Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 14, 2010

Isn’t that just special…?

Good excuse to avoid weeding.

It’s only a weed if you don’t want it. I love all flora.

A kind of pocket nature preserve – the local wildlife probably appreciates it.

In my gardening process, I distinguish between weeds and flowers by the fact that the weeds survive.

LOL, kit. Now that there’s funny, I don’t care who you are.

Lewis has a good plan going. Give the weeds their own space where they know you will leave them alone and let them grow as long as they stay there. Then, as he is doing now, you can just sit and contemplate the beauty of nature at your ease.

Lewis leads a wild and crazy life!

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It’s no surprise here that Clara has veto power. She’s like a one-woman Security Council.

BTW, is that a foggy night in Cleveland?

That is a garden that I could grow with success!

Clara has a narrow view of Christmas decorations.

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I couldn’t sleep with flashing lights like that. And Clara doesn’t want to show everybody where that tank-driving, bazooka-crazy, squirrel-assaulting talking basset actually lives…

We know, and that has to suffice.

It figures. Clara hates everything.

It may be more gratifying than watching the grass grow.

Whoa!

But soft… what light from yonder rooftop breaks?

It is the August 14th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

on Sherpa…..

Shining like the Sun!

Arise, fair Sun.. .. and kill the envious lesser Sherpa comics…

who are already sick and pale with grief…. that thou, their rival, art far more bright than they.

A foggy dusk in Cleveland… or is it dawn?

Or is it deepest night, but that sign is so bright it drives away the darkness, the way the neon signs make downtown Las Vegas look like noon at 3am?

I don’t think this is a Christmas decoration….. it’s August, Claude is wearing a t-shirt, and no one else has put up any trim.

The Cliffords aren’t likely to go first..

I think it might have a better chance with Clara if it were prettier… you know, fancy script, a bit of twinkle… even, dare I say it… some purplie.

But Cleo likes it anyway. And Claude likes it.

Clara says no.

That’s two to one. What makes you think Clara will prevail?

Come on… we know she will.

Clara is the Mayor Daley of the Clifford household (if anyone remembers that old reference.)

The three of them each get one vote… but when the ballots are counted, Clara wins… 3,074 to 2.

I, too, have a special area where I watch the weeds grow.

It’s called “my yard.”

Sigh…

Good Morning Ballardeers and dorotheac928! Q-date 154.98219.06 and really warm and sunny today. I have achieved the pinnacle of bat poop crazy. Beware all those that enter here.

For some reason I had a hunch that there was a veto coming in today’s Stel-lar animation.

Y’all be weeding out there. (((((HUGZ)))))

Fun fact: That used to be Lewis’ jacuzzi.

There’s one in every neighborhood! Our favorite was in SoCal….this one guy put up a kazillion Christmas lites and decorations. Their neighbor put up a large sign with the word "*DITTO*’’ and an arrow pointing at the display.

You’d think Cleo wanted every squirrel in Clevelandville to know where she lives.

Someone didn’t get top billing, i see.

As much as I love Cleo and Company, and love the animation, I have to say that I am with Clara on this one.

Just think, that sign only adds an extra hundred dollars a month to their electric bill.