Big Top by Rob Harrell

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Tabby Lynn said, 4 months ago

FIRST?
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

Am I first?
Tabby Lynn said, 4 months ago

pancakes and eggs!!! and bed…. and yourgret (sp to tired to care) ice cream…. grits, donuts, french toast sticks microwave breakfast treats, cereal, and last but not least Poptarts…. lol
Tabby Lynn said, 4 months ago

sorry serenasakitty… i snuck in to say good night and got first by compleate accident… i brought breakfast so no worries. well i am so tired i have a headache from h* and so tired not having kids nope nope nope. lol dont ask…..

so all have a great day its monday see you all when the sun is up and my head is better. night night sleep tight.
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

Tabby, I haven’t had Poptarts for years! Got any cinnamon ones?

serenasakitty: Good morning.
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

tabby, serena & Marg - good morning. Wow what an array of food. Pancakes and eggs sound good to me.
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

David Blaine is a pretty good magician. But somehow, I think Dusty is far from being a magician.
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

Hello Tabby I don’t mind that you got in ahead of me. When I was going from page 2 to page 4 the strip changed. I’ve never been this close before. I usually don’t get home for another 6 hours or so.
I hope your headache will soon be better. Get some rest and take care of yourself.
It seems you have breakfast covered so I will just add some fresh fruit, juices and some hot or iced tea.
It is too bad that I missed getting in on the conversation yesterday when everyone was talking about their pets. That is one of my favorite topics.
Now since I can’t play the horn, may I introduce my drum? Or Bagpipes? I can’t play them either, but I can make LOTS of noise.
Good morning to any one who is around. BBL.
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

serena - Obviously, you have at least a cat. There is nothing better than having a pet and treating it well. The love you get back is so unconditional; except for the feed me, feed me, feed me desire. LOL

I hate it when people have pets and mistreat them, like having a dog and leaving it chained morning, noon & night. Or having cats, so many that they get ignored and malnourished.
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

I’m with you on that, Cleo!
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

Marg - So how was your weekend? Do any kayaking?
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

Well Tribe, it looks as if it is just lonesome old me. So, I might just as well call it a night. See you all in the morning.
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

Hi Cleo, Marg. Everyone doesn’t have to leave just when I show up.
Cleo we had two dogs, mother and daughter, and two unrelated cats. We had to put down the mother dog 2 years ago. She had diabetes and cancer, and it got so bad she couldn’t lie down without crying for 10 min. Our oldest cat left us last summer. She was nearly blind and deaf and didn’t always know where she was. We got to enjoy her for nearly 22 years and couldn’t stand to think of her spending what little time she could have dragged out in a steadily worsening condition. Our other cat had been a starving throwaway when she came to us so I don’t really know how old she was. For the rest of her life I guess she felt that the food might disappear if she quit checking. Every time we got near her food bowl she was screaming to be fed. We would put 2 or 3 pieces of kibble in her bowl and she would be reassured. It got kind of annoying at times. The other dog is still with us but she is getting old. I’m glad that she is still fairly healthy and active. They were all sweet and affectionate and I still miss them very much. I don’t know if I should admit to this but they were all totally spoiled.
Sorry I don’t mean to go on and on like this. I don’t want to bring everybody down.
It seems everytime I get on here, I almost write a book.
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

Is anyone here?
Akenta said, 4 months ago

Good morning and Happy Monday. Are you still around serena? Looks like the Yappy Nuts arrived last night after I fell asleep. Glad everyone had a good weekend.
Akenta said, 4 months ago

Doc’s nuclear coffee is featured in another strip

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/comics/king.html?name=Bizarro

I wish this site would carry Bizarro (or has it - haven’t checked the new strips since they redid this site0.
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

I’m still here, but I think I’ll go take a nap. BBL.
Dry said, 4 months ago

Yes Dusty, back away! It gets terrifying when you get that look in your eye!!

Where’d everybody go? I’m not in the twilight zone, am I? Oh dear, what’s that music? I am in the Twilight Zone!
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Good Morning Tribe!

tabby - I’m glad you got first, your breakfast sounds awesome.

serena - sorry you missed first.
I like to talk about my pets, too, I’ve had several I will never forget either.
We have plenty of noisemakers in the Tribe now, It’s amazing any of us get any sleep.

marg - I still eat a lot of pop tarts, my favorite are the chocolate.

Akenta - I knew Nuclear Coffee gives people random super powers, but defying death is a new one.

Dry - Not only are you a one woman band, but you are now officially a one woman twilight zone.
dcguys said, 4 months ago

Every time I try to grab an idea, it just floats away…darn, there goes another one! I don’t even get a chance to find out if there any good.

MMMM PopTarts! Any chocolate with cream center? Off to RL all.

P&L tribe!
Dry said, 4 months ago

Doc you are late today!! I was going to send out a search party, then I thought maybe you worked some overtime!
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

dcguys - The chocolate pop tarts with the vanilla center are indeed a gift from the pastry gods.

Dry - If I was working full time like I’m supposed to, I wouldn’t even be off work yet.
I did get an hour more than I was scheduled last night.
We had a section of the freezers go down.
It was fixed by the time I got to work, but I had to restock the product.
Radical-Knight said, 4 months ago

Morning, Tribe. A nice morning so far. 8:03AM in Houston, TX and about 80° outside so far and a slight breeze. The Live Weatherbug says 30% chance of rain and we need it. I don’t remember WHEN it raind last and many of the lawns here are nothing more than inch tall straw.
DigitalFrog said, 4 months ago

Morning all,

We were just dicussing Pop-Tarts at our house yesterday, and how we can’t seem to get Apple Cinamon ones up here any more for some reason….
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

Morning, once again, all.

I don’t think that I have had a pop tart in decades and probably won’t ever have one again. I tend to stay away from sugary foods in the morning. Years ago when I was teaching a photography class in Seattle and on the drive there I would always stop and treat myself to an apple fritter. Now, I have just recently made a total reversal in the way I eat and most often have fruit and maybe some cereal for breakfast. My splurge meal is dinner.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Rad - Most of the people around here would be glad to send you some rain.
We’ve had water shortages for years, and now that it’s raining every afternoon lately they’re complaining.
Today is supposed to be upper 90s, then rain.

DF - Now I have to check and see if we carry the Apple Cinnamon Pop Tarts. It might be that they don’t make them anymore. We’re always getting products discontinued and new ones in to replace them.

Dry, Joy and JFri - It looks as if Stouffers is discontinuing the smallest size of stuffed peppers.
Don’t worry, the large and the family size are still around.

cleo - I still have quite a sweet tooth, but I have noticed I don’t crave sweets like I did when I was younger.
Dry said, 4 months ago

And the star of today’s NonSequitor, Our very own CLEO!!! LOL
Dry said, 4 months ago

doc, I only buy the big size anymore, one just wasn’t enough! I love Stouffer’s! For frozen it’s so good, tastes homemade! Whoa, they have FAMILY SIZE stuffed peppers. the only family size they carry around here is the lasagna and some other pasta dish.
Dry said, 4 months ago

doc, left you a comment at Daddy’s Home!

Hi Rad! I love the heat and summer! We’re good on the rain so far, anyway. Come August it might be a different story.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Dry - In the Stouffers Lasagna we carry 4 sizes
Small and large individual serving, family size and party size.
I can eat a family size by myself.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Re: The comment at Daddy’s’ Home
It’s a famous quote, but I didn’t bother to look up whose.
Dry said, 4 months ago

doc sounds like you and me have pretty hearty appetites!! We must have good metabolism cuz we don’t get fat! LOL
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

My wife has a metabolism that allows her to eat way more food than me and remain slim. She is a very petite woman, but eats like a trucker. But she is very conscious of what she eats and his been a good model for me to stay away from saturated fat and high fructose corn syrup.
Dry said, 4 months ago

cleo, left you a comment at Frog Applause!
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Most days I only eat one meal, but it is a BIG one.

Errands to run
BBL
bmonk said, 4 months ago

About Bizarro, I seem to remember a rather different comic with that name? Maybe not. But thanks, I think, anyway.

I did notice this one with a few moments brousing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/comics/king.html?name=Bizarro&date=20090701. (I resemble that sign.)

Luckily virtual food is non-fattening, or we might have to get one for our restroom doors.
bmonk said, 4 months ago

Frank & Ernest yesterday got the Tribe’s galaxy down: http://www.gocomics.com/frankandernest/2009/07/05/
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

DAAAAAAAHH Strip:

OK, Dusteroo - as long as you’re the one who gets buried alive.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

bmonk - Virtual food may not be fattening, but reading about it makes me hungry.
Then I eat real food that IS fattening.
bmonk said, 4 months ago

Aye, doc, there’s the rub!

“…Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,”

And not just conscience about thoughts of death. Even thoughts of food catch up with us!

Unfortunately, “they” (the “experts”) say that even looking at pictures of rich food is fattening. It seems, they think, that the pictures cause our metabolism to create more fat, and that is harder to convert back to energy, so we get hungrier and eat more, and…

You just can’t win!
Carmy said, 4 months ago

Looks like Dusty is gonna run with that idea!

Good Morning and Good Afternoon Tribe!
Woke up to sunny skies and then WHAM! Dark skies with thunder, lightning and buckets of rain. I’m glad we worked on the backyard yesterday.
Carmy said, 4 months ago

My girls prefer Toast’ems popups. The chocolate ones are good, or at least they were when I could eat chocolate. I tried the cinnamon and they were okay.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

carmy - The ground is still wet from last nights rain, it’s supposed to be 90 today, and it’s supposed to rain tonight.
Colorado weather, if you don’t like it just wait.
It will change again soon.
Carmy said, 4 months ago

Doc, when I woke up it was 90 and now it’s 79. More rain is on the way here, probably for the rest of the day too.
BBL, making rounds.
bmonk said, 4 months ago

It’s not yet 79 here yet, except maybe the humidity. But it’s s’posed to hit mid-80s, maybe. If the weather wonks got it right today. And a slight chance of thunder-boomers for 24 hours after noon today.
Dry said, 4 months ago

I was about to say it’s beautiful here, but I just looked out the window, it’s getting cloudy! Looks like thunderheads!
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

Dry - RE Frog Applause. I don’t recall mentioning your name, although a fleeting thought of you flashed through my mind as I posted. You, my dear, outed yourself. LOL

doctortoon - Until I got married, I too only ate one meal a day. Now I eat two or three. I try to make breakfast and lunch healthy and low in fat. Our dinners are healthy but have more fat used in the prepartation. It is working for me in keeping me at a proper weight.
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

It is cloudy here today. We had a light sprinkle, but not as much rain as we need.
Dawn said, 4 months ago

Tabby Thanks for the breakie! Yummmm…

Re:yesterday’s posts about pets
When I was a kid, we had a black cat that used its nine lives up very quickly The vet said he had his head kicked when his jaw was broken. I was he one who had to keep pushing in the pin but he was a swetheart. A year after he died, a female wild cat (very tiny and afraid) dropped off her two kittens at our place to be fed. It took a month to convince them to come into the house! They looked very much like our former cat and although it wasn’t possible, I’m sure the mamma cat thought she was bringing our cat’s babies to him. Unfortunately there was a poisoner in the neighborhood and they were young when they died. How can people be so mean? This was at a time when cats were expected to be outdoor animals. I would now spay or neuter and keep them indoors if we didn’t travel so much.

We have rain here again today - and it’s Stampede week! But it is nice and fresh smelling outside - I love it.

Cleo I have you beat in the age category - by a few years - but not many.

Dry just you wait - that metabolism sure slows down - I never thought I would have o watch what I eat!

Marg and JFri I love kayaking too but my back is so bad these days I can’t do it much anymore. I love it when we creep up to a seal and it pops its head out of the water to gaze at us before it dives.

Shika - what’s happening with the church?
Dawn said, 4 months ago

BMonk - love that Bizarro but sadly it’s too true.