Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 17, 2011

He must be with the Seattle Seahawks.

A Kodiak moment.

He’s going to take a turn and be wurst.

Edcole 1961, the Bears are destined to meet the Packers, Seattle just wasn’t in the game plan.

The Packers are next week. Seattle was this week.

I think the bear wins this one.

Edcole 1961, no, I meant that the Bears were destined to beat Seattle.

I can’t bear to watch what happens to Warren next.

Maybe he can make a run for it and bearly get away!

I really don’t remember the Seahawks playing the Bears ten years ago. But I think Warren wants to say “Good bear, nice bear”, while slowly backing away.

Puzzle time! This one gives Nighthawks plenty to work with:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20210116

Meanwhile, it is finally time to present Last Rose of Summer with her gluten free rose chocolate cake:

https://imgur.com/gallery/VOdXEqc

Susan, there is room for candles! I don’t know your tricks, but I challenge you to get 83 candles on there!

Watch out Cleo, that looks like an evil owl cat, just waiting to pounce and close down Sherpa after taking everyone’s money.

Howdy puzzled Cleo fans… and Cleo puzzle fans…. and anyone who’d like to tag along….

Indeed, it’s puzzle time again…

i the January 16th, 2021 “Cleo and Company”, …on Sherpa.

There seem to be quite a variety of shabby diners and one-room dives in Claude and Clara’s neighborhood…

unless their walks are way longer than I thought.

And you know who would be complaining if she had to put paw to concrete one time too many.

Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing…

some funky places like that have really good food.

My favorite one around here disappeared years ago, and they’re actually getting hard to find…

except we do have a few Asian or Mexican ones.

There are so many little strip malls, I guess it’s easier to put a restaurant in one of those.

In any case… I don’t trust that bird.

Oh… and of course, I recommend solving the puzzle using my side by side version….

Find it right here:

https://i.postimg.cc/0yXDTfR2/Cleo-nine-differences-Jan-16th-21.jpg

Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.

Smokey appears to have had enough of Warren’s casual approach to fire safety.

I suggest he take a left turn.

I’d rather see the diner menu.

OK; got them all.

Warren’s relief about the second amendment not legalizing arming bears turns out to be short-lived.

The dog of Warren’s dreams aka nightmares.

Warren questions his further career as a sales-person.

Over at C and C. that looks like THE place to get chateaubriand.

Once again… time … actually past time… to go off to bed….

but I don’t want to forget to post the puzzle solution before I go.

As ever, I have circled (or “squared”) the differences in the left-hand (on Sherpa, it was the bottom ) panel.

This time, I’ve added a bit of extra help in the other panel… not necessarily because that difference was harder to find in the puzzle…

but to help you see things I thought the circles themselves almost obscured.

Here you go:

https://i.postimg.cc/zv442Wzd/Cleo-solution-Jan-16th-21.jpg

And of course… @Last Rose… if by any chance you DO show up here…

Welcome to Cleo and Company!

Sit down and stay awhile… have dinner at the Tiki, on me!

And again… Happy Birthday!

That is one big dog.

Good morning, Ballardeers! Q Date: 309.98643.33 NATIONAL NOTHING DAY…nothing new here.

Warren’s looking at the bear necessities. The simple bear necessities. and now it’s stuck in my head

Like DROOB, I too, would like to see the menu.

Y’all make sure that nothing happens today. (((((Hugs!)))))

got em, everyone stay well

Only got 8. The one I missed was hard to see ~ still not sure about it. Some really good ones today. Too many good diners are disappearing these days.

Well gang, I need to get some nourishment, and not from that sleazy diner, so I’m quitting at 7. I just checked the solution and was so surprised that the two I missed were there hiding in plain sight. Again. Love it.

Finally found all of them. That evil cat hopes that Cleo will get a bad case of the runs from eating there. Still nothing as to if they’ll move everything to the main page.? It shouldn’t be any problem to do it. They could hire a 5 year old child to do it.

I’ve found eat…er, eight. Giving it one more look before surrendering…

It’s Kiki!

Grrr… Eight!

Time to reset to Jan 17.

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

I don’t think Claude got his cuppa worth out of Billy. No fault of Billy.

It’s a different language out there, Claude.

Here’s Saturday’s puzzle (2021-01-16) again for further reference from March on…

https://64.media.tumblr.com/13d7978417bf487c2e80f139c402da25/e1991096920f5054-9a/s1280x1920/d281b50ad48b78d64455cde8bc3939f5a9571f87.jpg

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20210117

Why put a pod into your eye?

I still say that is the biggest puppy ever.

When looking for a new pet on PetFinder, don’t click the box marked other.

Well, empty trees should float.

The people who run Gocomics need to hire that boy so he can show them on their computer how to drag and drop Sherpa to the “updated anytime” section on the main page. That way, everything will stay here and anything that was updated will be on the “updated today” section. Maybe they don’t want to pay him that 5 cents that he wants to do it.

Good morning, Ballardeers and belated birthday wishes, Last Rose!

Q Date: 310.98646.02 National Bootlegger’s and Hot Buttered Rum Day!

I’m coming to the realization I’m getting old. I got beat by the refrigerator control panel. Press these two and hold for 3 seconds or until you hear the beep. WHAT BEEP? THERE IS NO BEEP! Oh my dog! sigh

Y’all have one for me. (((((Hugs!)))))

I sympathize with you Claude. One syllable words and pictures, please!!

You are all absolutely right. I don’t have a 5 year old around here to ’splain high tech stuff to me. Greek!

I have a shot at another dog this week at my local shelter. A Bloodhound/Rhodesian Ridgeback female.

I’m third in line, so, yeah. Wish me luck.

https://pet-uploads.adoptapet.com/5/e/f/525025838.jpg

Here’s this Sunday’s strip (2021-01-17) again for further reference from March on…

https://64.media.tumblr.com/3ddc93e47b78dd423ef3f2cd3bcb6807/c43f4239cfb52b9c-92/s640x960/ba85ec39997ea14edf9a6ae1a6e1dc6c33e149fd.jpg