Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 25, 2018

I hope they are all clean.

Dang! My first guess was cargo pants and he was trying to carry as much as my wife carries in her purse.

He needs more plywood.

Definitely not your typical Ballard Street look!. Peter, do you really need all those underpants? Maybe just a thong, plus briefs, and a pair of boxers will do? Stop by the shop and we can do our best to trim your look, while respecting your, uh, proclivities,

That’s actually quite impressive. All of those underpants and yet he still has plywood in the lower half of his legs.

I’ve heard of “junk in the trunk” but “ lumps in the trunks” is another thing altogether.

Oh Lordy, this is so wrong on so many levels…

Pants stuffing…..

My first thought was that it looked like his brains were in his pants…..

And to maintain my pure reputation, I am not going to make the obvious joke about men.

Even if it might not even be a joke….

OK, change of subject….

Linguist… you asked me last night why I didn’t mention your …. um… business….

gosh…. for one thing, I wasn’t attempting a comprehensive directory of Ballard county merchants and services….

I left out a lot…. including XTI…. or x_Tech Industries…. which manufactures many wonderful products, including the edible glitter for my cakes, and the dog and cat propeller harnesses used by Fly-Kitty-Fly and other pets.

I left out SCHAABS…. StelBel’s Canine Hotel and Antique Browser Store… Madame Beviek’s (which seems to be shuttered)…. The Yurt store….

even my own tomato farm and canning factory.

I’m sure I’m leaving out a lot now, too.

But also…. trying to be discreet here…. exactly what would I call your… uh…. business?

I didn’t think those in your line of…um…. “work”…. wished to have a spotlight thrown on their operations.

Other people mentioned things I didn’t include, too….

but I didn’t have time or space to list everything we love about Ballard Street, all by myself….

so I’m grateful for all the additions…

But may I also say…. everybody should just come visit…. or stay…

and discover all the delights for yourselves!

Peter is Master of the Underpants Gnomes: “phase one – collect underpants.”

Don’t get your knickers in a twist, Peter!

Peter picked a peck of underpants.

Keep your pants on.

Know why he goes out looking like that? Depends…

You never know when they might come in handy.

I sure hope nothing jumps out and scares Peter. That would quite a lot for one load of laundry!

I thought he was smuggling cats.

I don’t care what he says, that CANNOT be comfortable.

Must be freakin awful when he has to go.

The Ballard Street panty snatcher! On his way home after a successful day of clearing off the clothes line.

Peter hasn’t thought this through, he could get wedgies from now until Christmas…

His mom told him as a kid to put on a clean pair every day. He’s been faithful to her instructions for the last 40 years. She forgot to remind him to remove old dirty pair first.xD

Peter, your panty lines are showing!

When he back fire he won’t have any parts of muffler flying out