Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 16, 2013

Maude buys them at garage sales whenever she can!

Somewhere in the closet he has three “World’s Greatest Grandma” T-shirts, each a different color.

You’re up early, Dog!

And I’m up very late.

I hope to hear that somebody buys Gordon’s briefs….otherwise I’m gonna need a LOT of brain bleach.

Gordon my good man, where have you been and what have you done. I can’t tell if it’s the endorphins, The AM Ale, the rosy glow syndrome, Shirley’s biscuits, big smoke or Rusty’s Boy park antics, but my friend you stay away from the poker tables and the border, with those eyes you are a dead give away, no pun intended. You’ve got the colors and the stripes, you are hanging at the park but you’re too old be in a gang and too wasted to lead the pack. So tell me again, what’s up, where did you get it and can you get some more. Maybe you should stop by Chet’s, he’s doing the orange thing and this morning he’s got mini muffins, caffeine mints and something in a baggie called brain beans which smells like popcorn and tastes like chicken. Maybe not, you probably should stay where you are. Remember last Saturday at the mall, Shirley told you to sit there and wait and you went out on your own, need I say more.

The first T-shirt I ever wore that “said” something on it was one that someone bought me. It said:“The bus leaves at noon. Be under it.”

put…..the…..knees…..together!

Your resident dirty ol lady here. . . .I love to see my man in a pose like that

can’t help it!

He’d have good reason for that grin on his face!

werds ov whizdum ESS…!!!(hey, I gots a load of yak jerky thats bin fermentin…. uh, aging in teh meat locker at teh borded up “Esses Sausage Hut”, frum mah shipmeint frum Terdmunkistan a year ago lass Joone…. its got yer name onnit, no bunny nose aboot it… I’ll leave a key under teh cowbell at Mona’s nex door…)

Thanks ESS…! Ahh keeps missin ya wen yu drop in…(I’ma gunna make a TiKi lunch speshul an name it after you)

ESS’s Yakkity-yAK (wont come bak) Titanik Tail Soop….“Wunts it goes down it aint cummin bak UP!!”…no… not shur thets rite, butt…..okey how bout“Garenteed to leav you wit a Sinkin Feelin”…??hmmmmm….less try this…“Maid wit SuSuns ’Maters”….$2.36 a bole (+ .17 HazWaste Disposal taks)

oooh crap…. dint meen to imply SuSuns ’maters are hazerdus…. much less a waste…. never mine…!!(wye do ah keep diggin a whole?)

We’re here, I dropped in on Crustwood this morning. I located the Volcano, Susan. I think You know who will love the surprise! Its kinda large tho, but with the shut-down there was no one about to tell us we couldn’t take it.

Lefty2, looks like big smoke to me : ). !!

@SusanMy Hawaiian Sunset Nails are so pretty and i love the feature that lets the sun set at sunset! I don’t know how you did that!!!@techI think I can see it from our lanai. My sil works for the Pacifc Whale Foundation, I’ll see if he can divert one of the whale watching boats.@susan againA small volcano coming up.

Monkey!

I….um… er…Well, you know you can have…I mean…. borrow…no…. that’s not right….but …er… hazardous?

Only without permis … no…. I meanoh gosh….

I think now I have to hide all my tomato plants…that’s hard when you have a bountifu

a great … a …oh shoot…

Yikes!

Beviek…. this is all YOUR fault!

is okey SuSun… mah bad…ahl be have now…..sari….

Oh Monkey….it’s OK…..

It’d be pretty silly for me to expect a well behaved monkey when I hang out with you!

But we have fun, don’t we!

Anyway…. for Dazz, and anybody else curious about “tricks” and shortcuts for altering images….To add to what Stel said earlier…. as I have said before, I myself mostly only use Paint…. the free program that comes with every Windows computer.

Dazz, you’ve mentioned Irfanview… well, it can do a lot more than Paint, but I don’t use it.So I’m not using “better” software.

I AM trying to learn another program, though…. but I’m having trouble seeing the tiny menus and icons.

Meanwhile…. of course any time you download and change a strip, whether it’s two letters, an eyebrow, or every part, it’s not the same image file any more.You can’t alter it but somehow leave it on GoComics’ own, or any other, server. It’s a new image that has to be hosted someplace, to link to it for viewing.Your choice, as to what hosting site to use.You seem to be looking, yet again, for magic….a quick, free way to do what takes us many hours…. Well, sometimes we wish we had that too…but instead, we spend a few hours… or .. maybe half a day… or maybe a lot more…It can take us hours just searching for images…even just images from which we can cut and paste bits into others, Then there’s the re-drawing, and/or touching up, with paintbrush tools, in all the places that don’t quite fit together, carefully matching the colors…adding text, painting out parts or colors so we can add different ones.If we show part of a strip that wasn’t there, like something that was hidden by a potted plant, or a longer wall than the original showed…we had to draw it!In my case…. some of the birthday cakes have taken two whole days or more….Stel’s invitations have too!Special cakes, various mismatched layers… cake plates, candles, decorations…. they might be cut and pasted into one picture….using 4 or 6 different images I found, and adding details by hand “painting”.I know that x_Tech uses a complicated program that allows images to be layered to create movement… that’s the one I want to learn.Bev, Chalkie, JP Steve….they’ve all spent hours or days on images….I’m sure others have too.I’m not saying ANY of this to complain…I love the work.Its a hobby.But when anyone wants to do it in an hour, or asks what program makes it instant….I can only say “good luck.”

Good. If they keep looking at Monkey I’ll be in the clear soon…

What I don’t know is, what is she wearing?

I think that pink is more her speed.Or leopard print…

Long day tomarow.Night all.

ESSEX and HAPPY, you two crack me up! Both with comments and pics.

Too late. I’d stop for some yak horridhooves, but I hear someone calling me….GOOD NIGHT, BALLARD DEARS!

(MUNKY, for shame! Poor SUSAN.):-)

Whoooooooooooo dunn it…

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