Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 22, 2014

Where’s the riding crop?

I like the fingerless kind. I wear them at work.

And a helmet?

you drive it, girl! Life is a highway…

Sonja’s ready for anything, wind in her hair, knuckles white on the wheel, foot trembling on the pedal. Life’s a Highway and she is doing 80!

Sonja’s got a lot of drive.And Nelson likes it.

2Old…. I think she’s already done 80….and 81…. and she’s actually looking forward to 82.Life in the fast lane!

Speaking of which… hope you’re having a great time.Hey…. you didn’t run off with Stel, did you?

I didn’t mean you were 82!!! LOLI meant life in the fast lane.Honest!

Hi Bev (Uh…. are we still speaking, I hope?)

Hi UpsideDown Girl!

Banana Daks on me!

Well, let me get that for all of you, Bev….3 Yak ’N Daks, coming right up.

All with slaw and beans?

StelBel….

Here’s one for you…

See? I go places too…

And here’s another….

The fact is, that if I didn’t go places I might not recognise that while both cards say Santa Rosa, almost none of the little pictures in the letters have anything to do with Santa Rosa…

I think they’re images from all over the state… but a few I don’t recognise at all.

Postcard sellers used to be able to order generic cards with the name of a city added… so someone probably has one of these that says “Fresno” or “Pasadena.”

Hi Six!

Shika, LadyKat… I keep just missing you both…so I’m leaving word with Fenton that you each may have a Yak N’ Dak platter on my tab too, if you’d like one.

Or, if it’s morning, a breakfast platter with our own house-smoked yak bacon. He’ll let the day crew know.

Now if everyone will please excuse me, I have 316 pies to bake before I can go to bed… which will probably be at dawn….

so please don’t expect me back before late afternoon…..G’night!

New avatar is my mother-in-law with her 3 sons at my stepson’s wedding in late September.

Happy where did you find that picture from last night? The little unicorn horse. It looked so real! I loved it!

RuN CurTus RUN!!!!!(ahm think CUrtus’s eers ar gunna be hangin low wunst Sonya gits aholt ov’em an starts steerin him to teh finishin lion…..jus sayin O..o)

mornin sTeL…. mornin madum BeV…..mornin SuSun… (wen ya wakes up)…

With apologies to Willie Nelson: ♪♫ Sonja road again… ♪♫

I personally wear a gorilla mask. But that’s just me……

I love the magic act, Bev! Hard to imagine changing quite so quickly (all bias cut satin I guess).

@Ladykat, always fun to see family stuff!

Rolly-polly Meerkats are just – WRONG! I loved Meerkat Manor and watched all the seasons.

Sonja looks as though she’s a little over-medicated! I worry about people who do that.

altho ah gotsta remane nueter all in teh whirld serius…ah gotsta admit… ahm apullin fer them roe yalls… ona count a tehm gients stole all mah fav peepholes frum teh PaDrays…ya no, bRuce Boatchee… an TiM Flannary an even sum udders…. jus sayin (sari SuSun)….go ROYELS!!!

Oh my goodness……

Sigh….

I never even cared about baseball…. and now you guys are making me want to defend the Giants?

X! Happy! Helllppp!!

Bev… sorry, I’m running a bit late….You can have 6:11 if you really want it…but bit later is better, if it’s OK with you.How’s 6:27?

It’s gonna take a lot of time for me to work up to being able to do the design you want…..

Now this, this one would be so much easier…and prettier too… well, except for that color, maybe, but it can’t be helped.

MONKEY!!

After all those banana cream pies!Well, I gotcher next one right here!

SanFrancisco has been in the world series 20 times.KC, three times.The Yankies are the only team with a better World Series record than the Giants.

Hi DRYANDDUSTY!

HI SHIKA! AND GOODNIGHT!

Been watching the news, hope ALL IS WELL FOR MY CANADIAN FRIENDS!

Thanks DRY! I guess it was bound to come up here. I’ll be careful though.Good Night, Ballard Dears!