH8 & Johanan

Good Morning Johanan and Grog!

Good Morning, Grog & LuvH8!

Tired Now! Good Night Everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello to the early risers!

I, too, need to call it a night! I have a pool tournament tomorrow and there is more at stake than normal.

Good Night Grog & Everyone

P&L

Good Night, LuvH8

Good night, Lonewolf

LuvH8 and Everyone, the new avatar is of the same planet that the old one was, only it’s a false-color rendition of some kind (infrared, I think). It’s of Earth, with Africa on the right and part of South America on the left. Courtesy NASA, if memory serves…

I got a tad tired of the NOAA photo with its modified blue background (space isn’t blue anyway), so I put this new one together. Hope you like it, ‘cause it’s staying around a while. :)

CARMY Streak and eggs, please. I’d tell you how good it is but my mouth is full. Ever notice waitresses ask “Is everything alright?” right after you have filled your mouth? Conspiracy nuts, come to my rescue. Morning TRIBE! SHE’s taking me shoe shopping today.

Let me hop on my Yamaharsuki 250 and I’ll be right there.

Good Mid-Morning, everyone.

Good Morning all. At least Wink has come to his senses.

Hello Doc. I had noticed it had been 3 hours. Glad your move is progressing well.

Good morning, tribe!

There are certain advantages to being a man until the time comes when one has to make up for our slovenly, comfy ways. :-)

Doc - I remember asking my husband once what he & his roommates did about cleaning. He said whenever it got too bad, they moved. When they moved, some sympathetic female would come over & help them move, and they’d get her to clean.

Good Morning Rmom. How are things in the Great Plains?

Good Morning Tribe

Hello, Lewreader, Doc, Cleo, Rmom & Josh.

Morning cleo, Doc, Rmom, and all☼ cleo- on cooking artichokes-fresh ones we do in pressure cooker for around 11 minutes/two large ones. Season w/ salt pepper, lemon/lime juice and cloves of garlic. We ate two off our “shrub” and 11 minutes was too long. They were more tender than store-bought. Winky was NOT ♫♪♫ “Born to be wild” ♪♫

Lovely breakfast Carmy! I hope I’m in time for my favorite eggs benedict!

Wink you’ve gotten too shall we say, out of shape, to be in a biker gang, my friend!

Goodmorning Johanan, Lewrreader, Doc, Cleo, Rmom, Yukoneric and Fellow Baby!

Good Morning, GoodQuestion!

Hi, Cleo, Terry & Good?! Things are pleasant & quiet here now. We had a gentle shower yesterday, and today is mostly sunny with some clouds. My BFF’s son is getting married outside today, so they’re thankful the weather is decent. The rain was just right too, because the site is on a dirt road, and the rain was enough to settle the dust without making the roads muddy. I spent yesterday with her, baking cookies & helping set up for the rehearsal dinner.

Doc - You seem to have found a wonderful woman. It is also very good that you realize it, and treat her accordingly. I’ve heard Dr. Laura say the secret to a good marriage is to “Choose wisely, treat kindly.” Sounds like you might have the right formula this time.

Hi, Dry!

Sweet dreams, Doc!

Good Morning Terry, GoodQuestion & Dry.

Nice going GoodQuestion, now I’m craving artichokes. :-)

Toodleoo Doc.

Bonne nuit, Doc

Catch you later if I get back from pool in time.

Good morning GoodQuestion I love artichokes. As a side question, you are the one who is allergic to tree nuts like I am, aren’t you?

Goodnight Doc! “I’ll see ya’ when I see ya’!

Good morning, All!

Hope all is well with you. I am listening to my husband on radio. He and a pastor friend of his are starting a 13-week radio show (AM) about how life meets faith. Right now, they are on another guy’s show promoting their show which begins tomorrow. It’s sort of cool, because I’m actually watching live streaming video of them. Friar Tuck and Pastor Lance look pretty comfortable behind the mike.

If you want to know what Friar Tuck looks like, look at www.ustream.com, the Charles Campbell show. (only until 12 noon, EDT).

Not a commercial. Just a proud wife.

He’s the one in the white shirt

I just added a new interesting strip to my “Homepage”. LOL Just one more!

BBS

Hello everyone fine spring Sat here and I live in the plains of KS. What a fast week. I tried to type without vowels not good. My rt shoulder has months to go for healing. I have looked on line to review. dr told family although my husband didn not hear i had a tear + arth more then he thought. I am see a little good difference and i have start some itching. i am free of a sling but keep my arm to my side, did that anyway. 4/26 therapy yaaa. I had to call and check work place and hand place i go back mon and im only pt. i just have to change way of doing things. i’ll try not to make a pest of myself here. bye for now.

i hope the ones who see who is spamming reported also to gocomics inform them they need to police the site.

Hi Dry (sorry, had to say it ☼) yeah, if tree nuts was all we had to eat, we’ld just die!

cleo- my wife makes a dish with left-over chicken, gravy and artichokes over flat noodles that she says she got from Rachael Ray show, it is grrrrrr8!!!!

Good luck ♠LW♠

Well, they were a lot more verbal until a guest callded in to discuss computer stuff. So - the first hour of the show showcased them a little more. Ah well.

Kab - Try to follow all of the doctor’s recommendations for your restrictions, therapy, etc. From the experiences in my family, when it is all finished, if you’ve followed the recommendations, your body will function & feel much better. (Also less risk of needing a repeat surgery.)

Kab Listen to Rmom - I’d say the same thing!

Good Morning Celecca & Kab

Dealing with something in RL right now but stopped back for a minute.

Thank you very much, GoodQuestion!

Believe me I do follow all drs restrictions and my arm tells me if i goof. just anxious to get my shoulder back to normal and my shoulder will with time. I need to start cool pack treat very soon.

sorry to say spamming is over on one of the other commics bikinin is there couldn’t believe it and yes i flagged twice. How do i delete?

Good morning (barely), tribe.

Good luck with that tournament, Terry.

I know you’re glad the move is almost done, doc.

Take care of that shoulder, kab. Don’t do too much too soon. Listen to the physical terrorists, they do know what they’re doing (even though I give them a hard time). You can only delete your own comments (could you imagine the chaos if you could delete everyone else’s too). If you want to delete one of your own, click on the delete comment in the blue box.

Show’s over. Can’t wait for their show tomorrow. Back to the toon tour!

Good Morning Saucy.

Thank you!

Doc T ~ I am offended that you said all the good people had arrived before you went to bed!

I just saw yesterday’s Rubes. It reminds me of me!

Lonewolf Pool ~ Is that the game where people bend over the table displaying there back sides, while hitting balls with really long sticks? ~~~~~ Good Luck!!!

Good Morning to you, LuvH8.

Yes that’s the game.

And with that I am off to get ready. Catch you all much later.

Hi, Grog…………………..Bye, Grog!!!

Bye Lonewolf ~ Have fun!

(Maybe you should play with Wolfingal sometime, if you don’t already.)

Celecca ~ Congratulations for your husband’s radio show!

Good Morning Rmom, FELLOW BABY, kab, cleo, celecca, saucy, LuvH8 and any one else I may have missed. (It’s a long list)

This time I missed you, Lonewolf.

LuvH8, more photos will be on their way soon. Hopefully, by the end of the week-end I’ll have The Grand Canyon & more in photobucket.

Hello Grog!

Fellow Baby what album is yours?

for photos

for not pointing out yesterday’s Rubes. You are supposed to point out all Grim Reaper strips to me!!!

I’m am trying to make it sooner for Rmom

to be able to come back.

So, I am using many posts to communicate.

Dry, Grogs_Photos. I currently have 2 albums out there. I will add another for my Grand Canyon/Phoenix photos.

My bad, LuvH8. Too late though. I’ve already stocked my bar & fridge for the long week-end. Happy hour begins when ever I feel like!

No!!!! I am sending a curse on your beer it will all taste yeasty and be really yucky! When you pour it on slugs they will curl up and die. If you are smart you will take this as a sign.

Hex my beer and I’ll hex your cookies!

And I’ll put a double whammy on your oven!

Your bear, is that a teddy bear or do you have a live bear? I have a couple of teddy bears. One is blue and was knitted by my Great Grandma.

Too late! Take a beer outside, find a slug dump it out on it and see what happens. (maniacal laughter)

LuvH8, You’ll want to see today’s In the Bleachers

Keep that up and I’ll get real nasty and sic the IRS on you!

Thank you Grog I am removing the curse on your beer. Unfortunately, it will still taste yeasty and be really yucky! When you pour it on slugs they will still curl up and die. If you are smart you will still take this as a sign. (That’s just the way beer is!)

Wait! The IRS, that was just mean. (wipes tears from eyes)

Well the threat of hexing your cookies & oven didn’t seem to be working so I thought I had to go to extremes.

I’m back!

Don’t know if it was some ad or what, because I tried about 3 times before I ate breakfast. Tried again, and can see now. (Anyone reading this is going to wonder, because I deleted my comment about not seeing the page before I read LuvH8’s)

Rmom when I couldn’t get in on my mom’s computer I tried using another way of entry and had no problems so you might want to try that next time. You can follow someone (thru their profile) or go to the A-Z listing at the bottom of the page.

BTW ~ The lilac bushes are over 75 years old, they are not going anywhere. Maybe they are getting tired. The back yard needs more shade, when do you plant lilac bushes?

(still crying and sniffling)

I had even found a joke for Grog:

A professor wanted to teach his 5th-grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he conducted an experiment with a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms.

The professor first put a worm in the glass of water. The worm writhed about, happy as it could be.

He then put the second worm in the whiskey. It writhed painfully, sank to the bottom, and died.

“Now, what lesson can we derive from this experiment?” the professor asked.

One bright student responded, “Drink whiskey and you won’t get worms.”

~ Now I’m not going to tell him!!!

I have to go drown my sorrows in a nice glass of ice water. See everyone later.

Lot’s of Luv, Have a Good Afternoon!

(I had to go anyway, just trying to make Grog feel guilty.)

I never had worms, either. LOL.

Thanks, LuvH8! From comments on the other strips, it looks like the spammer slept in today. I wonder if it had posted on BT, and that’s why my filter blocked it? Once the mods got it removed, then I could see it again? Sorry to see you leave, especially because I can’t stick around too much longer myself. I’ve got to get mowing, and some other work done around here today.

Doc, have a nice snooze. Lewreader, did you finish eating? Was everything alright? Good luck with the shoe shopping! Hello Yukoneric, Cleo, Rmom and GoodQuestion! Hey Dry! I hope you found your breakfast that I was saving just for you. Hi celecca! Sorry I missed the video of your hubby. What a wonderful blessing, congrats to the both of you! Hi Kab, I’m sending you good thoughts. I hope everything goes well, especially with your therapy. Hi Saucy, how’s your Mom doing? Hey Grog!

Having a late lunch, I’ll BBL!

I got soaked on our bike ride today, at least I was prepared for it. Hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. My life has become one project after another. Our newest one is reorganizing our fruit and vegetable garden.

Hi Carmy & cleo I’ll give you all fair warning. I’ve begun scanning some of my old photos to disk.

Good afternoon Tribe

Physical therapy?? Yuck! I remember my pt for my knee after replacement surgery. The walking and steps and squats and such were bad enough. At the end of it I’d have to lay down and she would push with all her strength on my knee as I screamed and begged for mercy. It got to where I’d want to run away when she said ‘okay, lay down on the table’. And she was a wisp of a thing, maybe 98 lbs soaking wet.

Good work week, until 4:45 Friday when my supervisor gave me a heads up that things are achanging AGAIN next week. She says it’s not my work or the fact I got behind Wednesday afternoon and Thursday (had to do online bookngs before my email bookings). But she’s going to give me my 1st weeks evaluation before anything changes so I’ve got at least one good one under my belt.

Stormy’s still hanging in, God bless her. She’s sleeping with me now, and I can’t ‘push’ her around until we’re both in position, I don’t want to hurt her. So my sleep’s been pretty broken this week. My hubby boils chicken breasts for her, and she eats about half of it. I swear she’s bonier, though. Her grooming’s dropped off severely and she’s either eating, being held as she sleeps or sleeping. Doesn’t seem to be hurting, though.

You guys take care, I have to shower and go off to the craft store and see what I haven’t sold. Then to the Dragon for a while. The new doctor starts tonight, I can’t wait. Whoo Hoo!!

P&L… and krispy kreams for all!

Hey Cleo, are you working in the rain, or did it stop? Grog, warning received! Quaby, I hope all goes well at your work. More hugs for (((((Stormy))))). Thank you for the krispy kremes, yum!

Hi ALL!

cleo Since you don’t wear clothes, getting wet isn’t a big problem. But riding a bike may be!

(((((((((((Quaby and Stormy)))))))))))

Hi Carmy! Have a nice lunch?

I’ll pop in and out tonight, but I have work to do tonight and I’ll be out all day tomorrow, so I may be scarce.

BBL!

Hi Shika! I did have a nice lunch, thank you. I’m sleepy now though. Maybe I can catch up with you later. I hope you have a good day.

A shika swish to say “Good Afternoon, Tribe!”

Hi, Carmy, Grog & Shika!

Hi Carmy, Shika, bunny! Bye Carmy, Shika, and bunny!

I got busy and didn’t realize it’s 6 pm already!

Hi Shika, bunnyface & JFri

Hi JFri!

I”m back. There’s a big Magic tournament at the Dragon and the lady I usually play scrabble with went home sick. No one else was there so I came on home. Need to do something in the kitchen, anyway.

I did sell four more earrings…..$20. Whoo Hoo.

Just had to jump up for a major RL intrusion. I heard sounds on the other side of my desk…like stormy was peeing on the bed again. I jumped up to make sure it was on the sheet with the plastic under it…and it was but she was taking a dump. Sigh Only because she’s sick do I tolerate it. She had never done it before except once or twice as a ‘kitty protest’, and even then it was usually just pooping on the rug. So now I have laundry, too. Ah well, life in the fastlane.

Good Evening (almost), Doc!

Doc I hear you. My one son’s cat is staying here for a while, a spayed female calico, very pretty! She was badly mistreated when he and his girlfriend found her, so I guess that accounts for some of it, but she is PSYCHO! The other day she got into a fight with one of my females and fur (my one cat is a long hair) was flying EVERYWHERE. And I mean that LITERALLY! We had to throw a blanket over one of them to break it up!

Good Afternoon/Evening All. I finished digging up extraneous strawberries that had escaped their designated boundary, man it grows like ivy here. It only rained during our biker ride, so although it was cloudy it was still very pleasant outdoors for working.

Hi Grog! I was busy all day, time just slipped away!

Quaby how did you say Stormy is?

Doc sometimes ours and her walk around each other, and my son’s cat is walking very carefully eyeing them up and growling when she walks past them. Yes growl, she sounds like a dog! Every once in a GREAT GREAT while, one of mine will be laying on the bed at one end, and she’ll be at the other and they are both asleep.

Hi Dry. I’ve been trying to scan & upload photos. I can’t believe my whole afternoon was shot.

Sorry Cleo I missed you. Hi Cleo, “Biker ride”? Are you like Wink reliving the past? That must look quite funny, you in your birthday suit with only a helmet on! ROFLMAO!!!

Well Dry the helmet protects the limited brain activity I still possess.

Cleo LOL! you and me both buddy!

cleo

Dry I said Stormy was hanging in. She’s still board thin, bag of bones, but her tummy’s a bit harder. She’s also not grooming herself. If she’s here next Saturday I’ll be surprised.

Almost time for the Mythology of the Doctor. Should be interesting.

Oh Doc Don’t run out of patience! These kitties need good homes!

And craziness, my three will be just laying around, and all of a sudden, there’s a mad dash up the stairs, mad dashes down the stairs, JUMPING down the stairs (there’s only 6< LOL) but they are hysterical to watch!

Speaking of bad a@@ kitties, I steamed some asparaus and was marinading it on the counter, in a dish, with Italian dressing. Here she comes into the room, with a piece of it playing with it! ASPARAGUS! What cat likes asparagus!?

*Yeah Grog, I didn’t plan to do the things I did, got carried away and lost track of time. I did accomplish something, it just wasn’t on TODAY’S “to do list!”

Thank Heavens, she got the piece out of the scrap bag by the sink, not my marinated asparagus! Glad I caught that, or I would have wasted some of my hard earned, pampered homegrown stuff!

I’m hoping I’m almost done. I’m now having dinner and watching Temple of Doom, which I hope to watch with few distractions

JFri, are you thinking that you will get a Booker’s if you give me a raspberry; I think not.

Cleo shoot one back at him! LOL!

Grog refresh my memory, Temple of Doom, Harrison Ford, or Michael Douglas? I forget. Oh wait, Michael Douglas was in “Jewel of the Nile”. Never mind!

Man Harrison Ford was young then, but then, weren’t we all!? Sigh!

Yeah, Dry. I was looking at some old photos and it was funny to see myself with so much hair back in the old days!

Dry & johhnyd, I have snifters of Booker’s sliding across the bar in your direction. Be sure to catch them before they fall off the other side.

JFri, would you like a Heineken?

I am done with the photos - at least for tonight. The Grand Canyon & Phoenix are uploaded. http://s1044.photobucket.com/home/Grogs_Photos/allalbums

Hi all!

JFri! How are you doing?

Hi Dry! Asparagus loving cat? Now I’ve heard it all.

Did anyone see the Johnny Carson link on Dog Eat Doug? Hilarious.

cleo I know I missed you again. :-(

I have to prepare for tomorrow, so I’ll check in again, since no one is here.

Hello Shika. I am here and you are not. Or, will you decide to do another check.

Shika, I’m not no one. I remember that one…in fact I have it as part of the Carson collection.

It’s funny you mentioned that because I was reminded of Ed McMahon doing his Alpo commercials on Red & Rover

Grog is that you in that one photo? If so, you look enough like a dear old friend of mine to be his brother! I won’t say twin, but it would be close!

Dry, there should be 2 unless I’ve screwed something up, but yes. It’s funny you say that, Dry, because there was a time when a friend of mine and I were mistaken for brothers so often. At that time, we both had beards.

I’m still trying to locate that photo with us side by side at a quite Saturday night at his home with his now ex-wife.

I still remember Ed McMahon doing live commercials on the Tonight Show. I may have this wrong, but he was doing a bread commercial and it was supposed to be “Sarah Lee is the best in bread.” He said either “Sarah Lee is the best in bed”, or “Sarah Lee is the breast in bed.” The bread company could be wrong, since it was a woman’s name I used it for the effect.

Grog, I’ll take that Heineken’s! cleo got raspberried over the weather. I rained horizontally most of the day here!

Mrs Baird’s maybe, cleo?

Here you go, JFri

Dry, there are 2 photos of me, but one is rather distant.

Grog, I believe that you are right. Good job, it was Mrs. Baird’s. Good photos, by the way and nice to have a face to put on you. I have had you pictured as Grog, which is not to flattering. LOL I have also had Rmom pictured as Jeremy’s mom in Zits, because that was the avatar she used when I first met her.

JFri said, 6 minutes ago

Grog, I’ll take that Heineken’s! cleo got raspberried over the weather. I rained horizontally most of the day here!

JFri How do you rain horizontally? LOL!

cleo Doing a quick check. I can’t stay. But I can come back, and I wll1 I may sip a virtual mimosa while I work, if that’s okay with you.

It’s okay, I know my way around by now.

BBL

cleo, I remember that about **Rmom’s avatar. I liked it. I’m still looking for a photo of myself and a buddy of mine that I mentioned in my last comment. I may have looked a bit more like grog back then with my beard. There was another friend of mine who’s goal was to become a metal star. I was calling him Grog back then - but oddly enough, I do not have a photo of him.

Grog, thanks! Spent the day geocaching! I needed that!

cleo do I look like my cat Mua?

Oh right. How would you know?

I do! tee hee!

Shika, it rains horizontally when the wind us blowing at 50 MPH!

Grog, got another beer?

NO you don’t Shika! tee hee!

JFri, you’re obviously thirsty. Here’s a king can!

Grog My friends name is David, from near Phily and he’s Jewish (of course you could be too for all I know, LOL!) and I know his brother and sister, so I don’t hink you’re it, but the resemblence is uncanny ! They say for all of us there is a double in this world, I guess that’s true, I guess I have a look a like here as well, but I’ve never seen her. People tell me they have seen me here and there, and I say NO, and they say, “Are you sure?” I’m like “yeah I’m sure”, I ain’t that old yet! :-D

Hey JFri find any good treasures?

Cleo I remember Johnny Carson well enough, but I don’t remember those commercials! Would you like me to be Karnak and give you the answers? LOL!

Dry, My father was on english descent and my mother was Irish. Back when I had a beard, there were shades of red in it. Now there are only shades of white!

Grog, you da man!!

I have some things to do in RL, but I should be back in about 45.

JFri, if you need another, I’ve got Heiny, Fosters, Labatt Blue & Bud on ice. Help yourself!

Hello Cleo, Dry, JFri and Grog!

Hi Shika!

Hi, again, Carmy. Be back in a bit.

Okay, Grog!

Dry, picked up a really cool geocoin from Germany that they want back at a specific cache in Germany on 7/20/10 for their wedding!

Hi, Carmy!!!

JFri, you found the coin while geocaching? Grog, I saw your photos, they’re beautiful! You don’t look like I pictured you, but you are still good looking.

JFri HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME! So are you going to Germany on 7/20/10?

FELLOW BABY, BUDWEISER????? LOVE THE CLYDESDALES, HATE THE BEER! ROFLMAO! Geez man, that’s on the cheap! :-D

I’ll have a LaBatts Blue, thank you, sir!

Grog, I would have a Fosters but since I don’t drink, someone could have it for me.

He fixed it! LOL

OOOH! I love how it is still light out. I love these longer days. I am sure at this moment, only JFri is appreciating my comment. By the way, what happened to Dawn?

LOL, Carmy who fixed what? * “I’m up, what’d I miss?”*

Dry, the double post, hee hee.

Dry & Carmy, how are you special ladies?

Cleo, this special lady is doing okay, blush blush. How are you doing, handsome?

Carmy Pooh on JFri! I thought I could razz him like I do Cleo!

Oh Cleo you fuzzy wuzzy naked man going thru the car wash at 2AM! Thank you sir, for that lovely compliment! I be just fine, Sir, in the company of my special friends!

Dry, your comment makes me think of Wink. He is in his birthday suit, yet he is going to put on his comfy pants. LOL

All we are missing is Tabby, Joy, Marg, Johnny and Akenta!

Dry, You haven’t told me what you like, but I know that I could do a lot worse than Bud as far as American beers go. I also like Michelob, but I don’t see it that often.

I know some people won’t drink anything but micro-brewery beers, but I haven’t seen anything or tasted anything that appeals to me since I left Montreal.

A friend of mine was collecting unemployment, but went out with us on Friday nights. He insisted on drinking micro-brewery beers which were well above his means. Needless to say, we ended up paying for him just to keep him around a little longer.

Well, I am ready to watch a movie. See y’all.

Grog, I live in micro brew heaven and will drink nothing else, if given a choice. We have 4 micro breweries in my area and nothing is better than fresh beer.

Dry, I hear ya, girlfriend! Welcome back Grog! Enjoy your movie, Cleo!

Grog Familiar with Sleeman’s beer?

Dry, LMBO!! (fuzzy, wuzzy? I am really LMBO!)

Cleo yes, from what I know, Oregon and Washington are famous for some of the BEST micro breweries in the US!

When I lived in Edmonton, the majority of the home folk drank Molson Canadian, which, to me, tasted a lot like what the clydesdales would relieve themselves of.

Cleo believe it or not, we had a great little Micro Brewery in our liitle burg, GREAT, but the owners got divorced and sold the business! Now it’s just a restaurant, good, but not great like it was, and the brewery sits empty. The new owners keep advertising they are going to open it back up, but it’s close to 2 years now!

Dry, an employed trucker friend of mine always drank Sleemans, but I don’t see it down here. I drank a beer that was brewed in the sub of Montreal, called LaSalle. The beer was called Hopps Brau Lager. I see now that the micro-brewery is now closed.

Labatt also has a brewery in LaSalle

Lack of microbreweries is one of the main things Friar Tuck compplains of down here in SC. he’s from Denver.

I have a preference for Sam Adams’ Cherry Wheat.

Hi Everyone

Grog - I like your photos

Hi celecca, did you see my earlier post to you?

Thanks, celecca. I didn’t like Sam Adams though.

Grog I had Sleeman’s at Niagara on the Lake, got it everytime I was there. I can’t find it here either. That was a good brew!

Hey Carmy - I did see it. I’ll pass on the congrats when FT gets up in the morning. We’re pretty excited, yet it’s a gaining experience thing - no pay. It’s an adventure. And he has the voice and body for radio.

Grog It’s the only Sam Adams I do like. I’m more partial to Jameson Irish Whiskey or a good red wine.

Hi celecca!

Hey Dry

Guess my sleeping meds are going to take some time before they kick in. ‘cause this is rare being on at 11:30 pm.

celecca, he has the voice and the body for it? Now I’m really sorry I missed it. Are you still having a lot of pollen up there? I think it has eased up down here in FL.

Dry, I’ve been to Niagara on the Lake. I forget what beer I drank there. It’s been such a long time!

There were also some very good microbreweries in Kingston, ON. The problem is, those breweries were all very regional, and I couldn’t buy any in Montreal.

When ever I tiy anything new donw here, I’m usually extremely disappointed.

Grog, I don’t think they’ve heard of microbreweries here in FL. At least I’ve never seen one.

The obvious pine pollen is down significantly. It’s the sneaky fine stuff which is lingering.

FT has a great voice. We looks somewhat alike in that my mother thinks we look like a pair of garden gnomes!

Dern that sneaky stuff! Your Mom is witty!

I’m pretty proud of him.

I was reading about the volcanic ash over Europe. How awful for those people. I hope everything works out okay.

and rightly so, celecca!

Carmy, Grog and Dry You’re old enough to remember Mt St. Helen’s? My uncle lives in Idaho and sent us a box of ash from the eruption. It was jerry-rigged to poof open so that the ash went everywhere. Took days to clean it up. I can only imagine what would happen to an airplane going through that. It may be a niightmare for all the stranded travelers, but I’d rather be inconvenienced than dead.

What I don’t get is why people haven’t opened their homes to the stranded people. Sort of like the Canadians did for 9/11 passengers whose flights were diverted.

Grog I’ve been to Kingston also, but never checked for microbreweries. We sailed the St. Lawrence River, went to Wolfe Island, Gananogue, took the river to get to Boldt Castle, went to Fort Henry, grand trip!

I remember Mt St. Helen’s. I saw pictures in Newsweek that I wish I hadn’t. My brother was stationed in Colorado and the ashes went that far. Did you smack your Uncle upside his head? I didn’t hear about the stranded people not getting any help from the locals. That’s messed up.

celecca, I remember the Mt. St. Helen’s thing, but it was too far away from me to have any impact on me. Though, while I was living in Edmonton there were forest fires raging, north of the city that definitely had an impact on our air quality. I did’t dare open my windows in my car or home while the winds were blowing from the north. Talk about second hand smoke!

Thank heavens my mom laughed - eventually - before she called him from Ohio.

The passengers right now are mostly having to spend their own money for hotels or are camping out in the airports if they haven’t been able to get on trains. No airline is required to help out althoughI hear Air France has booked 2000 rooms near Orly fro stranded passengers. they aren’t paying the full price, though.

Grog sometimes we get the smoke from Florida’s wildfires. Weird to smell and see the smoke in the atmosphere. Weirder is smelling the salt from hurricanes when we’re so far inland.

Celecca makes you wonder. I guess it takes a REALLY bad disaster to wake people up. I consider this thing an inconveniece, not a tragedy. I’ve been in some bad spots and my philosphy is, it could be worse, and this is a new adventure in my life, maybe not the best, but an adventure none the less! They are inconveniced, A lot worse could happen!

Grog, I hear you. We’ve have brush fires here and not even very close to our house, the smoke is horrible. They had a big fire in Georgia (I think) and it was like it was on the next block.

celecca, your Mom is cool. Those stranded people are getting ripped off.

I’m heading off to bed. I really wish I could have been here with my favorite friends, but I had to prepare for tomorrow. And now I need to go to bed. It’s going to be a long day.

JFri Just so you weren’t raining, and the sky was. Read your post!

* :-D*

Dry, you’re right - I just sort of wish…well, I don’t know what exactly I wish. Just some somfort and warm hearts for those affected by this.

BTW - for a few hours only - my avatar is Friar Tuck. Not a Friar or observant Jew or a Mennonite. Just someone who has other things on his mind than haircuts and trimmed beards. This is his “patriarchal” look.

This evening he gave himself a buzz cut and trimmed the beard. Guess I’m feeling nostalgic.

Good night, Shika Sleep well.

Neat avatar and story Celecca. have a good night

Good night Dry, Carmy, cleo, JFri and Grog!

yyyguy where are you??

Good night johnnydoc, tabby, and Doc. sorry I missed you all.

Oh, and bunnyface? Still typing? (hee-hee!) Sorry I missed you too. Pulling my last Shika for the night.

POOF!

Dry, I used to do audits of our Millhaven plant, which was about 20 minutes away from where we were staying in Kingston. Our hotel stocked a few of those micro-beers.

We also did a week-long stag for a buddy of ours. We got a house boat at Gananoque and spent about half our time on the Canadian side, docked at Kignston and the other half on the American side @ Alexandria Bay. We did the whole Thousand Island tour, but I’ve never actually been on Wolf Island.

Goodnight Shika! celecca, he gave himself a buzzcut? Wow! My husband shaves all his hair off, he doesn’t have to much to begin with anyway.

Hi & Bye (again), Shika!

Actually the airline industry is going bankrupt. This volcano was an act of God, not the airlines, people who can afford to fly on vacations, for the most part, unless they are traveling to an ill relative, traveling for medical treatment, they are a soldier, etc. should not be given special privileges in my book, make them comfortable and fed, but hotel rooms, etc. They should sort out special cases, and the rest well what can I say? Heavens sake I heard there were actors stranded, ACTORS, making more money than most of us will see in a lifetime, special treatment? PLEEZZ!

celecca you just HAD to say Mennonite didn’t you? LOL! He sort of looks Amish too! LOL! I wasn’t thinking that until you said it! I have lived my life around Mennonites and Amish!

Dry, I’m thinking it’s almost time for some cauliflower. I’ll propbably be out of stock by the end of my long week-end and will have to make more very soon!

Yeah, this way he figures he won’t have to worry for at least 6 months. Weird thing is, it always looks good growing in.

I accidentally gave him his first buzz cut about 2 years ago.. I was putting the finishing touches on a not-half-bad cut, and dug too deep with the clippers. “Oops”” is not something you want to hear when you haven’t had a buzz cut in 40+ years. But I kept trying to even it up…. the next day at church, you could hear the jaws dropping from the moment we walked in. It was funny (now); embarassing then (for me). he didn’t care.

Grog Wolfe Island was SO COOL! Did you get to Boldt Castle? That was awesome too!

Dry, we spent very little time on dry land. We were rollin’ down the river listening to CCR except for when we were out on the town for the night in the local bars.

Bad boys? You betcha!

celecca, you made an oopsie on his hair cut. :-O My husband will give himself a haircut, go to work and then come home and ask me why I didn’t tell him that he missed a spot. Gee, I didn’t know I could check his head while I was sleeping.

We did all our cooking on board, except for our 3AM snack attacks. LOL.

Grog, I’m surprised at your bad boy behavior! LOL

Oh yeah Grog! Bad boys for sure, AND DATED!!! CCR? ROFLMAO! Yeah, I know, you still liked the tunes right? Did you listen to 3 Dog Night also, while ROLLIN” DOWN THE RIVER? :-D

You would not believe the number of people who think he’s a monk or a member of the Mennonites or Amish. He got the moniker Friar Tuck when he started going to seminary. It stuck. He uses it now when he posts on his news discussion groups like Swampland.

CCR! Three Dog Night! I’ve spent many a blurry time with those as the soundtracks to my memories!

Dry, CCR is PERFECT for what we were doing, like listening to the Doobie Brothers when you’re Rockin’ Down The Highway.

Grog Got ya”! LOL! They weren’t caled the Doobie Brothers for nothing!

I was vaguely familiar with the Hatfield McCoy feud, but the only thing I’d really seen on TV was the the Hatrock - Flintstone Feud.

I’m now watching a movie on TCM called Roseanna McCoy which goes into how the feud was triggered.

Which reminds for some STRANGE reason, of another song I need to download, “Brandy” by Looking Glass!

Anybody want some ice cream with Peanut Butter Cups and Fudge mixed into Vanilla Ice cream? I have enough to share!

I liked 3 Dog Night. I thought they were scary looking, but I liked their music.

Dry Brandy was playing on the radio when we were decorating for Jr. Prom. Aging myself terribly.

You’re a fine girl?

I think I know that song, too Dry, and Iove that song - but don’t yet have it.

Not really celecca! Maybe a year of two ahead of me, but not much! LOL!

I think I was in middle school when the Brandy song came out.

A little too rich for my blood, Dry, but thanks anyway. I’m eating cauliflower now!

Dry, I scream for ice cream! Pass me over some, please!

Definately early ‘70’s

Knock yourselves out, Dry and Carmy! Thanks anyway.

I am FINALLY getting fuzzy-headed! Gonna try to make it to the changeover.

Go for it, celecca!