Big Top by Rob Harrell for June 08, 2010

Good Morning Lonewolf And all the others….

breakfast on me, i guess.

mushroom omelettes for everyone!

for those who prefer other things, we have other things.

eggs, any way you like as long as it’s scrambled (i’ve been drinking and don’t trust my spatula skills). assorted fruits and fruit juices. choice of bacon, ham, sausage (links or patties) or all of the above. whole wheat toast (because i don’t do white bread). and nuclear coffee (i’ll whistle for those who can’t) as well as cocoamocha (i don’t spell well when i’m not sober) and a selection of teas (in case Marg shows up). bon appetit!

i have GOT to remember. post first then come up with the menu, to avoid confusion.

Good Morning Tribeandall!!

Good Morning, Woodeye & Yguy!

Good Morning Lonewolf & WoodEye

Good Morning & Good Evening Everyone!

Great breakfast, Yguy

I’ll have scrambled eggs, sausage, and Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee! Please?

Good Morning/Late Evening, LuvH8.

hey Woodeye & Lonewolf and also to LuvH8 & LW18 who are rambling around here somewhere. and, in case she’s back from where ever she went,

order will be up in a minute, just let me put down my glass.

Marg is back! she just posted on C & H.

Glad to have you back!

Good Morning Uncle Why!

Thank you for making breakfast. I’d love some scrambled eggs & bacon & tomato juice, please?

where’d i put that dratted glass? oh, there it is. right next to LuvH8’s order. there ya go.

sorry for the edit (to those of you with the timing to see the bleep). forgot the nannybot censored the word meaning “having fixed a hole in your sock.”

Thank you UncleWhy!

Umm…. this drink seems to be rum & coke. Are you drinking my tomato juice?

And yet we can say: POOP!

Should of ate Ellen.

Good morning TRIBE & Big Sister.

I’ll have some fruit juice.

I saw Ellen on a comedy show when she first started out. She certainly does have a potty-mouth.

May I have a CocoMocha, yyyguy?

so that’s where the coke went. i had to mix the last one with 7Up because the coke bottle was empty. i’ll try again with the tomato juice (no worries, i won’t drink any - don’t like the taste. and i understand it doesn’t mix at all well with rum, either).

one CocoMocha for Carmy coming right up! i’ll try to remember to forget the rum in it.

Thank you UncleWhy you can have this back. I didn’t drink out of it. The fumes were too strong.

Tickle, tickle! Coochie, Coo! :-D

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i do NOT make strong rum and cokes (especially with Cuban rum). i make weak coke and rums!

Thank you, yyyguy and an extra thank you for holding the rum.

Yep! you can say poop or doo-doo.

Oh, Sorry, I don’t have alcohol around because of my drug habit. It just must have smelt strong to me.

but you can’t say “darn” without quotes.

Hello Little Sister, ummm….. that’s not very nice of you. Is that a picture of Uncle Why?

I must bid you all a good night. See you all later.

i’ve had enough for tonight anyway. i remember being too drunk to type one night (in my young and foolish days) and trying to do so anyways. what an illegible mess that turned out to be. besides, i don’t think this particular rum mixes nearly as well with 7Up as others i’ve had.

Thank you for the breakfast Yguy. When the host is taking care of the meal, you don’t ask for specials.

 darn 

How’s that, Yguy

Good night, Ladywolf.

if it was a picture of me, LuvH8 it gives me credit for a far better “build” than i have ever been able to brag about. my body type can be best described by the phrase, “I am in shape. Round IS a shape.”

good night Ladywolf

okay Terry i give. how did you do that when i got bleeeped?

You are still an attractive man UncleWhy, I saw your picture on photobucket.

i put my picture on photobucket? now i’ll have to go back and check which one. if memory serves, it was probably from the Canadian Drive By, n’est-ce pas?

Yguy, I’ll send the secret in an “e”. :^)

You Will Not!!!!!

The one where you are standing on the bridge, Oui!

Oh, wrong secret. Never mind.

Funny, LuvH8.

thanks LuvH8, i did a quick peek there to see which one you spoke of. it was quite the bridge. it’s in Capilano Narrows which is in Greater Vancouver, BC. a woman saw me taking a couple of photos on the bridge and asked me if i wanted a photo of myself on the bridge. turned out she was from Toronto and only lived about a half hour away from my home.

Did you make a date?

I still think they should bleeeeeep the word shoes and perhaps paypal.

in answer to your question LuvH8, i’m not sure her husband would have cared for the idea.

flagged the spammer! and now, “good night” to all.

Good Night Uncle Why

Yes, husbands tend not to like that. And there was a long drop next to you. Wise choice.

that’s why i can call myself what i do.

(((Tribe)))

Lonewolf Still no Birdbrains! Your current avatar is all romantic and aaah! Very nice.

Good Night Lonewolf If you haven’t already gone to bed do so now! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Doctor Toon’s Nuclear Coffee has been offered for the fourth day on Adam@Home.

I am STILL having a CocoMocha instead. :)

Don’t bother with the rest of breakfast. I’ve got that covered.

Hey, Tribe, what do you think of this avatar? Don’t know where I got the original graphic now, but it’s meant to represent an (apparently angry) ancient Semite. I put it up so I could rattle Sheik Yerbouti’s cage over in Birdbrains.

Why am I up at 3:39 and counting local time? Well, that’s how my sleep schedule seems to run these days. I’ll run out of steam early in the evening, crash, then wake up four hours later and not be able to get back to sleep. So I likely will spend the next several hours writing.

Um, Johanan Rakkav it’d be ok if you want to type in caps all of the time. Other than that it’s just danged scary.

Morning Tribe!

YOU LIKE ALL CAPS? REALLY?!? OKAY THAT IS JUST STRANGE how ABOUT we ALTERNATE words? Or We CoUlD aLtErNaTe LeTtErS, BuT tHAT tAkEs MoRe CoNcEnTrAtIoN!

LuvH8 I was just answering Johanan’s question.

Good Morning BTW

OkAy, I aM eAsIlY CoNfUsEd At FoUr In ThE MoRnInG. jOhAnAn’S nEw AvAtAr Is JuSt A bIt ScArY!!!!

cAn I sToP wRiTiNg LiKe ThIs YeT?

‘k Luv please, please, please stop alternating caps.

The old eyes are shaky enough.

thank you!

You sure start your day early (at least for my time zone). Are you working? Is it top secret? Do you like the color red? What did you have for breakast?

Good Morning, Tribe!

Fell asleep last night. Felt good for a change. :^)

Yes, I do Luv. Between 5 and 530 CDT my work day starts.

No more TS stuff for me. That was a quite a few years ago.

Blue is better for me. Coffee, working on the second 48 oz.

Doc Day 4 on Nuc Coffee. If Adam is going to buy it all up where will we get the jolt we need? Hold out for a REALLY big price.

Good Morning, Doc & Rac.

I’ll have the mushroom omelets! Yummy! Thanks* Yguy!*

I like Ellen, she’s pretty cool! Wink likes her too!

Morning Woodeye, Doc, Johanan, rac and Carmy!

And Fellow Baby when you get here!

Wolfie! How are you my friend? Still winning at pool?

Gocomics is not up when I’m up at 1 AM. RagaFragaRickaRacka.!! So I sleep till the chickens have not only gotten up, they”ve been plucked and BBQed. I jump out of bed and go to the BIG TOP to find YYYGUY slinging hash. If I wanted a drunk to burn my breakfast, I would have tried to wake up the shining star in my life. Whistle me up a pot of DOC’S good stuff, and skip the solid stuff.

Morning TRIBE! You’d think I got it out of my sleep deprived malicious mind, but I’m just getting raring to go. Next stop, BIRDBRAINS and nobody better mention faces to me.

RagaFragaRickaRacka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m doing pretty goo, Rac. Winning at pool most of the time, too.

How about you, sir?

Good

Morning

Lewreader!

Wow….Lew’s on a roll! Stand back, Tribe

Take the ones under the first T lid, Lew

Doing well Lonewolf. Work interfere’s with my toons, but I can still get ‘em in over the course of a day. Hope these clouds don’t thicken up too much today. Got 2 Satcomm’s to reestablish this morning.

Conflict makes me itchy, too!

Good morning Lonewolf, Dry, Doc, rac, and Lewreader and all others

Here’s a blessing - may you have no itchy conflicts today!

Off to toon tour.

Good morning all.

Now I gotta look Doc….

I didn’t know that, Doc. I was wondering why my cup didn’t get empty. You are going to have to keep going back there. There is an interesting comment/question from Allen V.

Good morning, tribe! Sounds like I’d better get my comics read. BBL

Good morning ((((((((((TRIBE)))))))))))

I saw the TINIEST hint of blue in the sky this morning. I haven’t seen that for so long I’ve almost forgotten what it is.

Doc you know, that offer of a new hat is good anytime. :^) By the way, have you thought of setting up an interstellar pipeline? Just a thought.

Ok Ok, I’ll get out of here with that. Time to finish my toon tour, IF I can stay out of Lewreader’s way.

Good Morning, Tribe! Good Morning, LuvH8, rac0308, ♠Lonewolf♠, Doctor Toon, Lewreader & Fellow Baby!

7:30 AM and I’ve already had my first meeting - a continuation of last night’s fun.

and Good Morning to MisngNOLA, celecca, Rmom & serena, too!

You must have that wax cleaned out by now.

Yup! Everything’s flowing in one ear and out the other now, rac. I guess I’m ready for marriage…..NOT!

Good choice, Grog

LuvH8, you have to see Strange Brew if you haven’t, already.

Hi, Doc & Grog!

Employer calls….

(((((TRIBE))))))

Good Morning All.

Good Morning!

We have sunshine too!!!

Good Morning Carmy. Isn’t sunshine grand?

Good Morning Doc. How is your morning progressing?

Good Morning, Carmy & cleo!

We have a big bucket of steamy & cloudy, with rain to come ths afternoon.

Off to yet another meeting.

Good Morning Grog. Dang meetings.

Hurray for Cleo & Carmy! We were supposed to have hot & sunny yesterday, but the clouds lingered through this morning. Was pretty dark less than an hour ago, but the sun is peeking through now. I hope it stays out long enough to dry the wood, so my son can start covering it up.

Cleo, it’s about 10:17am here. 82 degrees, partly cloudy with the winds at 11 mph from the ENE. I just hope it doesn’t get too hot today.

Good Morning Cleo, Doc and Grog!

Good Morning Rmom.

I guess I must have the best eating spot in the area. More and more birds are showing up each day. I am on my way to emptying a 50 pound bag of bird food in a month. And I have been buying the expensive stuff. The one benefit is getting to listen to them sing.

Cleo - Do you have problems with the birds pooping on your stuff?

Rmom, very little problems surprisingly.

After our cat died, barn swallows built a nest inside our garage. I’m thinking, okay, they’ll eat the bugs. Problem was, they seemed to enjoy pooping on our cars. We then decided that birds need to live outside not inside.

Good Morning Rmom! Living so close to the ocean, we get all sorts of birds. I think I mentioned before that I saw an egret eating a catfish in our backyard.

Carmy - You wouldn’t think it, but we get several varieties of birds in this area. We often see what look like seagulls (I’m not a bird expert) in the fields around here, especially if the soil has been recently turned over, exposing worms I guess. I see a lot more variety out here in the country, than I do in any town. We have wild turkeys, pheasants, quail, owls, woodpeckers, blue jays, cardinals, hawks and too many others to name.

Good morning Carmy!

Rmom, on my grandfather’s farm we would get land gulls whenever they would disk the field. They would flock around the tractor waiting for it to uncover mice. As I worked the field it was surprising how many mice would scamper away from the tractor only to be snatched by a gull.

Carmy 10:17, 82 degrees and humid, I ENVY you! That is MY kind of weather!

Good morning Cleo!

Good Morning Dry.

Hi Rmom! Still working on the siding? You I don’t envy! LOL!

Good Morning, Dry! Don’t envy the messenger.

Dry - I’m hoping to get my son out there today, but it depends on if the wood is dry enough to cover it up. I don’t envy working on the siding either, but I’m tired of the basement leaking.

Tmr. it’s supposed to be raining all day and much cooler than usual, then get nice again! I should get in the garden tonight after work and finish if up.

I used to feed the birds in the summer, but have stopped. I have enough flowers and bird baths to attract them, and of course all the insects. We have too many bear sightings in suburbia to take the chance!

Fortunately the bears here stay up in the mountains.

Cleo you’re fortunate. They haven’t hurt anyone, but they do get destructive, especially with bird feeders! We always have a couple that come down from the ridgetops (not at the same time) and wander through town! Last year, one came down to the baseball field, which is in the middle of a regular neighborhood, while the game was going on! They stopped the game, he or she, just kept on walking, crossed the street, and went down the hill towards the creek!

Sometimes when the cloud cover is REAL low and it’s been raining for a long time, the gulls come in, theory is they have lost their way with all the low clouds. Around here they come off the big river.

My backyard is a forest on a mountain and you would think bears would be up there. Cougars and coyote and dear are, as well as raccoons and owls. They probably don’t come because the mountain is surrounded by farmland, housing and Bellingham Bay.

We have plenty of deer, some coyotes, and on rare occasion, a bobcat. Skunks, raccoons, oppossums, and armadillos make up the bulk of our roadkill.

Cleo DEAR??? Is there a tribe of Amazon women stashed away in “them thar hills”? Or better yet, female Sasquatch?

Sorry, buddy, I couldn’t resist that! :-)

Dry, I don’t know, but I guess I should make that a quest.

A female Sasquatch? Gnarly!

Carmy yeah, that would be gnarly! Especially if you ran into one!

Probably 80% of our roadkill is deer. The other 20% is rabbits!

A skunk wandered into the garage the other week, the garage is attached to the house, but it left quick enough as there was nothing there for it. Thank goodness!

The roadkill I see around here are usually squirrels, armadillos and opossums.

We don’t see much roadkill here, except for birds here and there. I remember driving through Montana years back. I spent the night in Jasper, which is one of the most remote areas in the continental US. The next morning the highway was littered with a vast variety of dead animals. There was a number of wild turkey standing in the middle of the highway that showed no inclination to move out of the way of my car until I gave them a loud blast of the horn. I guess they aren’t used to traffic. It made me wonder if someone came by each day and cleaned up the carcasses as I hadn’t seen any on the road the previous afternoon.

Is it just my computer that is having issues with bringing up comments today? There have been several sites like 2 Cows and a Chicken where my computer would stall and not go to all comments.

morning Tribe

i want to clear up something for Lewreader. i am a drinker, not a drunk, and i have never yet burned a virtual meal. your breakfast would have been quite safe to eat, had you decided to partake. i am not nearly as much under the affluence of incohol as thumb seeple pink i am.

Rmom i saw your photobucket album of North Rim photos. now i’m slightly jealous of you as well as Marg for having visited a place i want to go see.

Morning, yyyguy. When I went many years ago the North face was closed as it always is in December. However I still got some nice pics from the south side.

NIGHT DOC! Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite!

Good night, Doc

‘night DocT hi Grog & Dry

Hello yyyguy and Grog. Visiting the North and South rims of the Grand Canyon are such vastly different experiences. I like the tranquility of the North Rim. Having said that, a couple of years ago my wife and I went to a wedding in Williams, AZ. While there we went to the South Rim where they were using shuttle buses to transport people to the various look outs. Since my wife has a disability we were aloud to drive our Mustang convertible rental car to the lookouts. We had each lookout to ourselves and had a wonderful experience and a terrific lunch in the Lodge’s restaurant.

Goodnight Doc.

It’s been a long time but I do remember they had some good food, cleo

I think what I liked about the south side was the way the sun was shining off the rock. Made for some nice pics.

Yes Grog, we were surprised. So often places that cater to tourists seem satisfied to just do the basics.

And charge exorbetant prices!

i guess i’ll have to put the south rim on my “bucket list” (or should that be “photobucket” list?) too. someday…

Lunch time

current weather here is 65 and sunny on the way up to around 72. but we’re supposed to cloud over tonight and get rain tomorrow.

We too are supposed to return to clouds, but I am enjoying the sunshine while it lasts.

I have been to a lot of both the National Parks of Canada and the US and they each offer an experience unique onto themselves. What has always struck me is that more foreign visitors seem to visit the parks than people from our own countries.

We had two entirely different experiences along the North Rim. I thought I had titled the pictures and described the first day, but alas, I must have not hit “save” or something. Not in the mood to go back and re-do that right now, maybe some other day. The first day at the North Rim, my husband took us on the road less traveled - and it was less traveled for a good reason! Our van was never the same after that road. There was at least one, maybe two pit toilet stops, but that was the extent of catering to the “tourists”. It was approximately 100 miles of rocky road, and if I’d been able to get a cell phone signal, I would have ended my portion of the trip immediately. That night we planned on tent camping, but I refused to set up camp on rocks. (About 90F that day). Found a real campground in higher elevation further east along the North Rim, but since it was already about 50F when we were setting up the tent (and being May 22, we didn’t plan on winter weather), changed our minds, booked one of the remaining cabins available. Next morning, woke up to see snow falling! But the second day, was much more what I had in mind for a vacation. Paved roads, flush toilets, nice restaurants & shops, trails to hike on to get good views of the Grand Canyon. It wasn’t overly crowded. I don’t know if that was because it was foggy until around noon, or because it was before Memorial Day. Both my hubby & I had been to the South Rim as teenagers, so we agreed on the North Rim. That’s the LAST time I let him plan & drive the route, without my review before it is too late.

True, cleo. We often don’t appreciate what we have in our own backyard.

When I did my Arizona trip back in ‘98, I practically had the whole tour bus to myself at the G.C. lookouts. It was myself and a couple with a teenage daughter. Definitely the off-season for tourism there. But it’s great if you like a little elbow room.

And the weather should be better than it is in Canada - even up at that elevation. The weather in Phoenix was upper 60’s to mid 70’s during the the day - but cool at night. The G. C. was about mid ‘40’s during the day.

whoops! 1:30 all ready! (time flies) gotta go, folks. see you soon. (((Tribe)))

Two National Parks I like visiting are Zion and Bryce. They are very close to one another in proximity but the difference in altitude makes their weather very different. It can be in the 80s in Zion and below freezing in Bryce.

If any of you have never had the pleasure of visiting Banff and Jasper National Parks in Alberta, you should try to do it sometime. Those are two of the most beautiful parks in North America. The drive from Banff to Jasper is jam dropping. Stunning majestic peaks on both sides of the highway. yyyguy I am sure would agree.

That should have been “jaw” dropping. Hopefully you aren’t eating jam while driving. LOL

CLOUDS!

Hello Everyone!

Doc, I think I fell asleep about the same time you arrived. I am still tired now.

I just finished watching the YouTubes. That was one vicious bunny. I will never think of bunnies in the same way again.

Grog, now I have seen the Smothers Brothers! (sticks tongue out)

Have A Good Day Everyone!

Oh, Rac if you were still doing the top secret stuff would you be able to tell us anyway. I prefer blue also.

Since it is still morning where you reside Good Morning LuvH8

I’ve got that rainy day feeling again.

And they’ve just now signalled for shelter in place. What now?!!

What is happening Grog. Are you saying that you are supposed to seek shelter?

Stay safe, Grog!

What ever it was, they just gave the all clear.

That’s good, Grog!

The last time we had a shelter in place, the incident lasted from about 3PM to 2AM. Usually they will not let us go, especially in the case of a release. Fortunately, the wind was blowing the right direction that day and they let us go around my normal quitting time. If not we would have been stuck there until the all clear.

Good Afternoon, everyone!

A quick post to say “hi” to my friends. This is still the #1 place to come during the day! One just can’t stay away. I love it.!

Me too Lonewolf

LuvH8 I could, but then someone would be knocking on your door AND mine.

One satellite up and running. One to go….

Everyone stay safe. (((Tribe)) Gotta go

Hi Tribe. Cleo I’m glad you put Jasper back into Alberta. I think the park you referred to a page or so ago was Glacier - in Montana. You said Jasper ;>) I loved Bryce Canyon. The best part was when we walked down into the hoodoos. Too bad there were warning signs about heart attacks. I think it probably turned a lot of people off from going down into the canyon. I agree, though, that the Banff - Jasper Parkway is one of the most beautiful drives in the world, although there are certainly some wonderful drives elsewhere - I’m thinking Going to the Sun in Glacier.

Hi Rac & Dawn.

Gotta run!

Have a great afternoon, everyone!

Hello, Dawn. Bye, ♠Lonewolf♠.

ElDo, I’ll share mine with you next time!

hi Dawn!

Fellow Baby Did you have a tornado alert or something?

Hello Terry, rac, Dawn & Eldo.

Dawn there is a town in Montana that I thought at the time was called Jasper, but your mentioning it just a bit ago, made me realize that I meant Jordan, Montana. I wasn’t referring to the park.

I have to run as well. I have to make an unexpected trip to town. BBL

They just called a tornado watch until 9pm here. It is a large area, so could very well miss us, but I’ll need to keep informed.

Repost to Rmom from twenty hours back:

…hardwood is good for burning. By the way, I just learned that Kansas has a titular see, in Leavenworth, like ND’s Jamestown or SD’s Lead. And Kearney in NE.

I wonder if my post with a “W@rn!ng” about the time you got kicked off p.4 might have caused the problem?

bmonk - Dawn suspects it. I have no idea. I just didn’t want you to reply to me, and think you were ignored. Leavenworth is quite a bit north of me, and since I’m not Catholic, I don’t keep up on those things. I do know that Osage Orange (we always call them “hedge” trees) burns well. My Dad loved to burn it in the fireplace, but we had to get a glass door to keep the sparks in where they belonged. We have a wood stove, but it doesn’t heat the whole house, so we just use it during power outages in the winter. I had included a fireplace in the floor plans for our house, but that was part of “phase two” which never got built. It is a great supply for firewood, since it is the fastest growing hardwood in KS that I know of.

Hi Dry, ElDo, BMonk, LuvH8, Rac and RMom and any others who are still on. Bye, *Terry, Grog, Cleo * and any others who have left. Cleo, I knew what you meant - I make associations like that all the time - especially with names. We planned a wood fireplace but put in propane instead since it is programmable and when we are away in the winter, it will keep the house warm enough so the pipes don’t freeze.

Dawn - Question: Does the propane work without electricity? A lot of people have propane furnaces around here, but the blowers won’t work without electricity. (We have a geo-thermal system.)

Fellow Baby, sorry it took so long to respond. I was on a looooong call.

There was a problem with one of our neighboring plants. Don’t know exactly what it was, but the all-clear was given shortly after. In my area of work, potential chemical releases can be an issue here.

But no, no tornados in the area. In fact, for the moment, it’s looking good for the drive home.

RMom yes ours does so it works well with the battery timer.

@Rmom, we too have that problem: coal boiler (or gas), but when the power is off, no way to get the heat from boiler to persons…Usually not a great problem, as long as the outage is not over a couple of days. In 1983 we had an ice storm that kept the power off for most of 4 or 5 days, but even then it came on for an hour or two every day or so–allowing us to heat the place up before the next set of lines came down…

Now we also have a back-up generator, so (as long as the fuel lasts) we can run at least part of the whole plant.

I guess we are lucky - it never gets that cold here - and our house is a very open plan so it keeps it habitable.

We have a generator, purchased back when we were building the house, before the electric company would put up a meter. The bad thing is that I’ve never been able to get it going, and the last few times my husband has tried (during ice storms) he hasn’t been successful, either. Our house is well insulated, so with the wood stove, we can keep the pipes from freezing. However, it makes the room too hot near the stove, and too cold in the rooms away from it, so not comfortable enough to use in a non-emergency. But we’ve had enough ice storms and no power for days, that the next house we buy will have to have some sort of heating system that will work without power. It would be great if it can be used for cooking too. (Our wood stove has a cooktop and small oven.)

Just a quick run through to say hi and bye.

Hi.

Bye.

Hi & Bye Serenasakitty!

Did everybody run away just because I came? Well, I’ll go take a nap and get ready for “work”. BOO HISS!!!!

You can come out now.

Hello Dawn, Bmonk, Grog & Rmom!

You Hi & Byed! I thought you were gone! Now I am all alone.

(pouts)

YYYGUY My apologies for my temper tantrum. This morning I did not have the serenity to accept things I could not change so I lashed out at the world. I guess my humor did not work and I’m sorry BIG TOP POSTERS Tomorrow will be cherry trees and honey bees, and snow white turtle doves. Well, anyway, I’ll be back to my not yet committed self. Bear with me Winky.

Responded to you at BB.

You’ve never been committed? But aren’t you married?

Good Afternoon everyone!

Done with the day’s grind finally.

I was just about to leave because I was all alone.

Hello LuvH8 & ♠Lonewolf♠

Good afternoon, LuvH8 and Terry!

I got busy, and soon must leave–but I have a few more minutes before them.

Looks like the storms are east of here. This morning they said a chance of scattered showers and patchy fog–I guess we didn’t get the patch, and the showers scattered.

Hello all. Now I know why I stay away from town for long stretches; money flies out of my wallet.

Hello, bmonk & Doctor Toon

Must be the weather, Doc

@cleo, maybe the problem is where you keep your wallet!

Say, just where do you keep your wallet anyway?

They lied and said the clouds would clear up. Rotten, no good….

Doc I am starting to get tired and cranky too. Maybe it will go away?

Yes, I find trying to do most of my errands on the same day not only saves time & gas, but money as well.

Ah! I am just cranky. A little bit. I need your super anti-packrat cleaning skills!

When you are tired and hungry, food is sleep, and sleep is food. But only for a while. Eventually you need both.

Can’t help with cranky–unless you have a crank to turn…

I can be good at pushing buttons, though. ;-)

My mom came over yesterday. Looked around, got in the way, caused me more work, said it was just too overwhelming for her and then I finally got her to leave. If she is going to do that she needs to stay away. So Completely NOT HELPFUL!!!

Yes, I know you can be good at pushing buttons Bmonk. You have also had a positive effect of lowering my crankiness a time or two.

You already said something that caused me to smile. Thank you.

bmonk my wallet is not secure from money spending where ever I keep it, here have a few books?

LuvH8 yes you are right. I used to go into town just for the heck of it with nothing really needed to spend money on, but it didn’t work that way. I always found ways to spend my money. Limiting trips works best.

You’re welcome. I’m trying–very trying.

Hello, LuvH8, Bmonk, Doc, Grog & Cleo.

I don’t know who else is around but that’s a start!. LOL

Sorry, LuvH8, I had to take care of an email after I post my 1st greeting..

LuvH8, my weather started out sunny and gradually worked it’s way into high clouds. I can not remember the last full day of sunshine.

Yes, you are Bmonk. That’s why we like you.

Cleo my Gma used to try to get me to go to this or that place almost every day. I wasn’t very cooperative. This is one time when she just had to learn to adjust. Besides, we live more that 5 miles away from anywhere. It’s just wasteful to make extra trips.

Neither do I Cleo. It was sunny enough on Saturday to actually improve my mood. But I need at least an hour of sun for that. Any less and it makes me more depressed.

That’s okay Lonewolf, this time. (grumbles random threats)

Hey there, Doc. We are on at the same time! Will wonders never cease? LOL

Congrats again with Adam @ Home!!!!!

I guess I’ll have to make it up to you, LuvH8.

;^)

Doc the owners of the treasures are not here. I get to decide whether or not I will get in trouble if this or that disappears. There really isn’t room for it all. I know my Gma is not going to start painting or quilting or toll painting or ceramics again. Reality check, but she doesn’t want to get rid of the stuff. I am planning on blaming others and taking no credit for the disappearances.

Two researchers just analyzed MONOPOLY! to figure out the shortest possible game: two turns per each of two players, with nine rolls of the dice. They did it in 21 seconds here.

Any ideas on how not to take credit without actually lying? I can’t lie to Gma.

♠Lonewolf♠, thanks for the reminder. I forgot to check it out today.

Well all you toonaholics I have to make a run to the bookmobile, will see you shortly.

I don’t know Doc if Adam threatens my coffee…… You would think a coffee drinker would no better.

Alas, 5 minutes is now 35, and I really must depart also!

And I’ve got to pop in my movie. It’s a long one tonight.

Good Bye Cleo & Bmonk

The ‘Monopoly’ thing? Scary!

Whatcha watching Grog?

Who is making me dinner? I don’t want to.

We’ve always had fun with “your” nuclear coffee, Doc.

This one running for days now is just awesome to be part of. Anyone that cannot being having fun, with this or any other tribute for a Gocomics poster, is not a happy person.

Take it easy, Cleo & Bmonk.

It feels way later than it is. Am I on someone else’s time zone?

The Longest Day

I don’t want to make dinner either, LuvH8. Tonight is micrwave a Healthy Choice night.

Sorry, LuvH8! School was done, so I sat in the recliner to relax a bit. Read the paper, closed my eyes for a bit. Probably would have stayed there longer, but we’ve been using my laptop to listen to the radio programs, and it was time to switch stations. I know my sister was about as much help as your mom, in cleaning out my mother’s house. I finally just told her to work on getting her stuff out of there, and to not bother with the rest. It was easier to work by myself or with a friend than with any relative to sort through stuff. My brothers use the “bulldozer method”. My sister would ooh & aah over stuff, then toss it back where it was (and not terribly neatly, either). It is more difficult to get rid of stuff, even when you know they’ll never use it again, while they’re still living. If you can wait until Gma is able to go through the stuff with you, that might be best. Even though my mom was a packrat, after Dad died, and we had moved her to a smaller house, she realized she couldn’t keep everything. But she had to show at least one of us kids each item, and explain why she had kept it all those years. Once she had done that, then she was able to emotionally let go of the item. Of course, if you need the room, you may not be able to wait. If it would work, I’d just suggest sorting & boxing up the stuff. Then you could stack the boxes, which would take up less room until Gma could help sort through it with you. One thing that made it easier to get rid of things that had a sentimental meaning, was to give it to someone who would appreciate the meaning.

Hi, Doc! Even though I’m not a coffee drinker, I’m really happy Adam’s honoring you & your special recipe!

Hello, Rmom

Hi, Grog! How’s the weather down your way, now?

It’s great now, Rmom. Partly cloudy. Cleared out nicely. Just before lunch it got really dark and came down pretty good.

It’s supposed to be like this all week, with the rain chances (hopefully) tapering off by Friday.

At least the rains kept the temperature down (70 at lunch), but it’s not helping with our humidity levels.

Glad to hear it, Grog! We’re under a tornado watch until 9pm. The storms are about 10-15 miles away, so I’m beginning to hear the thunder rumbling now. They aren’t coming directly this way, but they keep sliding down towards us, so they’ll probably get here eventually. I’m keeping a close watch on the radar.

Stay safe. At least it won’t be going until all hours of the morning, though. I know I always hated that.

What happened to ♠Lonewolf♠ & LuvH8?

I agree! Much easier to handle during normal awake hours. I hate getting woke up about every 15-30 minutes it seems, by the weather alarm going off. But when I sleep on the 3rd floor, I don’t think I should turn it off if there is a tornado watch issued. However, if there isn’t a tornado watch, I have sometimes, just to get sleep!

Normal thunderstorms can sometimes keep me awake or wake me up. I don’t often sleep through them.

Hi Rmom, Hi Grog! Grog, I’ve been trying to catch you. You don’t need to worry about me stealing the 10 Greatest Cowboys Games. I would certainly not give my mother a “hot” birthday present. Besides, she may already have the set. I’m still going after the A&C collection though!

Well I go to the bookmobile and come home to unexpected company, so I was occupied longer than I thought, but it was LilG’s mom and her brother and his wife and he and I talked about travel in Europe and had a great time sitting out on the deck.

I have no idea what happened to either one of them. Whether I wake up depends on how close the lighning gets, or if we get large hail. There’s a train track that runs at the bottom of our cliff, so distant thunder sounds enough like the train rumbling by, that it doesn’t bother me. A little rocking of the house isn’t noticable either, as we sleep on a water bed. But if there is hail nickel size or larger, it sounds like someone’s pelting our house with rocks, and since that doesn’t happen, it will wake me up. We haven’t had large hail that many times, but enough for me to know what it sounds like.

Hello Carmy, how are you doing sweetie?

Hi Cleo! I am doing okay, thank you. I’m feening for some chocolate. You got some?

Hi Carmy

So just A&C and possibly the rest of my movie collection?

Rmom you are a special breed. I like living where I do, I may get days of boring gray days, but the only fear of anything untoward is the Big One, an earthquake that has been expected at some time for decades.

Carmy I always have chocolate, but it is always semi sweet or preferably bittersweet. Can you go that route?

Carmy I always have chocolate, but it is always semi sweet or preferably bittersweet. Can you go that route?

Grog, I’ll have to go through the rest of your collection before I answer that. I know you’ve mentioned a few that I would like to have, but there may be more, much more. Hm…I better remember to take a really big sack with me on the heist.

You better bring lots of boxes, Carmy!

Cleo, I’ll have some of the semi-sweet, please and thank you. I don’t think I’ve ever tried bittersweet.

I’m not going to supply them for you!

I wasn’t expecting to you to supply them! Sheesh, what kind of thief to you take me for?

Good evening TRIBE.

Be back in a few. I have to switch computers.

Cleo - When a person has lived their whole life in tornado alley, it is easy to take it in stride. My kids still are not where they are fascinated by the weather like us older folks, but they’re okay. At least the youngest son’s bedroom is in the basement, and that’s where they like to play frequently. So, they’re both down there now (which is normal for an evening), and they’ve shut off their computers up here. If I start running down the stairs, they’ll hear me, and join me quickly. However, I haven’t packed up everything to take to the basement this time. Just hasn’t seemed severe enough in the part of the storm coming here to think a tornado will develop. I have been to a couple of “storm spotter” classes the Emergency Management teaches every year, so I know what to look for. I will say that the almost 2 years we lived in a mobile home between selling our previous house, and getting this house far enough along to move in made me extremely nervous during storms. Those things are tornado magnets!

WOW! That’s a lot of movies.

Rmom I’m glad to see that you and your family are okay.

Doctor Toon, it can be surprising how much one collects over the years. Ushindi once told me he envied me my collection. But he has over 800 movies. He was envious of what I have in my collection, which is now getting more focused on films made before 1960.

Not included in that count is 128 seasons of various television shows.

The Longest Day was probably among one of the first movies I purchased many years ago. As I watch it tonight, I’m still not tired of it.

Hello, Ladyowlf

Hi Grog

Hi, Ladywolf! We’re not “out of the woods” yet. The storm is almost here. Even though there is a tornado watch issued, there aren’t any severe thunderstorm warnings issued for my area, so I’m not terribly concerned. The weather radio will alert me, and I keep checking the radar. However, if we lose the internet, I’ll be off until they get that fixed, which won’t be any sooner than tomorrow.

I saw a raccoon today.

That still sounds pretty scary to be in that situation Rmom.

Ladywolf, I saw one when I was living in Dallas a few years back. It was the only time I saw one. Initially, I thought it was a cat rumaging around the garbage - until I saw the tail.

I only have 22 movies,

Fellow Baby Looked for your answer, glad all is well! However, Carmy won’t be alone on her heist! We often help each other out! And I love the “Longest Day”! Best watch out! LOL!

Hi Rmom! I couldn’t stand being awakened every few minutes! I do love thunderstorms though, any time. I find them interesting!

You’re still quite young, Ldaywolf. You have more than I did at your age. I didn’t have a VCR when I was your age - and there were no DVD players on the market yet either.

Cleo Did you get many books tonight? That is neat having the Bookmobile come by! It’s like in the old days when the ice cream and snow cone trucks used to come around!

And I had to walk 10 miles uphill in blizzards to get to school.

(I couldn’t resist using that line after seeing something simlar last night. I’m sure my father would have said he walked 50 miles to school.)

Fellow Baby, you better not touch my copy of Kelly’s Heroes. I will hunt you down!

Ladywolf - Raccoons aren’t scarce here. Not as common as skunks, but not rare. Of course, since both are noturnal, we don’t spot them very often unless we’re out at night.

I know that my aunt has around a hundred movies, and that she just recently bought the Avatar movie.

Dry - Thunderstorms don’t bother me, but getting woke up when I’m sleeping good, does!

Good night, Doctor Toon.

Hey, Doc! Want to come over to my house & clean?

Well Grog I almost fell backwards when I saw the raccoon. I was a bit startled by it’s appearance for awhile.

It was probably startled by your presence, too, Ladywolf.

I have to amend my earlier statement. Someone caught a raccoon skulking about the maintenance shop. Apparently it was getting into the refridgerator at night. So they had it caged waiting for animal services to come and get it, which wasn’t until a few days later.

It’s got a mean little growl

I’ve seen skunks in the daytime. My big dog Fritz that I used to have always went after them with every intention of killing them.

Good night Doc.

I smell skunks all the time, but I’ve only see Pepe Lepew.

I had to go to school once smelling like a skunk. It was the day that I hated the most.

Ladywolf - If you see a skunk in the broad day light, that could be a sign that it has rabies. In that case, you need to notify the proper authorities to come kill it.

When in doubt, throw it out! I have one movie, Casablanca. The rest are somewhere in my highly organized basement under a box labeled “Open in case of a second British Invasion.” Why should I own DVDs which have none of the visual appeal of books? Isn’t that why Netflix charges me every month? Three DVDs take up the space of one book. Which is going to give you more hours of enjoyment. Have you ever tried to curl up with your cat and a DVD before a fire?

No, I’m not that old. I turn 39 again this summer.

Well that was when I was younger Rmom. The only skunks I ever see now are ones that are ran over in the road.

Fellow Baby Best check your collection! I absconded “Kelly’s Heroes” about a week ago, I believe!

Testing, 1, 2, 3, testing. Do I still have internet? Lightning hit close by.

Lew you should have a collection of “Rumpole” do you not? Aren’t you the one who used to say “She who must be obeyed?” LOL!

Looks like after the router rebooted, my internet got restored.

WOO WHO!!!!! Our Carmy got 5 STARS from Thom! Congrats GIRL!!!!

I have very few movies. Mostly videos for the kids, but of course they span from Veggie Tales to Star Wars & Lord of the Rings. I much prefer to borrow them than buy them, as it is rare for me to sit and watch a whole movie. However, I did buy the whole set of Hogan’s Heroes on DVD - mostly for our sons’ enjoyment.

Back in a little bit.

Lewreader, I am more of a loo reader. I find that many books I’ve read take too long for me to get into. I don’t have the patience for it. I am also not someone given to using my imagination as to what places look like. I like it all mapped out for me. Movies do that. Good acting will give a good sense of what characters are thinking or feeling.

Since my collection is focused more on the golden era of film, I am certain to want to see them over and over - including Casablanca and many other favorites from the era.

The kind of films you can find on Netflix are of no interest what-so-ever to me. I wouldn’t waste my time going there or any other movie rental place. TCM is my source for adding to my collection - not Starz or HBO

Grog - Do you know where I could borrow a copy of “The Man Who Never Was” ? I think it was made in 1956. I just heard about it today, and it sounded interesting. But I checked the KS library system, and couldn’t find it, so wondered where I could find a copy.

Fellow Baby, you lie! Kelly’s Heros is safely stored where it should be - between Keep ‘Em Flying & Key Largo!

Yes, way to go, Carmy!

Fellow Baby Look again! All 3 are gone! Those are just the empty boxes!!!

I think I arrived just in time to say Good Night Grog

Good Evening Everyone

Rmom, The Man Who Never Was was an excellent movie and I have it. It was, if I remember correctly, a true story.

I don’t think Netflix will have it either. Is there a video rental place near you that might have older movies?

Amazon.com may have a downloadable version, but I’m not sure about that.

Time for me to head towards bed. G’night all!

Dry, to answer your question, I always pick up several books, cookbooks and movies. I like to be reading all of the time and to get inspiration for recipes and of course watch movies.

Fellow Baby, if that were the case, I’d be hunting you down right now!

Grog, magazines for me are loo readers and lunch readers.

Oh! Good Night Rmom.

A little too early yet, LuvH8. I’ll give it another hour.

Pulling a Shika here to answer Grog. We’ve got plenty of Blockbusters, etc. around here, but I don’t know of a rental movie place that carries old movies. Not that I’ve looked, either. I guess I wouldn’t mind buying a DVD as long as it wasn’t terribly expensive. Yawn! Gpod night! (Looks like the worse part of the storm system has gone through. Very heavy rain during part of it, & lightning, but nothing severe.)

cleo, I never was a magazine reader. I admit to subscribing to Financial magazines lately, but they weren’t telling me anything I don’t already know. I suppose I count more on the internet for information needs now.

Ah okay I’m back.

Good night, Rmom

I mostly just order movies on demand from my cable T.V. provider.

No, no. I remember bed time is 9:30 pm your time.

See you tomorrow Rmom.

Rmom, Amazon.com has it new for $7.49. You can buy it used for even less.

Grog, my favorite magazine is The Week. It takes articles and blurbs from other magazines and compiles it into a magazine similar to Time. Everybody that I introduce it to subscribes, it is weekly and the one magazine that I wait for each week. One time my cousin’s husband took our unread issue after a one day visit when the magazine arrived. I literally went through withdrawals. :-)

LuvH8, that’s Thursday nights and Sunday nights. Every other night is 10:30 or when ever I’m ready to sleep, which can be earlier or later.

I remeber when you had that cute little devil for your avatar. Here is a Gif image that I found for you Big Sister

If I remember correctly, Rmom doesn’t have cable, Ladywolf

cleo, you don’t even have a TV, right?

Grog, no I don’t. It is funny how things have gone since I met my wife. I went from having every TV channel and listening to the radio constantly when in my car. I meet my wife who raised her kids without TV, but listens to the radio or podcasts all day long. I now never see TV, I go to town on my own and never have the radio on and I don’t know what happened, because my wife has her audio fix, but suddenly I appreciate the quiet. When my wife works in the yard she listens to podcasts and I listen to the birds. I have gone from having a bombardment of sound all day long (my TV was on from when I got up til when I went to bed) to no stimulation in an audio form whatsoever. Maybe it is you lovely folk at gocomics who have provided my stimulation.

Hello Little Sister That’s cute, I like the flames.

It seems like my attention span gets shorter and shorter. My mind often wanders off. Especially during movies and now it’s starting to do it more during books.

That’s funny, cleo. I like watching TCM because of the classic movies and the lack of commercials. I am not up on radio, because there are quite honestly too many commercials. I only listen to the radio when I have to. When I’m in my car, I’m always playing tapes or CD’s but there’s never silence unless I’m in a rental in a place that doesn’t get a descent radio station. I believe Calvert City/Peducah, KY fit that bill.

Don’t worry Big Sister, That even happens to me on occasion.

Big Sister The Gif image is yours if you want it.

My Mom was always one to fall asleep half way through or close to the end of movies and wake up after it ended. She’d say it was a good movie, but once she got to the commercial break, she’d “rest her eyes” and that would be it.

Wah! I got lost on my way to change computers. Thanks Dry and Grog!

Grog I have a hard time following movies that are longer than two hours.

Grog we watch one movie a night before going to bed and I am getting like your mom. So often I am asleep before the movie ends.

Thank you Little Sister, you are welcome to use mine if you ever want to. Most of them I found. A few, I made myself. Feel free to dump Grog in the ocean as many times as you want.

Ladywolf, I find that movies that are 90 minutes long are ideal - without commercials that is. They tend to be faster paced and leave out filler that a lot of movies today seem to have,

Grog You best get a huntin’ then! LOL!

You should subscribe to XM or Sirius Radio then. They have merged, but there is still a difference. Never thought I would want it, but now I LOVE IT! News, live sports, old radio shows, any type music you can imagine. It is really cool, you can pick your package, and it is cheap.

You too CLEO!

Kelly’s Heroes is a 150 minute movie, but moves at a good pace and when there isn’t action there are plenty of great lines to keep you in stitches or interested.

(Giggles!)

As a matter of fact.  

Grog that is what was good about movies during the 30s, 40s and 50s, they rarely went over 90 minutes.

Cleo, that’s what I like about the older movies too. They actually seem longer sometimes because they are so good.

Dry, Deep Tracks on Sirius is my favorite.

Actually I haven’t been happy about Birdbrains now for the past couple of days, because it doesn’t seem to update until I’m in bed, and that really bums me out.

So you are a subscriber, Cleo?

I also like 80’s on 8’s, and a few others.

Yeah, I’ve almost missed reading it entirely because of the late updates.

Here comes the rain again.

cleo, most of the older movies I have in my collection - particularly from the 30’s & 40’s were not generally more than 2 hours. I would say that many of them range from 70 minutes to 105 minutes. Casablanca was 103 minutes, Key Largo was 100 minutes. A&C movies generally do not exceed 90 minutes. A Day At the Races is the longest Marx Brothers movies I have @ 109 minutes.

A movie does not need to be long to be good. Some longer movies might start with a bang and lull you to sleep in the middle.

Be back before turnover.

Ever notice how green doesn’t suit some people?

Big Sister you are so lucky. I want some of that rain.

Now me, I like green, green grass, green jelly beans, green peppers, etc.

actually Grog we recently gave up on our sirius subsrcription. My wife had it for her car but she kept having issues with it. I did like Deep Tracks though.

A lot of the earlier Cagney movies weren’t longer than 90 minutes.

I could never bring myself to subscribe for radio. I just wouldn’t have it on that much.

Well, I guess I’ll swim off to bed.

Good Night Everyone!

I’m going to turn in early tonight. See you all tomorrow.

Green frogs. It’s not easy being green. Goodnight Grog!

Hello Carmy. I haven’t really talked to you today.

Hi Cleo, I haven’t been able to stick around long enough to talk with you.

How is your sexy little self?

Movie time.

Goodnight Grog!

Hey again Carmy! Yes some make a career out of being green!

Cleo, sorry, my sexy little self started having some connection problems. Enjoy your movie nekkid man! Dry, that’s sad isn’t it?

Carmy Yes it is!

Well, Geesh! Everyone is gone! Good Night Little Sister and Grog. Lonewolf should I assume pool again?

Well, I have things to do anyway. See everyone in the morning.

Good Morning, LuvH8.

I’m here!