That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 12, 2023

Jonas kept staring at place he planed to put his LED tv — if he lived long enough to see it invented.

It must be the middle of summer there in Norway – it’s so hot that the fire is turned off.

/// What do farmers do when they retire?

While Anne knits, Jørgen sits by the fire.

But there is no heat there

and his broken-backed chair

proves he’ll suffer but will not sit by her.

Mabel considers why, despite everything, she stays with Clem as she crochets him a condom.

Harry stared at the wall, trying to understand how Martha managed to set fire to solid stone.

A few minutes after Barlow finished watching the end of the fire he forgot about the lack of back support on the chair and leaned back.

“Keep nagging me woman, and I swear, next time I’ll beat you with the whole chair”

Harold dreaming of the day there will be a TV on that wal!

The heck with you I’m not cooking, call door dash you old fool.

My grandparents, oy! the heat…….

Things just weren’t the same when the last of of their 23 children had left home. The house somehow felt so quiet and empty. And, alas! Myrtle was no longer fertile. Anyhow, Johann weren’t so frisky since the mule kicked his nethers.

But a saw would be better.

“Sometimes I sit and think…..other times I just sit.” Ishmael…if you are still out there, make a change on your profile page and let us know you still exist.

Jesper will always remember the winter of ’88, when it was so cold they had to burn the backs of their chairs.

that is a considerable hearth.

John proceeded to prove that staring at a wall was more exciting than crochet.

Karl keeps staring at the jug of Aquavit on the mantle. Cocktail Hour can’t come soon enough!

Haha they used that joke on MST3Ks “Jack Frost”

“Quit sulking and finish making the chair, Friedrick. I didn’t mean to insult your carpentry, and I won’t be putting up with you groaning about your back all night.”

“Race you to the bedroom.”

“OK.”

“Are we there yet?”

Well she always said “Great s*x is just showing up. Anything else just ruins the makeup.”

Mabel: Clem, are you saying the bloom is off the rose? Clem: You can put it that way!

While it’s true that intimate companionship is not as exciting as sexual tension, it’s much more enduring, and comforting.

Doordash will be here in only 150 years.

MOTHER HUBBARD: I told ye it was empty ye durn fool!

Life is always like this just before the new tv season starts.

Cue Tom Lehrer’s “When You Are Old and Grey”

“I told you before, staring at the snuffed cooking fire ain’t going to get you your breakfast!”

The retired Farmers: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Gustav Wentzel in the Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, 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 retired, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3130 (May 12, 2023) 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 (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Better yet, we can cut that caption with a knife…

relax George I will start a fire as soon as I knit the bed sheet. your so impatient!

It is my understanding that today is National Limerick Day, in honor of Edward Lear’s birthday anniversary.