That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 13, 2020

“Now that you’ve picked the protein, what do you want for the carb?”

“Honey, I just went shopping now you can make dinner for us.”

“Ba-ba-ba bird, bird, bird, bird is the word”

“Hey Harv, there’s a coven of PETA protestors at the front gate. Should we send Jimmy out there skinning a hare, or maybe Little Betty plucking a pheasant would ruffle their feathers even more.”

DIY smorgasbord.

giving the kids a head start on basic taxidermy…

Stone Soup coming up!

“Old Blue is a great retriever, but where did he get these two kids?”

“Oh no!….I think I’m having another one of those flashbacks….they told me not to take the brown acid.”

What the heck is the woman holding in her lap? Is it a fish or a bird with a rounded beak…?

“We’re fifty miles from the ocean. Why did you schlep that fish all the way up here?”

“I did it for the halibut.”

Harvey loved animals. He couldn’t resist bringing them home.

And this is how the Patrick family got the coronavirus

What IS that thing he is holding? And why is that peacock so huge?

Bursting in, Lydia discovered her husband involved in fowl play.

The kids were pelting each other.

We’ll be here ’til all our ducks are hung…

“Okay, Henry. I went along with your stupid man-cave thing, but this is getting totally out of hand.”

“You’re just jealous because your she-shed burned down!”

Don’t get too friendly with the dog, kids, it is next.

Not what I expected when I joined the Bird of the Month Club.

Some sort of early editorial cartoon? What kind of sick individual paints stuff like this?

The untold part of Noah’s story: what he did with the first group of animals when his weather forecast was incorrect.

There was something fowl about the O’Hare family. Their life was for the birds. The husband’s passion for taxidermy knew no bounds.

According to his wife Bunny, Jack “Rabbit” O’Hare would stuff anything he could get his hands on.

The first Whole Foods Shoppe had a limited selection, but definitely the freshest in town.

We’ve got lunch figured out, what are we doing for dinner?

He claims he’s just aiming to please/but he kills everything that he sees/ His aim is unerring/ and so they’re interring/ the critters in clusters of three’s.

He derives a bizarre “elation”/ from wreaking wholesale devastation/ he’ll attack any critter/ who defies him – on Twitter/ with an infantile “designation”.

“The kids are busy with the dog, why don’t you slide back here and chock my chicken. I mean this chicken.”

Interior with Figures and Still Life: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=169843 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/35049/benjamin-blake-17571830-pair-of-game-larder-oils/ 

has sparse about this artist (couldn’t find a bio), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2383 (February 12, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

not a ‘great artist’. must have been great fun at parties, though.

Harry Feathers always overdid it when they were having guests for dinner.

Tonight it was only the Hindershots and they’re both Vegans!

Ahhhhhh – how idyllic. They just don’t make quality “family time” like that anymore!

The neighborhood butcher shop couldn’t match Clyde’s selection of hair and fowl….nor did they want to.

James thought there was a place for every animal: right next to the mashed potatoes.

A customer once asked Denver restaurateur Sam Arnold, whose The Fort featured a lot of game meat, “Do you serve vegetarians here?” “Yes, ma’am, everything we serve is a vegetarian. Except the rattlesnake.”

even though Norman was clearly insane, Hilda still wanted to get to know him, if he would just stop killing all the animals.

Marcie was worried that she was pregnant since all the rabbits died.

“Hello I’m from PETA. No the other one People Eat Tasty Animals. How much is the Peacock?”

“Whew! I’m going back up to the house and get some Febreeze.”