That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 08, 2023

“I don’t think our team has a chance to win the regatta.”

/// Young Miss Hester reluctantly brought her

“sibling” Rhoda to row on the water.

Though she longs to resist her

sinister so-called sister,

the child blackmails: “I’ll tell I’m your daughter!”

/// At fourteen, Hester, hiding her girth,

with her Ma’s help, in secret gave birth.

To the world Ma avers

the new baby was hers.

Family honor’s a thing of great worth.

Look Maggie. I’m going to row the three of us to that island. But I’m only rowing two back. You decide which two.

If that dog poops in my boat, you’re cleaning it up!

It was the Smyth’s family tradition to drop off their eldest child to fend for herself in the wild for two weeks.

It really stinks when you try to sneak off to a secret rendezvous with your boyfriend, and your kid sister insists of tagging along

wait, I thought you brought the lunch…

“You lied to get the job didn’t you?”

“This is much easier than the time I had to ferry that wolf, chicken and sack of corn over to the island……”

If you ask, “Are we there yet?” one more time, I’m going to turn this boat around…

“Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies…”

How many times do I have to tell you , “Don’t get in the boat, Freda!”?

See this paddle? Well you’re about to get it if you don’t start acting right

Sorry, Mommy’s tired. No waterskiing today

Don’t worry. Brandon will make her pay for the school loans.

No Christi, 20 minutes out on the lake isn’t long enough to ask,“Do we have to eat the dog now?”

The chances are rather remote:

That the kid in the back of the boat/

Will be able to row/

For a decade or so:/

She will still be too young to vote.///

Assuming we all stay afloat/

And we still are permitted to vote/

I will be quite astounded/

That we’ve somehow rebounded/

But that still won’t be reason to gloat…

No way two people that different in height are going to be able to row together. They’ll have to alternate.

Mary, as you grow older you will develop into a young beautiful girl and men will be thefirst to tell you that and more………

Go Fish.

“Why didn’t you go before we left home?”

Yes I got a splinter in my butt and if you remind me one more time you’re going overboard.

College ? Why would I want to go there ?/

It’s a racket, a sham and a snare !/

The degree that I’d get/

Would condemn me to debt/

Until silver bespeckled my hair!///

By exploring our Northwestern claim, Lewis and Clark got attention and fame, Cause they swore it would never be said, That their expedition was led, By their sisters Lois and Charmaine.

Just say ‘no’ to pugs.

“Calm down. It’s only going to be a three-hour tour.”

A rowboat is steered by two oars/

But the owner of this one deplores/

Doing what is required/

So now she’s enmired/

With a child whom she always ignores..///

She has run her rowboat aground/

On an unseen subaqueous mound/

And the kid has a hunch/

That- not having brought lunch/

They will starve long before they are found.///

There’s a chance (just a chance-nothing more)/

That somehow they’ll make it ashore/

Of hope there’s still some/

But if they should succumb/

They’ll be glad their best outfits they wore.

If you’re going to play at being the coxswain, you must turn around and look forward.

Both the little girl and the dog have excellent posture.

Last week . . . cruising down Las Vegas Blvd.

“Girl in back: “If I hear one more verse of Row Row Row Your Boat, I’m jumping in and swimming home.”

She retorts, Do you have any life insurance ma?…

An Idle Afternoon: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1880 oil on canvas paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Idle, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3183 (September 8, 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 sparse info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

Nuthin is as idle as the wait for movement tidal in the mor….

@Call Me Ishmael; @Solstice*1947

I will never, never, never play Trivia Pursuit with either of you. You remember way too much.

Although … hearing trivial pursuit answers in limerick form would be very, very interesting.

For Monday:

It really is rather uncanny/

How he’s drawn to the “canyon” on Annie/

Which her bosom bisects/

And perfectly reflects/

The cute crevasse cleaving her fanny..