Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 10, 2011

Ya think?

Since it’s winter, wallyworld probably has them on sale now.

You pull on any normal hose like that after it’s frozen, it’ll just snap into pieces.

He’s been letting it run. The water bill let him know it’s time. The electricity bill will tell him when it’s time to take down the Christmas lights.

At least he’s getting it done that counts.

Ya know?

That reminds me! Gotta get my hubby to bring our garden hose in!!

Stan, I am not sure if late is better than never.

Cleo, we have to give you points for donning the appropriate garb to make your plea, Though if you really had to go I don’t see how you could have done that. Lucky Clara has slept through your first blast.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Hello Cleo pals and all my Puzzle People!

I’m baaaack!

Just in time for the puzzle, on January 9th, 2021 “Cleo and Company”, …on Sherpa.

Cleo is such a welcome addition to any household.

Look how she kindly wakes her owners in the middle of the night, with a bagpipe blast so they don’t miss it…

Just so they have no doggy accidents to clean up.

OK… or maybe so she can howl at something…

Or …. maybe so she can blast a wandering squirrel with a bazooka… or go to the 7-11 for chips.

In any case they won’t miss it.

Isn’t she thoughtful?

And tonight you can “hear” her in stereo… cos there are two panels in the puzzle.

You can do it on Sherpa (I’m sure Dennis has posted the link while I’m typing this… LOL)

But you’d probably rather use my side by side version:

https://i.postimg.cc/Qt61WHMn/Cleo-nine-differences-Jan-9th-21-B.jpg

Nighthawks has gotten so clever at hiding the differences. Used to be if you saw a clock, you would be sure that the time would change in the second panel. Not this time. I see some that are pretty subtle and I will wait for Susan to provide the side by side so I can verify.

And Voila, there she is, thanks Susan. I am happy with seven before going to bed, will revisit after coffee.

Come on, Cleo. A scratch at the door and a lick on the face would work as well and be quicker.

Nah, the heck with them, Stan! Let them tough it out on their own, the weaklings. Make them stand on their own two feet.

I found one difference. That’s my contribution. You guys find the other eight.

Anyway… I have an announcement… preceded by an apology, though…

Sorry I couldn’t be here last night, to post on Friday’s strip …

DSL and landline phones were out in my part of town from just before the “turn” till sometime this afternoon.

I felt bad because I had already planned another apology… and this announcement:

For Wednesday, January 6th, I had meant to say that it was J.P. Steve’s Birthday …

I was ready with a cake a week ago… but when the day came…. sigh… I forgot to post it.

The next night I made one comment on Thursday’s Cleo and fell sound asleep…

I never even read the rest of my comics.

Last night, as I said, I never made it here.

So by now… this is very very late…. but I still want to wish you, Steve, a quite belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Of course, I had to bake your cake all over again for tonight…. cough….

It’s one I…um… copied from a past Ballard Street birthday…

they’re so much nicer than what I’m producing now.

This one is from before I found out yours needed even more bugs.

Hope you’ll forgive me… and still enjoy it.

(A note to the rest of you…. FROSTING. They’re just frosting.

If anybody doesn’t want to eat frosting bugs… oh well… there’s more for you, Steve.)

https://i.postimg.cc/KY0MBCz8/JP-Steve-cake-final-2013.gif

As ever… any dinner you’d like, and beverages, are waiting at the Tiki…

and a free round for everybody, so we can all wish you many happy returns, and a great year ahead!

(It may be chipped, but you’ve still got 362 days in it, right?)(cough)

“For he’s a jolly good fellow… ♫ ♪ ♫ "

Why bother?

You’ll still hear that bloody awful racket, no matter where she is.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20210109

Still better than the loud engines that we heard on the tracks last night…

Gotcha!

I found the first 8 within a minute, but the last one took me forever.

Tricky!

I finally found all nine of them, but I’m wondering if there were ten things we should find. Shouldn’t the date to comment be 2011 and not 2010?

Time… OK, past time…. to post my solution and go to bed!

No peeking, of course, before you try your best…

Or Cleo will know… and come wake YOU up with those bagpipes.

How will she know? You’ll have to ask her.

Dogs know things.

But when you’ve found all nine, or you just can’t get any farther…

Take a look:

https://i.postimg.cc/xCjK6Bp7/Cleo-solution-Jan-9th-21-B.jpg

How are you going to get the ice out of it now?

In the interim I was catching up on comments from yesterday,

and a couple I meant to answer Thursday.

@ Jay Reider … You asked about Renaissance Faire, and whether I traveled with it.

I worked at the original one in the US, which had been started by a school teacher, as a history lesson and a fundraiser for public radio.

The first site was in So California, but they later started another in N CA, where I worked.

They rented the land, held the event, and charged admission…. each was six weekends in a row, closed weekdays.

At first they tried for historical reenactment…

with arts and crafts, and entertainment done by volunteers, organised into “guilds”.

Gradually, they rented small spaces for craftspeople to build temporary booths, and sell their wares.

To work, sell, or perform, you had to take a couple of pre-faire workshops, like costuming and Elizabethan speech.

Costumes, and vendor’s wares, had to pass approval for appropriateness (within limits) to the 1580’s time period.

I’ve worked in various booths… handmade masks., brass artifacts… small games, handmade shoes…

Mostly for a tiny percentage of my sales… plus free faire admission and the right to camp on site Friday through Sunday nights.

For two years, I was an “actor” instead, playing a peasant in a reenactment of an Elizabethan cottage.

It was dusty, windy, and usually cost more than you made…

but you did it for love of it, not money.

Over they years, more people opened other faires, but few are related. All have different hours and standards.

It was never a traveling circus….

though some people did travel on their own to be part of both California events.

and now some craftspeople work the “faire circuit” …renting booths at different ones in different states…

Just like vendors on the county fair circuit.

@ Plods… did you participate, or just attend?

I was always a peasant, in a leather bodice and “bag hat.”

Good morning, ballardeers. Q Date: 302.98624.17 National Vision Board day.

Stan…what a hoser. snerks

Bagpipes… the English thought it was Banshees.

Y’all keep an eye open. (((((HUGS)))))

Found all nine, exhausting!

Tough today but I got them all……….maybe it’s because I am of Scottish descent.

Yikes, it’s happened again…..I can’t get any of Susan’s links to work. I’ll come back in a few hours and see if they work later on. :((

Well. I finally got the links to open, and rushed right thru the puzzle, and only got 8. Must be my Polish ancestry, not Scottish. But I do enjoy bagpipes!

Eight! Again!

I’m giving up at eight too!

There were a couple that were very sneaky.

OK, reset to Jan 10 Cleo and Company:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Great minds think alike!

Good morning, present and any visiting future Cleo family…

even those who are not presently present….

but will shortly present themselves, I presume….

and those, like me, for whom it is technically still Saturday evening.

Welcome to the January 10th, 2021 “Cleo and Company”, …on Sherpa…

where a pancake breakfast will soon be underway.

I hope Claude is making a LOT…

I know how this crowd can eat pancakes.

Personally, I’m not a maple fan… I know, I know… don’t hate me!

… but I think the rest of you can go through quite a bit of that, too.

I thought at first that imagining “a dozen maple” would send Claude running off to the doughnut shop…

planning on a dozen maple bars, but coming home with a variety instead.

Glazed, for me, preferably a cinnamon roll or twist…

unless you have a French cruller..

an apple fritter?

Sure. That’ll work.

I truth it’s been years since I had a doughnut. Maybe it’s time.

But hey… those pancakes will do.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20210110

I like pancakes, but I can’t eat more than a half one.

Clara should have told Claude to go to Washington street so he could dish out a secret about a new place to eat. He would have gone to the kitchen saying, “Must wash ton of dishes so I can eat”.

Claude has a one-track mind.

My Favorite Part™ was Panel 4 when Claude tried to touch his nose with his tongue but fell short by about half.

Good morning, Ballardeers. Q Date: 303.98626.9 It’s National Oysters Rockefeller Day.

It was pancakes for dinner night last night in this house. Hey NH. Where’s the camera?

Oysters Rockefeller kinda look like something that’s come out of an ox’s nose, but they’re good though and you know what they say. about oysters. I ate a dozen one time, but only 9 of them worked.

Y’all have a better day. (((((Hugs)))))

Lesson to us all ~ word association should not include food.

Poor Clara, she’s counting on her Claude’s memory technique, and he’s counting pancakes! Harrumph.

BTW, my new avatar is the result of 3 days of ice fog.

Say hi to Rip, if he shows up.