That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 16, 2023

/// Here the Gleaners trudge home from far fields

after farmers took most of their yields.

Heavy sheaves lugged on foot

‘til they fall down kaput.

They’re too poor for a wagon that’s wheeled.

My original post back in 2019:

Life became harder for the wheat ladies when the gluten free craze hit their village.

The pandemic hobby of making bread from scratch.

Hay Baby!

If my boyfriend says “Wanna make some hay?” one more time, I’m going to strangle him.

I’m gonna’ B-slap anyone who starts singing gospel songs.

“NO, I do NOT want Wheaties for breakfast! It isn’t funny, so stop asking!”

Peasant women in 1880s Europe often overcompensated for their low social status by carrying stacks of flax as faux hair extensions. Thus they appeared more attractive to peasant men and, more importantly, useful as strong workers. A woman’s worth was shown by the weight of flax she could regularly carry.

This gave rise to the phrase, “The Girl With the Flaxen Hair,” later the title of a pleasant piano piece by Debussy.

It was obviously burdensome as a fashion, and such blondes definitely DID NOT have more fun after their initial 12 to 14 kids. The clogs they wore in the muddy fields also caused them to stride in characteristic rocking motion. As they harvested and rocked in their clogs, they sang tunes, often raunchy, to pass the hours. It was dubbed rock music, and they rocked around their clogs.

Girls on a shopping spree when everything was still bartered.

“She ain’t heavy, she’s my fodder.”……Simone Garfunkle

From: @Call me Ishmael

https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2288699

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Of all of the cruel abuses/

Imposed on the ragged “glaneuses”/

By the capitalist fiend/

Whose fields they have gleaned/

It’s when he their wages reduces..

When the girls,at the end of the day/

Return, heavy laden with hay,/

They be deeply disturbed/

That their “bennies” are curbed/

And to find that he’s cutting their pay…

Two haymakers in the making.

With hay on her back and in a long dress, Julie was finding it very hard to moon the three women her man cheated with

I’m pretty sure it was a man who wrote that “we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves”.

I’m taking this home. I tired of having sex on the hard floor!

Just ladies out making crop circles.

The Making of Hefeweizen.

People used to do hard labor just to stay alive. Now we pay gyms to allow us to do artificial hard labor.

Working hard to provide the material needed for strawman arguments all across the Internet.

“Do you walk with the grain or against the grain?”

“The Gleaners,” 1880

“And I thought he said he wanted us to be bringing in the cheese!”

These here are the lowly gleaners/

You can tell from their humble demeanors/

And the rags on their feet/

They’re surviving on wheat/

And they’ll never be eating wieners/

Bringing in the sheaves…

“Bringing in the sheeves” it’s not just a song any longer.you just try to smoke all these.

Gleaners or At the return of the harvest: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Harvest in France in art" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string b1030, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2274 (8/28/19) (February 15, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here (3 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the August 28, 2019, strip being its first use. The June 24, 2019, strip has the prior non-repeat by this artist.

For Friday: There’s Hyacinth, Daisy, and Rose/

A trio that everyone knows/

In a happy menage/

Where it’s all camouflage/

‘Cause their wallpaper matches their clothes !

So … which commercial did you like best in the SuperBowl?