That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 26, 2020

Jed took the term “pitching woo” literally.

“Wish me luck at the forking contest…”

“Jethro, is that my best sun bonnet you got on? And that looks like my favorite red blouse! My sands, I’m beginning to think you might be one of them there transversal types!

The 60’s movie version of Romeo and Juliet featured a song, “A Time for Us.”

This calls for a new version, “A Tine for Us.”

OK, to make up for that, here is the original song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FHpmn-KYec

‘woudja like to check out mah tool, mary beth…?’

The house is sinking into the ground.

Romibo, oh Romibo! Wherefore ain’t you, Romibo?

Tell yo’ daddy to pound sand and get beant.

Or else, if’n y’all ain’t got the guts,

Bring a ladder and let’s skedaddle.

Homer? Can you practice herding cats somewhere else?

“Ok I got it. Now explain how to “Go fork myself” with it."

Megan wasn’t impressed by how many pitchfork squat reps Timmy Mathews could do.

Amber Lynn. That’s a name that takes me back the the 1980s and 90s.

Is that there Billy Boy Shakesfork?

Got yer cat down, but now I gotta pick out this wedgie I got meself.

“I’m hired to do the gardening. I’m not going to chase after your cat.”

That’s actually quite beautiful.

“On your way to the field, can you stop by the store and pick up a gallon of milk? And we’re all out of red paint. And if the avocados are on sales, get six. And….”

American Gothic – the blooper reel.

I got the pole. Wanna Dance?

“Put that thing back in your pants! I don’t want to see you watering the plants like that again!”

Rapunzal, Rapunzal …let down your hair…

Now Jethro, don’t you go out rakin’ up any more cats – we got enough now to keep the house, the barn AND the back forty clear of mice.

The Shakespearean cri de coeur/ of the aged, rustic voyeur/ through her window he peers/ though she’s burdened by years/ for by now, it’s become de rigueur..

When I asked for directions, they told me to take the fork in the road.

“Mrs. Knight , have you seen ma peach basket?” “I gotta go practice ma free throws.”

No huggy, no kissy, until she gets a weddin’ vow.

“John.”

“Yes, Mildred?”

“Please button-up those pants!”

Hey babe, wanna see my pole vault?

“It’s leg day so I’m doing squats with this fork until the barbell set I ordered from Sears and Roebuck gits here.”

The good ole days when clothing comfort came before fashion. Or were saggy bottom britches the rage then? (I still love my 1980’s parachute pants)

The cat seems to be a critic.

Hiram might have been a couple of tines short of a full fork, but Heddy wasn’t exactly sweeping with all the bristles in her broom, either!

I got ma fork, you git yer torch and we will march to the castle.

Rustic Courtship, or In the Garden: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Rustic_Courtship,_or_In_the_Garden_(1874).jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly B4 paper size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/homer_winslow.html 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/homer/homer_bio.htm 

http://www.all-art.org/history458-2.html 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/homer/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/winslow-homer 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=91 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/495/winslow-homer 

http://www.avictorian.com/homer_winslow.html 

http://totallyhistory.com/winslow-homer/ 

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/winslow-homer-1836-1910-americas-painter-99052589/115630.html 

https://www.sullivangoss.com/artists/winslow-homer-1836-1910 

http://hoocher.com/Winslow_Homer/Winslow_Homer.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 11 works by him have been used here (12 times, including 1 repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/06/16?comments=visible 

has the prior work (my comment there has the same artist info URLs, the 6th of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2479 (June 25, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Is that Andy Griffith and his countryfied soliloqy?

First, straighten the pedestal under the sword fern, catch the cat, mow the lawn and then I’ll think about going to the movies with you.

Maid and the gardener plotting how she’ll poison the mistress and he’ll hide the body in the haystack until he can feed it to the hogs…

When serenading your sweetheart, be sure you have the right house.

Don´t worry, your paw is fixing the ladder.

Aww. C’mon, Maw. It’s a great chance fer us. He’s gonna call it “American Gothic.”

and after you finish that, go muck out the stables, you lazy man, she said. Hortense was a hard lady for skinny men who worked for her. and wouldn’t “give it” to her.

I may not look much like Liz Taylor, but you sure ain’t no Jimmy Dean.

The pants are not flattering.

“Yes ma’am. I made that crop circle thingy like you asked me to.”

“Good! That should confuse them in 100 years or so!”

“Git down here, Nellie! Grant Wood ain’t gonna wait around forever to paint our pitchur!”

Didn’t Andy Griffith already spoof this…