Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 02, 2023

can i join in?

Thelma, on the other hand, is about to create a world of chaos.

Da plane Ted, da plane!

The moat should be wider. He’s in easy reach of an angry spouse foot poke.

Ted is definitely drifting away

That’s quite a mound, er island right there.

Wait, Ted has extremely long arms, straight down they’d reach his ankles.

Ted’s living a lie.

Not worried about the killer koi?

Looks like Ted is about to be de-moated.

I’m going to Ted’s place.

I think his surrounding Sea of Troubles is about to rise.

Thelma is perplexed why Ted didn’t make it big enough for the two of them?

Ted looks like he might sink his island. Thelma may help the process with a hose.

He was going for Martha’s Vineyard, but got Thelma’s Pansies. She is so mad, she’s thinking of starving him out. That may take a while. Check back next year.

What? No goldfish shoals, nibbling at his toes? ☺

Good morning Balladeers!

IIRC, there was a radio station in San Francisco years ago that played mostly New Age music and called themselves “Your Isle of Calm.” It was owned by Clear Channel and in a money grab its format was switched to “Classic Rock” in the middle of the day. And listeners dropped off precipitously. I stopped listening to them about ten years earlier when they started airing syndicated programming and all of the live announcers were gone.

May Ted find the calm he has so diligently worked to seek.

Looking at the expression of Thelma’s feet, the calm is about to end. I believe that’s where her petunias used to grow.

Ted has also managed to create some islets of Langerhans.

Ted likes to calm and go as he pleases.

Ha! It appears a storm is approaching!

My back deck works for me.

Good for him.

They say no man is an island. Meet Ted Nomann.

Of course he was really hoping for an island of clams. RIP Ivar Haglund…