Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 23, 2008

Hi there, everybody!

Glad you could make it… if you did.

The site was down for about an hour and a half after the turn…

but now we can get to Randy and Helen’s house….

to have some breakfast and post our comments on

the July 23rd  2018 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which you can also read now on Sherpa…

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

I think the site problems must have really set Randy back….

or maybe it started for him even before that.

Just that kind of day…. where not only do you fail at getting ahead, you can’t even keep up with running in place.

They make special shoes for traction on a running track….

and different ones for traction on ice….

But some of us, like Randy… and me….

need some that would give us a little better grip on the day.

If my traction soles could be on sheepskin slippers, so much the better.

Or are the slippers themselves a symbol of the lack?

Cleo seems to lack a different sort of traction….

something to hold her down, and not let her fly away when she throws.

Would that be traction soles, or a rear spoiler?

Of course, if the problem is that she doesn’t let go, she needs an emergency release latch, instead.

If you’re too late for breakfast, it’s OK…

we’ll be sliding into lunch time, with finger sandwiches and coffee…

and if you’re not here and can’t see this, just let me know, OK?

Loss of traction would explain why the eggs are runny.

What’s worse for Cleo, that was her second foul. She gets just one more crack at it.

The rest of Randy’s day is shot.

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane…

Cleo should be careful that she isn’t mistaken for the Basselope flying around like that.

Wow! Exercise really helps trim Cleo down. Look at her form. And her flat belly. And she’s even light as air!! I wonder where she’ll land.

Rather early to be losing your traction, Randy. This doesn’t bode well for the rest of the day.

I think Cleo needs more training. Where she ends up – nobody knows. Enjoy the adventure!

Cleo has invented a new event, combining the hammer throw with the high jump.

Looks like Randy should have stayed in bed!!! Hey Cleo, practice makes perfect, if at first & all that!!!

just as a heads up, for the next two weeks I’ll be rerunning the series “Cleo goes for the gold”

which was originally run during the 2016 Summer Olympics.