Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 23, 2016

Well I think it is a lot more comfortable than that hard old chair that’s covered in that fuzzy, stiff fabric they call Mohair!

Nope, not comfortable.

Ah, those pants are from the 2015 collection.

I think it is called mohair because, if you have cats, it will collect mo hair than you can vacuum in a lifetime.

“And he’s cuteIn his mohair suitAnd he keeps his pockets full of spending loot”Boy from New York City click here

I happened to hear Ernie singing Rubber Ducky and it set the wheels turning to mess with another children’s song:.

Nanner daqui, you’re the oneYou make down time so much funNanner daqui Im awfully fond of you….Every day when IMake my way to the TikiI find a little beverage who’s cold and yellow and foamy!.

Nanner daqui I’m awfully fond of youNanner daqui I’d like a whole pond of you!

Nelson is courting disaster, if he’s sitting with both legs sticking out on the same side of the hammock.

And Rollo is also courting disaster…lying underneath the hammock from which Nelson may tumble.

I can’t watch!

Rose…. really?

I had an old couch and chair, originally bought, or so I was told, in the 1920’s, upholstered in deep red mohair…

Couldn’t find just the right picture but the chair was shaped a bit like this one….

Most comfortable chair I’ve ever owned… I miss it still!

Dennis…have one on me….

And Monkey!Hope you show up and check the last couple of days!

I know, when people see a cat’s litter box, they always say, “Oh, have you got a cat?”

Next time I am going to say, “No, it’s for company!”

This is particularly apropos. We are in the process of building a small ‘casa de campo’ , down here in Ecuador, for weekend getaways. Just yesterday, my First Maite purloined purchased a couple of hammocks for what will be our front porch.

Supervising the Construction

Casual, shmazual. The real problem is that Nelson is between her and the television.

@beviek

DennisYou’re a poet, tho you don’t know it……………..

I left an update on my campaign to acquire a wheelchair van at Citizen Dog.

ATTENSHUN:…..MUnkY Is BACK In teH HOUSE!!!An whut did ah seas?YaLL throwed a Party fer Little ’o ME!!!+++++++++++++Ah Gots ta Poligize sints ah left Town withhout teLLing enyWun,,,, Eggsept Ah think Ah poot a stinky STICKY note onna stack of naNNers in teh store rum….(hopin sumwun sawrit..NO..???Sari….Ah made a trip bAck ta NW Warshinton ta attend a Looooong planned reunion with my former prime SHIPmates in teh USN… Havent seen any of them sints 1979,,,!!!.It wuz AWRSUM!!!!! Ahm sooooo sari ah mist teh big party… buttah nose yaLL hepped yerseffs ta awl teh glitter cake an nanner daks an Snickerdoodals…. an theres STILL sum in teh bak Kooler TOO!!!.Ah habgnt had tyme ta go back an luk at awl teh stuff frum teh weak end… gimme a little tyme please….

Many years ago I was shopping with my mother. She was looking at sweaters, I mentioned to her that the sweater she was holding was mohair.She looked up fast, stared at me in shock, and asked, “It’s from a MO?”

Hub and I have never forgotten it and it still brings giggles. Do you know how many MO’s it takes to make a nice sweater like that?

Adapt.

MONKEY!!!

Glad you’re back….and yeah, there’s tons of food left for you.

Belated birthday wishes, Munkey! I missed the party myself, but I hear it was wild!

Gladys is jealous. She wanted the hammock tonight.

Dennis, that is quite an ode to nanner daks. They are indeed, ode worthy.

Alexi….. and Ling, of course.

Unfortunately, I’d already tried that, when I first saw Ling’s non-working image.

It doesn’t work, at least not from my computer.Though it makes no sense to me, I do think these things can be geographical… the Linguist sees his image and I don’t…

and when I use PostImage no one can see what I post, though I can.

Trying from here to view the image at its URL, which you just posted, only displays the same graphic I see in Ling’s post…which does make sense, because an image post IS a direct link to that URL.

And even going directly to the Pixabay home page and searching for it by name only brought up the same graphic.

Ling…. if that didn’t work, and you see the correct image…I just see a black rectangle that says “Discover Pixabay” and “No Hot Linking.”

My plan had been to find the same picture on another site and re-post it for Ling…. I’ve done that for Bev and Rose and others in the past….but searching Google Images with this particular URL didn’t bring up any alternate versions..

It did find one site that supposedly had a “matching image” but when I got there I didn’t see anything that looked right.

I found one of a hammock on a different page there, but don’t know whether it was the right one…so I didn’t post it…. But wow…

After typing all that…..I just looked again…and tonight there are some alternate sites on Image Search that it didn’t find earlier….Ling… is this it??

Wow, Bev… you did that while I was typing about the same thing…but apparently, using the same URL that Alexikakos and I both found worked for you and not for me!

However i use it, if it has Pixabay in the address, I get the same black graphic, except when I plug it into Google search by image.

I’m not getting the van. The high bid is now $10,700.00 .

I’ve noticed the Ballard St. dogs are SO judgmental.

Actually I think it’s cos they’re smarter than the people.