Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 16, 2023

Grandma, get ready for some musical entertainment that may just well duplicate that distant memory, or hopefully, … maybe not.

When it rains, the smell of the ghosts of chickens past returns.

Gone from one farm to another…..

Whoo-ee.

Better a chicken farm than a hog farm.

When I was in elementary school, we had a class trip to a turkey farm. And WHOO-EE did it smell!

I went to my grandson’s soccer game. 8 fields, it’s a big complex. Outdoor theater and all kinds of stuff. My daughter in law asked me if I liked the new complex. Well, it is very nice but I liked it better when I used to hunt dove here. It was 100’2 of acres of pasture and grove and woods.

Richard Thompson’s drawing of grandma is unique & timeless.

That chicken farm seems to have permanently affected your face, gramma.

Grandma resembles Picasso

Then Alice promptly says “Now it’s you that smell’s grandma.”

The art work of the final panel, contrasting the young and old is superb

I worked at a chicken farm in college but it was shutdown by the county because the neighbors complained about the smell. The farm was there for decades before the neighborhoods but the neighborhoods had a higher tax base so the politicians sided with them.

A link between Grandma and the Deviled Eggs? ☺

I worked at a place if the wind blew from the north we smelt the Chocolate Factory if it blew from the South Whoo-Wee we smelt the Chicken Farm.

There was once a mink ranch down the road, but the chicken farmers complained about the stench.

Thank you, grandma, for that blast from the past.

Time for Granny to dust off the old joke and tell the kids: “When it was a chicken farm and I visited, I dropped my chewing gum out of my mouth…and thought I found it 3 times!”

Ah! The tree from which Alice did not fall far. (yes, that is an awkward sentence.)

The older I get, the more I can relate to grandma. Should I be worried?

Alice and Granny together (panel 3) is one thought-provoking image. Will Alice grow up to be like her Granny?

And no, Alice, you cannot go on the swings dressed in your party dress!