That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 11, 2024

/// A local fast food franchise buys

Karl’s potatoes to sell them as fries,

but this harvest was botched.

Karl could swear he is watched

Mark throws his back out while digging for potatoes. Should have used a longer shovel handle Mark.

No one’s looking, why should I dig a latrine? Army training is hard to shake.

So this is why the 5-iron used to called the Mashie.

Here, he is using his mashie niblick, when a simple clay wedge would do.

Expecting a potato, but hoping for a bobby-dazzler.

Johan “Spuds” MacKenzie.

Karl working on his PHD.

Here in potato country many young people only find work during potato harvest. Most get jobs separating the potatoes from the rocks and dead vines, eventually hoping to get an inside job directing the potatoes to the storage houses…..often referred to as ’’working on a Potato House Degree.

John made sure that Mrs O’Leary’s cat had crapped on his newspaper for the last time.

No matter how skillful your putt/

A potato will never do what/

You hope that it will/

Yet he still hones his skill:/

He must be some kind of a nut…

Karl really got into gardening, converting his entire back yard into a farm field (much to the bemusement of his neighbors), but didn’t want to cut down his trees, so he was never able to harvest more than a handful of potatoes despite all his work.

He hangs out with a lot of hoes.

Croquet never really caught on until they introduced spherical balls.

a 1902 picture illustrating the now nearly forgotten principle that being able to eat often required that one produced (often scanty) food and worked hard for it, rather than bought it and had it delivered / prepared by someone else.

Paddy swore he’d never borrow the leprechaun’s clubs again.

The Potato Harvest: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Josef Kinzel" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: (ignoring expletive Pinterest, which is too lazy to invent its own folder structure, for DuckDuckGo) found and once there find the text string 1902, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3426 (December 11, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the July 3, 2018, strip being the prior.

Jethro had no idea he was harvesting the cat box.

“Kartoffelernte”

Leonard later learned that this was not the way to make potato chips.

When the daughter of a Yukon Gold and a Russet fell in love with Walter Cronkite, they refused permission to marry him. They didn’t want a common tater in the family.

“What an incredible Cinderella story. This unknown comes outta nowhere to lead the pack at Augusta. He’s at the final hole.”…..

Vodka – the early years.

For Thursday:

What a wonderful stroke of luck/

For jolly old Franz von Stuck/

Who was out en plein air/

And when he got there/

Found himself in a Fustercluck !

If one more fool asks me if I am Santa because I hoe, hoe, hoe…I going to smack em