Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 18, 2010

MENU 1 Breakfast

Lonewolf’s Huevos Rancheros Grog’s scrambled eggs or eggs over easy with sausage or bacon. buttermilk biscuits and gravy with chunks of sausage Lewreader’s pheasant egg omelet special choice of regular or m&m pancakes or eggo waffles with syrup Tater tots, fried crispy potatoes or hashbrown casserole Cinnamon buns Special steak burgers, mushroom burgers, or smoked bacon cheddar burgers (Comes with French fries or onion rings) Breakfast burritos or tacos poptarts, including DDFENCE EMET’s favorite or toasters strudels Krispy Kremes Salad bar now open Side order: Turkey stuffings(Dressings) Chicken & dumplings Scalloped Potatoes with Ham jalapeno poppers wrapped in bacon chile cheese fries beef stew bowl of green chile

Since it has been hot, I am looking for ways to cool off. So now to the good stuff:

Big Top’s Ice cream Delight Breakfast Menu:

Menu 2 Desserts / beverages

ADIRONDACK BEAR PAW. This is a vanilla ice cream with a caramel swirl and a cashew crunch BLACK RASPBERRY ICE CREAM CHERRY ICE CREAM ROCKY ROAD DEATH BY CHOCOLATE - This one might catch my Big Sister by surprise, and make her laugh. FRENCH VANILLA M&M BROWNIE FUDGE LIGHT RAINBOW SHERBET NEAPOLITAN ICE CREAM CHOCOLATE MOUSSE ICE CREAM MINT CHIP ICE CREAM

daily desserts: (courtesy of Ladyhawk, bmonk, and my Big Sister) Yogurt on request Ice cream delights - Carmel Chocolate Hot Fudge Butterscotch Strawberry Nuts Whipped Cream ice cream sandwich Special - Big Sister’s Nuclear Coffee Fudge Explosion Delight. (Once you taste it you’ll keep coming back for more. I guarantee it) German Chocolate Fudge Cake and an assortment of cookies Cotton candy, caramel candy apples, popcorn or caramel popcorn.

Regular or Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav (Ask for the specials by request) milk, chocolate milk - regular or milkshakes Asst. fruit juices and teas fountain drinks like Pepsi and other sodas (floats also avaliable) Premium or imported beer Bloody mary, margarita, martini

Please enjoy this delightful Menu

Yes Wink you are.

Good morning TRIBE & Big Sister.

Good Morning, Ladywolf I’ll have my eggs over easy today with sausage, biscuit & gravy please and a bloody Caesar (thats clamato instead of tomato)

Grog, Here is your order, I hope you enjoy it.

You bet I will! Thanks, Ladywolf!

Your welcome,

Sorry, I didn’t have a happy dance ready for you!

Too many carbs Wink! Too many carbs!!

Hey Fellow Baby!

Hi Big Sister What can i get for you and Kitty?

The Desert Song is starting now, Fellow Baby but I’m boogyin on out!

Hello Dry. Can I get you anything before you go?

Hey, Fellow Baby. I have it on my tube too, but I doubt I’ll be sticking around for the finale too!

Hey, my wife gets cold and wants to go to sleep after a big meal. No problem, if you know….

LW18 I’ve never had a pheasant egg omelet. I’ll have that and a waffle, thank you.

Little Sister I just had some vegetarian pizza so am pretty full right now. But Kitty would like his usual. Thank you.

It’s okay Grog I don’t have a happy dance ready either.

Here you go WoodEye

Here you go Big Sister & Kitty.

Vegetarian pizza! Was it good? Would you recommend it to someone like me.

LuvH8 I just went back to yesterdays comments.

THANKS FOR THE DANCE!

Vegetarian Pizza???? Regular pizza if often bad enough but…….

It was good! It had a white sauce, but I usually like vegatarian pizza. It’s just getting enough people who agree so it is worth getting that is the problem.

Hello WoodEye

You are welcome WoodEye, when I saw it I thought of you.

Lonewolf must really be tired. I’ll see him in the morning. I going to bed now.

Good night TRIBE & Big Sister.

Good Night everyone.

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠, Lewreader & Johanan!

LADYWOLF Could I please sample Big Top’s Ice Cream Delight Breakfast Menu, one scoop each? And so I don’t pull a Winkie, a cup or two of DOC’S FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE please, cream no sugar (got to watch the carbs).

Good Morning TRIBE, Another day in the sun watching happy people at the jazz fest. Tough job but—

Good Morning, Doctor Toon

Pop! Just a quick stop under the BT before church. I saw page 2, then later hit refresh, and the filter popped up again. Lot of toon comment pages were still blocked when I went to bed last night. I’m guessing “potty mouth Rocks” might be the reason. Kab Saw your note about baking soda. I’ll have to try that if I (or the rest of the family) ever get stung again. I went to Sam’s and got a large bottle of the generic Benedryl, so I won’t run out of the stuff. Wichita’s economy isn’t doing well, but I don’t know that it is worse than average for the USA right now. It has always had its ups & downs, because of the strong influence the aircraft industry has on the local economy. Time to leave! Poof!

Hi, Rmom. Have a good day.

Good Morning Tribe!

Hello, Doc, Grog, Rmom & Lewreader

Fell asleep early last night. Must have needed it.

Got two cars to work on today. Need to get moving. I’ll be in and out from the heat. :^)

Hello, ♠Lonewolf♠. Have a good day.

I have to get moving, too.

Good morning everyone. :-)

It’s a late morning here almost lunch time.

Grog I saw your note, and Rmom my mom went by her dad’s way ages ago with yellow box of baking soda, So far I’ve had to do it twice for a wapse sting. Now for a spider bite wound going to Dr. for I started to have infection on my thumb. Mom wanted me to use perxide on my thumb that hurt bad.

Good Morning Kab. Now that is a BEAUTIFUL picture!

Good Morning, Ladywolf

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠, Ladywolf & Kab

I just got back from the Kemah Boardwalk. Boy was it hot out there. I cooled off while having a Brick Oven pizza. And I’ve got some leftovers, too.

It started raining on the way back…and I think there’s more to come.

I should have said good afternoon. MY how time flies!

Hi Grog! Does anyone live in San Diego? Comic-Con is next week. It would be nice if someone could go and get some pictures to share.

Hi, Carmy. I believe Ladywolf lives in the San Diego area.

Is the Comic-Con taking place during the week, week-end or both?

Grog, it’s July 22nd thru the 25th. You’re right, I think she lives in El Cajon. I used to live in Spring Valley, very close to El Cajon. I worked at an insurance company in San Diego.

My vacation begins on the 22nd, but I won’t be going to SD. I’m driving up to Dallas.

Do you have big plans for Dallas?

A few things I want to see & do and I’m meeting a buddy from Montreal there.

I want to see the new Cowboys stadium and get some shots of the Cotton Bowl as well. (My buddy had them and lost them)

Well, in case I don’t get a chance to tell you later, I hope you have a lovely vacation with great weather. I also hope you have a nice visit with your buddy.

Thanks, Carmy

Hello Grog & Carmy

Hello, LuvH8

I forgot about the new stadium. My family went to see one of the Thanksgiving games in the old stadium years ago. I couldn’t go because I had to work. Anyway, my brother and sister painted a big sign on a huge sheet. They out it up at the stadium, but it was torn down before the game even started. boo hoo!

Hello Carmy, Grog, Big Sister. :-)

Carmy, the first time I got into Texas Stadium, I was living in Montreal. I went down to see a Cowboys - 49ers regular season game. It was a disappointing game to say the least. The boys showed up in body, but I think they left their hearts in Frisco that day.

I’ve also been to Foxboro stadium, the old Cleveland Municipal stadium (second to last home game of the Modell era Browns) and The Superdome.

Hey all before I leave. For the comic-com convention, no I don’t live anywhere near there, but one of the comic strip that is on gocomics will be there I think. One of the comic strip creator talks about going. Grog I envy you taking a vacation I don’t get one.

I don’t recall ever seeing a pro football game in person. I did see a U of Texas Longhorn game on a Thanksgiving Day once in Austin. Baseball yes, Busch Stadium in St Louis, the Astrodome, Wrigley Field and I think that’s it.

I guarentee, Kab, that my vacation won’t be long enough.

Hello Little Sister

Does anyone have any fun plans for today? More cleaning and packing for me.

The only major league baseball stadiums I’ve been to were in Montreal. Jarry Park and The Big Owe (also for Canadian Football). I also went to Ottawa’s Lansdown Park for a CFL game.

I also went to a few minor league baseball games while living in Edmonton.

As for Hockey, I’ve been to the old Forum and the old Boston Gardens.

Hello Kab

I’m working with my writing group today.

I’ve never been to a hockey stadium.

Hi Kab Buch :-)

Bye Everyone! Have An Entertaining Day!

Just taking a break after lunch before my nap–not like Winkey, heh heh heh–to get ready for a parish picnic tonight. Thought I should check the weather forecast: Chance (20-4-%) of thunderstorms every day and night from tonight through Friday… Temp not so bad, upper 50s thru mid 80s.

Ladywolf, I love the ice cream menu, but what about the Gelato I recommended a few days ago?

Hi bmonk.

Fellow Baby I think I asked you this before, but have you ever been to the CN Tower? I know yguy was, what about you?

Hi bmonk! Long time no see!

Good afternoon Tribe

Grog, the Kemah Boardwalk. Last time I was in Kemah was before any boardwalk. There were some nice seafood restraunts down there. I remember going to downtown Galveston with Auntie in the summertime when I was sent up there for the summer. It was before they closed off the street(s), made the pedestrian mall and tidied everything up. I remember how most of the stores smelled, that combo of old cloth, old paper and occasionally an in-store diner. When I think about sewing crafts like embroidery and such that’s the smell I imagine.

I’m off to do stuff, primarily beading and kitchen cleaning. I’m rather draggy today, no energy, just wanna crawl back into bed. yawn, who knows, mebbe I will crawl back. Wasn’t the world’s best sleep either.

P&L

Johanan, I’ve never had Gelato, but oddly enough I just finished watching a bit on DD&D about a place that makes Gelato - about 130 flavors.

Fellow Baby, though I’ve been to TO a number of times, both on Business and to visit with ex-Montreal friends, I’ve never been to the CN Tower.

Quaby, how long ago was that? Nothing about the Boardwalk suggests that it is new, even though some of it had to be rebuilt as a result of Ike. There are, of course, sea food restaraunts on the Boardwalk. My favorite though is a place called the Top Water Grill in San Leon.

I forgot. Hello, bmonk

Fellow Baby You must go there!! It is just, well words can’t describe it! And the restaurant is superb! Great place to spend some time. And there’s a great view of the Rogers Centre from the tower. The height deterred me at first, but I would go again in a heartbeat!

Fellow Baby, I don’t get back up home much any more. The last time was 2005 to take care of the arrangements for my Mom’s funeral and take care of the estate.

The truth is I would only go back home in the summer time and can’t really put together enough vacation time in the summer to do all the things I’d want to do when I got back.

It will likely have to wait until I can finally retire.

Good afternoon Tribeandall!

Hello Grog, Bmonk, Quaby, Ladywolf & everyone!

I’m done with the car repairs, but I think I lost about 10 lbs! LOL

What’s the temp where you went today, Grog?

Fellow Baby Will you retire there or go back to Canada?

My guess would be about 92, but all I can tell you was that it was HOT, ♠Lonewolf♠ and this was at 10:30 AM and there was very little sea breeze, too. Now that we’ve got some cloud cover and rain in some areas, it may have actually cooled off some. Accoriding to what my home page says, it’s now 84 in League City but I have my doubt of the accuracy of that.

Thursday our thermometer at the plant read 99 @ 3PM and my home page was only showing 92.

Johanan Rakkav, I’ve been so preoccupied lately, that I forgot about the Gelato.

I’m Sorry :-(

Fellow Baby, I plan on moving back to Dallas.

The winters are far less harsh there than most places in Canada, with the possible exception of Vancouver. But I believe it rains too much there for my liking.

Hello, Ladywolf. Always a friendly face in a storm! :^)

Same here Grog. The current temp says 85, but I don’t think so, sir!

I took a shower and now am soaking up the A/C. I need to deliver one car a little later.

Well, I’m going to shut everything down for the day. Catch y’all in the morning & have a good evening.

Well Grog I may have missed you, but it was almost 40 years ago for Kemah, and the time I was talking about in Galveston was about 1966-67, right around then. I remember Clear Lake city when it stopped at El Dorado Blvd and you could see the Saturn V at NASA without straining from the church at Reseda and Bay Area Blvd. It’s not a church now, the church has relocated. Now it’s all built up practically from Conroe right down to League City and they’re building more beyond that.

Back to beading and Being Human Last season’s finale is on now and I’ll be ready for Season 2 next Saturday.

P&L

Have a good evening, Grog. Catch you in the AM!

Good evening everyone. Grog sorry I missed you. Doesn’t parts or most of TX get flooded from hurricans? Lonewolf not sure where your from but here in KS most parts have hit 100to 102 for heat. Thursday I was doing evening walking, visited neighbors and before I finished weather started cooling down clouds had rolled in much earlier then started sprinkling. Long before I got in downpoured I got soaked. Couple I visited had an expected surprise their sone was visiting saw a young lady and sadly the young lady was trying to get away from a bad situation. They helped with authorities. She needed medical help.

Did someone want Ice cream though here will become milk? Help yourselves and try to cool down.

After 4 days without AC, tempers seem to be getting short here.I, being a good guy, took it upon myself to clean the basement. Yesterday I volunteered to grocery shop.Tomorrow?

Fellow Baby sorry I missed you! Have a good night. I got caught up making some more cauliflower, lenmonade and potato salad.

Tomorrow Lew, take a break! :-)

Don’t worry, Ladywolf, I’m a patient man. About the only thing that really upsets me is a blatant abuse of what the Jungian psychologists call Introverted Thinking, a cognitive or thought process.

In other words, put up the gelato when you have the time. Chris Alan can ship you amaretto, French vanilla, Belgian chocolate, and (once we work out negotiations with that place mentioned above) well over a hundred other flavors.

As for Introverted Thinking: Curious? I post every so often from The Personality Page on such things. Interestingly, Wikipedia has detailed pages on Jungian type theory. One of our GoComics posters (now posting under another name) seems to be INTP, a type which has Introverted Thinking as its Dominant cognitive process. Knowing that has made it much easier for me to understand him and to overlook some of his quirks.

By the same token, if you understand what make an ENFP tick overall, you all hopefully can understand and forgive my own peculiarities better. (As it happens, abuses of Introverted Thinking by others constitute what I call “the button that launches the nukes” in the reactions of ENFPs, of which we have several on GoComics.)

Well Kab now I want some ice cream!

Hello, Kab. South Western suburb of Chicago.

Enjoy something cold on a very hot day.

Heard some very bad news this morning before heading to church. I like it but have to be very carefull and very so very little to turn it down. The makers of chocolate are raising prices up 100% and shrinking other chocolate product down:(

Thanks for the ice cream, Kab!

Hang in there, Lewreader. There is light at the end of the tunnel!

Ladywolf, I see some of the other strips are quiet and some are quite busy! lol

Yes Lonewolf. I’m busy off and on today, especially since the temperatures here are only in the mid 70’s today.

Thanks for letting me know Lonewolf I guess Chicago is called the windy city like KS gets winds especially more so with storms come. Ladywolf that’s cooler then we have here.

My daughter and her dad are going to try again for another Golden Retriever. So far someone sold one for KS law under aged and had to go back, need to be with mommy longer, another from KC, MO meet halfway, a male one found out had bad both bath hips need major surgery lots of money owners decided to take back was upset with other vet for not informing them of defect, Monday going 1 1/2 hour away for another male Golden Retriever. No for breeding female cannot be a mommy, they just want a playmate.

Ah yes! Nice and comfortable. Two days ago we had a temperature of 102.

Hello, Sojo.

I just got back from delivering a customer’s car.

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠ and others. Hopfully it’s cooled down some with evening approching. I’ve been occupied and just got back this afternoon.

Sojo - - It is just starting to cool down now at 6:23PM!

♠Lonewolf♠ - I guess it is only started to cool down. I’m inside but just checked the weather and it’s now down to 99 from 100! :-)

Hi, Sojo, Terry & anyone else hanging around.

Hi, Rmom. How are you doing today?

Sojo, It is still 88° here too! But a nice 74 here in the home 20!

Hello Rmom and Doctor Toon!

Hello, Doc. I don’t blame you, sir!

Doctor Toon - I like your Avatar this week!

The photos I put on PB, I had corrected some of them to be better. As I was in a hurry, I used a free program from Google as it was easy and fast if not really good. However, checking them today it seems the corrections only appear when viewed with the Google program! Later I’ll correct them with a better program and re-upload them when I have time.

Let me know when you have them straightened out, Sojo.

Okay ♠Lonewolf♠, It may be a little while. Some of the photos are too dark to see what is there and some are washed out, not seeing much color etc.

Bye everyone! I’ll see you all later.

Have a good evening LADYWOLF!

Hi, Doc! Terry - Sorry for the delay - the in-laws called. I’m not doing too good today, unless one likes feeling woozy. The finger is still swollen from the wasp sting, although I think it is a wee bit better - I can see some wrinkles now. I was able to have it looked at by an ER doc for free this morning. He goes to the same church, and I’ve known him for years. Guess other than trying to keep it elevated, I’ve done everything except wait for a month or longer. Since that “exam” was in the church foyer, I didn’t mention my other problems to him.

Have a good time, Ladywolf.

(((Rmom))). No problem. I was IMing last night and just dozed off in the middle of everything! LOL

I do wish they would have an opening for you sooner. Good to hear that your finger appears to be looking better.

Rmom,

BTW…………….how are his “foyer manners”? :^)

Drive by posting! Good evening all!

Rmom since you saw an ER Dr. I would have been curious about the baking soda theory. Using water in baking soda for the finger from wasp sting. Is it an old wives tale? Or is there much can be done about wasp sting?

Hi Ladywolf, bye Ladywolf Terry - LOL! Actually, quite good. He treated me one other time at the church, about 18-19 years ago. I tried to chop off part of a finger using the church papercutter. He said it was on the verge of needing stitches, but said as long as I kept the bandaid on real tight, I could avoid them. So this isn’t the first time I’ve used his medical expertise.

Good evening everyone, I fought the hot and went for a walk then came back in to cool down. My fingers became very swollen. Next Sat. place where I work at, will be going to county zoo for all employees. My family and I will go early, sad part animals will be sleeping due to heat. Zoo had a lot of new entry’s. Zoo animals are caged up yes but lots of room to move around and fed all time and Dr.

Hi, DFrog! Take care.

And a drive by good evening to you Digital Frog. Hello Kab Buch!

Hi, DFrog! Kab - I just told the doc that I was taking Benedryl, and didn’t ask him about the baking soda. My thought is the baking soda would be good to do in the first hour or so when the puncture still hurts. I doubt it would counteract the allergic reaction I have.

Rmom I just wondered only. You yourself did the right thing. If, when, and I can think of it when I see my own family Dr. I might ask him. I have to go in am for blood work to see if all is okay. I asked a couple of months ago about a different type of cholestrial pill less expensive and I am about to renew another type, plus I have to let nurse know I dropped a different, pills, pills, pills, brother so many changes but not as bad as what my dad went through. I know of people who like you are allergic to certain and different bug stings not fun.

Bye Doctor Toon!

Good Night, Doc. Have a good one, my friend.

Good night, Doc! Kab - Just went surfing to see what I could find out about baking soda & wasp stings. It is listed as one of the suggestions to help with the pain, like I thought. At least my allergy isn’t as bad as some people’s, because the sting doesn’t affect my whole body, just the area around the sting site. Although, that area can be fairly large in size.

Since it’s quite tonight I’m going to read for a while and for a change go to bed early. My eyes look it. Rmom I hope all is going well with the siding, though awful hot for it. Lonewolf I bid you and Ladywolf Sojourner a good night. This week chances of storms popping up. I just hope I don’t get caugth like I did last one. My loving hubby came picked me up and I was soaked. It rained hard last Thurs. Frid. where I worked at saw the clouds forming, thundard but no rain.

Goodnight Kab Bush Have a good turnover!

Kab - They worked a couple hours on the siding yesterday morning before it got too hot & while they still had shade. Hubby’s talking about taking a week off in September when hopefully it will be cooler, to spend time working on it. I think I’m heading to bed soon, too. Good night y’all!

Good Night, Kab, Rmom & Sojo. Rest well.

I’m back. :-)

Hi, Ladywolf.