Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 02, 2012

If I get one of his little balls in my back yard, then he’ll get a broadside he’ll never forget !I’ll show him what he can do with his wee salutin’ cannon !!

He better watch that recoil.

Mrs. Swanson is feeling a bit peevish after the last time.

“Try” to avoid Mrs. Swanson’s house this time.How many times has he hit it already?

But there he is with the cannon again…. and she just puts on her noise-cancelling headgear and asks him to try to do better.

I really love the general acceptance and the low expectations on Ballard St!

Maybe the Linguist needs to take his cannon over to Mrs. Swanson’s and offer to serve a return volley if need be.

However, Linguist… let’s not reduce this to a discussion of …. you know…whose …um…cannons and balls are bigger!

Yes… I’ve been meaning to mention your avatar Marg….

At first I couldn’t make it out.. but it’s very pretty…hope you don’t mind if I show everyone:

Having some experience with that kind of device, make sure it is firmly mounted (that will improve your aim). It is not a laptop project. And, as Linquist will tell you, do not stand behind it when you touch it off.

He’s not happy to see her, he really does have a cannon in his pocket.

I’m with Redkaycei on that one!

Bev — no, let’s trade tomorrow…I’m only gonna take whatever’s left OVER to the polls…after all, I didn’t buy it for them!

He’s not going to be able to compete with the salvo from my galleon. I’ll have to show you the humongous bells I have, as well. Talk to you on the other side of shut eye. Night for now…

Actually, the little booklet that came with his cannon quite clearly instructed him NOT to stand behind it when firing…

which is precisely why he feels safe…because, after all he is sitting down, isn’t he?

I had a friend with a small cannon like that. It was a blast.

Bri – good on both counts!

I mean…Glad you’ll stay….and I NEED me some dark mint Three Musketeers!

Wish I didn’t have so much candy so I could go look for some on sale….Well…. maybe if Bev takes the Snickers…and I give away the Milky ways at the polls….dark mint, you say?

I think I need to go to bed myself….early for me but I have to make up for last night…..

G’night, all….

Someone should tell Carl that it’s not legal to hunt Turkeys that way.

Mabel got Carl a book…

Carl has always wanted to be a big shot.

Scooter double checks his cannons before firing…..but has he aimed them toward Mrs. Swanson’s Dog Grooming and Banana Wholesalers ? Say it isn’t so………..!

Hey if Mrs. Swanson is a Republican her house is fair game.

Altho Mah .45 calibur Super Soaker ain’t as big as his cannon, ah can still fit it I’m Mah pants an wipit out wen ah needs it…

i dont know about turkeys and cannons but a chicken cannon my be an option…

Seems that by shooting that thing off from his lap, he’s in danger of a kick in the old cashews.

owwww bet that smarts a little with the kick back, of course he deserves it for breaking her window

I got a video sent by my bro who is in Afganistan. It is an insurgent walking right behind a RPG as the other one fired it. First insurgent then no insurgent. I think it blew his face off. So yes kiddies never stand behind a cannon or in front of one. Had a buddie one time step right behind a 155 gun just as it was fired. That breech part came back on recoil knocking him into the ground. He NEVER did that again. He lived but it did knock him out.A recent video on youtube is of a lady launching mellons at a suit of armor. That mellon comes back as it got stuck and knocked the snot right out of her head. It is so painful to watch but so funny. It has made the trips here at the office.

I like pumpkin chunking.I can here him now on the porch.Heve too scallywags er I send ye anuter broadside.Bring er bout matie Prepare to repel boarders!!!!!!!(I think he is after you Linquist.) He wants your treasure of Bananas.( I know you got’em)

Oh wait! I got some fruitcake you can use as cannon balls. There at least two years old so……okay maybe that’s TOO dangerous…

As I run to the Tiki with a pig (spelling intentional) pot of sausage gravy and my own southern style biscuits to feed the masses of B.S. just waking up, I enjoy the day, and take the back alley around the home of the cannonites, just to be safe…turning back onto the street in front of Linquists house because I know I wont be shot there…unless he is returning fire…I leave a note at the Tiki asking the streets residents about inviting a couple of non-residents to the Halloween party Saturday night…They are kewl people…and would fit in here delightfully….

Mornin’ all!

Bev - I got 19 little Snickers bars here for ya…and 15 Milky ways if you want those too.

Don’t worry if you have fewer than I do… s’OK.

I need an excuse to buy Mint 3 Musketeers anyway.

Linda… bring anybody you like Saturday!Ballard Street has many many denizens we never see, and many of US don’t actually live here…I myself take the bus… though I do have a place to stay at this end.You can’t bring a stranger, cos we’re already stranger than anybody.

Right, Stel!Bananas are a protected species on Ballard St.

I mean…. you can eat them, but you can’t waste them…not in either sense of the word.

PacoPuddy —

Yikes!That’s funny …. I never even noticed….I guess they….um…. put the feathers back on the roast for…. er…decoration?It’s…well… it’s Marg’s avatar…I just see ’em and post ’em.

HEY you folks on the east coast need to kick some of the UNIONS butts. I just read crews from Alabama up there to restore electricity were sent home by the UNION people up there. Seems they dont want the help from NON_UNION workers wanting to help.That is why I LOVE TEXAS.Unions dont control anything here.What they do control has more issues than you can count. Unions were necessary way back when but now you guys have to wait for power because the UNION says so.Good luck folks. Hang in there. And if I were you I would be mad.

Jus bout tyme ta put on that yak shoulder bin Mary-natin’ awl night… Gonna have sum pulled pork yak bubba-q sammiches wit sum devil’d egg tater salad an BBQ beens fur tomorra nite…. Can y’all say ‘hail yeah!’….

Theze poor folks up in teh Norwest end of BS don’t no wut reel Texas cookins awl bout… See gotta dew Mah own… Butt ah lyke Sharon….!!! Jus hep me clean up teh mess ;())

Ahhhh! The Wild Turkey.See it peeking over the bushes, majestic in its stance. Feathers freshly preened. Peering about observing its environment. Keeping a watch over his entourage of Hens. All eager and willing to obey his every command.Drank some Wild Turkey once. Did not experience that. Matter of fact upchucked it later, hangover needing a bloodymary to fix, and crossed eyed for a week.I mean they call it TURKEY turkey.Where is the GOOD stuff hiding out.OH YEAH. TIKI BARThose banana flavored whatchamacall its. Dashielkeees?BANANA, BANANA, BANANAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!I am heading to Chilis tonight. El Presidente Margaritas and a big bowl of chili. Ahhhhhh. Texas.

So long till Monday kids.Keep it rubber side down, may your rearview be clear, and clean and green to Shakeetown.Oh and I am out this week. NASCAR is in town. Never a dull moment.

Veteran! You’re not coming to tomorrow’s party?

I thought you’d be back in spandex for the occasion!

Monkey…. Hail yeah!

And Bev… I love regular Three Musketeers, too.

Heck, I’ll settle for Two or Four or Five Musketeers…. bring ’em on!

I don’t have any Payday…. I like them but I prefer those Planters Peanut Block thingies…. haven’t seen either in a long tme.

Believe it or not, one of my favorite peanut candies is something I can only find around here at Dollar Tree….Old Dominion Peanut Squares…or when I’m lucky, bars.Like peanut brittle only more peanuts and less…um… brittle, I guess.Even better, though, is the best peanut brittle I’ve found, which is from See’s Candies….but it’s about $16 a pound and…. well…I don’t think so….

I gotta go out and try to get some more tomatoes from the local farm where I got the last batch.

Mine are about finished outside. A few handfuls of cherry tomatoes still coming in…for which I am thankful…and a few green Early Girls clinging to the plants…they may or may not ripen.

I may have described the place I go…it’s a small, old, farm, nursery and produce market, once on the edge of town but now an island in a sea of housing development and small strip malls.

When I was looking for the phone number an hour ago I found, amazingly enough, a video of the place.

Just in case anybody wants to see it…here’s Imwalle Gradens

Kinda wordy and the host spends too much time on the seasonally vacant cold frames and greenhouses, instead of in the produce market, but it’s a cool place!I buy my tomato and sweet pepper starts here most years.

I just thought maybe Stel or Bev would like a tour, cos they got some of the tomatoes…(well, virtually!)…but if not… oh well…

Went back to check on the comments the past couple days just to see what was going on. I AM NOW TOTALLY, THOROUGHLY CONVINCED, WE BE OLD FART BABY BOOMERS!

As soon as I saw Susan’s link to SPOOKY BY THE CLASSICS IV I needed no further convincing WHAT SO EVER! Haven’t heard that song in YEARS AND YEARS, but you know what? That was fun hearing it again!

Whew…. got back just in time to slide into tomorrow without taking the bus to the next block…

I’m not quite sure how that works, but…. here I am!

Bri (and Bev) — after getting my tomatoes…. 23 pounds! …. I went on a quest for Mint Three Musketeers…. well, OK, truth be told, I only went to Target…but there were none to be found.

Not in the Halloween bags on sale, not in the aisle with the regular bags that look exactly the same but are NOT on sale….not even in the single bars…but everybody said “Oh yes, we carry them”…so…. one of these days!

Oh…. and yes, I’ve had almond brittle, and pecan brittle (and pralines, BTW) …and my favorite, probably… cashew brittle.Love ‘em all….though I’ve had pralines that were crunchy, some chewy and some soft and kinda fudgy, and I liked the chewy ones least.Not really sure how they’re s’posed to be… everybody says “Ours are authentic!"_

Bri — three flavors was before my time, but Three Musketeers bars were huge when I was a kid, and their ads said “Big enough to share.”

I rarely buy single candy bars… I don’t eat many, and it’s usually little ones that come in bags,from a discount store or post-holiday sale.

Just the other day some friends told me they cost over $1 now…. I was glad to see that’s not true.69¢ at Target…. woulda paid that to try a mint 3M.

He has no more control of where that thing goes than you do. Find a fire extinguisher.

Would this suffice as a suitable target?

https://cleoandcompany.net/november-2-2022/

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.