Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 12, 2009

Life could be doing much worse to you, Lyle. The bluebird of happiness could befoul your hat.

“May the bird of paradise fly up your nose May an elephant caress you with his toes May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose May the bird of paradise fly up your nose”

May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose “Little” Jimmy Dickens

Gee, Lyle, it sounds like you’re getting off easy - the big foot of life could be giving you a good, swift kick.

As one who has been kicked, more than once,I still find comfort knowing that Lyle is ahead of me.

At least the dirt is going over your tracks and not you.

Lyle, you don’t argue with Bigfoot.

I am late, but still first to post the link to Cleo and Company. Where are you all?

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

Hopefully the link will take you to today’s C&C once Nighthawks wakes up.

Just hope that big foot doesn’t belong to Sergeant Hulka.

Wakie, wakie, eggs and bakie. nighthawks!

Hi Dennis….

You beat me by mere seconds …

I, too, was about to post the link and ask where everybody went….

Considering that I’m an hour and a half late, having just stayed a little later at the fair on its last night for this year….

and the only comments that were here, before I refreshed and saw you, were the old ones.

I know by the time I say this, you’ll probably have said it too…

I’m on my tablet and posting by “typing” with one finger on a virtual keyboard is slow.

But the problem may be that once again, we still have only yesterday’s strip at this time.

So, folks…. Dennis’ link will eventually take you to the new Cleo… for August 12th, 2019… on Sherpa.

Which may, as it’s for Monday, even be a new Cleo…. (or not)

And you can comment on it here when it arrives….

But I may be asleep.

Meanwhile…. Welcome, anybody who showed up while I was writing this…

And Lyle… Get your butt off that bench and go out and do something fun.

Of you can find an old fashioned fair I recommend it.

Sorry, ours just got over…. but check around your little corner of Ballard County….

It’s so big we have several county fairs, and one tends to show up if you need one.

I know why Cleo isn’t here today. It’s Monday and she got sick watching Claude floss his teeth yesterday.

She was here, but now she’s out of this world.

Easiest way to get people to do something is to tell them not to….

Must be aliens.

This could be the beginning of a story arc.

Looks like Claude is checking out beach front properties since he heard that Titan might be a habitable moon of Saturn.

To the moon, Cleo!

Claude will never learn. You tried, Cleo.

You should have ran right past it without batting an eye lash, Cleo. Instead, now your stuck there with that push button happy nut.

Cleo needs to start insisting on wearing a leash so she can drag Claude away from those buttons. If you’ve ever tried to hold a determined basset back, you’ll know how well it works.

But is there enough detail in that last panel to become our next “Nine Differences?”