Big Top by Rob Harrell for September 11, 2010

Good morning, Tribeandall……….

Here is this morning’s menu….

Hi there,

Let’s hope I can cut and paste like I’ve been practicing…..

Here is a genuine Polish day’s worth of food……….

Okay……so I have a problem cutting and pasting….so, please hold on…..

Try copying and pasting. instead of cutting.

Montana Lady’s Polish Menu

Breakfast: • 3 Egg omelet with fresh Polish Sausage and onions • 3 Egg omelet with smoked Polish Sausage and onions • 3 Egg omelet with chili and hot dogs • Assorted potatoes • Toast • Bagels • Cinnamon buns

Lunch: • Open faced Kielbasa sandwiches with cheese • Grilled cheese sandwiches • Potatoe soup

Dinner: • Stuffed Cabbages with tomato gravy and mashed potatoes • Grilled Kielbasa with scalloped potatoes • Hunter Stew ( chunks of pork loin, bacon, ham and Kielbasa simmered in a white wine sauce with sauerkraut and onions) • Pierogi’s, stuffed with sweet cabbage and ham, or mashed potatoes, or sauerkraut

Desserts: • Poppy seed cake • Walnut-Honey cake • Prune Kolaches • Powder sugared Bow Ties • Chocolate Cake with lots of rich chocolate frosting! • Sticky Buns

Beverages: • LuvH8’s Blechy beer • Doc’s Nuclear Coffee • Mocha • Expresso Decaf • Shiraz, Merlot and Cabernet • Hot Chocolate

Much better! I’ll have one of everything except the alcohol.

Here you are Little Sister……and I packed a few Tums to go with it….

Sounds good.

Thank you MontanaLady :-)

Hello to both what a delightful menu MontabaLady. I tried and for a busy day ahead of me my mind won’t shut down I have a song going. Took Alieve not for headache to see if will calm nerve down. Need to as to hard to think and type.

I’ll take bagels and cinimon buns. Since you don’t have it listed I’ll go to Fridge get some fruit type cream cheese spread. Desert chocolate cake with icing. and drink Espreso Decaf. I’ll say good night to both of you. I don’t usually do this as I was curious about MontanaLady’s menu.

Oh and Montana Lady don’t worry about cut and paste just use copy and paste. That way you will always have your menu and make any changes you like. I have different Photob on word. Mean time both of you have nice sleep.

I just want to say I will never forget 9/11 and where I was that day. Always remember.

Good morning, Kab and Little Sister….always appreciate all the help I can get!!!!

Oh, and here’s your dessert!!!

I always look for to desert. Try to get some sleep I wish I could. I have a lot of standing for later today.

Enjoy the Fair…Kab

Have fun at the fair, even if you have to work Sister Kab.

I will. Thanks I rather be sleeping. Went through GC tour and proud BB gave tribute, also OBH in a way. Wish more would. 9/11 always remember. Be a long day.

thanks, Kab…..always will remember 9/11……

I told the folks over at BirdBrains……on that day and for days afterward, while working “numbly”, I would listen to “Beethoven.com” and the most requested piece of music was Shubert’s “Ave Maria”…..most inspiring, and now, most haunting!!!!

Also, those folks over at Beethoven.com, they are in Hartford CT, and they drove many trucks full of food and water over to ground zero for all our heroes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Morning, MontanaLady, Little Sister & Kab

I went for a nap and slept almost 5 hours.

I think I’ll have the 3 egg omelette with Polish Sausage & onions and some Blechy Beer please.

Well, Tribe, it’s time that I put out the ole campfire, and head off to my bed roll………

Enjoy your breakfast, the buffet will be self serve all night long.

:)))))

Hi Grog :-)

Here’s your order, Grog…..

and now, Good night, Sweet prince and princesses!

I read your note on BB very appropriate.

Thanks, MontanaLady & good night.

You are up pretty late there, Little Sister. You too, Kab

Well Grog I do not have school or work so why not stay up late.

Ah! Hello Big Sister. :-)

Good Morning, LuvH8

Add to that picture “Drink Pepsi” and you’ve got a commercial.

Good Morning Grog!

Hyper Rodents With Pepsi! Yes, I would buy it.

LuvH8’s Blechy Beer! We can’t have that.

(starts opening beers and lining them up on the table)

Montana Type Lady: I may have got the last Cinnamon Bun, but it was great with the Cocoa. Thanks

Hyper rodents bite so beware.

LuvH8

I’m drinking that!

BLECHY BEER that’s gross!

Little Sister, do you want to help me knock over Blechy Beer?

It is my Blechy Beer, Grog. I guess I can knock ot over if I want to.

Beer is beer

Big Sister I would love to help you knock them over, but I don’t want to touch that poison.

See you all when I wake up.

yaawwnn Good morning Tribe

Woke up and can’t get back to sleep so thought I’d check in here. Such a lovely breakfast, lunch and dinner. I love ‘taters, so I guess I’ll start with an assortment of the potato dishes.

9/11 tributes….there’s a nice, simple one on Nancy

Good Morning, Quaby

I’m going to try to get a few more hours sleep before sunrise.

Sleep well, Grog. I’m waiting for the Tylenol to kick in, my ankle’s hurting more than usual.

Well, I’m dropping off in front of the ;puter. Off to get a few more zzzzzz’s. P&L

I’ll have some of that… keep pouring until I tell you to stop or until my eyes fall out and bounce on the floor.

Here’s a replacement coffeepot for the one broken yesterday by You Most Certainly Did Too, Again:

Huh… I guess for some creatures, beer really IS blechy.

ML* Having grown up in the shadow of St Stan’s and having suffered through many a high Mass in a language other than English or Latin, I now will not eat shoe or brass polish Galumpkis were made in a BIG pot better used for canning. They were made on Friday and lasted till Tuesday.May I have a cup of *DOC’S COFFEE hold the potatoes and cabbage. Now the Irish know how to cook potatoes and cabbage, put them in a pot and boil them till doomsday

Morning TRIBE! In honor of my eternally successful diet, I recommend virtual lunch and dinner.

Fat free peanut butter Diet Fluff Sugar free Smuckers, all flavors Over microwaved Tina’s Burritos with the filling cooked out Weight Watchers sawdust bread Miracle Whip Lite ham Vegetarian salami Lots of lettuce Genetically engineered tomatoes Dry mustard with vinegar Bridgeport. Ct water Tuna packed in water without mayonnaise Blindfolds and nose plugs Methamphetamines and or crack cocaine Jane Fonda workout tape A strong “It’s my spouse’s fault” attitude.

Think thin! .

If you haven’t dropped by Birdbrains yet, do so.

Good morning Tribe!

Good Morning Lewreader and Johanan

I need to get my kid to football. Game doesn’t start until 9 so I’ll be back as soon as i drop him off and stop by Dunkin D’s.

BBS

Good Morning, Bargrove, Johanan, Lewreader, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Doctor Toon!

Lewreader, your menu put a smile on my face, but forgive me for not making an order. I don’t think my taste buds will be as amused.

Oh my gosh! I fell asleep with all these open beers on the table. Must have been the fumes. Huh, maybe I’ve made enough messes lately?

(Goes and gets the recycling can to put the beer containers in.)

Hey! What is this? Oh! Oh! Oh! Paintball Gun! Waterballs?

Doc!

It wasn’t me, it was the chili can.

Good Morning, LuvH8

Good Morning, Doc & Grog

(Quickly stashes the waterball gun in the recycling can. Starts carrying beers over to sink and dumping them out.)

(sees an unopened beer, shakes vigorously, and pops top in LuvH8’s direction)

Doc, see the coffee maker is fine! It was just the pot. I will try to do better. I’m sorry.

One must pay for wasting beer. (Takes sip out of what’s left in can)

Ewww! Now I smell like Blechy Beer! (Hurridly fills can with beer containers to cover waterball gun.)

(Pulls a blackberry pie out of the pantry, and throws it at Grog. Misses and hits Doc instead.)

Oh…. ummm… ummm… Mendasock!

Hi DDFence

Good Morning, EMET!

EMET, Turkey is a once-a-year thing for me. Pork & pork fat rules. It’s a food of love thing.

Doc, we all have to be on our toes while LuvH8 is around. Fortunately for me, she’s not terribly accuarte.

Hy’s not going to be happy with this. Not happy at all.

YAWN STRETCH PURR YAWN

Slept in again, love Saturdays!

So, you enjoyed a touch of the Polish neighborhood, huh? That’s how I learned from my G’ma in California, and my husband grew up in Pittsburgh, and had the same love of Polish cooking, too.

Montana Lady, I can’t wait for lunch!

And dinner!

Well it’s time for me to get moving on my errands, but I’ll be back in time for lunch.

Pop!

Pleasant Dreams, Doc Sorry about the pie.

RCMinor - Hello & No, I see no reason to flag them.

Poof!

Good morning everyone.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪☼ Good Morning TRIBE! ☼♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have an egg omelet with smoked Polish Sausage and onions potatoes and toast. For later I’ll take some Stuffed Cabbages with tomato gravy and mashed potatoes, Hunter Stew and Walnut-Honey cake. Thank you.

Hello Doc :-)

Have a good snooz Doctor Toon.

MontanaLady A good menu! A polish sausage please and omlet and I love the prune kolash (not afraid as I have had them before) they are very civilized. Thank you.

Oh yes, some Doc’s coffee with creamer.

My favorite college basketball coach is polish and from Chicago…He is also a graduate from West Point and very patriotic.

Wishing the Tribe a blessed day

Here’s your orders, Sojo and hope

Spent many a summer in Chicago visiting family, and LOVED the smoked white fish, too! Nothing like real Kielbasa from there, too.

Hello again Tribe

Yawn I agree with Luv8, I’ll let any poster ramble on, Lord knows I’m often guilty of rambling. I cruise through reading, skimming or passing over as my mood goes, but the moment there’s a $ or free shipping up goes the flag.

Hi Hopeandjoy2, MontanaLady and Quaby.

Thanks MontanaLady for the excellent menu.

Good Morning, (again) LuvH8, Sojourner, Little Sister, Quaby, hopeandjoy and anyone else I may have missed!

Sleep well, Doc

Thanks MontanaLady….We have not been to Chicago yet…Need to go and see the sights and eat the food.

Hi Sojo and Quaby and the 2 sisters

MontanaLady, I think I’ll have the potato soup and the open faced Kielbasa sandwiches with cheese, please. :-)

Hi Grog.

YAAAAH # It is a morning of interruptions and I need to eat my good breakfast.

Anyway, Grog, Emet, Usharp, bmonk, Lonewolf, Kab and Rmom and all present and arriving soon WELCOME

I am gone :+))

Bye Hopeandjoy2. p.s, your avatar is rather eye catching!

Good afternoon Montana Lady, LilSis, Lonewolf, Grog, Quaby, Sojo, Lewreader, Doc, Kab, H&J2, LuvH8, Emet and Johanan.

Great Breakfast spread Montana Lady. I was gonna make a shoe polish joke but Lewreader beat me to it by about 6 hours.

@RCMinor: I may be both “thunderingly wrong” and “ignorant” as you say, BUT if you start flagging DDfence Emet for his excellent posts, I’m gonna start flagging you!! Flag spammers, that’s all.

Good Afternoon, Frankr

I’ll see you all later. I’m going to work out at the gym and do some kickboxing.

RCMinor I do not flag my friends, just the spammers and trolls.

Hi Frankr

See you later Little Sister

Good afternoon everyone!

Awesome menu, MontanaLady!

5 Stars all the way around! Thank you!

James’ team won their football game. WooHoo!!

I am headed out for Saturday pool league. We have playoffs and I think we should be on the winning end of the matches.

Have a great afternoon everyone!

P&L

Lilsis: I don’t know what the boxes did to you, but I’m sure they have it coming. Kick away!

Good afternoon, ♠Lonewolf♠

Good for James and good luck to you.

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠ - Congrats to James! Have a good time at your pool league.

Popping by:

Hello* Frankr*(I can just see LS kicking boxes…giggle)

Hurray for James and good luck LWolf

SojoAs you can see I reverted to my dancing pair so I ruined your good comment about my one-eyed Cat Avatar… The cat didn’t seem to be “me” today but will think on it.

Hopeandjoy2 - I do like the dancing pair and the previous one you had! You seem to have a good choice on whatever you use.

Good afternoon, tribe! Sorry, I’m running behind today. Next door neighbor had an auction this morning, and I didn’t want to miss that. The picture posted above is of my two sons. They were on a balcony at the Liberty Science Center in NJ.

Great pic RMom

Hi Rmom - Thanks.

Hi & thanks, Frankr & Sojo!

LITTLE SISTER You are a bad example. I pack my gym clothes with all good intentions walk 3 blocks to the bus. Walking from the bus stop to the gym, I pass the supermarket with delightful smells coming from the bakery’ Not wanting to neglect my family, I am forced to sample the merchandise. By this time I have far too many groceries to fit in a gym locker. Out of love for my family, I skip the gym. Am I noble or what?

Good afternoon, Sojourner, Frankr, Rmom & Lewreader

Lewreader, when I walked to the gym back in Montreal, I had to walk by the supermarket to get to the gym. On weekdays I would go to the gym on the way to work. The supermarket wasn’t open.

However on week-ends I had the will-power to avoid the supermarket at least until returning from the gym.

I figure you could take care of your love of family after you’ve finished at the gym.

Hi, Grog & Lew!

Hi Lewreader and Grog.

I’m A bad example…..Really!

Don’t listen to him, Little Sister

Little Sister, did you win or did the boxes?

Big Sister it’s just a workout not an actual fight.

Sir Lew, maybe you could find a donut shop or something that is 2 - 5 miles away. You could walk there, have coffee and a donut/ dessert and then walk back. Exercise and junk food.

Do you actually kick an object or just air, both? It sounds like a good workout.

I work on a punching bag. they are big and heavy and sometimes I will step into the ring and spar with a trainer, like I did today.

I will occasionally do martial arts exercise training by just doing the routines without actually hitting something.

That seems like a good way to practice technique before you go up against the bag. Less chance of injury? Do they have a big yellow smiley face on the bag?

No, it’s just an ordinary bag to hit or kick.

You should suggest they put a silly face on it.

It’s also good for working out the frustrations, such as what I had yesterday.

Yeah, one of the times I quit smoking, I did a lot of excercise and dancing and walking. Whenever I wanted a cigarette and I was home on would go the music.

You smoked!

Cigarettes are as……

as beer.

Big Sister I have something for your grim reaper collection but you’ll need to go to my photobucket account to get it.

Yup, I smoked for about twenty years. This is why I can say from experience.

I forgive you

Little Sister I bet kick boxing IS a good way to work out aggressions or frustrations. I just do Tai Chi and mellow out in a pattern form of exercise at home….but I kick a lot when I swim!!!

LuvH8 BBS Happy you have “Kicked” the habit *: )

Rmom A nostalgic picture. Thanks for sharing.

We had two waves of thunderstorms but all is well here… 3 inches of rain…Golfer husband said “”Too Wet for Golf” My Guess is you are well too.

Thank you Little Sister, I Luv It!

Thank you, HopeandJoy. It will be 3 years in November. Hopefully that means it is the last time I have to quit.

Oh, and I have a feeling Little Sister would practice her virtual kickboxing on me.

I think you’re right ! LuvH8 BBS I quit over 20 yrs ago and the first year was the hardest.

I quit cigarettes 8 years ago after decades of addiction

I never smoked a cigarette, and don’t want too.

Congrats to all who have quit smoking!

Good for you Little Sister and You too Frankr!!

3 years! I’m so proud of you Big Sister, and I’m proud of you too Frankr.

Good to see you Doctor Toon.

Hi Doc :-)

Peace Doc Toon Hope your shift is an easy one. See you!

Good evening, Tribeandall!

Back from pool. Team won!! (I lost my match) Next week is the finals for playoffs and then on to City Challenge.

How’s everyone doing?

BTW, another comment from experience………………..don’t smoke!

Fine here ♠Lonewolf♠ - Congats! for your team. I hope you and James are having a good weekend.

Hi, Sojo. Thanks. Everything is going fine so far.

Thank you for the Congratulations. Congratulations to Frankr, and all the others who quit smoking. For most people it is very difficult to do.

Cold turkey is the best way. Well, at least it was for me. :^)

Yeah, that is pretty much the way that worked best for me too.

Well I am proud of you Big Sister. I offer you a hug.

(They are nice from you though.)

I missed you! Big Sister.

I keep miss you too. You are too busy and I keep getting distracted.

Time for my zzzzzz’s. Have a good turnover!

♪☼ P&L ☼♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Hugs and smiles for those who need them.

Congrats Lonewolf and James

Sleep well.

Hi, Hopeandjoy2. Thank you from both of us!

G’Night Sojo.