Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 06, 2020

Open the dang door! Sheesh…

I like to imagine they are on vacation and the tub is overflowing.

It’s quite simple. They need to find their cellphone to call the plumber.

When life gives you lemons … The Swensons have made a heckuva lot of lemonade.

Water you doing to plug the leak?

Oh dear…

Ilona confided in me last Tuesday, that that she was thinking about not making her January house payment, because the house was underwater.

Honestly, I thought she was talking about the mortgage balance.

That was when I was doing her perm on Zoom…

( No, sorry. No appointments yet for humans…

I can only do distance hairstyling on ’toons.)

Everybody tells me so much stuff….

sometimes I only half listen, cos I think they just want someplace to unload, not actual advice.

But right now I wish I’d given her some.

Just another day at the beach for the Swensons…

They were bragging they had bought the biggest saltwater aquarium that Bert’s Pet Boutique had; they weren’t kidding. That 7ft nurse shark they brought home in a really large ziploc bag was a sight to behold. Stocking the aquarium is going to be expensive though; especially if they want that 900 lb black marlin that just arrived at Bert’s.

No joke, I’m jealous. The picture makes me smile, they look so happy. I love scuba & snorkeling, and Ulf looks like he’s gliding over the ruins of some ancient Greek city in the Aegean Sea.

That house has to have the worlds tightest windows and doors. I figure they can make a mint on renting it out for window and door installers.

@Plods with …

Yes, that’s the Silver Lining, excellent seals (Get it? Seals? ☺)

The Swensons home is a popular stop for the Ballard St Touring Company. Knickknacks are available and the postcard with Mrs Swenson in her skivvies frequently sells out.

I’m not buying it. Literally.

The relocation of the beaver a few days ago must have gone slightly wrong.

Took me a while to figure out that in the upper left is a woman on a lilo.

The flowers in the window box look kinda like a crowd some kind of tiny creatures, trying to get away from the window.