Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 10, 2013

I think it took Milton by surprise!

Don’t lean in your chair when a new day on Ballard St is right around the corner!

Oh, I have been there and done that ! The most embarrassing was recently having to explain that the plastic patio chair I had purchased no more than four days prior, had shattered underneath me. And I’ve lost weight !

I’ve bin off center for a long, long time…

Aww, the Brits would affectionately call you eccentric HAPPY. Just don’t go falling off your porch. Good Morning!

What’s in that pipe?!

Oh…. hi all you folks who are usually asleep when I get here!

Yay!

Happy, had I known you were still up I’d have answered you sooner.

I’m in Santa Rosa, the south part, just three miles from Rohnert Park so that’s where I often shop.

Haven’t been in Kelseyville in a few years but I go up to Clearlake maybe every couple of years.

I used to take Amtrak along the Oregon coast, and once spent a couple of weeks on a ranch just outside Coos Bay.How far North are you?

(Of course by now you probably left….)

Bienvenidos, Ling!

I was here for the turn and now I’ve got to turn in. We had a big dinner party on Sat, and I’m still tired. Night all and thanks to Lingquist for the nightcap.

I must be soporific…. sigh…..

@DAZZ (yesterday)

I was referring to the “Out of the Unknown” episode you linked..I was a Sci-Fi freak as a kid and I still am.

Mabel forgot that Rodney has a bad right ear.

[Due to popular demand, Ballard Bugle is trying a daily column of “Nosy Neighbor News”. At this time, it is uncertain whether it remains a daily column or becomes a weekly one.]

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Nothing like losing your center.Tuck and roll….dude…..then jump up going TADA!!!!I meant to do that!!!

Doesn’t matter how you fall, as long as you don’t spill your drink.

“Oooo! Right in the Sacroiliac!”

We’ll keep our toes crossed for you , as well.¡Buena suerte!

……….That’s what happens when you read Moby Dick………

Ed “Sonny” Franklin Jr. (the pledge) BOUGHT his way into the Dexterity Society by presenting this chair to Milton, former President of said society who is our own beloved StelBel’s honorable father.

Ed Johnson may have to retire as Sargeant at Arms because he took this home to his wife Bertina and she ripped the arms off of it to beat him with…Ed should be glad the arms were not his own…

“Mischief making”? ROFLMAO, Stel!

Ed Franklin Sr. (Treasurer) is now guilty of embezzlement and being hunted by Sheriff Munky Bluz after having depleted the Societies funds when he could NOT resist this beauty…

LOL, Linda,Have to wonder WHY anyone would make some of these (especially that last one in black) as it could NOT serve any purpose other than Ojet d’Arte. I can see possibly sitting on that pink one (sidesaddle) and reclining on the wooden one (even using it to support an arm with a cocktail),

Contrariwize, 2 kids of similar weight might use that one as a teeter-totter. I collect art, but have always preferred that it serve a purpose as well.

Sorry about your father Bev, but if he would have only consulted Mike Holmes this wouldn’t have happened. You see the porch is out of compliance with building codes, having no railings. Your fathers inability to comply with gravity codes is another matter. Again, my condolences.

I meant Stel not Bev. I don’t know Bev’s father, and apparently I don’t know anything I mean either. OK blame it on my age…..sheesh 75 and counting, I’m the one who would fall off the porch too!

“Look woman, you don’t have to yell, I just fell off porch, I am not DEAF!!!”"“Just clumsy.”

“AND I MEANT TO DO THAT!!!!!”

Good night, everybody!!

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens)

(By the way, thank you to everybody who left nice comments to me today about the latest Nosy Neighbor News column. I had planned to go down the list and leave individual comments for everyone, but now I’m done in and am going to drag myself to bed instead. I will try to get another column out tomorrow morning, though. Enjoy the rest of your night, everybody!!)

I watched that- was cute! did not see actual Trio linked there but watched another Sid and Imogene (Health food restaurant). I’m not anxious to try someone else’s vegetarian meal but a just had supper followed by most of my chocolate.

I know there are plenty of vegetarian restaurants but I really like total control of my food. I AM eating huge meals (but only 2 per day- anything else would take too much time between fixing and eating).

I first forgot there’s a difference between Kingston and Nairobi trios (slipshod memory). I LOVED .THESE (and there were many).

I went to Lion Sleeps and listened; Got this suggestion to share (and like better, especially this time of night) SING

ICKY, I hope your life is changing for the better. My life has changed too, and I am still trying to find my balance. Sort of like our friend above. “Help! I’ve fallen and can’t get up.”

But coming here keeps me sane. Or less crazy…

Darn! I thought that I was an endearing eccentric! Turns out I’m a nut case. Many have suspected this of course, but still, it’s a shock to me. :-(

SUSAN, I need to fall asleep soon for an early day tomorrow. Please have a drink on me. I’ll be reclining in the back booth with a red checkered table cloth to make it easy for you to do so. ;-)

I wish I didn’t keep missing you. And you are NOT soporforic. Relaxing to be around. Yeah, that’s it. Relax…(yawn…)ing….zzzz;-)

LING, RED, PCOLLI and MUNKY, I keep missing you too. You can all have a drink on me. The table cloth is by am coated!

See? Can’t type….zzzzzzzzz

That was “vinyl” coated…

not a rebuttal, but I’m a fan of Louis Prima.http://youtu.be/WGM2HPM6BDcIt misses Gene Krupa’s drumming, but makes up for it with Louis’s horn. : )

night all

Two Claudes?!?

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Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!