Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 16, 2014

Fly kitty will exact revenge on behalf of her little brother.

Can Kitty Kitty Bang Bang help?Hi BEV and BRI!

Rex is evil, just pure evil!

Captain Kitty looks rather alarmed.

Hi 2old, but not really!I agree. Rex is the Captain’s worst nightmare.

I’m thinking Captain Kitty is a toy kitty….he looks entirely too complacent about being dunked upside down….….to say nothing of awfully skinny… to be a real cat.

I hope.

Bev said he’s Rover…. anybody know?

See? I turned him upside down….stuffed toy… or real cat that enjoys a sailor costume and hat??

Thanks Stel…. I’d just asked that question…Next question…Why are you UP??

[disclaimer: I was typing while Susan was posting. I did not steal her idea. we always think exactly the same. not buying it? OK…….. we’re the same person! happy now?]

Aw Stel….

We …er… you weren’t supposed to tell.

And after all this time that I’ve … I mean we’ve uh… you’ve had them fooled!

Bwa-haha….

Oh my. STELBEL and SUSAN SUNSHINE are one and the same? I knew Stel was the evil Queen of Tamperland, but this is too much to bear.

And now I am invisible. It must be the witching hour, a delayed reaction to the full moon on Friday the 13th. Oh the horror.

Oh, sure ….just because I said you’d delete it, you had to be contrary and leave it. You want everybody to think I’m as mad as a hatter! But, I’m NOT!!!

I AM ………….. the EVIL QUEEN OF TAMPERING!

Oh, your mirror works! Thank goodness. I thought, well, you know……how do you refresh a mirror?

Pssst…. Shika….humor her!

You don’t know what she can be like when she gets this way!

Um…. Stel, dear…. don’t you think … um… we should get some sleep?

Tamperland is 5 mi. north on the Ballard Highway. No, no….my realm is Tampering!

But if SUSAN is you and you are SUSAN, who am I?And why is Captain Kitty upside down? Is he for real?

Of course STEL. Whatever you say. TampeRING. Queen of the TampeRING!How did I do SUSAN?

STEL, I am going to bed, so you can stay up with SUSAN if you want to.(SUSAN, you deal with her. You are better at it than I am…)

Stel!Now you’ve gone and confused Shika.Or maybe I did….(If it’s all the same.)

Tampering?

Isn’t that on the Gulf Coast of Florida?

You’re doing fine, Shika…just back out sloooowly……

No, no, that is TampA-RING.TampE-RING is what STEL is Queen of.

Uh, is Kitty Flyby coming to avenge Captain Kitty? I mean, he needs someone to help him get away from Rex Rover, Rover Rex, eh, the dog.

Maybe there’s a Tompo, Tumpu, and Timpi , too!

BEEP! BEEP! Back out slowly….sorry about the back up horn….

You can stay up as late as you want, StelBel…..or we want…but you know how you’ll … I mean we’ll feel in the morning.

Good Night Ballard dears.Tuck Queen StellesBella in tight Susan.

REAL tight!

Now STEL is saying what I am saying, I’d better get out quick before we all become one big multiple personality!!

Zip!

Stel….well…..there’s a Timbuktu.and a Tuvalu.

You can add them to your kingdom…I mean, queendom….if you just go to bed like a good Queen….

And you can have hot chocolate, too!

I think it’s a poisoned apple…Wait, what am I saying? Aren’t you the Evil Queen of Tampering? Now you are Tampering with Fairy Tales. But, you are doing a WONDERFUL job of it, your Majesty.Where’s the door? Get me out of here!

Ok…I’ll go…

BUT, ONLY IF I CAN ADD TUPELO, TOO!

Hot chocolate? (Wistful look)

Run, Shika!Save yourself!

I’ll be OK…. especially if she’s really me.I mean, how do I find out?

Good night Your Evil Majesty and Princess Sunshine. Sleep well, sweet dreams (with hot chocolate, they WILL be sweet!)Found the door- SLAM! (Opps!)

OK, OK!Tupelo too!And Tucumcari and even Pocatello.

And hot chocolate all around.Anybody else?

geeeez….kicked off of Ballard St…..you all just wait……you’ll be sorry! I’ll think of something, so you all will be sorry! I just gotta sleep on it a bit…………… I’ll figure it out… (yawn!)

Whew!Thanks Shika!

Stel…. honey…. nobody’s kicking you out….that would be like kicking MYSELF out…if I might be you.

After all… I made you hot chocolate…and I gave you Tupelo.

Stel! We DO look alike….are you really me?

Wow…

Hi Susan, I’ll skip the hot chocolate, but how about a…

Ooh, X … that chocolate stout sounds great….Oh… and Stel wants one…. and Myrna will want one too…Fenton…could you pretty please pull us a round?

Hey, and go ahead and put it on my tab, OK?I have good bar credit right now, with the extra hours when the Monkey’s away.

I was almost asleep when I thought I smelled hot chocolate!!! May I have some!!!

Boy, Rover certainly has the same naughty expression that my stinky beagle used to have when we caught her digging holes in the garden…

Sure, Twinkly…. Chocolate Stout, or hot chocolate?Or hot chocolate with a bit of a ….. stiffener?

And for Happy3…

HOLY TUPELO! IT’S ALMOST 3am!!! I GOTTA GET SOME SLEEP!

What am I doing here?? gotta get to bed….

g’night! Wow! that chocolate stout really packs a wallop!…

Good night, Twinkly!And Stelbel… er…. I mean me … if we’ve gone to bed!

Would you like a refill, X?

Coming right up!Cheers!

I was just wondering….. did Rover fill that tub all by himself, just so he could dunk Captain Kitty?

Or did Howard leave it sitting there, half full…. and then try to blame Rover, though he had lured him with what they call, legally, an “attractive nuisance”?

No jury would convict the poor dog, if that’s what happened.

Rover’s thinking, “I gotta remember to close the bathroom door.”

Susan, StelBel, you ladies get to keep Timbukto and Tuvalo and Tupelo, but I will never give up Walla Walla Washington, Newport News and St-Louis-du-Ha-Ha!!!

Let us not forget,Tin Pan Alley…

@ x_Tech

Just want to clear one thing up. SusanSunshine and StelBel cannot be the same person because they have different avatars. So there! I can’t believe 70+ comments and hardly any pictures. Hope you all are getting lots of sleep – I think you need it – desperately. It does look like Captain Kitty is enjoying his dunk.

Don’t worry. He couldn’t find the acid…….

I can agree with the dog……a good dunking is good for Navy squids. REAL men join the Army….REAL CRAZY men join the Marines……REAL CRAZY GIRLY men join the Navy….the rest of the scrubs shove off for the H’Air Force or Coast(ing) Guard.(just funning y’all been on vacation all last week)

What the heck happened last night? I turned on the computer this morning and logged on to Ballard and a bunch of bats flew out of my monitor. Were Stel and Susan transmorgafying (or whatever they call it) again? Ya gotta watch those two, they have “abilities” you know!And Rover Rex Robinson is spending the day in his crate as punishment.

So tired today…I didn’t quite get my 4 hrs sleep… a 4.3 earthquake about 15 minutes before the alarm clock went off got me up early… They said there were 2 smaller ones preceding the one I felt, but they didn’t wake me…

At least with the early jump-start I got plenty done, already did laundry , and…baked a German Chocolate cake (it’s for a program that several local churches support to house and feed homeless families while getting them back on their feet – this is our church’s week, and my turn to cook supper for them. Still got to bake a ham, and prepare the side dishes though…)…just gotta keep moving @ 2old“And Rover Rex Robinson is spending the day in his crate as punishment.” Aw…Rover doesn’t deserve the punishment of ‘dog jail’ for dunking his toy! He was just ticked off about having to have another bath, and was venting

Captain Kitty’s going down with his ship.Scooter’s also sinking to new lows.Icebergs dead ahead!

Wow, so many earthquakes today. TWINKLY LIGHTS, you sure got a lot done for waking up 15 minutes earlier! Maybe you should set your alarm to “quake awake!”

That Chocolate Stout looks good. Maybe I’ll try some tonight, if I stay awake.CUL8R

Actually…. Oklahoma has been having a LOT of earthquake activity for about a month…and there was a 4.3 there this morning….

Isn’t that where you are, Twinkly?

Here’s an article

Which includes this video….

more information, and another video I couldn’t embed.

Glad you’re safe, Twinkly!

Yeah the little weatherman is funny!

I couldn’t see it very well (bad eyesight) so I stre-e-ett-ched it … not good for the resolution… but whatever detail doesn’t get lost at low res is cute:

And now I’m outta here till after the turn…ciao!

(Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn…)

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