Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 29, 2009

He’d better join Poncho’s club over at the Pooch Cafe.

I’m sure the feeling is mutual, Sparky.

Hi everybody….

Had to come back for puzzle night….

Come on in, to solve and comment on the Saturday puzzle

the June 29th  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

 

Find it on Sherpa….

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

 

Or use my side-by-side version….

https://i.postimg.cc/65C0Y769/Cleo-nine-differences-June-29th-19.jpg

Is the artwork in the Clifford’s house from Madame Deuxcouleur’s sister, Mademoiselle Unecouleur?

I think Sparky is especially miffed that Reg, seen in silhouette sipping tea through the window, wasn’t in his shop down the block when Sparky passed by it five minutes ago. Reg usually has a treat handy for Sparky when he sees him come by on his evening rounds.

Well, at least it wasn’t the Greedy Pigs Cafe.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/uk-muslims-shout-abuse-send-warning-letter-to-owner-of-greedy-pigs-cafe-demanding-its-name-be-changed

Thanks, Liverlips…. and you’re welcome.

It feels a little strange… OK, a lot strange…. but I do want to get back to my normal life….

OK, right…. I’ve never had a normal life….

but to try to get back to some of the things I usually do, if I can…

though sometimes I cant, just yet.

 

Don’t want to leave my Cleo family floundering without a side-by-side, though.

And you’ll be getting a solution gif, as well…..

another nifty gifty gif…..

from the maker of last week’s image.

He or she is still anonymous… but Can bi guessed.

I’ll wait a little while to post it.

 

A silly secret to reveal about Puzzle days…

You know those posts from people boasting or confessing about how many differences they found, or didn’t, and how long it took?

You’ve never seen one from me… not yet, anyway.

 

That’s because since before these puzzles started, x_Tech and I were always on the phone on Friday nights…

He would wait patiently while I made my side-by-side, and then took way too long to write my opening comments….

wishing I would hurry but never saying so.

 

His gif long finished, he’d wait some more while I solved the puzzle.

He would NOT post it till I’d found all nine.

You know… so I couldn’t cheat!

 

Sort of a challenge…. but more like a long-standing joke.

He knew I didn’t want to peek anyway…. and besides, he never bothered to solve it himself….

He was eager to get the gif made, and then it was too late to “unsee” the differences.

If I found seven or eight and asked for a hint he’d say “It’s in the puzzle” or something equally informative….

and for a long time he wouldn’t even tell me if he’d counted more or less than nine.

 

So if you saw a solution gif from x_Tech… it meant I’d already found all the differences.

Friday night, and the usual question:

To sleep, perchance to dream?

Or to keep plugging away at the puzzle?

I have seven so far, my eyes are tired, I am going to bed.

Make that eight, while I was tasking my meds I spotted one more.

Ok, I guess it’s time…

Sleepy a bit early tonight, and nobody has stopped by for a while…

So here’s the solution…..

(Thank you, semi-anonymous gif-maker!)

 

https://i.postimg.cc/J0wCbyxf/FTD-6-29-2019.gif

 

No peeking, no opening Neil Wick’s “GC Links” … until you’ve solved the puzzle.

Or given up, if you’re allowed to.

 

It’s a very speedy gif; those shelves are shaking like crazy… but they haven’t fallen down.

I guess the bolt is less important in a puzzle than in an animation.

 

Sparky has something in common with Sheriff MonkeyBlues…

they both need to go to cat sensitivity training.

The “Cat’s Meow” doesn’t even serve cats.

Er… I mean, not as patrons…. and I certainly hope not as dinner.

I’m still looking for all of them. There should have been a difference that nobody would have seen. The entire cabinet would have been collapsed in the second panel. And just think, only 6 more months to go before they change the fix date to 2020. And that will be all that’s changed, again.

I got 7, it took a long time!!!

Sparky is not alone.

Cleo is about to be rudely awakened.

When I watched yesterday’s animation, my thoughts ran to “hmmmmm…..that would make a great puzzle.”

And presto………..here it is. Nice mind reading, Nighthawks.

I got 8 and couldn’t find the 9th one at all – missing X. Thank you, semi-anonymous gif-maker, I can sleep tonight.