Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 09, 2021

When nature calls, we all hope that Norton will step behind those flowers before he answers.

“Yip. While you’re in there, can you look for the bone I lost in there?”

Norton, do you have to tear up the place?

Unfortunately Norton answered nature’s siren call in the middle of Mrs. Higglebothin’s hydrangeas. Somebody call an ambulance. Mrs Higglebothin swings a mean broom.

You know you’re getting a little long in the tooth when, for you, a siren song is coming from a burst of wildflowers.

The Dog: “I can’t take him anywhere.”

That’s not a siren call Norton, that’s the Ballard Street Neighborhood Watch summoning the police. And… They’re coming to take you away, Haha, they’re coming to take you away, Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha, To the funny farm Where Life is Beautiful all the time And you’ll be happy to see Those Nice Young Men In their Clean White Coats And they’re coming to take you AWAY, HA HAAAAA. (With apologies to the songwriter and performer who originally came up with the song)

Scooter’s confused, he relieves himself out in the open, why would his master do it in Mrs. Higglebothin’s hydrangeas… and, boast about it.

What was the question?

The damage to the hydrangeas is bad enough, but it’s the Primal Scream that really spooks Mrs. Higglebothin…

Looks more like cotton than flowers.

That’ll teach Nature.

Scooter says, “Wait! You punish me when I dig in the flowers???”

With me it would be colorful Autumn leaves. I’m just saying…

It’s “stop to smell the roses”, not THROW the roses!