Big Top by Rob Harrell for June 27, 2010

Morning all! Breakfast? All you can eat Krispy Kremes, any kind you like!

A BIG SISTER AND LITTLE SISTER BREAKFAST SPECIAL

SOUTHERN COMFORT BREAKFAST MENU:

COUNTRY HAM WITH RED-EYE GRAVY

PECAN PANCAKES

YOUR CHOICE OF ROLLED CHEESE BISCUITS OR BISCUITS WITH GRAVY

KRISPY HASHBROWNS, SWEET POTATOES, OR AU GRATIN POTATOES

CHEDDAR CHEESE AND GARLIC GRITS

CHICKEN FRIED STEAK OR PORKCHOPS

CRISPY BACON AND SAUSAGE

DELIGHTFUL HORS D’OEUVRES

CORN ON THE COB

BEVERAGES:

ANY BEER BEVERAGE

CHAMPAGNE

WINE OF YOUR PREFERENCE

MIXED DRINKS, OR COCKTAILS

DOC T’S FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE

JOHANAN RAKKAV’S MOST DELICIOUS COCOA MOCHA

ASST. FRUIT DRINKS

TEA OF YOUR CHOICE

PEPSI, MT. DEW DR. PEPPER,A&W OR MUG ROOTBEER, 7UP, SLICE, SPRITE, SIERRA MIST, ORANGE, GRAPE, OR STRAWBERRY CRUSH

COLD VITAMIN WATER

SPECIAL CHOCOLATE LOVERS DELIGHT- DESSERTS FROM BIG SISTER’S KITCHEN:

HERSHEY’S S’MORES SUNDAE

CHOCOLATE CAKE

FUDGE BROWNIES

CUPCAKES

CHOCOLATE MACAROON BARS

CHOCOLATE CHERRY CORDIALS

Enjoy the meal and have a wonderful Sunday.

I’m gaining weight just looking at the menues.

Ladywolf, since I am on a pork kick this week-end, I will have the pork chops and corn on the cob with a Heineken, please, sweet lady.

JFri, I’ll have a couple of Krispy Kremes for desert, please sir.

Good Morning Everyone

Little Sister ~ I would like one of everything chocolate, and a super large Nuclear Coffee.

You got it Grog.

Howdy JFri! I’ll take some plain glazed and some pumpkin spiced. Thank you! Grog, I wasn’t impressed with the Lil Abner. I really do think you will like the ones I mentioned before. Goodnight!

Good night, Carmy!

I’ll have a Bloody Mary, and go look at pictures of Mila Jovovoich. She purty.

Thank you, Ladywolf

Big Sister and hymenoxis here are your orders, Please enjoy.

Yes, I am that kind of daughter. I just found this picture I meant to post for Father’s Day.

Happy Father’s Day!!! (again)

   

I think I will also wish some people:

Happy Surviving Your Dad Day!

Thank you Little Sister!

Good thing it is virtual or I would be going to bed with a tummy ache.

Grog & Carmy, your donuts are ready at the second window!

You are all very welcomed. I’m glad that I can serve you today.

Thank you, sir. Mm Mmm, Good!

Seconds are available, but please save some for those who have yet to arrive and eat.

Thank you and have a wonderful Sunday. :-)

You too, Ladywolf

Ahh! You are so sweet Grog.

(Gives Grog a kiss on his cheek).

(blush) Good night, sweet lady!

Sweet dreams You Handsome Stud Muffin. ;-)

Hey somebody took the last doughnut! Oh well, I’ll just have pork chops and grits….

Thanks Ladywolf

Your welcome WoodEye I hope you enjoy the meal.

Getting Dusty into the bathtub appears to be quite a chore.

There is plenty of breakfast left for those who haven’t arrived yet to have their share. Please enjoy

Good night all you wonderful people of the Tribe here in the Big Top

Good morning TRIBE

I just stopped in to say “hi” but unless my computer is not loading properly [a very distinct probability] everyone has left. Gone to the beach maybe?

JFRI It has been FOREVER since I had a KRISPY CREAM, but. LADYWOLF I have NEVER had pecan pancakes. My one and only claims she cannot fry a pancake and I don’t know if her failures were on purpose or not, but I stopped asking for them So, pecan pancakes and if you carry it, a 32 oz cup of the brown elixir, DOC’S FAMOUS NUCLEA COFFEE., no sugar please.

Morning TRIBE! E-mailed THOM’S cartoon to everyone, especially those 6 shrinks who threw me out of their offices..

Enjoy the breakfast Lewreader.

I’ll be back in little bit.

Good Morning, Doctor Toon, Lewreader & Serena

Cute picture, Doc. I wonder who has a skunk for a pet though.

Are they opposite sexes?

I probably wouldn’t let them breed, regardless of the circumstances in my desire to control the household pet population. I wouldn’t want to have too many mouths to feed and cages to clean.

Good Morning Tribe!

I am getting some of that breakfast that you have out there, Ladywolf. Thank you!

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠

Good Morning, Doc. Nice addition to the critter clan.

Good Morning, Grog!

Good Morning All. Doc, I knew it. You’ve given in to the rodent revolution. Actually, your household will probably give this rodent a need to constantly be on the lookout. 5 kitties and 1 rat are not very good odds.

Good Morning, Cleo. Good to see you!

Dusty You big baby!!

Goodmorning JFri, Fellow Baby, Carmy, Hy, Woodeye, Lew, Serena, Doc, and Cleo!

Doc first time in all the time I’ve known you, no cat for an avatar. WOW! Cute rat BTW.

Fellow Baby I have a friend who had a skunk once. She was a real sweetie, too!

Good Morning all latecomers!

And early birds!

Rats Are Rodents!!!!!

Good Morning Everyone!

Sorry, I couldn’t say Good Night. My comment wouldn’t post.

Good Morning, cleo & Fellow Baby!

Fellow Baby and sweet smelling, too?

Carmy, Don’t know if you’re gone yet. Have a safe trip. I looked up Mr. Belvedere & Gildersleeve @ Amazon. They don’t have any movies available on DVD for either one, but Amazon does have the Mr. Belvedere TV show.

Fellow Baby you get them “de-skunked”. They don’t have a smell, at least Petunia didn’t! Yes her name was Petunia!

Good Morning, LuvH8!

Good Morning Terry, Doc, Dry, Grog and LuvH8.

If Dusty takes a bath will he still be Dusty?

I remember the avatar with the cat and rat, Doc.

Good Morning, LuvH8

Cute name, Fellow Baby

Good Morning Lonewolf, Doc, Cleo & Grog

I’m not overly fond of rodents. So I think I will just sit over here by Kitty.  

So you survived the garage sale. I was going to suggest using a fan, so at least you had a breeze. But I never ran into you.

Is the garage sale over, Doc?

That is nice Doc, but the tails remind me of snakes. And snakes are scary. So I am okay until I get to the tail.

LuvH8. LOL My husky (Doc H) has a tail, but I don’t think of snakes.

Doc - Yeah, it is fun mingling with the neighbors and people browsing for that something special/different.

LuvH8, Are you still in Connecticut, or did you make it back home?

Good afternoon, Tribe

Out here it probably wouldn’t have done any good to hold the sale in the ‘cool’ of the night. At midnight it was still 85F.

Wonderful breakfast. I’ve tossed on a couple boxes of Krispy Kreams as it seems ya’ll have run out.

Hello, Quaby!

Thank you for the Krispy Kremes! That hits the spot about now! :^)

Good Morning, Quaby

Do you know where Birmingham is? That was the last city I passed through.

Alabama. LuvH8, you are all over the map.

I hear you, Doc. like that environment too.

Go West, Young Lady!

Hey! Come out and have fun going from toon to toon playing Flag the Spammer!!! I got my big Acme mallet out.

Good Morning Quaby,

Thank you for the Krispy Kremes. Now I just need some Nuclear Coffee. (and maybe a squirt gun)

My spam guard………………………….

Maybe I should just follow the sun in the evening and not in the morning?

We love you too Spammer. well we love to flag you anyways.

Hello Big Sister, DocT, Lonewolf, Grog, and Qualby, and Dry

Ummm……… Lonewolf you are freaking out Kitty.

Doc, by now you probably know I appreciate a good back side view.

Well I would start by heading for Atlanta, then N”Orlins, Dallas, Santa Fe, Phoenix, San Diego (visit with Little Sister) and then head north, following the coast line.

Good Morning, Ladywolf

I’ll probably be off and on throughout the day, and may even go out for awhile as well.

Wow Grog! That’s some good traveling.

What about the right turn in Albuquerque?

Hello Little Sister!

Good Morning, Ladywolf.

Thank you for the breakfast!

You’ re very welcome Lonewolf.

OK, if you want to go to Albuquerqe, go ahead. You can bypass Sante Fe.

JFri your Krispy Kremes are good. I wasn’t trying to upstage you or make you look bad. It just that I had the breakfast menu planned and wanted to post it for everyone.

Good night, Doc

Drive safely, LuvH8. Don’t get any speeding tickets!

DocT you have earned your rest, sleep well and we’ll see you again when you come on.

Good Night, Doc. Rest well!

And watch out for any critters that run into the road Big Sister.

hello strangers!!! c: sorry iv been gone for way to long i just don’t have internet at home so i can’t really get on when i would like c: well anyways iv been just turned 16 not to long ago had a big bbq with the family and it was very fun. now on thursday in going to get my nose done. im nervous but oh well no pain no gain rite c:

Isn’t it comforting to know the spammers love us.

Hello Diffrent ~ Happy Birthday

Hello, Diffrent Happy belated Birthday.

Hi, Different.

Happy Birthday!!!

Good Night Doc

Grog ~ They have to catch me to give me a speeding ticket.

Little Sister, if the critters are in the road, they want to get hit? No, I won’t hit them (on purpose).

Oh my gosh! **Hi diffrent! It’s so good to see you again. I hope that you had a truly great memorable birthday.

It is indeed Cleo.

That’s funny, the driving boo-boos I have caused, I was doing under 25mph on.

Under 25mph that must have been a curvy road then.

thanks everyone and my bday was very good my cuz kay shuved cake into my face so i thru some at her then “gramt” shuved cake in my moms face it was funnyc:

Wish I could have been there diffrent.

Sounds like we missed a fun party, Different!

haha ya i sorry u not there

well i gots to go gotta rearange my room c: bye

I’m glad you had fun Dffrent always side with Gma

Enjoy the rest of the day, Different. Catch you L8r!

Bye Diffrent

Poof!

Bye diffrent thank you for taking time out to come see us.

Catch you later, LuvH8.

Bye Big Sister.

I like to rearrange things in the house now and then, but I hate to move the big stuff.

OK, I got get some things done.

BBL, maybe.

And I’ve got a boyfriend to go out and have fun with.

See you all later.

Bye!

Enjoy the afternoon, Grog!

Well it’s good to see everyone. I see there really was a 5 hour gap this morning. What happened?

I know I’m probably too late but I was just wondering if you had a couple of Krispy Kremes left, JFri? I’m really in the mood for some dessert. [umm these are no-cal, right?]

LuvH8 I knew of a guy once who drove so fast the cops not only couldn’t catch him, they couldn’t even see who he was. He did get caught eventually. ;-)

Hi, Serena!

Quaby dropped some KK off for us, too!

Serena Plenty of KK to go around. They’re good when topped with Ice cream, too. Dunking them in the nuclear coffee is risky, it tends to immediately refry and melt them….and any fingers that aren’t quick enough to drop the donut.

LOL, that’s good, Quaby!

Hello everyone way too many names to list now. Today strip though and I can’t resist commenting on this one reminds me of my daughter’s dog Golden Retriever Ginger, she fights trying to go for bath with mommy and daddy take her there, me I encourage her by yelling run for your life, I have fun doing that. But shucks once they get her in she is fine. I wish Different though this is late and everyone has gone a Happy birthday Sounds like they had a cake food fight and fun.

Hi Lonewolf, Quaby, Kab Buch

Lonewolf today I tried to get onto photobucket. I know everyone else goes there anytime but I have to work up a lot of courage to try anything new, especially with computers. I’m always afraid I’ll crash the whole internet or something. I’m much better with animals than with machines of any kind.

Like a kid with a new toy I was poking around when I remembered that you once said you had posted some pictures of quilts made by Wolfangil. [If It wasn’t you, major embarassment]. Are they still on your page?

OK, I’m back for a little while anyway. The roast pork is in the oven and the wash is in the dryer. I can relax for a bit.

Nice cake, Kab

Hi Serena. That would be Rmom who has the quilts on Photobucket. Wolfangil does her own but none are on my Photobuciet site.

I checked out your pics, but there are none there yet.

We got thunder and lightning rumbling closely now. As I am making jewelry and watching Jakob the Liar I am shutting down now.

P&L

See you later, Quaby

I’m shutting down for the day. See y’all tomorrow.

HELLO! HELLO! HELLO! HELLO!

Gee, there is an echo in here.

Hi, tribe! I just now got caught up with the BT comments for the weekend. Anyone else here now?

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪☼ Hello TRIBE! ☼♪

Rmom - I’m here checking as I watch TV.

Good to see you, Sojo! I’m multi-tasking, so popping in & out.

Hope you and everyone else is having a good finish to their weekend!

Doctor Toon - I hadn’t even thought of that. I guess I should pay more attention to the calendar.

I see it’s on Sunday so most prople will have a three day weekend. If you have any extra ice cream and whipped toppings feel free to drop some off at the BT.

Hi, Doc! Usually the 4th ends up being one of our biggest holidays around here, because we often invite people over to celebrate here. Less extended family obligations for that holiday, and we can shoot off fireworks on our property. But I decided to not invite anyone this year. Hubby’s not too sure if he’ll get it off as busy as they are. It (the 5th) is one of the holidays on the company calendar, but doesn’t guarantee the plant will be shut down. It would also require a LOT of work to make the house presentable for company, and I’d rather spend that time cleaning out junk, instead of just hiding it.

I have an aunt and uncle that used to have family reunions every other 4th, One year I think it was 80 people, from all over the US and even Africa, Italy and Austraila. I hooked up the electric fence to an outside shower stall. I didn’t know a person could yell that loud! (I didn’t realize at the time how powerful it was, I won’t do that again.)

Hi Doc.

I almost always leave some ice cream. A bite or two anyway. Just don’t count those cartons that someone [not me] leaves lying around. I’m innocent, I tell you. :-)

Then again, virtual practical jokes should be allright!

Good Evening Everyone!

Hi, Serena, Doc, Rmon & Sojo

Cooking on the grill as we speak.

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠ and everyone else I might of forgot to say hi to.

Hi, Serena! Hi, Wolfie! I just warmed up and ate most of my leftovers from Saltgrass. Leftover steak isn’t as great at the 1st time, but baking it works reasonably well. Good enough that my youngest took whatever steak I’d let him have from my leftovers.

Sojo - Your prank reminds me of my late father. He liked to walk holding hands, and then he’d reach out & grab the electric fence. I wonder if he realized that might have been why I was a bit skittish about getting affection from him?

Doc - I remember eating Lucerne brands when I was growing up, because Mom always shopped at Safeway. But there aren’t any Safeways in the area any more that I know of, so that’s no longer an option

It was common there to shock someone while you were holding a weed to touch the fence with. That’s why I didn’t know how powerful it was. Once my uncle was having fun shocking the pigs when he accidentally shocked himself. He said that if he would of known how much it hurt he wouldn’t of been shocking the pigs!

Sojo - Hogs have thicker or at least tougher skin than us humans. That’s probably the reason “pigskin” was (is?) used for footballs. Dad raised hogs for years, and made me help. So unfortunately, I know more about hogs than I care to admit.

Serena - Did you find the quilts on my PB that you were looking for? They are in the “Artwork by Mom” album. I haven’t had much time for hobbies, as homeschooling keeps me plenty busy.

Enjoy, Doc!

Rmom - The pigs just grunted when shocked, that’s why he didn’t think they were bothed by it. They probably didn’t feel it much in reality.

Good bye Doc and get some good sleep!

Sojo - I learned that hogs didn’t feel pain as easily as we do, when I had to kick them in the snout to keep them from chewing on my shoes (while my feet were still inside them). It took a lot to get their attention.

What a most wonderful day. It felt good to get out and have fun.

God natt, Doc. Catch you tomorrow!

Rmom - I don’t know that much about farm animals. I remember seeing my cousins trying to herd some pigs with sheets of corigated metal. It seemed to take a lot to move them. One of my cousins cut himself in one of the pigpens. He got a double shot for tetanus because he had a pig die of tetanus in that pen earlier that week.

Hello Ladywolf - glad you were able to enjoy the day!

Hello, Ladywolf.

Noise!

Good afternoon, Tribe!

I got up pretty late this morning and haven’t really left the laptop since - save to get some CocoMocha. Since I need a refill, I’ll take one if anyone’s still at the bar. Otherwise I’ll have to take a walk out in the sauna that is called Houston Summer Weather and seek what I may devour…

Hello Johanan - I’m sure there’s some here, no need to get a sauna now!

Sojo - My folks had 40 acres out SW of town. Both of my parents were farm kids, so even though Dad worked at Boeing, he enjoyed farming as a sometimes and barely profitable hobby shortly after I was born. We lived in town until I was in 8th grade, and moved out to the farm then. Dad would bring the runts of the litter into our house in town where we girls would take care of them until they were big enough to sell or go back with the rest of the herd. (I think he had stopped raising hogs because they weren profitable. before we moved to the farm.)

Hello, Johanan.

and lots of noise………………

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

ROFLMTO!!

Johanan - Found some of your coffe, here you go.

Rmom - That’s the size my relatives have in Oklahome, I’m the only one on both sides of my family born in Kansas.

Yes indeed! We do have some of that delicious cocoa mocha left, Just for you Johanan. Here you go, please enjoy.

Hi, Ladywolf & Johanan! Sojo - Dad was from Reno Co., Mom from Sumner, so I’m KS born & bred. But I know OK fairly well. I lived in OKC for a little while, and a couple of brothers are OU grads. They just recently moved back to OK.

Johanan - If you end up with more than you want I’ll try some it.

Johanan - I didn’t realize you are also in Houston. Made my first trip (that I know of anyway) there this last week. It was hot there, but didn’t feel any worse than what KS has been like.

Rmom - Most of my family are OSU grads. I know most of north central OK better than a lot of Kansas even though I’ve always lived here.

Hi Rmom nice to see you.

I spent the day with my boyfriend. First we were at the beach, then we hit the amusement park and had fun, especially riding the roller coaster.

Ladywolf - I took a quick look at your photobucket area. I noticed you had a lot of C&H. One of the reasons I liked C&H was the different expresions Bill was able to put on Calvin, more than any other cartoonist I can think of.

C&H is a great cartoon strip, Sojo.

Right on ♠Lonewolf♠! I think I have all of the books that were published.

I do too, Sojo. Been one of my faves since it was a current strip in the papers.

I’m a huge fan of C&H as you can tell.

Ladywolf - I still like amusment parks ane roller coasters in paticular. I once worked for a short while at an amusment ride manufacture and after work you could ride on them to test them. It would often have rides at the fastest speed for 30 min. Then after doing spins in airplanes and not quite legal manuvers the amusment parks just seemed to become boreing unfortunantly.

I’ve only been in an airplane a few times. Only for traveling.

I learned to fly at a small airport (hard to land at) by an instructor that was taking aerobatic leasons and said anyone he taught would really know how to fly. That was a long time ago though.

Well Sojo that does sound like fun.

It seems like you had great day Ladywolf, sometimes days like that are hard to come by!

Don’t I know it.

I’ve probably talked too much already and is time for me to get some zzzzzzzz’s. Have a great turnover for all that make it!

♪☼ P&L ☼♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Night, Sojo. See you in the AM.

See you later Sojo.

Good night, Sojo! Sorry I had some stuff I had to take care of, talk to you later.

Ladywolf - Enjoy the rollercoasters, etc. while you can! Both my hubby & I enjoyed them. Then we started having kids, and someone had to stay with them while everyone else went on the rollercoasters. That someone usually was me, unless I could get someone else to take a turn. We did take the kids on the coasters with us as much as possible - our youngest rode the big wooden rollercoaster at Joyland in Wichita when he was only 18 months old! He enjoyed it, even did it more than once. I found after I hit 40 that certain designs with side-to-side motion caused my head to hurt, so had to start being more picky about which ones I rode. About the following year, my husband’s neck got so bad, he couldn’t ride most of them. Bummer getting old!

ICE CREAM.!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta have

ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me. The dark side was coming oout.

Hi Rmom. Yes I saw the pictures of your quilts. They are beautiful. I would llke to make blocks showing some of the things you don’t see around much anymore. Things like grain elevators, stooks of grain or bales of hay in the field, horse drawn equipment. I can see these pictures in my mind but I don’t know whether I can get them right. These things are part of our history and I hope I’m not taking on a project that is too ambitious for me. I was born and raised on a farm but I was very young when my Dad changed to tractors etc from horses. But I can still remember

I seem to be in a strange mood tonight. It must be because I haven’t had any ICE CREAM.

I didn’t get to ride the roller coaster last year because of a broken ankle, so I more than made up for it.

I just got done with some Rocky Road Ice Cream, Serena.

The Dark Side Of Ice Cream!

Would that be chocolate chip chocolate mousse ice cream?

What is your favorite ice cream flavor, serenasakitty?

:-)

Serena - That is a great idea for a quilt! I wonder if the Amish have done that? I know the Mennonites make a lot of quilts, and presume the Amish do as well. I can take pictures of grain elevators, maybe stalks of grain, etc. for you, if you need some for inspiration. Mom might have some photos like that in her albums. I haven’t gotten around to scanning any from her huge collection of photos, but she would have been likely to. (Either my sister or myself have possession of all the photo albums. She had more room to keep them, but I’ll have to do all the scanning.) They are cutting wheat around here this week, but I don’t remember seeing too many uncut fields, so it maybe too late to take those types of pictures this year. I presume you saw the wheat-themed paintings too?

I have to go now and I don’t know if I’ll make it back tonight. My computer’s being a pain so I might just shut it down and leave it alone for the night. That’ll show it.

CU in the toons.

I’m a sucker for any chocolate ice cream that has reese’s pieces peanut butter cups in it.

Hello Big Sister.

Good Night Serenasakitty, maybe tomorrow you could give it a drink of Nuclear Coffee? That will make it go faster (maybe not better.)

Good Evening Little Sister, Rmom & Lonewolf

Hi, Luv!

I’ve got to get going to bed now. Good night!

Just pulling a Shika here for a moment.

Rmom I would love that. Most of the grain elevators have been torn down and not too many farmers use stooks or horse drawn equipment any more, so I would have to rely mostly on my imagination and memory.

Hi Ladywolf I like most kinds of ice cream except licorish. [Maybe I shouldn’t have said that. Now everyone will only have that]

This time I’m really gone.

Good night Rmom.

I no what you mean serenasakitty I’m not a big fan of any licorice ice cream. Just the taste gives you a bad after taste in your mouth that wont go away immediately.

Good Night, Serena.

Good Evening, LuvH8.

Good Night, Rmom. Sleep well, lady!

Be back in a bit.

Good Night Rmom, Sleep Peacefully.

Licorice Ice Cream???? Never tried it. Not sure I want to.

Me neither, LuvH8.

I have recently started eating a little black licorice just because it is around. I noticed there is a major difference in some of the black licorices.

Brand names would make a difference for sure.

I like the jelly beans. I bought some really squishy licorice for Gma, it is pretty good. But I am not a great fan of licorice. When we went camping there were these (probably licorice roots) that grew on the side of the trees in the moss. I really liked those. But do not eat, just chew and suck a little.

I am slowly getting used to this new avatar. It might even be the new me!!! I be very good.

It’s a cute avatar, LuvH8. I like it.

Yes indeed Big Sister Your avatar suits you perfectly, then again I have liked all your avatars.

Yes, I like looking so inncoent. I like the wolf avatars you and Lonewolf use. I saw an actual demon duck, but it was too overdone for me.

Ladywolf - Yours is cool, but I have that one too!

I don’t have very many, Well not yet anyways, but I like it.

I liked your anime (spelling) ones too Little Sister, I think they suited you.