The Barn by Ralph Hagen for March 15, 2024

Poor little Rory.

ah which day of 2022, i wanna look that up haha

Rory looks traumatized. Stan is still his buddy.

the shear terror of it

Stan hopes gramps sticks around.

A minute flat! Rory’s probably worried about missing parts.

Under a minute? Not bad. Professional sheep shearers can shear sheep in under a minute. World records are one sheep sheared in 38 seconds; one lamb sheared in 19.8 seconds; 720 sheep sheared in 9 hours; and 839 lambs sheared in 9 hours. The record for blade shearing was set in 1892 and still stands: 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes.

Sheep have been bred to produce wool for so long, that if they are not sheared, in the summer, they will die from heat exhaustion.

If only Shari Lewis was still alive…Her and Lamb Chop would sure love this strip! Thanks for the awesome laughs!

Awww! Rorys got the heebeejeebees !

“The names Ed sonny, Ed Shearin’.”

Lambtimidation?

In New Zealand, they’re called stations, not sheep farms.

Grandpa’s head shearleader.

Keep pokin’, Grampa, that be shear bullying. Not sure I would want to see Stan light up…

Yer gonna need to get sheared eventually anyway, Rory, so the quicker the better!

The sheer audacity!

Geez. After reading all this stuff, maybe Rory does have a reason to be freaked out! :)

The US was in lock down. Don’t remember what Canada was doing.

Rory is scared stiff!

Update: I’ve rolled through 2022 strips and I think that was on December 30th strip when he glued himself to Stan SNORT