Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 30, 2023

It’s a good thing that the fire department didn’t let Neal take a fire hose with him when he retired.

thank you for the ideas! Now let’s find a tree……

They’re coming to take you away tra la! ( in the old days I could’ve posted musical symbols)

It’s nice when somebody finds their calling.

If it’s a Weeping Willow tree, Neal will probably avoid a good beating.

That man is a big drip I tell you.

Happy hunting!

He waters down his life.

I have some friends who once used super soaker water guns to squirt people cruising the strip in Myrtle Beach from the roof of a building and duck before the target knew what was happening.

Neal is such a prankster! But he won’t prank Chester anymore because he knows Chester would climb up that tree and beat the pi$$ out of him. You gotta know who you can prank and who you’d better not.

Not nice, Neal!

No doubt the Pully Club put him up to this.

I hope Jerry shows the result in tomorrow’s page.

The fire fighters won’t help him down from that tree this time.

Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!

Now this is how you do it – even retired, he takes the trouble to dress up in a suit and tie for the most everyday activity.

Since he started this retirement activity people stopped walking under that tree……

It wasn’t long before Neal was forced to retire from his Retirement…

Way back in High School, I pulled a prank involving water, which was funny because I was really playing with fire. I filled a syringe (no needle) with water and, as I was walking down the crowded hallway, I held it in my hand pointed backwards and angled up. When one of our biggest football players was a few feet behind me, I let fly, getting him right in the face. He whirled around, looking for the perp. Boy, if he’d sussed it out, I would have been dead meat… ☺

It’s all I can do to climb steps, much less trees.

Semi-retired. Still working at the branch office.

Neighbors have learned to bring their potted plants along during their walks.

Neal’s idea of camouflage needs a bit of tweaking.

I can relate!

This was on Neal’s bucket list

Neal’s the “limb it”!

Neal the punster usually pulled this gag using The Doors.

Neal better hope noone pulls his legs. I’m impressed he can climb a tree with a pot of water!