That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 23, 2020

A constant diet of pumpkin pies and pumpkin soup turned the residents Collobrieres a strange shade of orange.

“Aren’t we supposed to be looking in the cabbage patch for babies?”

Concentrate on the pumpkins, Jethro!

From his angle he can see that all the melons are not on the vine.

“From the top of a pointed roof, a melon may roll either way!” —Henry Gibson, Laugh-In

“Alphonse, if you don’t stop fondling that pumpkin, I’m going to go out of my gourd!”

“These remind me of your brother. They lay around all day, take up a lot of space, and in the end they get canned.”

“Two, three. OK, done, that’s all that fits, and I’m ready for the first beer of the morning.”

hard at work capturing more wandering melons to send to go comics…

“I’m not picking up the one that won the state fair.”

Why “Pick Your Own Pumpkins” never caught on.

Peter Piper’s Papa picked a patch of perfect pumpkins.

“So you want a shot of Pumpkin Spice in your Timmy’s Double Double….just take this pumpkin here and shove it in your cup!….Now get back to work!”

They said “dress for the job you want”, but this tie and vest are making me sweat like crazy.

I thought that guy planted strawberries here yesterday. Apparently they were not strawberry fields forever.

The adult Linus Van Pelt and spouse culling the insincere specimens from the patch.

Joseph and his wife were in a hurry to finish with the harvest before that crazy fairy godmother lady came back and turned more of their crop into carriages.

“When the weather’s hot and sticky/that’s no time for dunkin dicky/ when the frost is on the pumpkin/ that’s the time for dicky dunkin’..”

In his later years he’ll recall/ how her labor loosened her shawl/ an acre of white / a crevasse of delight/ and he knew that he must see it all !

Getting ready for the Great Pumpkin!

Remember when you said oil was a passing fad, that the real money was in pumpkins-that’s when I should’ve left you.

BUBBA PUMKIN TO FORREST GUMP: Pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin cake, pum… UGH. THUMP.

FORREST: I warned ya to shut-up, Bubba.

“No Theodore, lift with your back. Like this. OWWWWWWWWW!”

The Provence squash harvest: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jourdan-La_r%C3%A9colte_de_couges_en_Provence.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?mode=obj&id=613601 

has info about this artist, 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 #2563 (October 22, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Sweetheart, your back will never survive that method of picking up a heavy object; bend at the knees and lift.

This scene depicts Billy Corgan’s sudden inspiration that lead to the name of his new band.

(He was fired from his field-hand job shortly thereafter for acting out the name for his partner who never did guess what he was on about).

You’re probably wondering why/ he’s wearing a white shirt and tie/ while gathering pumpkins/ in a bevy of bumpkins -/ but frankly, folks neither can I .

“Smashing Squash” ? Odd….

He wondered if this was the best time to tell her that he hated pumpkin.

At this point in the pumpkin picking patch, the farmer’s wife begins to think how the First Lady’s thoughts about Christmas are also applicable to Halloween…

Next year those gosh darn Pumpkin Chuckers can pick their own frickin’ pumpkins!

Can there truly be any greater thrill than that which comes from returning pumpkins to the wild?

And the Dragoncat Lifetime Award for Best ROTFLMAO: Poetry Section goes to … Call me Ishmael!

You never cease to crack me up!

Man in the background with the cart “Bring out your dead!”

Man in the foreground “Hurry up Martha, he’s here”.

Oh Paw, ma back is hurt in’, can you massage it when we gets home. Not to worry Maw, I’ll give you a right smooth massage and a nice surprise!