That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 26, 2024

Juan sold firewood during the day, while he worked on the great Canary Islands novel at night.

Man bringing his homemade fireworks to market.

That’s one evil looking donkey. I bet he’s a real jack as$

/// To his jenny, the Firewood Seller,

tied the fägots he’d cut. He’ll impel her

to convey heavy loads

down the Tenerife roads

to each needy Canarian dweller.

Loaded for vampire hunting.

they sneered when they said he would never make it as a stick farmer…

Vampire Stake Salesman?

“I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for Asparagus”. (Apologies to Gary Larsen)

The loud cry of “asparagus spears/

Falls upon appreciative ears/

Though sometimes he cockily/

Throws in some broccoli/

He’s done it this way for years,,,///

The itinerant vegetable seller/

Is a joy to the village dweller/

Though not quite on a par/

With that radiant star/

The resident fortune teller.

Churro vending in the Andes.

Now a monthly subscription food service.

Churrodash;

“Churro fresco a tu puerta”

Glad he didn’t need any straw with these.

Before he struck it rich picking coffee beans in Columbia, Juan Valdez® and his donkey, Conchita, picked up sticks in Tenerife.

Desperate Dan, first draft?

Been a tough week, last day to drag your a** to work

Man, that guy’s feet are little.

Juan Valdez’s early attempts at harvesting coffee failed because he did not know it was the beans he was supposed to gather.

The less well-known version of “the straw that broke the camel’s back”: “The stick that got the farmer kicked in the junk.”

“moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper”

That is an oddly specific canvas.

oh my! That mule smells like an asparagus!

200 years before DoorDash, there was Churro-by-Burro™.

Is that a hoe or a pooper scooper?

Fresh harvested pretzels before they salt them and tie the knot.

The guy that didn’t quite understand how to make a log cabin.

Firewood Seller, Tenerife: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Tenerife in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 283, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly B5 paper size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3311 (April 26, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

delivering a shipment of hand rolled Ybor city cigars.

A Caribbean fellow named Juan/

Had an @$$ he depended upon/

As a final resort/

For aid and support/

When all other hope was gone…///

Although that sad creature passed gas/

(A behavior distinctly low class)/

It was still his best friend/

For on what to depend/

If you can’t depend on your own @$$ ?

The show down between sticks and stones was really ramping up!

Juan Valdez previous job selling sticks before he discover the coffee plants growing behind the house…

Carlos wasn’t satisfied with having a pony like all his neighbors; he had his heart set on a camel. Alas, there were no camels to be had on Tenerife, but Carlos was a man of imagination…

“Firewood Seller, Tenerife”, 1828

Jonay still couldn’t believe how much firewood he received in the trade for his wife.

Henry, on his way to the set of “The three little pigs”.

He: I have been up in those woods so long….darn, I forgot what I was going to say….Donkey: Hee Haw!