Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 14, 2015

His form is perfect!

Ed can’t hit Vivian (heaven forbid) so he takes it out on the poor hedge.Vivian is clueless, to her, Ed’s “mess” in the garage needed cleaning up, so she did. Ed’s mess was his latest invention, the self-cleaning automatic nose blower.He had sent away for a Patent to the Acme Patent corp and everything.

He even got his niece Hillary Higglepooder to demonstrate it. They had planned on attending the Ballard Fall Fest and Useless Gadget Buying Frenzy Faire.

Gee, I don’t know about that, Viv. The hedge is looking trimmer from where I’m standing.

Well, now Ed’s even more convinced that he gets blamed for no reason.

He distinctly remembers Viv telling him that she’d like the hedge trimmed by a foot,

He’s doing some landscraping.

I don’t think Ed understands the concept of “manscaping” .

That method requires all of the Rockettes

Ed was hedging his bets. He figured that eventually, Vivian would get fed up with his hedgerow high jinx and trim it herself, or if not, he would get in some good practice for the annual Ballard Kick Boxing, Kick Starting & Toe Topiary Tournament !

Works, though.

Ed is channeling his Garo Yepremian.Kicking…..not passing.

Why is that big jerk kicking my sitting room?

Guess I’m going to have to move into the hedge across the street now.