That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 09, 2023

This painting is like those magic eye pictures: When you first look at it, do you see a slim young thing, or a woman with too much junk in the trunk?

The scarecrow, bringing home a refill

It was a “bring your own grass” picnic.

/// Elbert’s barrow he wheeled to her side.

Fenna sighed, “You boor, have you no pride?”

He sneaks peeks down her blouse

as they trudge toward her house.

He leered, “Trade you a ride for a ride?”

Charlie is trying to impress Lenore, but he is failing miserably. His shirt is too tight, his pants are too high and he look like a wimp using a cart for the grass when Lenore is carrying it casually under her arm.

no, de cart’s name is Rene, I am Pierre!

“I didn’t have the 2 gilder to get the wheelbarrow.”

“I used to carry the cart on my head – until somebody explained what the wheel is for. Long story short, that’s why I don’t have a neck anymore."

The Agricultural Irish Girl shows the city boy how to carry a bale of hay without breaking sweat.

You Requested a Sleeper?

Some fellows carried a wad of cash in their pockets and whipped it out to impress people. Freddie showed it right out in the open on his funky little hand cart.

“Well, Anna. I see you were shopping at ‘Big Lots,’ too. Don’t want to run out because of another bathroom tissue shortage, do we?”

Josef! My eyes are up here! (No word from Ishmael. I keep looking to see if he will write something on his Profile page. It would be nice to know if he is okay. It’s just not right that someone can be commenting on here for years and years and then suddenly be made to disappear.)

In Holland there was such desperation

(The economy was bad due to inflation)

To carry coins wasn’t practical

The heavy weight caused one’s back to go,

The price of wheeled carts became a sensation.

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Paper money had been looked at with scorn,

But the burden of coins couldn’t be borne

So it either was go with paper dollars

Or listen to groans and hollers

Of shoppers with hernias forlorn.

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Even so, the money was not even trimmed

People took it as the big rolls it came in.

If there was any advantage,

On less less food people could manage

And with exercise fat people got thin.

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Tulip mania was in vogue ‘round this time

And since onions were a food ingredient prime

Some Dutch chewed tulip bulbs, not their nails

(And even yucky French snails)

Although bulb investors called it a crime!

That guy does have a good head on his shoulders. Too bad it’s not on his neck…!

My eyes are up here.

She say, I’ll bet you a weeks pay that I can roll something down the street in that wheelbarrow that you can’t roll back. He says, I’ll take that bet. She say, Okay, hop in.

I am so glad we spent the rest of our money on this cart; it is so much easier than carrying this one kilo blanket.

Sir! Exactly what do you mean by “Intermingle” our bedrolls?

Is this the same kid from 2 days ago?

“Of course I’m listening to them. …YOU. I’m listening to YOU.”

He does not appear to be looking at whatever she’s carrying.

“I use a mat because too many customers would lose their ardor on the way to the hourly motel”

“I didn’t think this was what you meant when you said ’Let’s try the wheelbarrow position’.”

Woman next to a man with a wheelbarrow: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vrouw_naast_een_man_met_een_kruiwagen,_RP-T-1889-A-1980.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly US letter size drawing.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3128 (May 9, 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 containing the sparse info I found about the artist. So far, 3 works by him/her have been used here, the May 5, 2023, strip being the prior.

Katrina always has to undo her bonnet strings carefully, or half her body will fall off.

Elsbeth shows her boyfriend how to walk to their yoga studio without getting tired since he did all the work having sex.

Wow! You are the first person to recognize that I’m also a woman!

“My dear, I can see that you’re carrying a heavy load.”