That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 18, 2025

“Oh Hazel, that rider doesn’t care that your engaged.”

Oh, you can definitely make a horse drink.

/// Two young women came down to the stream,

and one waves to a guy named Joaquim.

Each girl’s job is to lug

a large water-filled jug,

but that horseman inspires a scheme.

/// He lives on the opposite shore

and she’s seen him a few times before.

On his horse’s strong back

they could easily pack

many jugs and not ache anymore.

Keep your skirt on, he on the other team.

Sheesh! Another moron that thinks “nice jugs” is original.

“If you’re going to fill your water jug downstream from a horse, at least do it before he relieves himself in the water.”

The Aquarius sisters, looking for their ideal mates, ask the young man if he is under the Gemini or Sagittarius zodiac sign. It’s no help that his horse is under the constellation Pegasus.

Stupid woman….thinking she can give a man directions!

“The guy on the horse ? Oh, that’s Rex/

We were married- but now he’s my ‘ex’../

He’s hung like his horse/

So despite our divorce/

we still have occasional sex”

“l meant get the clothes horse for fcuks sake!”

Don’t you just hate when your Ubhorse shows up, but on the wrong side of the river

Cynthia, quit jump’n around, He sees you, and he not interested, come on lets go.

“Where are you going Anne?”

“Upriver”

“Why? We are already at the bank and we need water”

“Well, obviously you didn’t see what that horse just did – didn’t even flush afterwards”

" Forget him, Annie. The only bareback riding he’ll ever do is on a horse!"

“If the Tsarina is done with him, can I try him on for size?”

“After you fill up, just pay at the cashier’s.”

“You take him way over there away from the water when he’s done because you can see we get our drinking water from here!”

The Water Carriers: 

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Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3463 (February 17, 2025) 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 11 works by this artist have been used here, the February 12, 2025, strip bring the prior.

“Your left blinker is on!”

I guess she didn’t know about the salt lick up the road that they just put in.

The young women look familiar. Didn’t we just see them last Wednesday? The thing with the shepherd must not have worked out.

“Hey cant you read? The sign clearly says the water is for who r3s only, not horse only!”