That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 20, 2023

When the the van Pelt family went on a picnic, they did everything from scratch.

/// He was stoic, the boy never smiled.

To show joy would mean being reviled.

Amanda, his mother,

had a reed-weaver brother,

who made baskets with Spock (then a child).

Yes, son, a degree in Underwater Basket Weaving will put food on the table.

“Once I’m done with this basket son, you can use it to carry more straw.”

So that Musk fellow is claiming that his clay pots are going to render baskets obsolete? I’ll believe that when I see a washer-woman carrying a pot of laundry to the river to wash.

The best thing about being a basket weaver? You can do it while blitzed out of your mind. I haven’t been sober a day in the past 14 years (that’s the day you were conceived).

slowest moving Tiktok challenge EVER!

Not exactly a tangled web.

Milton is now a bit unsure that his $200,000 basket weaving degree was a good investment

The Weavers, Charlie and Dennis.

“Dad….You know, you really should make a YouTube video on ‘How to make a Basket from Yard Waste. I’d bet it would go viral!”

If them sideburns ‘d’ grow together, Dad, you’d be the spittin’ image of Abe Lincoln!

“In and out, and ‘round about,

Twist here, then there, take special care,”

The expert weaver said to Denis,

His less than eager young apprentice.

.

“To my teaching pay attention

And you’ll have a good profession!”

But Denis dreamed of better baskets

Not made of straw, but of … plastics.

.

“Basket weaving is for a fool,”

He declared, going back to school.

He saw no good in artistry

He instead studied chemistry.

.

A wise choice for him, fortuitous,

But research made by Denis led to this:

Piles of useless plastic waste

The landscapes and oceans defaced.

I just got an order for five more bushel baskets. You’ll need to bring in more sheaves…..and rejoice while you do it.

Dad, I said I wanted to learn to do weed, not weave!

Working as an artist’s model, Robert Blake got his big break when John Huston saw this painting and signed him up to be in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Ikea: The Early Years.

" I don’t particularly mind standing here all day, holding this stupid bunch of reeds, watching you weave, and listening to you bítch and cuss, but if I don’t get a pee break soon, your basket’s never gonna be the same! "

Boy patiently waiting while his father disassembles another basket.

“Dad, by the time you finish this laundry basket, I’ll have outgrown these clothes.”

Just remember son, baskets will never be replaced..never…never…I hope!

A-tisket, a-tasket

A brown and yellow basket.

Wait, where’s the yellow?

“What did you think I meant when I said this was a rush job?”

Dumb kid. Those ain’t Air Jordans he’s sporting.

“Just a thought for you to remember son: don’t borrow your wife’s clothes hamper to bring home the day’s catch of fish.”

He’s making a glove for Willie Mays.

Seated basket weaver with standing boy: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zittende_mandenvlechter_met_staand_jongetje,_RP-T-1962-234.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size drawing.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3099 (March 20, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here, the November 29, 2021, strip being the prior.

It intertwines the reeds into the basket. It does this every time it’s told.

“Whaddya mean, I can’t make a basket? I’ll show you,” said the Sacramento King.

Every day at dinnertime Dad came home from work and if we asked him how his day had been he always said, “Nothing but net.”