Big Top by Rob Harrell for April 03, 2011

Sleep eating :-) It’s the new rage.

Menu Goods from The Big Top Diner

. M&M pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, or regular pancakes with syrup . Sausage links or patties, and bacon . Fried potatoes / hash browns . Huevos Rancheros . Eggs made the way you want them. . Country fried steak and gravy . Kolaches . Breakfast Quiche . Cheerios and other brand cereal . Breakfast BLT . Docs world famous Nuclear Coffee . Starbrights Divine Cocoa Mocha ( Courtesy of Chris Alan, Johanan Rakkav, and company) . My Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies . bmonks cup of cheap mocha mint. . Premium or imported beer . Milk, chocolate milk . Variety of Fruit juices, and tea . Vegetable juice (V8) . Water . peach cobler, & Apple pie, Lemon meringue, pumpkin pie, chocolate cream pie . Ice cream (All flavors available)

Good Morning, Family,

I guess, I’ve been dieting for so long, that an Italian table cloth sure looks good to me about now!!!! Ummmmmm Pepperoni tablecloth!!!……………….thin crust!!!

Off to bed I go.

Good night everyone. :-)

Good Morning, ♥Little Sister♥ & Montana Lady.

“Diet” is not a word in my vocabulary. Fortunately, it never really had to be. Of course, it probably helps that I don’t eat a lot of cr@p like pizza.

♥Little Sister♥, I think I’ll have a couple eggs over easy, some bacon (for a change) toast and a jalapino kolache for desert. I’ll supply the beer.

GROG Glad to hear you keep away from fattening stuff like pizza and stick with bacon and beer. I haven’t looked in my dictionary but my thesaurus has 47 words for diet and a picture of me.

Good Morning, Lewreader.

Bacon is a treat I allow myself every once in a while. And a few beers on the week-end won’t put on pounds for me.

Fast food is something I stay away from. Foods high in cholesterol and sat fats are another no-no. I may eat KFC once every 6 months - if that. I always go for the leanest cuts of meat and don’t fry foods. The only thing that really have the good fats or the Omega fats is fish, and I try to eat that once or twice a week - especially salmon.

All sweets are out. Of course, I never liked chocolate anyway, but I was a sucker for cookies and other sweets as a kid. As my metabolism changed, so did my eating habits fortunately. Therefore I never had to deal with weight problems. I’ve always been a stick.

Good Sunday morning, Tribe.

Good Morning, Doctor Toon.

We had the same problem when I lived in Edmonton. The fire never really threatened the city but the air was thick with smoke for days. You couldn’t open the windows during that time. There wasn’t so much as a shower in that time to help fight the fire.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I like dreams like Winky is having.

I’ll have some Huevos Rancheros.

Good Morning, Sojourner.

I’m off for a morning walk.

BBL…..sleepy heads.

Good Morning Grog - Enjoy your walk!

Good Morning, Tribe!

Been away for a while here recently.

Good Morning, Sojo.

Good Morning, Doc. Long time, no talk!

Good to see you too, Mopar!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ and Doctor Toon!

Good morning. :-)

I change my mind about sleep eating, It’s definitely not cool if you have a nightmare and wake up with a tummy ache.

Good Morning ♥Little Sister♥!

Good morning Sojo. :-)

Good morning, Lonewolf!

Good Morning, Lil’ Sister!

Good Night Doc Toon

Good Morning MoParMitch and Ooops!

How are you doing, Bro’ ?

Good Morning, LuvH8. Yes the internet is working!!!

Good morning Big Brother and Big Sister :-)

Have a good rest, Doc. Catch you later!

Have a good snooze Doctor Toon.

I guess from here on out it will be a bad time for fires. Especially here in Southern California. There is always reports of a fire somewhere.

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠,♥♥ Little Sister♥♥,Wolfbyte LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, PlodswSoCo, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, ♪Hopeandjoy♫Serenasakitty,, SmileyRmom,Bmon,Ladyhawk,,lakesnake ,Lewreader;MisngNOLA,Josh, Yukoneric, The Sojourner, Only Tink, pseudo,Digital Frog,Ponytail56,MoParMitch This greeting for ones who come and go.

Doctor Toon I wasn’t ware of that fire by you. Here in KS there have been fire outbreaks. When wind’s are in control farmers do burn fields. Gets rid of dead Debera.

My self I do like chocolate my body doesn’t. My body usually wins. I am far from slender, sadly I have to make by metabolism work as I don’t have too much of a thyroid gland. I stay totally away from fast food and KFC is the worst. Super Salad is far the best for me and yes I’m careful of the dressing. I think my hubby has lost more then me and he doesn’t exercise. He is 6’4” me shorter 5’6” or slight taller not much. I won’t say my weight too embarrassed. And I eat very small meals.

Hello Sister Kab :-) I like chocolate too on occasions . However I hate the cavities it brings and the evil dentists.

Good Morning ♥Kab♥!

♥Little Sister♥ I don’t have the money for a dentist. Our son hasn’t been to a dentist in a long time. I bought a water pick trying to get him to use this. When are cc ever gets paid down more, too much stuff going wrong here. And my part time won’t cover everything.

Going to be windy and very warm today. Haven’t yet turned on the a/c may have to soon.

Hi, ♥Kab♥.

Greetings TRIBE

Mopar it’s nice to see you again.

Hi, Serena. At least we’re on at the same time! LOL :^)

Hello serena!

Good afternoon Tribe

kab, unfortunately, you are one of those who always has to work hard for every pound you lose. I am rather fortunate: I have the metabolism and a nervous nature to go with it. Walking and pacing are second nature to me.

It still doesn’t mean that I can eat what ever I like, but I can have occasional treats to the tummy, without setting off the cholesterol alarm.

Other than KFC, I really don’t like chicken. I find that fish (particularly salmon) is an excellent substitute and much better for me than chicken.

I love all pork products, but obviously some parts are better than others. Bacon is obviously not good for you, but I will eat it on occasion. I also reserve the drippings to add flavor to my high end dishes.

As Ooops! has stated, I like cheese cake, but I eat it once a year (if at all) during the Christmas Holidays.

When I was living in Montreal many years ago, an awesome place that made and sold gourmet cookies was in the food court below the building where I worked. Every Christmas season, I’d buy a dozen and share them with my coworkers, who were mostly good looking young women who were also conscious of what they ate. I contended, however, that if I was going down, they were going down with me.

Good afternoon, Grog. How goes it today?

Hmm. I’ve never had M&M pancakes. I’ll try a plate of those for lunch, please. And one of Li’l Sister’s Big Sister’s Berry Smoothies for healthy drinkin’. But I’ll have to walk the pancakes off this afternoon.

Kab: air conditioner? Hmmph! We had heavy, wet snow yesterday. It’s falling off the trees in today’s wind, but it’s only 1ºC out there, and it’s going to be ICY tonight while I walk to an SCA meeting (Society for Creative Anachronism. Go to scademo.com to see what the organization does.)

Hi Lonewolf

Just relaxing, watching some classic football this afternoon. Dedskins/Packers from a Monday night game back in ‘83. I wish there were more games like that available for sale in the NFL archive. Some great players in the ‘80’s. Great games, too. I wish the old Cowboys/Dedskins games were available from when they truly were a rivalry. Same with Packers/Bears. But only more recent matches are available unfortunately.

I have a set which has 12 of the games(including all post season games) from the Bears superbowl year in 85. I wish there were more sets like that available. I’d love it if I could get something from the Raiders Superbowl years.

Hello Saskfan - I’m here where ♥Kab♥ is. It may reach 90° F today but is supposed to get to 33° F (maybe freezing) tomorrow night. Should stay warmer after that I hope.

Good Afternoon Grog - I hope you enjoyed your walk earlier.

Howdy, Sojo!

Yes, thanks. I did. Pretty cloudy out there now. Perhaps that front is moving in a little early. It’s supposed to be here tomorrow.

Hi, friends!

Hello Rmom!

Hi, Rmom!

Hi, Sojo & Grog! Grog - Are you getting any of the wind we’re having here? You know it is a bit windy when you can feel the house moving as a result.

Not yet, Rmom. If we’re going to get it, I would expect it tomorrow with the rains that are supposed to come with it.

I think it is time for a nap.

Grog - I’m just waiting for the severe weather to come through. I’m not under a watch yet, but they have asked that storm spotters be ready, so there’s a possibility. Sojo & Kab are enough west, that they shouldn’t have any. Hope&Joy may get some severe weather tonight or tomorrow.

And tomorrow is when I would expect it. I’ll expect it to hit while I’m at work - but hopefully not as I’m headed home.

Good afternoon Grog, Smiley Rmom, Sojo of the past hour and all those before

No! Please no severe weather Sunny, humid so if a cold front approaches…..yikes! I will keep an eye open.

Enjoyed watching Phil Mickelson win in Houston.

It is W i n d y bbl

Well it’s time for me to pack it in for the day. Have a great rest of the week-end everyone. See y’all tomorrow.

Gunite, Tribeandall!

Yawn! That nap sure helped. I was falling asleep at the keyboard. Hi, Hope&Joy! I actually think the storms should go south of you, what I’ve heard is mostly SE KS, NE OK, & NW AR. But since that was the area for that weather radio station, I didn’t know if the weather would catch you or not.

Hello HopeandJoy♫!

Have a good evening Grog.

Just e-filled my Federal Tax Returned. :-)

GROG About 35 years ago I got thrown out of a fast food joint for ordering “One Big Mac, hold the Styrofoam”. I have avoided fast food like the plague except I have only been in Dunkin Donuts a few (thousand) times since. Somehow I enjoy what was lovingly paced in my brown paper bag more. If SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED isn’t mad, it doesn’t get spit in either.

Good for you, Sojo! Thanks to paying a pro to do ours, our federal is filed, and the refund is in the bank. Awaiting April 15th, when most of it will go to KS to pay that tax bill with our return. Hi, Sir Lew! Ah, Big Macs and styrofoam…remind me of my high school days when I worked at Mickey D’s.

Sojo - You’ll probably be interested in this breaking news story: Emergency crews are currently evacuating the town of Satanta, KS due to a grass fire that started around noon Sunday.

Hello Lewreader!

Good evening all. I just finished reading your posts. Grog your saying bacon would be bad for me your 100% correct. I have been to restaurants that serve bacon and I almost gag and sausage to. My own mom has a very good metabolism and nervous energy. She is far slimmer then I am. I have to be so careful eating. We use ground turkey here a lot and I do enjoy chicken. I will eat baked fish never fried with tartar sauce. I have two stones in me and I don’t want anymore. Produced by too much fat and I don’t take in fat.

Hope&Joy - According to the map with this article, I’m afraid it doesn’t look good for you. I hope you can park all your vehicles under coverage, if you get large hail.

Rmom - Thank you, I’ll check that out. I think that was a town I went to once when I had my sales route. You could find any address for most small towns without a map due to commom street naming types. If that was the town I’m thinking of every street was named for an Indian tribe and half the streets were N-S, E-W and half were 45° off of that. There was no alphebetical order either. I couldn’t find the street I was looking for so asked a local. He had no idea either.

Doctor Toon national and local news reported about that fire in your area Ft. Collins also reported one in SW KS so hugh evacating a town. 20 miles radius and with these hot winds not helping. I imagine SW would love some of that rain.

Hi, Kab! There were lots of fires Friday & yesterday when I drove to SE KS & back. At that time, it wasn’t quite as windy, so the fires I saw were still under control. The pastures look bad right afterwards with everything black, but in a couple weeks or so, they are usually nice & green.

Most of those fires burn off dead stubble allow for green growth.

I’m going to sign off for a while and read a pleasure book. I’m glad I have time for my essay until 15th for rough draft. I don’t know if I will pass this essay either. Oh I don’t use contractions like don’t, can’t and so on. Or slang.

Sojo - Since I don’t actually live inside of my small town limits, the “ask a local” doesn’t help to find my street either. We had a hard time getting deliveries until Mapquest, etc. got us listed. Well, I need to go meet my hubby. He’s on the way into ICT with parts, and then off we drop those off, out to eat. Poor guy, he’s about ready to drop from exhaustion. (Last day off was March 13). I think caffeine and adrenaline are about all that is keeping him going.

Have a good evening ♥Kab♥ and Rmom.

Smiley Rmom Our weather people in Kansas City are saying the bad stuff will go north and the thunderstorms will be in the counties just south of us. We will get lots of rain however. I hope they know what they are talking about.

We are 50-60 miles East by southeast of KC. Our county is Johnson and borders below Jackson where KC and Lee’s Summit are. Wichita doesn’t look good.

Saskfan I looked up the SCA site and would you believe our town has a group by the name of Shire of Lost Forest. Interesting.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Evening, Tribe.

Back for a little while. I’m sure most have gone to Z-land for the night.