That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 10, 2020

A quick and efficient way to give the kids a bath.

The days when babies were harvested from the ocean. At least that is what I was told when I asked the question.

“I think it’s the light that’s attracting them.” But she may have to throw the undersized one back in.

Diana Copperfield’s first attempt to perfect the “Walk On Water While Carrying Two Children” illusion.

the fisherman’s wife gets a head start teaching the kids about clothing optional beaches…

“Hey Mommy, I learned a neat trick on how to make the ocean warmer. All ya gotta do is pee in it. Notice that Tommy’s not crying because he’s cold today? You can thank me for that.”

The things you find on the beach these days.

“Darn mermaids drowned my husband! Well, Imonna raise their kids on dry land!”

Better yet, “Saturn’s Nanny makes a break for it.”

She’s got serious core muscle strength. Taking bets on if she falls off the stepping stones carrying 2 wet, squirmy kids.

The nanny could’t take her eyes off the kids for a moment – they would make a break for the ocean, and she would have to chase after them and fish them out.

Escape from Epstein Island

The tide was so strong it ripped the kids’ bathers right off.

Brigitte realizing that either she’s cursed with the ugliest feet in France, or Demont-Breton is just lousy at painting them!

Must have been hard, posing like that, for hours on end….had to dope the kids up to keep them quiet!

Why is she walking on the rocks? In my bare feet, I would walk only on the sand.

Melisande was known for her “Feets of Strength”.

She fishes them out of the Bay/ and sometimes she gives them away/ but her favorite haunts/ are the fine restaurants/ who sell them as “Catch of the Day” !

“Full fathom five thy father lies/ of his bones are the corals made”/ (and Mommy is much relieved !)

Should make diaper changes a snap…wait, you don’t need them. Hold them over the water to do their “business”, dunk them halfway to clean ‘em, and:: Presto. You’re done!

Great comment here today! I just discovered this gem of a cartoon strip!

Earlier in my life there were many times when I saw small children innocently allowed to play nude at beaches. It is sad that we’ve come to an era when we’re now obliged to automatically condemn any nude display of children as pandering to pedophiles.

Edna, collecting bait for tomorrow’s great white offshore outing.

Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginie_Demont-Breton. It turns out this artist did a number of paintings depicting the lives of the fishing folk around Wissant, France, where she lived. She did this one of a mom hauling her kids out of the water in 1881; in 1888 she did a similar painting of what looks like the same mom throwing the same kids back in. It also turns out she was a major activist in making it possible for women to be professional artist in France.

Gertrude Ederle found her job harder when she had to babysit.

The seaweed diapers didn’t work out as she had hoped.

You know it’s time to get out of the water when your junk turns blue.

Wash until clean, rinse, then spin dry.

Fisherman’s Wife coming to Bath her Children: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Femme_De_P%C3%AAcheur_Venant_De_Baigner_Ses_Enfants_by_Virginie_Demont-Breton.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly life size painting. First Other versions has strip coloration.

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2191 

http://femalewarpoets.blogspot.com/2018/07/virginie-elodie-marie-therese-demont.html 

http://www.berkofinepaintings.com/catalogue/matin-bleu-a-wissant/ 

http://virginie-demont-breton.com/ 

https://books.google.com/books?id=cJRHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA210#v=onepage&q&f=false 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the Google Chrome can translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by her used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2359 (January 9, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Worst two-for-one sale ever.

Fifi ended another day of waiting for her seafaring husband to return from buying a pack of smokes (he was a huge fan of British Dunhills).

is she really worried about walking in the water by using stepping stones. maybe that is how she got the kids.

Sea Urchins.

There once was a girl named Cat / Had three boys named Nat, Pat, and Tat / It was fun in the breeding / But hell in the feeding / When she found there was no Tit for Tat!

How many times do I have to tell you this isn’t a nudist beach.