That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 09, 2019

Next stop: the mattress factory.

This is the original album cover art that the 70’s Illinois band Head East rejected for the album “Get Yourself Up” for not being outrageous enough. Here’s the final choice:

https://tinyurl.com/headeasrgetup

Jeff, who fell asleep in the haystack, is now being taken to the mill.

The artist failed his perspective exam…

Has anyone seen my eldest son, Jack?

meg was always well prepared and ready for a roll in the hay…

“Hey ho ! Hey ho !……”

Hay! That’s funny.

Bail. Bale. That took me too long, but then, I have a headache.

What are those things she has on her feet?

OMG! Those ARE her feet!

Gotta bail (sic) the hay first.

Hoping someone would ask, “How about a roll in the hay?”; Meg always kept a healthy supply on hand.

Meg figured that since he liked to thrash about in bed at night she would put him to good use and have him thresh about in the straw to get those last few bits of grain.

“Hey mom I found the needle”

Halfway there she bailed out? Or baled out?

“Just find your pants before we get to the barn.”

“Hey Needle, you still up there? They’ll soon be looking for you.”

Meg regretted not being more explicit when when she suggested to the hunky farmer that she’d “hay your wagon if you’ll bail my hay, wink wink, nudge nudge”.

Bridey Bailey bringing a bulky bale of barley bound for Barnabee’s barn.

Hayley Mills going to her first audition.

She was firm in her decision that she would be the only one to eat the bread. No sharing!

“Hey! Why should I be doing all the work while lazying about up there on the hay?”

A Load of Hay: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?id=306807 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

https://www.johnnicholsonfineart.co.uk/department/henzell-isaac-1815-1876-northumbrian-artists-north-east-artist/ 

http://www.askart.com/artist/Isaac_Henzell/11039372/Isaac_Henzell.aspx 

https://www.bhandl.co.uk/knowledge/article/isaac-henzell-1815-1876.aspx 

all have info about this artist (again, if expanded beyond what shows, the second can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to than what’s perhaps pointed to by the title URL. 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 #2303 (October 8, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

The kid was the crowning touch. No one would guess Meg was taking a hundred pounds of cocaine across the border every day.

having found out her brother was raped by the village, grace had to supply a soft ride home.

So what that Mikey would be late for kindergarten? Meg knew to make hay hay when she could

“You only have until we get home to find that stupid needle!”