Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 10, 2013

And only $6 a rock. Hurry, before the sale ends!

It’s for punkin’ chunkin’!

Business just hasn’t been the same since Monty Python stopped performing.

Al runs his own small quarry just outside of town,

on some leased land up on a local landmark….

Of course he calls it "Big Rock, Candi’s Mountain.

Bev… don’t tell StelBel, but….that chicken making that noise…well, it’s just what rock catapults were invented for….

Dogsniff… you should come back though…they’re planning a bash.

Those guys really know how to throw a party.

Rock on!

Special delivery for Happy:

Serving devices for a flinger buffet?

Pcolli…. yes, and you’d better be careful choosing your flinger finger.

I’m a bit nervous about the flinger sandwiches.

And the one on the left can also make a great bird feeder. When the squirrels sit down to eat all the seed………up,up and away. Wastes a lot of seed, but what the heck, it’s so much fun.

Or you could fling a whole heap of small rocks.

There is a conspiracy to get me banned off of GoComics today.Over on Citizen Dog I decided to not post an image of a full moon.Now I must resist the urge to post an image of my big rocks…

ROCK’n comment! You are on top of the heap today!

I wonder if they come in colors?A nice beige with tan accents. Would look great on the parapet. And Rocks definitely bright colors. I just love seeing bright colors flash across the sky. I remember those days.Wait…….. that was either tracer fire from Nam or further back in my more “Hippie” days. Maybe both sometimes I think the coffee was “spiked”.

My Flickr would not let me upload some pics today! I saved an old catalog cut from Toscano of a miniature pewter catapult and I also cut a pic from one of my old scrolls that has one. I’ll try again later (after breakfast).

OK, Here is the scroll and this is formerly from Design Toscano

Aye deas….-——————————

And to think…it all started with Al’s modest line of slingshots that he used to sell at home parties 43 years ago. From there, the business just seemed to take off. He chose wisely when he decided that there was a critical need to fling things in Ballard County and settled here with Mabel Sue right after they got hitched. His flagship store right on Ballard St. has been going strong, and now he has 2 others!: Al’s Flinger World over in Ballard Plaza and Flingo’s Discount Wholesale Warehouse on South Ballard Rd.

(Al’s original slingshot line)

Next, in the works, adding to Al’s growing empire: a new flinger line for Ballard Area pets who want to take their sport to higher levels and are tired of ordering on-line. Ballard Citizens: TAKE NOTE!!! You may want to review last year’s cat and dog skirmish history and decide whether it makes sense to restrict weapons availability to our canine and feline residents.

Feline and Canine Hostilities begin on July 19,2012

Tensions increase. Sherif MunkyBluz starts negotiations on July 26, 2012

Sherif MunkyBluz arranges truce between the Feline Front and the Canine Corps right before the election. July 27, 2012

Isolated incident between Scooter and FlyKittyFly? You be the judge. October 1, 2012

BALLARD CITIZENS!!! Do we really want to go through this again???

(These are classic comments forums from last year and are hilarious! Worth re-running!!!)

One good thing about Al’s is, that he has rock bottom pricing !Thought I’d just toss that one in. It sort of struck my fancy.Al usually drinks Highland Flings and Mabel Sue has Singapore Slings when they’re at the Tiki. Always on the rocks !

That man is always giving me the flinger! How rude.

OK, I know this is off topic (not unusual for me) but I just heard a new trio from our local ASU music school that I think are pretty good .

Uh OHHHH……!!!!*HARRIER KITTEHS…!!!!!-————————————————————-

This is the most fun I’ve ever had! Thanks for all the posts, and Sherif, I had a Harrier Cat. And she bit!

SEE….!!!THIS is why ah dont trust em…!!!!Tehy spreddin lyes, roomers an proper gander!!!!!

Ohmygosh…..some of them are really FAST !!!

LOVE the levitating cats and the angry one ordering the “monkies”.

Ohhhh …noooooo…..here come the flying monkeys off of Candi’s Mountain! Sheriffffffffff!!!!

And there’s thousands………

This isn’t going to bode well….the dogs’ technology is wayyyy behind the cats….

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Wait! At least they’ve gotten beyond hard hats with propellers! But………………CAPES???? Really?That’s so….20th century…..

whew….awl ah had to dew was remind em that tehy are to abide by teh armastus trooce thet tehy sined lass year…. BP had ta show it tew em agin…..speshuly teh fine print…… an onlee a few folks no whuts in teh finde print…..

We’ve had to cut back on our FlyKittyFly Program here at XTI until we could improve safety measures due to a mid air collision at our proving grounds.

Here’s shot of the first FlyKittyFly just before launch.

Our drone project continues…cus we only use dead cats.

And before you start, all cats in this program are volunteers and no cat was intentionally harmed.But stuff does happen, you know, like in parking lots, catnip ODs and ah, just things.

Coming in under the RADAR…

Oh, brotherrrr……here they go again…struttin’ around like they won the war…..this’ll just start something again….

Why can’t we all get along????

Just left you and Stel a message on CD.=========Plenty of that stuff sold in the fine retail establishments on Ballard Street…

Two LOLs…one for the great picture! and one for the picture of me trying to click on: “It’s hardlly a fair fight anymore” !

Sometimes they simply miscalcutate and miss the landing target completely…

(Good night, everybody!)

@DAZZThat first flight kitty looks more than a little apprehensive. Very cute, tho’.That was taken back when Essex and Lefty started playing catch with FlyKittyFly

See BS Feb 8 ’12The light blue is a real link.

This makes up for my quiet birthday! I wish I knew where Price Mua a dn Kitty Kitty Bang-Bang went. Of all the days to go off on a jaunt without me.

Good Night. I have to go to bed now.

Now you see where all that pet rock nonsense has lead us.

Not to mention the de-emphasis of grammar in school. Is that a sale on BIG rocks, or a sale on a wide selection of rocks?

Cleo would like that!

https://cleoandcompany.net/july-10-2023/

Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!