That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 19, 2024

/// When the weather turns dreary and damp,

Grampa’s rheumatiz’ makes his legs cramp.

That’s when young Becky Mae

takes A Break from Child’s Play

for some quality time with her Gramp.

/// Her toy hoop and stick lean on the wall,

though she’s still holding onto a doll.

Despite arthritic joints,

out the window Gramp points

at the Angel of Death come to call.

In Phoebe Buffay’s voice “They’re FORNICATING”

“Our new neighbours are not like us. We don’t like them.”

See that big pile under the apple tree? A bear was there last night.

One of them’s probably not a deer, doe.

Keep looking. She might see a John Deere soon.

“One day, sweetie, this will all be yours.”

“An empty field covered in meadow muffins? Greeeeeat….”

… and when you get to the store ask for Larry and tell Grandpa said it’s ok for you to bring him some beer and a pack of cigarettes

Here they come, walking down the street,

Get the funniest looks from, everyone they meet,

Hey, Hey! None of that now! There’s a child present!

I wanted to comment, but all I had was inappropriate.

Grandpa sits in the window and thinks /

that he’d love to be out on the links:/

Pursuing a ball/

But he barely can crawl../

on the whole, this old age crap stinks !

My 4 year old grand son says that the roster is mean to the other chickens. He keeps jumping on them.

Martin Crane moves to the country after he can no longer stand living with Frasier in his Seattle apartment.

I was practicing with my bow and arrows when I got Thumper over by the cabbage patch, and Flower got caught in a fox trap just behind the chicken coop. You can’t see it from here, but I brought Bambi down with the 12-guage out by the pond. We had good meat that winter.

After Grandpa went blind, the “Pull My Finger” game was less fun for him but more fun for Polly.

They waited all day for someone to come along and pull grandpa’s finger. Alas, no one did, and grandpa exploded.

“And there go the hostas…”

“Look down that away, little Lisa, and you kin see where yer Pappy and me tried to hold off them Revenuers from gettin’ our moonshine.

I reckon yer Pappy’ll be out of jail in about 5 years, lessen J.D. gets his New York pal to pardon ’em."

“You see that fu….”

My granddaughter’s favorite show! And ugh such a ploy to get kids to buy toys. OUR shows never did that ;=D

Grandpa doing commentary on the world before tv was invented.

A Break from Child’s Play: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Undated paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, 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 Play, 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 #3358 (July 19, 2024) 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

see that lake? it is where i went skinny-dipping when i was your age.

Hey, say it with me this time; ok child?

HEY YOU! GET OFF MY LAWN!

“That tree over there by the lake is where my Father used to point things out to me.”

Deers KNOW no shame……….