That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 01, 2020

An early prototype for the nutcracker.

“Child, if you don’t stop fooling around, I’ll rip another hole in this canvas!”

“Brokeback Dairy.” (It looks like a butter churn, and I’m too lazy to do more than recycle yesterday’s caption.)

“It’s still moving! Cockroaches are a lot tougher than they look! I wonder if it will affect the texture of the butter?”

Sisters choosing their weapons to fight over the new guy in town.

Are they supposed to be churning butter? It looks more like they are practicing to club baby seals.

the moonshiner’s daughters, mixin’ up some mash…

(i’m curious why it looks like someone tried to rip out the center of the painting, which is called rice girls and it really looks like their making mochi – sticky rice paste.)

“I’m embarrassed to be in this painting.”

“Me too”

Just where might these bayou-dwellers/ have acquired a pair of propellers ?/ The answer, of course/ is the usual source-/ from their local propeller-sellers.

Home for retired baton twirlers.

“I can’t believe it’s not butter……………yet!”

“‘Out damn spot!’ she screams—but I don’t see here down here trying to clean the damn thing.”

Discarded rejects from the oar factory.

“This is a dumb game. It’s boring, and there’s no point to it.”

How the term cake batter came about.

Apparently even back then, some guys had a thing for feet.

I can’t believe Tom Sawyer told us this would be fun! And we gave him our shoes to do it!!

Thank you , Steve Melcher, for your unfailing wit! We look forward to your comic every day!

“All this work just because Pop is too cheap to buy a jug of Carlo Rossi!”

Rice Girls: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rice_Girls_Charles_Wellington_Boyle_1893.jpg 

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

https://www.askart.com/artist/Charles_Wellington_CW_Boyle/68582/Charles_Wellington_CW_Boyle.aspx 

has info about this artist (can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL, which indirectly points to his German Wikipedia page: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wellington_Boyle 

(again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary). First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2589 (November 30, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“No, no, Isabella. If we’re gonna crack Father’s skull open, you’ll have to hit him harder, like this. Remember, once he’s dead and we have our inheritance, we’ll have enough money to buy some of those new-fangled ‘shoes’ things that are all the rage in town.”

To everything (churn, churn, churn)

There is a season (churn, churn, churn)…

So I told my husband simply, no job, no sex. He got a job!

MA: Well, we done et the rest of thing so we’re down to goats head soup for supper tonight.

ANGIE: Not too tasty but it sounds like a good name for a Rock n Roll record…

“When will the gravel be small enough to make into soup?”

Rice flour? Rice flour!!! Are you kidding me? Let’s just talk to the girls who were here yesterday and get some wheat flour.

Little known fact: Some girls in Portugal discovered the secret of making saki long before the Japanese did.

maryann having enough of be forced to make butter, hit Susie with the stick ,so long butter and Susie.

Mofongo! mofongo! mofongo! WHO ever even heard of this crap?? :>)