That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 25, 2023

Luc wanted to show he would be a good provider.

Ken had told Sandy he was a ship builder.

“That’s not what I meant when I said you could swab my deck.”

/// The Young Shipbuilder worked and ignored

his twin sister, neglected and bored.

“If I properly scale it,

when it’s done, we can sail it,”

he now said. In response, Greta snored.

“Well, if you’re not going to show me anything. I’m not bothering with you.”

I’m leaving you Timmy and I want half of everything you’ve got.

Readers might ship that pair.

This is not what Katie expected when her boyfriend said he’d show her what “It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean” meant.

Not what she thought when he told her he could make her a model.

I’m gonna take those pliers and grab his nuts!

The girl’s waxing catatonic/

And the boy’s concentration’s demonic/

But more shocking than these/

Is Marie-Louise/

The painter who’s downright “Bion”-ic.

They say they want a man with hobbies, but when you try to show them your hobby for hours, they get upset.

She didn’t realize that when he told her that they were going to go sailing, he had to first make the boat.

Rosie wondering if Johnny would like to see the man in the boat.

Well, he said he had a “little dinghy.”

Young Hyacinth did not imagine when she said she wanted a riverside picnic with riparian entertainments, that Richard had to build his own boat.

Harold, I’m dressed commando! Harold: I like the Navy myself!

And Michelangelo never dated a woman thereafter…..

Young Shipbuilder: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Marie-Louise Bion" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex 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 junge, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. File history has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1593 (December 3, 2016) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment and reply there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work so far by this artist used here (2 times total, including this repeat), the December 2, 2016, strip being its first use.

He longed to set sail. She longed for a whale of a sale.

when Lilia was told he was a ship builder she got all enthused but wanted someone older and wearing shoes, he was building ships to get away from her.

What are you going to do after you finish making your boat?

…

I’m going to test it out with an owl and a pussycat.

Hum, can’t imagine why. Some women are just picky I guess.