Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 22, 2017

But I guess she won’t mind losing Raymond.

She’ll be delighted.

He should plug ’em in!

Those lamps are not going to be missed. But Raymond, maybe.

That is a thick wall between the hallway and the kitchen. Is that a pocket door? Looks like there is room for two pocket doors.

The mysterious three dots appear on two of the lampshades, and on Raymond’s bucket. What is the connection?

Susan, tonight my comment appeared FOUR times before deletions.

Don’t mind Raymond. He’s just getting a light exercise.

Inez should’ve known what to expect when she became Mrs Knievel.

Hi MUDD. Sorry to hear about Casey. How is everything else in Muddville?

Raymond’s going to regret buying a house with a seven-foot ceiling.

It’s a good thing Raymond isn’t doing this outdoors!

where Officer BatPug often talks to students about the importance of safety gear.

Imagine what he’d say to Raymond,

setting such a horrible example to children, puppies and any young monkeys in the neighborood…

preparing to leap merrily over those fragile lamps`…

neither a knee or elbow pad, nor a helmet, in sight.

Not that BatPug would be any more likely than Inez to expect any actual leaping to ensue.

And BTW, Dennis, maybe a quadruple post is happening with the sort of accidental, almost imperceptible double click

that ordinarily gives us two.

Cos almost every single click gives me two now,

and I have to make sure to wait or even refresh to delete one.

Yet some say they don’t have the problem.

Good morning, Mudd.

I don’t know. I’m thinking that the lamps are safe.

I don’t think that he’s going to make that corner.

And after that is when he’s really going to ramp it up…

(P.S. I wonder if the three dots mean anything like the stars inside the “P” on the cover of Playboy magazine… ☺ )

OK, who is MUDD? is he JVA? thanks if you bring me up to speed.

Can you see me? Have i been banned?