Big Top by Rob Harrell for May 04, 2011

Good EARLY Morning, Tribe Da Eats Eggs, made to order or egg beaters Sausage, pepper bacon, Canadian bacon and/or ham (pork or turkey) Huevos Rancheros EMET’s Steak n shake Slaw dog pan fried potatoes, hash browns Kemah Boardwak Brick Oven Pizzas grits, oatmeal & Honey Nut Cheerios! Bush’s baked beans toast (white bread or wheat), bagels & cream cheese, jams & jellies assorted kolaches fresh fruit Pop Tarts ♥Little Sister♥’s Special Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, or the classic steak and eggs meal with a biscuit* Blues Brothers special: Jake’s 4 Fried Chickens and a coke and Elwood’s dry white toast KFC Kitty’s Breakfast platter (limited to Kitty only) Beverages Doc Toon’s WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE Johanan’s Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha assorted juices & teas assorted softdrinks, especially PEPSI! selected premium beers Bloody Mary or Caesar

Sweets Selected ice creams & ice cream floats! New York Style Cheesecake Root beer, PEPSI & other floats Anything and everything Chocolate for Ooops! and other chocoholics

Eat Hearty, Tribe

Sleep well, Montana Lady

Poor Pete and his Sweaty Palms……..sounds like a Rock Group!!!

I’ll check back in with y’all sometime tomorrow. Happy dreams!

I think I was like that when I was young, too.

Ooh ooh! Tell me my future ;-) I wanna’ know.

Grog Can I just have a glass of ice water for right now. :-)

I did not enjoy working in 90 plus degree weather yesterday.

Could be a Grunge rock band if you ask me Montana Lady. :-)

(plops down large brick-shaped mold)

Fill that with something molten and chocolately, and chill it overnight. I’ll be back to devour it in the morning.

Good Morning, Tribe

We won the first round of the playoffs for Tuesday league. If we win next week we go to the Challenge of Champions tournament.

Good night Everyone :-)

Good Morning, Johanan, Montana Lady & Grog.

With that I will head to the horizontal position.

Good Night all.

P&L

Good Morning, ♥Little Sister♥, Johanan & ♠Lonewolf♠

G’nite ♥Kittle Sister♥. Sorry about the weather. Hope you got your water.

Your order will be ready for you, Johanan.

Congrats, ♠Lonewolf♠

Congratulations Lonewolf!

Now don’t forget to be careful of what everyone is doing with their stick thingies. Those thingies are pointy.

Grog, I want …. ummmm….. I want a whole chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and a quart of milk.

Little Sister, it reached almost about 65° here and I had to turn on the air conditioning in the car. Don’t melt away. 90°!!! Geesh! That is hot!

Gypsy woman told me I would continue wasting money looking for answers outside myself.

I managed to read GROG’S menu all the way to the bottom (do I get a star, or what?). On top of the needed DTWFNC, Could I please have either a root beer float (any flavor ice cream) or a ginger ale float with vanilla? I have big straws and a half a jar of cherries, so I’m all set on that score.

Morning TRIBE I proudly walked SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED’s overgrown rat yesterday with a sweater that read, “I only bite Yankee Fans” I know I’m flirting with disaster, but I have another for her to parade, “Yankees Suck!” I bet it’s warm enough to sleep in the park.

POIP

goodmorningtribeandall

and

DROOB!

Hope they get the avatar problem fixed so you can change to that one soon Grog. I love that one. From yesterday: yeah it’ll be a while I’m kinda stuck between a couple of stages of Kübler-Ross so it’s seems like it’ll be a long haul. There is that Amway “Fake it til you make it” thing that I may try in the meantime. I’m not getting any younger.

Tooncomment: I love Jan Eliot. She remembers being a kid.

toontour

(((tribe)))

Piffle

”MeBeGood”!?”

THAT I have to see! :)

(nom nom nom)

That was a mighty fine brick of dark chocolate, Grog. That should keep me awake until next… Bastille Day. :)

Good morning, MeBeGood, Plods w & Lewreader

Lewreader, vie never had a ginger ale float - don’t think I want either, but your wish is my command.

Plods, I hope so too. I’m getting more ideas reading old collections I’ve recently purchased.

Good Morning, Tribe

Thanks for the congrats, LuvH8 & Grog. I won the tie breaker match. Hopefully we can pull it out next week too.

Good Morning, Grog, LuvH8, Johanan, Sir Lew and……………

PLODS W!!

Good morning, Everyone……..You did great, Lonewolf…..

We’re getting ready to hit the road for Yellowstone. We should be in front of the Visitor Center sometime between 3 and 4 Mountain time. I’ll be wearing my red sweatshirt, and My Mountain Man will be wearing a grey sweatshirt. Unless it’s cold, and we’ll be in jackets. But, you’ll know it’s us…..we’ll be the only 2 people standing nearest the webcam, just standing there and talking on the phone to our kids. Sscheez…..Tourists!!!!

Here’s the link: http://www.nps.gov/yell/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

scroll down to the square that says “Old Faithful VEC webcam”, and click on that. The picture refreshes every 30 seconds. There is also a live streaming video to look for. See ya!

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have some KFC and DWFNC please, thank you Grog.

Congrats ♠Lonewolf♠!

Good Morning, Montana Lady Thank you!

Good Morning, Sojo. Thank you, too! I almost blew the last shot on the eight ball.

Almost only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and small nuclear wars, Terry.

Course you probably had a high pucker factor going at the time.

grats on the win!!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ and Plods w!

Good morning all. When you read this Big Sister I have taken your great advice and been using heating pad on my back but also change positions from different directions.. This is from exercise that I don’t over work with. I guess one of the machines is very intense why my body is having trouble with.

Thanks, Plods w. Not really a pucker factor as my opponent had six balls still on the table. I just don’t like missing shots in a rubber match.

Good Morning ♥Kab♥ - Hope your soreness goes away!

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon.

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥.

Hi & Bye, Doc.

Good Morning, Pseu.

Interesting info. Not many are that familiar with the history.

Good Morning pseudo - Interesting factiid!

Almost is pretty good with large bombs too.

Ummm….. thank you guys for saying I can share my opinions and humor here. Although perhaps some of it is a little morbid.

My mom is being particularly challenging right now. If I tell her what I think of her behavior though I will probably incur the wrath of the whole family.

Good Morning MeBeGood!

 Good Morning Peoples!

MeBe Any time you need someone to vent off line to, shoot me an email. Terry has the address if you want it.

Thank you Plods w, that is very nice of you.

Por Nada

Hi, friends! Luv - You can always vent to me, too. Having taken care of my mom, I understand.

Good afternoon, Rmom!

I’m getting ready to head out to the garage and get some things done out there. 50° and sunny. A little chilly with the wind but otherwise fairly nice.

Hello Rmom!

Good P.M., peeps! (esp: MeBeGood (really???), Plods w, and SRMom)

Poor Pete. The boys always seem so much less ready for love than the girls.

@MeBeGood & SR Mom: I do enjoy both of your senses of humor. I’m just glad people put up with mine.

Hi, Wolfie, Sojo & bmonk! We’re up to 73° & sunny now, but it’s more windy than yesterday. Guess it is a good thing I burned the trash yesterday.

Hello bmonk!

Hi, boy-pseu. We are in the 60s, I’m thinking, with a slight chance of thunder-boomers most of the day.

(Of course, the warm weather (and rain) are making it a real problem with flooding. And washed-out culverts. And long detours. And roads torn up by the trucks coming to fix the washouts… .)

Hah! For a brief time, I was wondering what was up: gocomics had 54 comments on one page.

Hope it’s green.

BBL

Pooph

Thanks, bmonk! I enjoy your humor too! I’m glad I found this group of friends who don’t mind my off-beat sense of humor. Oh, speaking of off-beat, this is one of the wackiest examples I’ve read lately.

Not today outdoors. Nice breeze, some sun, scattered clouds.

The ’60s, now…

“Hey, man, gotta reefer? I really dig that groovy vibe.”

Rmom - LOL at the link!

Hi, Plods & pseu - or is that Psue? pseu - Depends on who is doing the mowing. My hubby used to mow with a Ford 9N tractor with a brush hog attached. I can’t remember if the other tractor can operate the brush hog or not. tractors I inherited a riding lawnmower from my mom’s estate, so that’s what we’ve been using the last couple of years. The tractors’ are difficult to start, and I’ve never been comfortable driving either of them. Probably because my Dad tried to teach me how to drive a tractor when I was younger, on a freshly plowed field. It was a slightly larger tractor than the 9N, but I think it was older. No cab, and the only thing that kept me from bouncing off the tractor was my grip on the steering wheel. Since it was my husband who wanted us to move out to the country, I decided if I didn’t learn to drive the tractor, he wouldn’t stick me with the mowing job. Now that my hubby’s away during the week, my sons or I have the mowing job. But with the riding mower at full speed, it is sort of like driving a go-kart. Pretty fun, as long as we avoid getting scraped by a thorn tree branch.

Today is Gma’s 83rd Birthday. Which is good because I’ve been telling everyone she is 83 for about 4 years now. She got a phone call from one of those political people yesterday. Do you think it was perhaps too honest when I said she can’t come to the phone because she is at the nursing home dying?

Sojo - Just when you think you’ve heard everything…

Hi, Luv - Aren’t we all dying? Just some are closer to the finish line.

Actually, I knew she was going to die once she realized her kids were not letting her come home again. So, I am dealing fairly well with that. It is my mom that is causing elevated blood pressure levels (literally).

“Good health is merely the slowest rate of death.”

Luv - Your mom reminds me of my bossy, big sister. I can only be around her until she pulls off her “nice mask”. We try to have a truce going most of the time, but we’ll never be close friends, just because our personalities aren’t compatible. She likes to give orders, and the more someone tries to order me around, the more stubborn I become. As the title of one of the books I bought says…”You can’t make me! (But I can be persuaded)”

Thank you, and of course since she isn’t eating this year I can have Chocolate Cake!!! instead of strawberry pie. The strawberries are never quite ready yet but she always insists.

Pseu - A lot of people with small acreage find 9N’s to be just right, and it has come in handy. I don’t know if my hubby is just too cheap to keep a good battery on it, or what, but it usually has to be started on compression. When we first moved here, the thorn trees were small and sparse. We planted (thornless) trees and they’ve all grown, plus the stuff we’ve built are more obstacles to mow around. Not as much wide open areas to mow now, so the riding lawn mower is easier to maneuver, plus lower, so easier to get under some of the branches.

Luv - I hope you can enjoy her birthday. It was difficult for me to really enjoy Mom’s final birthday and Mother’s Day, since she couldn’t really participate in the conversations, etc. Is your Gma able to socialize?

No, she did her last socializing Saturday afternoon. She has been unconscious since then. So she missed seeing Monkey 2’s prom pictures. Monkey 2 and I went to visit Sunday which is when we found out she wouldn’t be waking again.

Mother’s Day! Can I give my mother a home made green apple ooops I forgot the sugar pie?

Luv - I guess I missed that bit of news. I’m sorry, as I know you & your Gma have been close. Sounds like it probably won’t be too many more days, unless she’s on a feeding tube. Your apple pie reminds me of the birthday cake my brother baked for my sister (when we were kids, and in 4-H). He forgot to add the sugar to a Wacky cake. It looked fine, but it tasted so bad, no one - including the dog - would take more than one bite. (That was before we knew dogs shouldn’t have chocolate.)

Two elderly women who hated each other met at a party.

The first woman asked, “Oh my, are those real pearls?”

The other lady answered, “Why, yes!”

“There are so many fakes these days, the only way I could tell if they were real is if I could bite them,” sneered the first lady.

The second responded, “Yes, but for that you would need real teeth.”

No, they took her off everything but oxygen and tranquilizers on Monday, it shouldn’t be much longer.

Ummm…… you could have sprinkled sugar on the cake?

Suffering from constipation for several days, George finally visited his doctor and was given suppositories.

A week later, he called his doctor to complain that the medicine wasn’t producing the desired results.

“Have you been taking them regularly?” the doctor asked.

“What do you think?” George complained. “That I’ve been shoving them up my rear?”

MeBeGood - LOL

G’Afternoon evwrybwody!

Done enough damage out in the garage. Now I can relax for the time being. At least until Da Bulls start game 2 this evening.

Hi, Sojo. I hope it is one I enjoy more than the first one! :^)

Good Afternoon ♠Lonewolf♠ - Enjoy the game!

Surprised to see me here early I bet. Well I’m sick with stomach flu.

No fun (icky bleh!) :-( :-P

Hello ♥Little Sister♥ - Get well soon!

Hi, Li’l Sister. Get well soon.

Good evening all. I found out something about stomach flu the hard way. Someone on TV reported about that cause may to do with was in my case anyway food under cooked. I seen your message ♥Little Sister♥. Some time ago we went to one restaurant and they were so busy they rushed the food process next morning all came up. Talk uky.:(

Hi, ♥Kab♥.

I feel bad too.

I feel bad for Big Sister. For me my grandmothers one my mom’s mom been gone since 1968 my dad’s mom when I was in HS she was 92.

Good evening Tribe

I’m presently watching After the Thin Man. Tomorrow night I’ll have a Thin Man Double Header.

Fell better soon, ♥Little Sister♥

♥Little Sister♥ I know how you feel about not feeling great.

Here were watching ABC the Middle. Not usually too much on TV that is interesting.

Hi, Grog. Love The Thin Man series.

Good Evening ♥Kab♥!

♥Kab♥, the best part is, I’m not watching TV, however when I’m done with my movie I can catch the end of Magnum PI, and full episodes of The Rockford Files, Star Trek & The Twilight zone on one of my locals. They have some great classic shows from the ‘80’s and earlier.

Good evening, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Sojo

Good evening Doctor Toon. Too bad you couldn’t eat the stock.

I hate doing inventory. I have to be at the plant at 2AM and there’s really no point in going back home by the time it’s done. Since it’s also the last day of the month, it makes for a very long day because the earliest I can usually leave is about 4PM.

Fortunately, I only have to do it once a year, but because of the buyout, I had to do it twice last year.

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon - Hope your evening goes well.

Hu wuz dat masked man???

(Hi and Bye, Doc.)

Grog I remember those shows. We here watch The Middle involves a family with normal kids. I’m not much into shows that have been off. Now my hubby loves them. Likes watching very old one Daniel Boone. I watched Westerns growing up.

Doctor Toon I remember those days 35 years ago. I worked at a key and number very low pay warehouse and had to do inventory. I did general office work. There I wasn’t held back like at my current position. Back then there was no computers. Accounting was done by hand by a professional accountant. There was a billing and invoicing machine call Burroughs 5000 series. a big pain that broke down alot. I think that company went out of busines 20 years ago.

♥Kab♥**, the only new shows I watch these days are cooking shows and baseball & football. There’s really nothing in the prime time line-up that appeals to me these days. And once you weed out the commercials, there’s not much left to actually watch anyway.

I think the last show I watched, was The Terminator TV series. I think it was very short-lived, lasting about 8 episodes.

I also absolutely refuse to watch anything with Charlie Sheen anymore. What a jerk.

Well I see the Bulls are ahead.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Night, Sojo.

Boston’s still scoreless. They’ve been putting together a descent run of games. And the have the Angels’ #.

Good night, Sojo

Well, I think I should get ready to go, too

Gunite, Tribeandall

Good Night, Grog. Rest well.

Da Bulls win!! WooHoo!

Hello once more not to long. For Charlie Sheens Two and a Half Men I never started that show. I don’t care for sports. Hubby likes CSI. and wrestling. My b-i-l and wife, my sister, likes football and crime shows. And of course I like and this is almost over as well DWTS.

Big Sister I’m sorry for what you and Monkey Two are going through. One thing regretteded when my grandma was 92 and new her time was coming I went to singles’s group and should have gone to say goodbye, I never at that time got that chance. My dad kept running us off long before his death. I also wasn’t up there not knowing that one Thursday was his last day 12 years ago. My own mom is 86 and going strong. Just has to much anxiety.

Time for bed hair is dry good night all. Big Sister I will be thinking of your time of need and Monkey two.

Sojo’s Happy Birthday Gma D Disappeared!

I am very happy Gma D made it to 83. It is after all a prime number and the age that has been firmly set in my mind for years. A very good thing since I have ADHD and will not have to replace the number. I told her last year that she was just going to have to be 83 the rest of her life.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(That’s the scary picture I took of her when she hadn’t done her hair, I promised her I would show it off.)

Thank you Kab Sister

Happy 83ed Birthday MeBeGood’s Gma!!!