The Grizzwells by Bill Schorr for May 22, 2024

It’s 2024. Who has a grindstone?

Your nose is close to the grindstone rough

And you hold it down there long enough

In time you will say there is no such thing

As brooks that babble and birds that sing

These three all the world will compose

Just you and the grindstone

And your darned old nose.

[author unknown c. 1930]

That’s nothing to sneeze at.

And a raw nose I’m guessing.

Gunther is also a government employee – retired, and he nose it…!

Show me someone who keeps their nose to the grindstone and I’ll show you a bloody fool.

ka-nasal

I’m curious what the park ranger wants him to do. Bears nap a lot. And they root out garbage cans, but the ranger dislikes that. This ranger has mental health issues. He needs a picanic!