Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 20, 2012

Striker would prefer if Donald was tying fleas and ticks.

Hair of the dog should work for anything.

Hair of the dog…best lure for drunken grouper.

If he just brushed the dog, he could use the hairs without bothering the poor animal.

Wait til he blows his coat. Those soft undercoat hairs are great!

After time, a dog starts looking like his master.

Well, it looks like no one is around but Happy and myseld; they must have been up too late last night. I hope noone caught my lover’s cold. He weint iceskating with grandkids and has forgotten how (to skate). He was mostly on the rails all the time and must have picked up germs there. It didn’t hit him until yesterday. Last night I was mostly just keeping him warm (not usual) but it’s all good! He likes to get his work done early so he’s out now . I’ll be back later.

@LaflnLarry (from yesterday)

Carol of the Bells?(Carol Belli…I think she’s a model — ?)That may be as close to “Carol of the Bells” as is possible…

Solution:

HAIR CLUB FOR DOGS!

(Will check in later — off to do more Christmas shopping! Who hasn’t passed in their wish list yet????)

Bev …Merry Christmas to you and your family and have a very safe, enjoyable trip…(all packed into that car like sardines…lol)

(and that’s just the front seat…)

The dog looks unhappy. I think a bite is in order. Chewing holes in his waders would be the perfect retaliation.Use to fly fish in Alaska. Man those flies were hard to bring in. They could sure fight. LOL

How appropriate that StelBel would come up with a Carol of the Bells for me! beviek also from yesterday — link was nice, and just what I expected.I was worried that any Carol of the Bells would be of these bells. Guaranteed not to be any song about bells you think it will be. I think it’s done just about perfectly.

@StelBel, Luv your doggy wigs!@Larry, I really enjoyed the poem. Seldom do you you hear readings with such good breath control. There is one field reporter on my morning news who drives me crazy because of her speach (gasping for air so often mid-sentence). I first read Poe’s short stories in 4th or 5th grade times and have revisited those, but never read his poetry.

It could be worse. Coyotes are killed to be used for fly tying.

Bev,Hope you and yours have a wonderful and blessed Christmas. Safe journey.Don’t spoil Miles too much ! ( Ha,ha ).

Yes Bev,I hope you have a great trip and everyone enjoys with no bad colds. Got to go attend to my guy. Logging out.

Well, let’s just say it hasn’t gotten worse. I am temporarily, sans ground transport and cell phone – two items I can ill-afford to be without.Hopefully, I can get these problems resolved this afternoon.Thanks for the Glenfiddich yesterday. It calmed the beast a bit.See you all a bit later at the Tiki. Drinks are on me !

I stopped on a highway to retrieve a squirrel tail from the poor critter that had been hit.

Stryker shud feel lucky… look whut happend to poor litle Rocket’s fur cote….. Imelda down teh street started hervesting his hares fer crotching a 4 slice toaster cozy…. poor lil baster feller…..

Hay Ms Bev you have a SAFE and happy holydaze..>!!!!Seize ya wen ya gets back..!!!!-————-uh… btw…. ya mite wanna chek yer rigging an mke shur you dont lose eny stuff…. ya nose we gotta litter ordnamce here on BS…. jus sayin’….. (ahl pertend ah dint sea nuttin’)

Thnx Ess…!!! Maid a mess o mah fence round teh cement pond tho…!!!! (its gone)

. HELLO JOB SECURITY! .How many of those that “…gave too many people vacation days and now have a shortage …” will be there to help cover the shifts?

ESMERELDA…..

Lovely dog. I can see he / she really is angry and not trained to “act” that way.

The image of Carol Belli from up above in the comments disappeared. Hate it when that happens!! Here it is again:

Just checking in…… then I gotta run again….

Red…That’s rotten!Who do you work for, Scrooge Inc.?

You did, though, answer the question I said I’d been about to ask you a couple of nights ago…after you posted that you were a Capricorn….LOL

BEV!!! There are such big storms in Illinois right now.Are you sure about this trip?If you do leave, you’d better let us know when you get there that you’re OK.I worry, you know…. and I’m sure I’m not alone.

And Ling…. sorry to hear about all that.

If you decide to borrow the Monkey’s old mobile phone, be careful not to talk too fast…I think they waste gas if you do….and they never did get a lot of words to the gallon, being so big.

The newer ones are MUCH smaller and get way better wordage…

BTW – The phone rang before I could tell you….

with those you have to snap the wheels on before you go anyplace…. They’re not truly mobile till then…. but they fit in your pocket better.

That was the problem with the first small ones…cute, got pretty fair wordage…but small for riding in, yet bulky for carrying in a pocket.

What no rotary dials?Only push buttons?I remember an uncle who lived on a farm in North Carolina. He had a phone you turned a handle to make it ring. To call others on the “Trunk” line you were assigned a series of rings. Like two long one short. Someone else would have one long two short. So you had to wait for someone to quit turn the handle before you could answer. Now if you were quiet you could lift the ear piece and listen in just to be nosy.I had no clue at 4 years old. I would spin that handle and start talking to whoever answered. Got Santa Claus once or maybe it was grandpa. Remember the first “Princess” phone by the old Ma’ Bell Company. All the rage back in the late 50’s and 60’s. Aimed at the new customers. Teenage girls talking on the phone to everyone.Oopps. Gota go my phone is ringing. (sorry buzzing like my alarm clock)

Ahm gonna be scarse round BS fer teh next few dayz, prob til day aftur Kiss Krismus… so ya’ll git over to teh tiki bar an find teh presence under teh trree wit yer names on ’em…

Ah jus got em wrapped an stashed… yew can open em erly ifn wa want… (Ling, yers gots holes in it, so’s to let it breathe…)Ah hopes ya’ll lyke ‘em… be shur to share wit teh rest, maybe take pikshurs… an if’n ya wanna swap with others its okey… Yall have a MERRY Krismus an ahl seas ya nex week okey..!! HO-HO-HO…!!!! (izzat tew many ho’s afore krissmus?)-—————————-oh, an ah painted a new sine fer teh tiki bar….. ah mite havem in teh rong oder order tho….

oh…. an afore ah fergets… thers pleny yak in teh cooler, sum yall no how tuh operates teh smoker…!!!!

Cleo’s trying to get back on Santa’s good side?

https://cleoandcompany.net/december-20-2022/

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.