Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 27, 2010

Maybe you should get him a helmet too, Gracie.

Looks like someone needs to go outside.

Don’t try this in bed.

You go girlfriend !

Full contact house cleaning…

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200427 (well – not quite yet; it’s still a few minutes to the turn.)

Clara’s good.

George, I think you need some protection!

What! No Jewish Oats? or Buddhist Oats? or Muslim Oats? or even Pagan Oats???

Well, there’s…. “Mairzy doats ♪ ♫ and dozy doats ♪ ♫” ….

 

“and liddle lamzy divey…♪ ♫”

“A kiddley ♫ divey too, woulden’ you? ♪ ♫ ♪ "

 

My grandpa used to sing that to me.

He loved a good joke… though I was too young to know it.

Wonder what he’d have to say about

the April 27th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”….

 

on Sherpa….

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

 

Clara must have a strong constitution, to repeatedly put up with these two jokers…

She must know anything she says can and will be used against her.

 

I do warn our little comedy team when I can…. much as I love a pun myself…

You really need to be a bit judicious, when you go pouncing on the person who holds the keys to dinner.

Unless you really really like kibble … and I do mean Claude!

 

I like the drawing of the label, Nighthawks. Nice job!

 

Anybody remember the jokes about poor Barbara Bush, when the first George Bush was #41?

More than one comedian “commended” Quaker for honoring the First Lady on their packages.

(About as cruel as another one… maybe Robin Williams…

saying “Bush has only been in office a month, and already his wife is on the dollar bill.” )

 

Dennis… Cleo said “Kosher.” That might do for Jewish.

So Muslim oats should be “Halal?”

How about Hindu oats?

Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Mormon, 7th Day Adventist?

“Evangelical oats” … that has such a nice ring to it…

as Dave Barry would say…. that sounds like a good name for a rock band.

 

Maybe someone should open an oat store on Ballard Street… or an oat cafe?

Serving every variety… Anglican to Zoroastrian .

I don’t have time, myself… but if anybody wants to “borrow” the idea…

A good name for it might be “Mairzy Doats.

Yeah, yeah… I’m obviously going nuts in confinement.

As are we all, guess.

 

A lot of people can’t go to their shuttered gyms, or walk the paths or run the tracks at closed off parks….

and I hear they’re working out at at home.

My HMO sent me links to some videos, of exercises for while in quarantine.

it would be nice if they also sent me a link to a bigger place, so I’d have room to do them!

 

But speaking, as I was, of pouncing on someone….

Maybe Gracie was likewise inspired.

We can’t tell what her options are for other “gym” spaces.

 

Most Ballard Street houses seem pretty fair-sized…

built in an era when people didn’t have to skimp on lot footage or lumber.

But we can’t really tell whether this particular living room is part of an ample, old frame house….

or even a huge Victorian, like the ones that line Cherry St or Oak St, when you first turn off Ballard and walk towards Hill St Park.

 

Or is it squeezed into one of those tiny condos that some seniors have downsized into…

like the ones over on West Ballard Circle, near the QuikStop.

 

I don’t understand why anyone wants to do that.

If George and Gracie did… what did they do with her 472 ceramic elephants, or his life size fiberglass zebras?

And she wouldn’t really have anywhere else to practice “Quarantine Tumbling for Seniors.”

 

Why is Cleo giving Clara the finger?

Some place in the next county would be good.

Two eggs over easy with bacon and toast and no bloody oats.

I just hate it when my oatmeal is saturated in blood.

I say use milk!

Not that it means anything but HAPPY MONDAY BALLARDEERS!

Q-Day 45: They’d come and take me away, but I won’t let them.

Sun and a little warmth yesterday. Got outside and walked a little. Went for a ride and got to hang my head out the window. Gonna be warm ish today too. Think I’ll do it again.

(((((HUGS))))) ALL AROUND!!

Claud should bend over and rubbb that belly!

Even Claude and Cleo are showing signs of cabin fever.

We’re starting today to open up our state with Phase One. Slowly. Cautiously. Hope it works!

Good afternoon Balladeers, Plods and Miss Susan!

What Claude would really like is bacon-oats.