That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 05, 2024

/// It is now 4 pm, Time for Tea.

Alba set cups for two, not for three.

But before she can pour,

Alma stands at the door

with an armful of pre-potpourri.

/// Alma plucks and prepares special blooms

so when dried they retain their perfumes.

Herbs she finds growing free,

can, when steeped with some tea,

make it her higher each sip she consumes.

The flowers? Yeah, I have a new boyfriend. It’s also why I can’t walk straight.

“I just met a man who is almost 7 feet tall. He was passing letters to a woman on the other side of a fence.”

“You were right about Newton. He wants to break up with me. Let’s invite him in to show there’s no hard feelings. Helen, why don’t you brew a pot of your special Foxglove tea for him. I’ll tell the Gardener to prepare for another deposit into the compost bin.”

Oh these? they’re for your casket you sneaky gardener stealing weasles.

What Bob doesn’t know is that she was also cheating on him with the Swedish nanny.

“I wish George would have another affair. I need a new centerpiece.” – Gracie Allen

“Betty, I heard your hay fever is acting up again. I brought you a present!”

When Felicity enters the fray/

And she’s bearing a monster bouquet/

Then Eulalia’s dahlias/

And Sonja’s begonias/

Seem to quietly fade away..

The begonias cannot compete/

With Felicity’s floral feat/

And the dahlias are cute/

But who gives a hoot?

Could she not have brought something to eat ?

Ladies, I’ve got a great idea for a Pornhub story.

You see, ladies, showing a bit of ankle (covered in heavy woolen stockings, of course) is how you win a beauty contest.

Replace the nanny with a manny and see if that changes Bob’s perspective.

Because she is well endowed/

Today she is being allowed/

To Invade the affair/

Of the prurient pair/

Who usually claim “three’s a crowd”.

“We ‘went flower picking’. Sorry, I’m still having trouble walking straight.”

Time for tea: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Tea pots in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave 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 Lynch, 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 also shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3370 (September 4, 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the February 10, 2012, strip being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

Look sis, I told you we should have changed our tea time to an hour earlier. Here’s that nosy neighbor trying to get herself invited in again.

Elsbeth arriving late as usual, had a few too many G%Ts as usual.

Flowers you say? A strumpet with no crumpet or pundit.

Thursday:

Nobody is on the Grande Jatte/

And this is the Reason for that:/

They threw in the towel/

And the water was foul:

They’re all at the laundromat