That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 09, 2019

After Cabot was hypnotized and told to cluck like a chicken, he never got over the idea that he was a bird.

Jacques was beginning to think that maybe he was indulging his granddaughter too much with her hobby of collecting sticks.

It takes a lot of practice to get the posture that looks sexy on the catwalk, right said, Fred?!?

“Excuse us “Mister Big Shot Painter,” we’ll be out of the way after my granddaughter picks some flowers."

ZOFO !

Hint: think Led Zeppelin cover art

It’s a footrace between youth and old age. Youth has not a care in the world, while old age is carrying a heavy load.

“Do these sticks make my butt stick out?”

Ned had a feeling his seeing eye child could have had more training.

Stick with it Milt.

The doctor said this would relieve my constipation. But I still don’t understand the part about the sticks.

OK, I know it’s “sticks ‘n stones”, but what are the stones for? What? You say they throw them at me? I was just upskirting you…

Heading out to the Led Zepplinn IV album cover auditions.

“Wood” YOU believe it ?

The expression is “speak softly and carry a big stick”. It’s “stick”, not “sticks” you fool.

I just can’t muster any “humorous reply” to this one. This man is perhaps 50 yrs old, and can hope for a few more backbreaking years. The girl will be pregnant at 14. This is largely, “the Human Condition”. Truly, “most men lead lives of quiet desperation”. Outside the Western World, billions still live like this. Call me “Mr. Sunshine” – it’s a POWERFUL painting.

Milt was so convinced that his sticks would be recognized as the best sticks in the market place that he hired muscle to protect them from would be thieves. Milt was not right in the head.

Old Milt’s in a helluva fix/ his existence depends on sticks/ but he’s not very good/ at gathering wood/ and he’s too old to learn new tricks ! (My mood has improved – it’s sunny today !)

Wilbur and Orville’s grandfather with his first attempt at an aerodynamic wing.

The Wood Gatherer: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julien_bastien-lepage,_pap%C3%A0_jacques,_1881,_01.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this painting. Other versions has strip coloration.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bastien-lepage_jules.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1553 

https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=92699&sos=0 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jules-bastien-lepage 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/269 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/bastien1.htm 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/bastien/biograph.html 

http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn07/44-autumn07/autumn07review/121-jules-bastien-lepage-1848-1884 

http://www.avictorian.com/Lepage_Jules_Bastien.html 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Jules_BastienLepage/9001066/Jules_BastienLepage.aspx 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/bastien-lepage.htm 

https://archive.org/details/julesbastienlepa00theu/page/n9 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to than what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2345 (December 9, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

He was glad to get promoted. He got to wander around and sell firewood while everybody else was still raking and hauling leaves.

Looks like a horizontal transfer to me.

He was proud of his babysitting abilities until she stepped in the poison oak.

ya really have to investigate job titles (and descriptions) carefully

He’s humming “Too Much Time on my Hands” out there in the STYX.

“If you don’t stop stealing flowers, Helga, I’m going to take a switch to you, and I get to pick which one!”

What is Willie Nelson doing hauling branches? Is he on the road again?

you don’t have to find any more branches Eloise, have enough already.

How can I sing, “I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK” with this silly French accent??? Mon dieu! :>)

a young gwyneth paltrow, already into harvesting herbs for dubious cures…

Milton Bradley’s eureka moment for the game of pick up sticks.

“Where’s your grandma going with the car?”