Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for September 18, 2022

This is actually quite smart; you can’t adjust the temperature of the rain, and you can’t shut it off when you’re finished.

Echo valley seems to be on a break.

Some say, “Goodbye” and I say, “Hello, hello, helloooooo”

I see a horse there

And I want it painted black…

(OK, OK, that’s not the Beatles but don’t throw a (rolling) stone at me…)

If the rain comes

They run and hide their heads

But they don’t mind that the shower’s wet…

I’ve been through the desert as a horse with no name it felt good to be out of the rain, In the shower you can remember your name…

In grade school, my teacher said that rain showers in Hawaii are just like taking a shower, and people don’t mind. I didn’t know what she meant until I went there, and it was like being forced to take a shower with your clothes on. Maybe it’s better if you’re in swimming attire. There wasn’t much beach up at the Iao Needle.

I think the echo is working backwards… there is no escaping the shower.

In a rainstorm I run from my car to our community center so that I can go lap swimming.

I have never painted a selfie, but I’ve drawn them. Admittedly I was looking into my computer camera, so there was modern technology involved.

Horace needed to wash that rain right out of his hair…

People took “self-portraits” with cameras for decades before there were camera phones. They spent a little time doing it because they cared about the results. Now the Internet is littered with “junk photos” of people feeding their cats or standing with their backs to scenery.

I honestly expected that last panel to turn into an elevator gag. :)

Horace was traveling to a Holiday Inn…!

“I hate getting wet! …I’m going to take a shower.” —Mindy McConnell

“And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain.”

When my son was 2 he would scream if I tried to clean him up in the shower. One summer day he was happily running through the lawn sprinkler. I told him that if he were able to play in the sprinkler, then he is able to take a shower. He stopped, stood still, thought about it, and said ,"Okay ".