Ginger Meggs by Jason Chatfield for April 14, 2010

G’Day Joe, Jason, Usfellers and all Meggsie fans!

I have to agree with you, Joe. It would have looked better with your suggestion.

But we could always add a “room addition” on it and make it bigger, too! We’d probably need another week’s worth of strips for that, given Dad Meggs’ skills in this field!

It won’t sit up straight if you turn it upside down.

Hi Jason, Joe, Barb, Dry, Bjorn, Lonewolf and all Meggsie fans

Well, there’s something to teach us knockers a lesson. We’ve rubbished Dad’s skills for days but the doghouse has survived a solid ‘WHUMP’ by Ginger.

All that is needed now are some planks across the middle and a short staircase to have the world’s first Macmuttmansion.

See ya’ later.

“on it’s head” arrghhhh!! Spell corrector please…

Yes. It’s “its” not “it’s”.

”?” “!” “*” “+” “%” . There, how’s that for thinking literally. Oops, my mistake, Ginger’s thinking laterally. I like the light bulb as a graphic display of getting a bright idea.

G’day Joe, Jason and usfellers!

G’day Dry, Gee, your entry took an hour to come through.

usfellers must be the distance in miles, LOL!

Yep. That distanc across Africa and the Indian Ocean must have as many obstacles as one across the US and the Pacific.

Howdy Joe! LOL! Good one, Down Under!

My mom lived with a widow lady who rented rooms to nursing students back in the late 30’s. They became quite close, so after all those years, even after me and my cousins came along, we would go and stay the weekend a couple times a year. She had one of those ice box refrigerators she still used. She had a newer one too.

Joe do you remember when milk was home delivered? Oh of course you would, since you’re older than me. And the Jewel Tea Man?

G’day Dry Milk, bread and newspapers were home delivered. Butcher even called on a liitle cart that resembled something like the chariot Charleston Heston drove in Quo Vadis (was it - am I right?) The iceman brought blocks for our ice cabinet in a cart that all of usfellers followed to get chips off the blocks as he cut them. Every Sunday a man selling ice-cream came along the street in a cart pulled by a Shetland pony.

None of that exists anymore for kids.What has taken their place? A vacuum?

usfellers I think you are referring to “Ben Hur”.

We had ice cream trucks and snow cone trucks that came around in the summer when I was little, but somewhere along the line, that all went away, sadly. What has taken the place of the good things is now MODERN TECHNOLOGY! Most kids today have no clue what dodgeball, pick up games, or anything like that is about today. Sadly! My boys did, we made sure of it.

And Joe for some reason I have heard of Meadow Gold, of course I’m sure there are other Meadow Golds. Leaving the door open today for the egg or milk man to come in your house and leave a delivery isn’t wise in this day and age. But I guess it doesn’t matter, because that is UNHEARD OF today!

Have a good night Joe! See you tmr., or my signature sign off from one of my favorite movies, “Stand By Me”,

“I’ll see ya’ when I see ya’!” (“Not if I see you first!”) :-D

you too, Jason and usfellers!