That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 03, 2017

The girls checking out the new field hand.

“That Ross Poldark—his scything technique is terrible, but check out the pecs!”

Woman working for Scotland’s Dept. of Transportation waiting for the next load of asphalt.

“It doesn’t look like much now, but there will be a big mall here in the future.”

“Keeping your daughters off the pole” had a different meaning back then.

They are looking for a good rake.

The Master Minion certificate is easy, but the job involves a lot more work for the same money.

The Close of Day: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jules_Adolphe_Aim%C3%A9_Louis_Breton_-_The_Close_of_Day_-_Walters_3757_(2).jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/409 

has info about this artist (click Biography). So far, 5 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/07/19?comments=visible 

has the prior work (which, sadly, still has all the 15 hyperlinks in my comment there, inactive @#$%&!).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1794 (October 2, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

“Yes he is a jerk, but he is my jerk”……Until something better comes along

An Applied Pedantry Degree is even worse.

Maybe you should just teach.

“I love the night shift – can’t glean a thing, but nobody micromanages you..”

Paint faster Jules!! The sun is going down!