Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 27, 2016

At least he isn’t trying to do it on his cellphone or laptop. This way, Agnes can share in his deliberations (if she chooses).

“If he’d just stop tapping that pencil on the table,” Agnes thinks, “maybe I’ll give him a hint as to where he went so wrong.”

Chet loves learning… studying…..teaching…. and pontificating.

Remember? He’s the one who often sets up a table at the sidewalk to teach one of his favorite subjects….

Certain aspects of the fish.

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Tonight’s subject seems to require diagrams and flow charts…..

so I doubt it involves fish….

and for his sake, I hope it doesn’t involve Agnes.

Dog, Liverlips…..

The mesh is to help keep the glass from chipping or breaking…

That’s why they still use them in casual restaurants, where they might get jostled….

like pizza or Mexican places….

or outdoors, with citronella candles.

But maybe it’s the protective covering that makes them look chintzy, at home, or in a nicer restaurant…

kinda like a plastic cover on the couch.

Perhaps Chet’s dinner date is not going too well and he’s plotting his escape.

Dogsniff – You crack me up.

Chet is diagramming the history of the sad piece of meat that the restaurant claimed was a prime sirloin steak.

It definitely was past its prime and was below the standard that was his choice.

I very frequently draw pictures on “tablecloths”… just limit myself to paper ones.

WelL this aint gunna end weLL… espeshuly if he sTarts bringin PULLYS inta teh eqwayshun…jus sayin…

Give it up, Chet. It’s always going to be your fault…

Chet has run out of space for his flow chart. He may need to bring over another table. Agnes is a saint.

We put slipcovers on our last couches and the dogs destroyed them. We are resigned to replacing our couches at a faster than normal rate. The only thing the dogs can’t destroy is their Costco dog beds. Our girl Spicey has a chewing fetish, loves to pull the stuffing out of toys, but has never penetrated her bed. She chews on it for hours!

Dogsniff…. Gosh…. I didn’t mean to imply that your plastic couch cover is anything less than exquisitely stylish.

I hope you know that!

Dennis…. how about chain mail?

In a nice, soft, small mesh, of course. I suggest titanium.

I had a little dog with a pointy nose and very sharp teeth.

One day when I was at work she found a tiny little hole in the couch seat cushion….

about the size of a match head.

She pulled out clouds and clouds of stuffing, till the whole cushion was deflated…and the polyester filling puffed into big piles all over the floor.

You’d never have thought it all could have fit in there… but I watched her pulling more out as I started to open the door.

The whole thing was a game to her…and she never made the hole any bigger!