That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 05, 2019

Old lady dreaming of the days when her town wasn’t so over populated.

VILLAGE PEOPLE !

Can you hear me now?

Needed a change of scenery after the recently revealed development in Moby Dick (https://www.gocomics.com/wumo/2019/07/05).

Hey, wait, this recipe calls for fresh shark fin!

One of the few perks about being old, Mildred discovered, was that she could go potty anywhere she wanted, and everyone else pretended not to notice.

Is this news in the letter the girls are reading, or is the old lady talking on a cell phone?

“Waitin’ on the levee, waitin’ for the Robert E. Lee !”

All the men are out fishing, so… Hey, what are you doing here and why are you looking at us that way?

“She wore the hat. Look at her, she actually put that thing on her head.. lmao.”

They’d played “Surfin’ U.S.A.”/ on the “Oldies” station, that day/ but now Granny’s distraught/ – though she’d savagely fought / they’ve taken her surfboard away.

Gran’mama just asked Lance a simple question: “Why d’ya ne’er go out when the other trawlers do?” Her heart was broken when those two harpies chimed in…“Dinna ye know he’s not an oarsman, ’e’s an ’hores man?”

The town “hot spot”…..Cell phone and Wi-fi all in the same place.

“Who’s that old spinster!?!” you say. That’s Brandy. She used to work laying whiskey down. She still loves a man who’s not around…

Though still a bit standoffish, the ladies waiting for their men to return from sea had eventually accepted Renaldo as he too waited for his.

Lois’ reading of the Velveeta Voldemort’s latest tweet, as usual, wasn’t received very enthusiastically.

“Just how long does it take to catch a few fish?”

The vacation in Cornwall just wasn’t what she was expecting.

" ‘ello Archie. Yah, the girls are working today. We’re at the bridge, talking to a customer right now. ’e’s trying to get a discount – showing ‘em a drawing of ’is “eel.” Poor Millie, she laughed so hard, she fell right over the side. Yah, I’ll send one of ’em over shortly. Tah!"

“Two thousan’ miles Ah roam, jes’ to make this dock mah home…”

granny from the future, talking on her cell phone, gets amazement from the other locals in 1888.

A Village Idyll is pointed to by Googling

1888 "A Village Idyll" "Walter Langley" site:wikimedia.org

If you want other than Wikipedia info about the artist, Googling

"Among the Missing" "Walter Langley" site:victorianweb.org

"The Sunny South" "Walter Langley" site:leicestergalleries.com

both add to it. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2237 (July 4, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

P.S. Sorry for the delay in posting this. It takes a long time for my eyes to un-dilate after ophthalmology appointments.

“Look everybody!” cried Millicent. “There’s a dead body floating under the pier!”

(Girls at the back): Can you believe she’s still waiting for him to come home, even after the captain told her he’s on Maui with some teenager?

Oar-n’t you glad to see me ladies?