That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 27, 2021

Hannah cursed at their obstinate mule, / “Get a move on, you pigheaded fool!” / While Clem stood there perplexed, / his wife Hannah was vexed. / “We must sell all these trees before Yule.”

I’ll give you ten bucks for him if you throw in that load of weed in the back.

“That one-donkey power front-wheel drive just ain’t that good in the snow.”

I TOLD you the donkey needed studded snowshoes!

The horse doesn’t think much of the idea either.

Donkey says “Nope. Not happening.”

Maybe it would help if that actually was a horse.

Might also help it that actually was a sleigh.

Thirty years later finds Ethan Frome / with wife Zeena a mile from their home. / She shouts, “Unfaithful Gimp! / To that tree you can limp, / where you sleighed all your chances to roam!”

Perplexed: This roughly 26×40 inch painting (larger than most for this artist, who generally worked in miniatures) is privately owned. It was auctioned November 5, 1997. A smaller 18×24 inch version of Perplexed was auctioned by Christies, December 15, 2009. That version just has the cart, woman, donkey, and man (with a much longer beard); no fence, tree, buildings, flying birds, etc., and is inscribed with the artist’s signature at the bottom left, instead of the bottom right here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/08/masterpiece-2780.html 

So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/08/25?comments=visible 

has the prior (the blog entry, pointed to by my comment there, has an already published comment that points to the artist info that I used to point to here). Again, due to copyright issues (the artist died in 1958 and there’s no date for this painting), I can’t use Wikimedia Commons for this painting.

“Have you checked the fuel injectors?” They tend to freeze up in this weather."

Now that I’ve delivered your carton/I reckon that I’ll be departin’/to meet Edith Warton/who is swell (- they’re reportin’)/though I’d rather meet Dolly Parton.

“I dunno. When I buy a reindeer I’d rather it had antlers…”

“I told you we should have upgraded to the all terrain model.”

God damn it, move your ass!

What do you mean he’s in the Teamster Union?

The Donkey Whisperer

" What now, Mister-I-Don’t-Need-To-Ask-For-Directions? "

Now don’t go and get all mulish on me.

A Cross-over ”What if… ?” Story:

After investigating what they’d assumed was a meteor strike near their farm, the Kents return home with the alien passenger of a tiny crashed spaceship — Baby Groot.

jake getting off wagon to inspect frida’s blown shoe , hopes she will be able to make it back to the warm barn so he doesn’t have to carry her all the way ,cause peter isn’t much help.

I see they are re-enacting the famous scene from the bible of Balaam and the Donkey, with Clem taking the role of Balaam, Homeless Jack in the role of the Angel of Death, and donkey as the Donkey

still from dr zhivago 2: looking for lara in all the wrong places

The world’s first ever door-to-door salesman. Selling grass. The idea died after that until they invented the vacuum cleaner (or Girl Scout cookie, whichever came first)

Wow, it turned from rain to snow quickly. But I brought the fish home for dinner, and plenty of firewood to cook it.

Tevye came upon Avram’s wife, Sarah, on the road to Anatevka. He studied the animal pulling the wagon to decide for himself the answer to the shtetl’s most controversial question: Had Nachum sold Avram a horse, but delivered a mule?

Because they failed to put runners on the cart, they will have to be runners (or at least walkers).

He just wants to burro into the snow and sleep.

“Looks like it’s low on carrots.”

They were making good progress when/ the donkey stopped cold, and then/ twice since they departed/ could not be restarted../ he’s forgotten the password again…

Have you ever met a donkey that liked pulling a cart through nearly axle-deep snow?

Due to lightning strikes, Ishmael lost his internet Friday, and was unable to belabor his Priceless friends with the daily drivel. Worse yet, Ishmael was unable to read yours! He was showing actual withdrawal symptoms!

Clem Kadiddlehopper considering trading his ass for something steam powered.

Might work better with a horse,,,and a sleigh…..

“Mebbe we SHOULD try Putin’ the cart before the…”

“puttin’ “, dammit!

There was a sleigh on the brochure instead of a wagon.

“Get back in the wagon, or I’ll whip your ass.”

Ya think we should have gotten that reindeer with a red nose?

“Hmmm… That’s a donkey, not a pony I’m sorry to say.”

In spite of the pic’s rustic charm/ that couple has cause for alarm/ for each of them sees/ they could very well freeze/ if they don’t make it back to the farm…