Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 06, 2007

Please note: that’s the landing ramp. The jump ramp starts from the second floor bedroom window.

The remaining neighbors are concerned about those barrels. Why? Well, lets just say the last time Russ lit them up property values went down and fire insurance rates went up.

Oy. Is it bad pun Monday?

There is always room for a pun….

I will admit it.

Puns are like gold leaf, decorating a comment…

and I am guilty of them.

Russell meanwhile, has a revolving account at Ballard Dry Cleaners and Emergency Hospital.

His bill grows by leaps and bounds…

but sometimes he lets it slide.

He eventually has to pay, though, cos they’ve got him over a barrel.

Return of the Monday mundane pun. That was bad. Not terribly Ruthful.

My favorite part was Claude’s gloves (as I sit here in Arkansas recalling yesterday’s record high low temperatures – I’m sure its all due to Al Gore’s hanging chads deficit).

(and NH, before you “whoooosh” me, this a reference to climate change being blamed on Geo. W. Bush whose election was determined by the 2000 Hanging Chad Crisis in the Florida Vote R̶i̶g̶g̶i̶n̶g̶ Counting System)

Yippeeeee! We’re back to a Monday Groaner! Loved the TSSHHH!!

So, Rotifer what was your record high-low yesterday? Our’s wasn’t a record, but it got down to 8 degrees last night! BRRRRR! And so much snow! This is the earliest big snow in my 11 year history up here. And, there’s so much it will probably stick around until Spring.

Excellent, Cleo. Thanks for the laugh!

Wow Cleo, Bad-dum indeed!!!

I won’t have the Monday mundane pun as I did for a couple of years—-

but it won’t hurt to spring a pun every now and then….an occasional break from the usual—-

but none of mine are gold leaf material