Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 26, 2015

They’re a splinter group.

His new best friend is already board.

New BFF – Best Fence Forever.

Bev!!! Welcome back!So sorry I missed you!

@beviekDoes HappyX3 know you stole that .gif?And a few of those dogs noses are NOT twitching. Are they broken?

Brett knows you can’t improve on perfection.

Santa didn’t bring anything for Woody. He was knotty.

Wait ’till he tries to nail it.

And that’s the unvarnished truth!

They’re going out and getting hammered on New Year’s Eve.

All it takes is a piece of wood and you all make the funniest jokes. Thanks for the laughs.

My but this humor goes against the grain.

Is Mist back yet?

Apropos of nothing…Preheat oven to 300º1Cup Sugar1/2 Cup Butter2 Eggs1 Teaspoon Vanilla1 and 2/3 Cup Flour1 Teaspoon Baking Soda1/2 Teaspoon Salt1 Cup Banana, Mashed1/2 Cup Walnuts 2 Tablespoons Sour Cream or Plain Yogurt Optional, Cinnamon and/or Nutmeg (to taste) Sift together flower, baking soda, salt and spices if you are adding them.Cream together the sugar and butter.Beat the eggs, vanilla, sour cream (or yogurt) and banana into the creamed sugar and butter.Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and blend until fully incorporated. Poor into loaf pans.Bake for 1 Hour. Check with toothpick to see if finished.Instead of using butter and flower on the cake pans, use butter and sugar. The loaves will come out of the pan feeling wet but will lose some of the sticky after air drying about an hour.Works with full sized and mini loaf pans.Recipe can be doubled.

That is funny, my best friend is wood, too.

His friend looks board.

Jerry stole this idea from Cartoon Networks Ed,Edd, and Eddy.

I’ve board my friends, but never that badly!

Happy Birthday RedKaycei!

Hey, everybody…. there’s no Sunday Ballard Street strip…but this one will still be here all day…And Sunday, the 27th, is RedKaycei’s Birthday…

So I’m hoping everybody will join me in a toast…

Happy Birthday, Red!!

We couldn’t really plan a party for you Red, cos we never know whether you’ll be here…and in any case, our party team is a bit low on availability, due to circumstances beyond our control…

But it doesn’t mean we don’t all wish you the very best, for this birthday, and in the coming year..and hope to see more of you soon.

I left a bottle of Glenfiddich behind the counter, and Fenton has instructions to pour a round from it for the bar when you come in…he’ll pass it on to the day staff if his shift is over.

I’ve made you a cake, which I’ll post shortly….And I do hope you’ll drop in…

Cos here it comes….

Hope you like it, Redkaycei….It’s a variation on the one you liked last year….This is dark chocolate with raspberries and a Drambuie infused chocolate raspberry mousse.

Bev, Rose… what are you drinking?

Hi Bev!!

Oh…. is that card doing a strip-tease? Is there anything inappropriate going on inside?

Would you care for a drink to toast Red?

Something that goes with cake!

Happy Birthday Red!

Beautiful Cake Susan, even tho you were preoccupied while you were decorating it! LOLYou sure know how to multi-task!

OK, GoComics is really messing up!

Hi X! Your comment just now showed up for me…and the one I made saying “Hi Rose!” has disappeared!

Plus, my cake was posted after Bev and Rose’s cards…

You never can have too many greetings Red……

Yes, I’ve noticed it on a few strips in the past couple of days…people even replying to other people that I can’t see…then later, their comments show up…after they’ve been answered, from my view.

@SusanI didn’t post my greeting until after I saw your announcement. And I never saw a post of “hi Rose”.

As for the strip tease… well, what am I supposed to think?I never saw a card unzip itself, all coyly, like that.

Or in any other way, either, I must add.

Wow, x_Tech… I wondered about that, too.And now it’s the first thing.

G’night, Bev!And Rose, if you left…

I’ll be back in a few minutes, everybody… play some tunes and party on…

BevYou said you loved my card before I posted it……..did you receive special powers for Christmas?

I just looked outside, it’s snowing! We did have a White Christmas after all.

Hi… sorry… took longer than I thought…

Rose… have another brandy on me!A snowy night calls for brandy… in fact, I think I’ll have one myself…no snow here, but it’s just below freezing…. and there’s ice on my car

And, I…. well, I don’t want to sound ungreatful or anything…. but no thank you, I’ll pass on the sore throat.PLEASE keep your germs to yourself.

X .. are you still about?

@Redcaycei Repoc

Cheers, Red! Glad you found it!

Dude! Happy birthday!I had no idea or i would have been here before now!

Did you know that there was a Red Rabbit?

Whoa… just made it in time for the turn….

Hang on everybody!

Bev, would you like a banana dak for the ride?