Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 13, 2011

So you know it’s windy…and?

Some think the wind blows and some think it sucks.

He overheard someone say you should beware Raymond’s wind.

This is just so neo-cubist & quirky that I love it!

he thinks mother nature is just a big blowhard

OK Mr Know-it-all……….from what DIRECTION is it coming from? EH?

Raymond is so busy measuring his nemesis, the wind, that he missed whatever struck the wall on his right.

Cleo is late tonight, but when it is posted you will find it here:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Howdy Cleoers and Cleoettes….

Cleo in the not-so-wild shows off her tracking skills,

in the January 13th 2021 Cleo and Company on Sherpa…

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

(Just in case the link isn’t already posted by the time I finish this comment….

But I know it will be now that I included it.)

 

Ok, maybe she doesn’t help hunt wooly mammoths…

But tundra is in short supply in Cleveland.

And I know for a fact that a person could go weeks without seeing a mammoth there…. wooly or otherwise.

There used to be a huge mastodon skeleton in what I think must have been the Cleveland Natural History Museum when I lived there.

I can’t remember the difference, but that’s sorta like a mammoth, isn’t it?

Even then, it wasn’t very meaty, being all bone… and it certainly wouldn’t be too fresh by now.

 

But look at that! Cleo knows exactly how to track down a pizza!

Which would you rather have… a nice hot pizza, or some nasty old bits of ancient mammoth?

A smart basset hound knows the importance of keeping your job skills up to date.

 

Raymond grew up in Kansas, where The Wizard of Oz is considered a documentary. He has never gotten over it.

Then don’t fart so much.

I can picture Cleo tracking a pepperoni pizza through the back alleys of Cleveland.

Order it yoursef. Can you imagine Cleo in a time warp back to that period of time before pizza?

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20210113

I’m not too sure Cleo would appreciate hair on her pizza, woolly or otherwise.

Lol… I knew it!

I must have seen the strip and started writing moments before Dennis posted.

 

BTW I know about the mastodon skeleton because my 3rd grade class went to see it.

[And those who don’t care to read my little anecdotes should just skip the rest. :) ]

I’m not sure I remember the name of the museum…

But I can’t forget the size of that creature…

it actually gave me nightmares…. vivid images of it lying down on my bed, crushing me.

 

It also, though, gave me one of the highlights of my academic career, at the age of 8…. which I only realised years later.

I adored my teacher, Miss McQuaid.

But I was always that kid… the one who asked those questions.

I didn’t mean to. Honestly.

 

The day after the museum visit, I said that I hadn’t seen any nose bones…. which I’d pictured as a small spine.

So I wanted to know why the scientists thought it had a trunk like an elephant.

Miss McQuaid said she thought elephants and mastodons had no bones in their noses.

 

She went over to a big book, and looked it up ( I loved that she never just acted authoritarian)

and read us the part that said no mammals had nose bones, not even a giant elephant forebear.

That should have been the end… but… sigh…. not when you have a Susan in your class.

 

I, meanwhile, had been pinching the “divider” between my nostrils…. which I now know is the septum.

I raised my hand and said I had a bone in MY nose.

Whereupon Miss McQuaid pinched her septum between her thumb and index finger… and declared,, with surprise, that she did too!

I knew more than the scientists!

 

It was almost the last day of school.

So it was years later I found out that the septum, like an elephant’s trunk, contains cartilage, not bone.

But I’ll always remember Miss McQuaid, standing in front of the whole class, fingers up her nose…

Incorrectly saying I was right!

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.

Good morning, Ballardeers. Q Date: 306.98634.97 NATIONAL RUBBER DUCKY DAY Jump in the tub!

Raymond best be careful where he puts that probe…

Frozen tundra? I can’t see Cleo tracking anything there unless it’s from the comfort of a warm bunker with heat seeking missiles.

Y’all keep warm. (((((Hugs)))))

We have horrible winds here today. I’m not going out to hunt pizza or any other wild meal.

I think those horrible winds from Perky have made it all the way to us! Very strong, and it has warmed us up to 44 (that’s if your not counting the wind chill)!

LOVE today’s Cleo. What a Sassy young lady! Of course in panel #4 Claude utters those famous words:

“Confound it, Cleo!”

Cleo would have made Claude hunt those mammoths while she stayed in the warm cave.