Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 21, 2010

They’re still putting on their tail feathers….

C’mon guys, shake a tail feather!

As much as they appear to weigh, they don’t look as though they eat like birds.

molting season, that’s why. morning M

Sounds like a fun group.

maybe they took flight.

Someone put salt on the tail feathers of his “Fine feathered friends”

Yeah….I never real understood that saying either…

He’ll just have to wing it.

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It creeps me out a bit that Ray Barker’s head appears to be screwed on backwards.

Clarence might have gotten the day wrong. I hear that the “Scaly Scoundrels” are gathering at Murphy’s place.

Yay! a new poster from Stel!But why doesn’t Ray Barker have a mask? And as for social distancing, well, what can you do when bassets are in love?

Let me second that “Yay!” … for StelBel’s timely new poster,

in the April 21st  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa!

 

Liverlips… I think it’s just his natural talent.

I can’t be sure, but that might be where they get that old expression, still occasionally used to describe someone …

that he or she is “a real head-turner.”

 

Dennis… I don’t think Ms. Dog is wearing a mask either….

Looks to me like that’s just the color of her muzzle.

If not, it’s sure not a very effective mask… her nose isn’t covered.

 

I figure they’re already self-isolating together…

If you watch enough movies, you’ll see that wartime, plane crashes in the mountains, and shipwrecks on desert islands

propel new relationships into emotional intimacy long before it would normally happen.

 

Boy meets girl, they have a drink in a quaint cafe… he finds out he’s being shipped out tomorrow…

the next thing you know his boyhood friend turned Catholic priest is marrying them in haste and secrecy.

Pandemics surely qualify as deus ex machina.

 

The humans copied this, in no time at all… but they’re not as practical as bassets…

and they don’t know the value of staying cozy at home.

They’re still trying to pretend they can carelessly travel. Ha!

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Clarence’s friends are snow birds and stuck in Florida.

Curfew, to be precise. Very populated nowadays. Popular – not so much since they lack so many basic items.

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After their divorce, they will fondly remember that time – #wellalwayshavecurfew

I guess they haven’t been listening to the news. I can’t blame them. It’s all so very depressing.

So this is normal. Relax, they’ll be here eventually.

Meant to say earlier that I love the cozy living room in Stel’s new poster….

It looks like what I remember of a neighbor family’s house in Cleveland, when I was little…. our closest family friends.

The mother was the daughter of our landlady, who lived on the other side of the duplex we rented, and had a larger, older television, with a tiny round screen.

 

The father told my dad he had refused to buy one till the screens were bigger… so theirs was like the one you see here.

The first TV I ever watched…. both families, and sometimes other neighbors, gathered there a couple of evenings a week…. all the kids on the floor.

 

My Dad, in turn, wanted to wait till screens were square… so we finally got the first huge 19" TV in the neighborhood… a much more modern blonde wood model on spindly legs.

After that, everybody came to our house.

 

That was the first kind of TV that was more screen than wooden console…. and I remember it well because it went with us to Libya, and back to the States.

It was with us all the way through my high school days… with a shiny black ceramic tiger “TV lamp” sitting on top.

 

My mother considered it more “modern”.

She secretly disliked bric-a-brac, and the “old fashioned” style of the curvy and ruffled furniture and lamps in their house… and in this poster…

She bought everything square and contemporary…. which I  grew up to dislike.

In fact, I like everything even more old fashioned and cluttered.

And so it goes.

You had that TV too??? Small world.

Good morning Ballardeers! Still vertical and taking nourishment.

I miss hugs.

Good morning Balladeers, Plods and Miss Susan.

Oh, Stel. This is too much! Nostalgia and proper social distancing all in one poster. We got our first TV in 1950, and I remember watching Howdy Doody! What a treat.

I can help but hearing the Limelighters (I think) singing"

♪ Oh, how we danced,

On the night we were wed ♪

We danced and we danced,

Because the room had no bed ♫

You stay safe too, Stel — and everyone!

Just checked Cleo! AWESOME!

I see MA is becoming a hotspot. Stay safe StelBel and kudos again!! But, where did you get a picture of my parent’s old TV set? And the chair looks like one my dad upholstered. Very interesting (would say cue Arte Johnson, but sadly, he passed last year).

Okay, let’s just say it! We are OLD! Sigh! The TV sets, furniture, etc. For some strange reason, I have just thought of the Montgomery Ward store and Western Auto. Anyone else remember them?

And STEL, STAY SAFE!